F. Michler Bishop, PhD, is the director of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services and a senior staff psychologist at the Albert Ellis Institute (AEI) where he worked closely with Dr. Albert Ellis for over twenty years, running groups and workshops. He is the author of Am I Addicted? 64 Questions and Answers to Help You Change an Addictive or Semi-Addictive Behavior and Managing Addictions: Cognitive, Emotive and Behavioral Techniques, as well as many research articles and, most recently, blogs for Psychology Today. Dr. Bishop advocates for a compassionate, integrative, goal-focused modern therapeutic approach, incorporating a variety of research-based treatment options. As national vice president of SMART Recovery®, he was instrumental in the development of SMART Recovery's Four-Point Program. He has conducted numerous workshops on CBT, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), MI, and SMART Recovery in the United States and internationally. He has worked at AEI for over thirty years, seeing clients with a wide variety of problems, including anxiety and mood disorders, and impulse control and relationships issues.

Introduction

Part I: Modern Counseling and Psychotherapy

Chapter 1: Moving Beyond Schools of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Chapter 2: Guiding Principles for Modern Integrated Counseling and Psychotherapy

Part II: Initial In-Session and Between-Session Work: Step-by-Step

Chapter 3: Step 1: Build the Working Relationship: Enhancing Hope and Motivation

Chapter 4: Step 2: Initial Assessment

Chapter 5: Step 3: Agreeing on the Therapeutic Goals

Chapter 6: Step 4: Set the Agenda

Chapter 7: Step 5: In-Session Work

Chapter 8: Step 6: Agree on Between-Session Work

Chapter 9" Working with Diverse Clients

Part III: Subsequent Sessions

Chapter 10: On-going Assessment, Evaluating Between-Session Work, Checking on Therapeutic

Chapter 11: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Mindfulness, Metastability and Existential/Humanist Issues

Chapter 12: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Emotion-focused and Imagery-Focused Work

Chapter 13: Facilitating Acceptance, Compassion and Change: Genetics, Neurochemistry and Neuroplasticity

Chapter 14: Moving Forward, Sliding Back: Managing Change and Metastability

Chapter 15: If Needed, Dig Deeper: Past-focused Work, Trauma and Childhood Issues

Chapter 16: Subsequent Between-session Exercises

Part IV: Other Issues

Chapter 17: Self /Selves, Identity/Identities and Change

Chapter 18: Integrating Coaching

Chapter 19: Medications: Are They Right for Your Client?

Chapter 20: Build Your Practice, Protect Yourself and Prevent Burnout

References

Index

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