Values clarification in counseling and psychotherapy : practical strategies for individual and group settings / Howard Kirschenbaum.

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This work meets a long-standing need in the helping professions by being the first and only comprehensive book on how counselors and psychotherapists can work with clients around values, goal-setting, decision-making and action planning. Helping clients determine their priorities, set goals, make decisions, and take action to improve their lives are common tasks for virtually all helping professionals when engaging with clients. This is the process known as ""values clarification"" (or ""Values Clarification""). While counselors and psychotherapists widely practice values clarification-some kn.

Cover Page; Values Clarification in Counseling and Psychotherapy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Paul's Case: A Brief Example of Values Clarification Counseling; 2 The Values Clarification Approach; What Values Clarification Is; What Values Clarification Is Not; A Brief History of Values Clarification; Further Developments in Values Clarification; 3 Implementing Values Clarification; The Overall Values Clarification Process; Counselor and Therapist Self-Disclosure; Individual and Group Formats; 4 The Value-Clarifying Question; How Clarifying Questions Work.

Thought-Provoking QuestionsClarifying Questions; Good Clarifying Questions; Where Do Clarifying Questions Come From?; Examples of Clarifying Questions; 5 The Clarifying Interview; Steps in the Clarifying Interview; Analyzing a Clarifying Interview-Paul's Case Revisited; 6 Values Clarification Strategies; Introduction; 1. Inventories; 2. Rank Order (Prioritizing); 3. Forced-Choice Ladder; 4. Continuum; 5. Either-or Forced Choice; 6. Strongly Agree/Strongly Disagree; 7. Values Voting; 8. Proud Questions; 9. Magic Questions; 10. Percentage Questions; 11. Pie of Life; 12. Public Interview.

13. Group Interview14. Unfinished Sentences; 15. I Learned Statements; 16. I Wonder Statements; 17. Alternatives Search; 18. Consequences Search; 19. Patterns Search; 20. Alternative Action Search; 21. Force Field Analysis; 22. Removing Barriers to Action; 23. Getting Started or Next Steps; 24. Self-Contract; 25. What We Know and What We Want to Know; 26. Values Name Tags; 27. What's in Your Wallet?; 28. One-Minute Autobiography; 30. Role Model Analysis; 31. Board of Directors; 32. Chairs (or Dialogue with Self); Strategies 33 to 38: Life Goals Strategies; 33. Life Line; 34. Who Are You?

35. Epitaph36. Self-Obituary; 37. Self-Eulogy; 38. Life Inventory; Strategies 39 to 41: Written Self-Reflection Strategies; 39. Values Cards; 40. Values Diary; 41. Values Journal; 29. Pages for an Autobiography; 7 Tara's Case: The Woman Who Was Trapped in Her Job; Comment on the Clarifying Interview; 8 Handling Strategic, Value, and Moral Conflicts with Clients; Strategic, Value, and Moral Conflicts; A Continuum of Counseling Responses; To Clarify or Not to Clarify; 9 Some Applications of Values Clarification Counseling; Career Counseling and Development; Rehabilitation Counseling.

Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderHuman Sexuality; Counselor and Clinical Education and Supervision; Personal Growth; School Counseling; 10 Values Clarification and Other Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy; Person-Centered Counseling and Psychotherapy; Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies; Reality Therapy/Choice Theory; Existential Therapy; Adlerian Therapy-Individual Psychology; Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; Narrative Therapy; Motivational Interviewing; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Appreciative Inquiry; Life Coaching; Positive Psychology; 11 Theory and Research; What Is a "Value"?

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