Table of Contents

* About the Editors
* Contributors
* Foreword
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Hospitality
* Theory: Beyond Persuasion—Theorizing without Violence
* Chapter 1. Social Construction As Practical Theory: Lessons for Practice and Reflection in Psychotherapy
* Persuasion As Pervasive
* Providing a Conversational Arena
* Social Construction
* Meaning As Relational
* From Method to Daily Engagements (Performances)
* Social Construction As Practical Theory
* Chapter 2. Therapy Theory After the Postmodern Turn
* Our Postmodern Turn
* The New Vision of Affirmative Postmodernism
* Creating Paralogy
* Summary and Conclusion
* Chapter 3. Collaboration Within a Pragmatic Tradition: The Psychotherapeutic Legacy of William James
* Introduction
* If There Was a Jamesian Clinical Tradition . . .
* Pluralism, Skepticism, and Radical Empiricism—What Might This Mean for a Collaborative Therapy?
* Empirically Informed Therapy
* Pragmatic Clinical Practice
* Conclusion
* Chapter 4. Knowing More Than We Can Say
* Postmodern Discourse
* Trying to Face the Unsayable
* Into the Therapist
* Toward Practice
* Chapter 5. On the Way to “Presence”: Methods of a “Social Poetics”
* Mutual Responsivity
* From Fixity to Fluidity, from Entanglements to Self-Respect: Conversational Ethics
* Orienting Images and Examples: Methods of a Social Poetics
* Conclusion: The Conversational-Poetic Stance
* Therapy: “Knowing-With” in Therapeutic Practice
* Chapter 6. Relational Attunement: Internal and External Reflections on Harmonizing with Clients
* Four Ways of Knowing
* Slowing Myself Down to Stay Closer to Clients’ Meanings
* Being Transparent
* How Can I Help?
* Ways to Ask for Feedback
* Closing Moments
* Chapter 7. Talking About “Knowing-With” (Like A Team!)
* Chapter 8. A Room of Their Own
* Initial Formulation and Application of the Intervention
* Subsequent Applications of the Intervention
* Theoretical Possibilities: Space, Status, and the Struggle for Recognition
* Alternative Applications
* Chapter 9. Young People and Adults in a Team Against Harassment: Bringing Forth Student Knowledge and Skill
* Working As Adults with a Team of Young People
* Stepping Back As Adults
* Discovering Student Knowledge
* Passing on Student Mediation Knowledge
* Team Building
* Future Planning and Directions
* Trust
* Chapter 10. Knowing-With: Moral Questions of Relationship
* First Vignette
* Second Vignette
* Third Vignette
* Final Thoughts
* Supervision and Training: Relational Practices in Supervision and Training
* Chapter 11. Countercultural Therapy: An Attempt to Match Pedagogy to Practice
* Chapter 12. Introducing Social Constructionist and Critical Psychology into Clinical Psychology Training
* Introduction
* Contexts for Training
* Practice Examples in Academic Teaching
* Chapter 13. Storying Counselors: Producing Professional Selves in Supervision
* Introduction
* Counselor Author-ity in Supervision
* Some Problems with Developmental Assumptions
* Multiple Voices: Producing Possibilities for Practice
* Sharing the Cloak: Relational Responsibility in Supervision
* Stories for Action: The Work of Supervision
* Chapter 14. Power, Gender, and Accountability in Supervision
* Historical Context
* Mentoring or Monitoring?
* Constructions of Power in Supervision
* The Project
* Findings and Discussion
* Conclusion
* Chapter 15. Respectful Super-Vision: Avoiding Relational Violence
* Deconstructing Super-Vision
* Our Supervision History/Herstory: Does It Have Anything to Teach Us?
* Preferred versus Nonpreferred Supervisor Adjectives
* More Questions to Consider
* What Does All This Mean?
* Concluding Remark

About the Author

David A Pare, Glen Larner