Integrating Social Cognition into Therapeutic Practice: Beneath and Beyond the Process of Therapy - Paperback

by Louis H. Falik (Author)

This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice. Building on the micro-skills framework for training, the author adds cognitive modifiability theories to create a social cognition approach to training and practice. The material has been field tested in a graduate academic context and in consultation in mental health settings, and chapters contain didactic explications, illustrative examples, practice exercises, and graphic schemas to help readers integrate specific practices into a broader comprehensive theoretical framework. Mental health professionals and students in advanced counseling courses will find that this book broadens their perspectives beyond basic micro-skills approaches and provides an expansive and systematic framework for conceptualizing the therapeutic process.

Author Biography

Louis H. Falik, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Counseling at San Francisco State University, USA, and a senior scholar focusing on training, research, and professional development at the international Feuerstein Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.