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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830326703321

Titolo

Happiness, healing, enhancement [[electronic resource] ] : your casebook collection for applying positive psychology in therapy / / edited by George W. Burns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010

ISBN

1-282-46138-9

9786612461385

1-118-26966-7

0-470-56055-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnsGeorge W (George William)

Disciplina

158.1

616.8914

Soggetti

Happiness

Psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Quick Reference Guides; Introduction; WHAT THIS BOOK OFFERS; THE CONTRIBUTORS; THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK; Part One: Happiness; Chapter 1: Strengthspotting; Chapter 2: We Will Be Laughing Again; Chapter 3: What Is Right with Him?; Chapter 4: The Why, Not the What; Chapter 5: From Here to Where You Want to Be; Chapter 6: You Want Me to Fix It?; Chapter 7: Putting the Lid on the Divorce Monster; Chapter 8: Development through Disability

Chapter 9: From Vulnerability to SkillfulnessChapter 10: Do You See the Forest or the Tree?; Part Two: Healing; Chapter 11: Now I Can Get on with Life; Chapter 12: Empowering Lisa; Chapter 13: Can Helping Others Help Oneself?; Chapter 14: Doing Nothing, Changing Profoundly; Chapter 15: Laying Out in Anxiety; Chapter 16: Playing with the Moment; Chapter 17: Can You Be Happy in Pain?; Chapter 18: Charting a Course to New Beginnings; Chapter 19: A Surprise Attack, A Surprise Result; Part Three: Enhancement; Chapter 20: Sunsets and



Seashores; Chapter 21: A Dream of Creative Menopause

Chapter 22: Can We Play Again?Chapter 23: Inspiring Change; Chapter 24: A Positive Way of Addressing Negatives; Chapter 25: There Is a Fly in the Urinal; Chapter 26: Soaring to New Heights; Chapter 27: Are Ther Times Not to Use Positive Therapy?; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Praise for Happiness, Healing, Enhancement ""Filled with good strategies based in research, compelling case material, and most importantly, practical advice, this book belongs in the library of everyone interested in what it means to live well. It provides not only ample food for thought, but for action.""-Christopher Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan ""If you are a therapist, a coach-or if you want to help yourself and others flourish-then this book is a must-read. It is an important theoretical and practical contribution to the field of positive psychol