Therapeutic Compliments: Setting the Stage for Successful Therapy

Wall, Mark D.; Amendt, John H.; Kleckner, Trudy; Bryant, Rebecca

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00795.x

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“…Attending to clients' strengths elevates their sense of competency and promotes their feelings of self-esteem, which empowers them to make more rapid changes than they would make ifthey felt they had deep-rooted problems (Wall, Kleckner, Amendt, & Bryant, 1989).…”

Section: Strategic Therapists Can't Address Feelings If They Don't Tamentioning

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The Myth of the Unfeeling Strategic Therapist

Kleckner

Bland

Frank

et al. 1992

J Marital Family Therapy

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This paper explores what the authors consider to be a widespread myth: that strategic therapists ignore, avoid, or neglect client feelings in treatment. This myth is promulgated by trainers' admonitions and strategic theorists' injunctions against dealing with client affect. It is also cultivated by omission of this topic in the strategic literature. The myth is destructive in that it misrepresents what strategic practitioners actually do in a therapy session. Seven elements of the myth are delineated and the corresponding fallacies are illustrated.

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Section: Strategic Therapists Can't Address Feelings If They Don't Tamentioning

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The Myth of the Unfeeling Strategic Therapist

Kleckner

Bland

Frank

et al. 1992

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…In this article, we will share a piece of a "philosophical hermeneutic inquiry" (Gadamer, 1989) focused on the family intervention called a "commendation" (Bohn, Wright & Moules, 1994;Wall et al, 1989;Wright & Leahey, 2005;Wright et al, 1996). We believe that commendations also exist in silence, listening, questioning, and in families' self-commending practices (Houger Limacher & Wright, 2003).…”

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Exploring the Therapeutic Family Intervention of Commendations

Limacher¹,

Wright

2006

J Fam Nurs

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Offered in this article are interpretations that emerged in a qualitative, interpretive study focused on the family intervention called a "commendation." The tradition of philosophical hermeneutics informs and shapes the analysis of the data. Research participants include a heterosexual couple and a nurse who engaged in therapeutic conversations focused on difficulties with Internet pornography. Data sources include videotapes of clinical sessions, documentation, and research interviews. Isolated segments of clinical videotape are shared with the couple to prompt their memory of commending practices that emerged in clinical sessions. Commendations are not experienced by this couple as gentle and warm but instead as extremely provocative, albeit constructive. This study illuminates the complex, contextual nature of commending practice and suggests that the noticing of strengths and resources contains much more than the spoken word.

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“…When the therapists return to the group room, they tell the group briefly of their discussion, and include a compliment to the group about the work accomplished during that session (Wall, Kleckner, & Amendt, 1989). They then ask the members to write down the process prescription, which will be in the form of an invitation to pay attention during the week for further evidence of the dynamic that has been revealed (in this example, ambivalence about closeness) and to be prepared to start the next session with a brief discussion of what was observed and how more examples may occur in group.…”

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