Basic Counseling Techniques
A Beginning Therapist’s Toolkit (Third Edition)
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Role assumptions. Role assumption is a specific type of role play where the roles are clearly specified. In other words, role assumption is deliberately not as open-ended or free-flowing as a pure role play.
One common type of role assumption is to have various members of a family assume each others’ roles. One family I worked with, the
A variation on the role assumption is to assume a more generic role. In an alcohol recovery group I directed, I often had group members assume the Victim, the Rescuer, and the Persecutor roles. When they had been in a role for a few minutes, I would have them switch to a different role.
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About the Book
Wayne Perry has been a therapist for more than thirty years, but he still hears the same thing from beginning counselors and therapists: Yes, I know what the theory says, but what do I do with this particular client?
Drawing on his decades of experience training marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and pastoral counselors, he answers that question in the updated edition of his landmark book: Basic Counseling Techniques.
He provides practical suggestions for setting up the therapy room, using audiovisual recording equipment, and conducting those first critical interviews. You'll learn how to:
- apply nine different sets of clinical tools;
- select the appropriate tool for the appropriate clinical situation; and
- improve how you carry out the clinical thinking process.
Each chapter concludes with a "Living into the Lesson" section that allows you to participate in experiential exercises to master what you've learned.
While designed for counselors and therapists in the beginning of their careers, even veterans in the field will find value in this updated edition.
About the Author
Wayne Perry is a faculty member in the master’s and PhD programs in marriage and family therapy at Northcentral University. He brings more than 20 years’ university teaching experience and supervising therapy to this work. He is a Clinical Fellow and an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.