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Eighteen books on client feedback, consumer rights, and the power of relationship.
Over 150 publications, and two places a new reader should start.
becoming better starts here
Two places to start.
One written for therapists, one written for everyone else.
On Becoming a Better Therapist
Evidence-Based Practice One Client at a Time, Second Edition
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 to 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.
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!
“Evidence based treatments and specific approaches are merely lenses to try on that may or may not fit the frame and prescription of the client. In this way, methods and models are neither deified nor demonized but rather offer only metaphorical accounts of how people can change—not how people must change.”
Duncan, 2014
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