Using Functional Analysis in Psychotherapy

Auteur

Niklas Törneke, MD, is a Swedish psychiatrist and licensed psychotherapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Dr. Törneke has extensive experience training psychotherapists worldwide, focusing on the use of basic behavioral principles. He is the author of books including Learning RFT: An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory and Its Clinical Application and Metaphor in Practice: A Professional's Guide to Using the Science of Language in Psychotherapy, and is a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

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This book shows how psychotherapists from any orientation can use functional analysis (FA) to better understand their clients and specifically target desired changes.

Contenu

Foreword, Stefan G. Hofmann
Preface

1. Historical Notes and a Few Definitions
2. Theory as a Tool
3. Building Cooperation
4. Observational Distancing
5. Finding and Naming the Problematic Strategy
6. Finding and Naming an Alternative Strategy
7. Switching between the Two Arenas
8. Experimentation
9. The Use of Metaphor
   Afterword
   Further Reading
   Index