Alive and Well: What’s Right With You and On Becoming a Better Therapist
Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since What’s Right With You was published. What’s Right is a self help book designed to empower folks to recognize and use their inherence resources and abilities for change. Still strikes a chord with those tired of being pathologized by a behavioral health system that at times cruelly overlooks the profound propensity for change embedded deep within human beings. And it’s been 11 years since the second edition of On Becoming A Better a Better Therapist was published. Still think it is the best clinical presentation of PCOMS and the common factors out there (pardon my pride).
What’s Right With You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your Life
We live in a world pervaded by the unspoken attitude that we are all basically flawed, broken, incomplete, scarred or sick: we’re labeled as dysfunctional, codependent, depressed, you name it. Contrary to popular perception and drug company ad campaigns, fifty years of research shows that positive change does not primarily emerge from examining the disorders, diseases, or dysfunctions—all the stuff that’s wrong with us—that allegedly plague the masses. Dr. Barry Duncan debunks the myth that only a therapist can help you change your life and shows how positive change really happens when you utilize your inherent strengths and resources and are supported by relationships that take your innate goodness as a given. What’s Right with You gives you a research validated, six-step plan for a dynamic and refreshing approach to effecting change in your life—for good!
Excerpt from “What’s Right With You:” Finding A Therapist and 7 Tips for Therapy
On Becoming a Better Therapist: Evidence Based Practice One Client at a Time
This book describes Dr. Barry L. Duncan’s Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), an evidence-based method that provides systematic feedback from clients, thereby enabling therapists and clients to collaboratively identify clients who aren’t responding to treatment before they drop out. Duncan examines the common factors inherent to all successful therapies and details the importance of the therapeutic alliance as the foundation of effective therapy. He encourages therapists to expand their theoretical breadth, think deeply about the lessons they learn from their clients, and integrate these lessons into their performance. This highly readable and clinically focused book details a five-step plan to take charge of personal and professional development, stave off disenchantment, and remain a vital force for change in clients lives. On Becoming also includes chapters on couple and family therapy, supervision, and implementation.
Look inside: Read Chapter One