Main description:

This book uses psychological type as a model for organizing mental health interventions, including assessing how a client's personality is affected within a specific relationship using the Psychological Type Relationship Inventory and the Psychological Type Relationship Scale.

By examining each psychological type characteristic, the book demonstrates how to help a client overcome a psychological type challenge by using techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and family therapy approaches. Over 20 techniques are described in explicit how-to format and chapters show the reader how to assess both positive personality characteristics as well as negative or challenging personality characteristics in developing therapy plans.

The interdisciplinary nature of the text benefits a wide spectrum of mental health practitioners who are interested in incorporating personality into their case conceptualizations to develop more effective interventions in relationship therapy.

Contents:

1. An Overview of Psychological Type 2. Principles of Psychological Type Development 3. Psychological Type Development Using Talking in Type 4. Strategies for Developing Extraversion 5. Strategies for Strengthening Introversion 6. Strategies for Strengthening Sensing 7. Strategies for Strengthening Intuition 8. Strategies for Strengthening Thinking 9. Strategies for Strengthening Feeling 10. Strategies Strengthening Judging 11. Strategies for Strengthening Perceiving 12. Strategies for Using Type Development with Children and Adolescents 13. Detailed Case Studies in Psychological Type Development 14. The Importance of Therapist Type Development