By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! 
By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction: 
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39This Reading Course, comprised of 5 articles, offers a range of innovative approaches to dealing with most challenging clinical problems that will broaden your clinical thinking and help you find new ways to draw on the most powerful therapeutic resources of all: the complex, unpredictable vagaries of the client's own heart, mind, and spirit. Bill O'Hanlon will show you how to be with clients in their ambivalences and contradictions that allows them to step into fresh possibilities. Katy Butler explores in depth the influential contribution of Marsha Linehan and explains the nuts-and-bolts of her Dialectical Behavioral Approach. Yvonne Dolan reveals the language structures and techniques that can rebuild hope in even the most shattered client. Barry Duncan, Mark Hubble, and Scott Miller show how to let technique take a back seat in what other therapists might consider "impossible cases."
Course Readings
Revolution on the Horizon: DBT Challenges the Borderline Diagnosis by Katy Butler
Stepping Off the Throne: It’s Easy to Be Too Enamored with Our Own Theories by Barry L. Duncan
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Turning Ambivalence into Possibility by Bill O'Hanlon
The Pragmatics of Hope: What to Do When all Seems Lost by Yvonne Dolan
The Psychology of the Sand-Pit: Clinical Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh by Douglas Flemons
Learning Objectives
1. Design interventions using inclusive language
2. Discuss the relationship between client action and hope
3. Explain the impact of avoiding a problem
4. List three elements of dialectical behavioral therapy
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