| Abstract: | Reviews the book, Changing the rules: A client-directed approach to therapy by Barry L. Duncan, Andrew D. Solovey, and Gregory S. Rusk (see record 1992-97964-000). The title of this book, and particularly its subtitle, convey the central message of the book. The subtitle signals to us that we may expect to find an emphasis on the client's own problem formulations as a guide to the therapist's behavior. Such an emphasis has decisive implications for the conceptual and technical framework of the authors' therapy. Two implications are especially worthy of note at the outset: first, the book aligns itself conceptually with the phenomenologically oriented models of psychotherapy. Second, the book sets forth a technology that emphasizes the collaborative and equalitarian aspects of the client-therapist relationship. The book utilizes a practice-oriented approach that documents its case through extensive presentations of verbatim therapy excerpts rather than the formal use of empirical research. The book thus stands as a clinical contribution that depends for its validity upon the cogency with which extant theory is illustrated clinically. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
