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The Performance of Practice - Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families (Paperback)
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The Performance of Practice - Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families (Paperback)
Series: The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
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This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the
possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of
orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or
followed like religions. The central metaphor is the performance of
practice emphasized in the spoken word and expressed in all its
non-verbal complexity. How practitioners use every aspect of their
being to communicate with the other in practice, how they shape and
mold their words through gesture and other non-verbal actions in
response to the gestures and words of others is a continually
recursive process. Therapy is an enactment, a performance that is
created between all the participants."This is Jim Wilson's second
book in our series. He might call it his second act. His first
book, Child Focused Practice, was very popular because it offered
practical approaches to working with children for practitioners
from diverse backgrounds. This current volume is written in the
same spirit but takes his thinking and techniques into new areas.
He is interested in two things: how therapists can release more of
their own creativity when working with children and how they can
use enactment to explore difficult family emotions. The influence
of systemic thinking on the family therapy world has often led to
theories and techniques that have often overlooked the value of
simply talking to and playing with children. This book goes some
way to redressing that balance. It is loaded with examples of
conversations with children, playful metaphors, enacted scenarios
of traumatic events, and discussions that connect children to the
other relationships in the family. The sheer pleasure Wilson gets
from working directly withchildren is evident throughout the book
and he is clearly drawing on his personal style, yet the book does
not neglect the theorizing that helps answer the question of why
Wilson does what he does and why it is effective."- David Campbell
and Ros Draper, from the Series Editors' Foreword
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