The Dog Ate It
When Clients Don't Do Their Homework
How do you get clients to do homework assignments? For one, please don't call them homework assignments.
Magazine Article
Today's Most Effective Interventions for Deep Healing
Copyright:
8/6/2018
Authors:
BILL O'HANLON, MS, LMFT
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
PAT OGDEN, PHD
MARY JO BARRETT, MSW
ALBERT "SKIP" RIZZO, PH.D.
Product:
NRS001275
Copyright:
8/6/2018
Authors:
BILL O'HANLON, MS, LMFT
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
PAT OGDEN, PHD
MARY JO BARRETT, MSW
ALBERT "SKIP" RIZZO, PH.D.
Product:
NRS001275
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The "Marbling" Approach to Treating Depression
Three Simple Methods for Joining Depressed Clients While Still Inviting Possibility
By Bill O'Hanlon - Repeating patterns can "groove" the brain; that is, your brain gets better and faster at doing whatever you do over and over again. This includes "doing" depression, feeling depressed feelings, and talking about depression. To counter this effect, I like to use a method I call "marbling," going back and forth between investigations of depressed and non-depressed experiences and times.
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How to Get Clients to Do Their Homework
Step 1: Don't Call It "Homework"
By Bill O'Hanlon - The best way to ensure clients' cooperation is to make the assignments relevant for them. Task assignments are designed to bring about changes in the presenting problem. We try to make sure they are relevant to clients by having a mutually agreed upon definition of the problem being addressed and then collaboratively designing tasks that relate to it. In fact, when the tasks derive from a collaborative relationship, they often don't feel like tasks at all.
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The Power of Permission
Why Giving Up the Need to See Clients Change Can Actually Produce Results
By Bill O'Hanlon - People run into problems when their lives are dictated by rigid beliefs that make the stories they're living out too restrictive. Permission counters these commands and prohibitions. At the most basic level, we must discover how to perform the balancing act of simultaneously giving up the need to see clients change while holding open the possibility of change.
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Breaking the Cycle of Depression
Bill O'Hanlon on the "Marbling" Technique for Working with Depressed Clients
Depressed clients repeat the same thoughts, activities, feelings, and experiences again and again, as if entranced. Good depression treatment is largely about awakening them from this bad trance.
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Hypnotic Language in the Consulting Room
Bill O'Hanlon on the Power of Giving Permission in Therapy
As therapists, we must recognize the complexity and ambivalence at the core of human experience. People run into problems when their lives are dictated by rigid beliefs that make the stories they're living out too restrictive, for example: "I must always be perfect," or "I should always smile and be happy." But permission counters these commands and prohibitions. The therapist who offers permission goes beyond accepting clients as they are and moves into encouraging them to expand their life stories and their sense of themselves.
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Escaping the Trance of Depression
Using Bill O'Hanlon's Marbling Technique with Clients
In recent years, we’ve learned that repeating patterns of experience, attention, conversation, and behavior can “groove” the brain; that is, your brain gets better and faster at doing whatever you do over and over again. This includes “doing” depression, feeling depressed feelings, talking about depression, and so forth. Thus, we can unintentionally help our clients get better at doing depression by focusing exclusively on it. To counter this effect, I like to use a method that I call “marbling.”
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Treating Complex Depression Symptoms with Bill O’Hanlon’s “Exceptions" Technique
Rarely is someone always depressed, or always empty, or always without energy, or always suicidal. If you (or the person you’re helping) explores exceptions to the usual problem, feeling, or thought, you can usually find moments when it’s not occurring. A lot can be learned from these exceptions that may be helpful in finding relief from the depression.
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Out of the Tunnel
Escaping the Trance of Depression
Depressed clients repeat the same thoughts, activities, feelings, and experiences again and again, as if entranced. Good depression treatment is largely about awakening them from this bad trance.
Magazine Article
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Turning Ambivalence into Possibility
At the most basic level, we must discover how to perform the balancing act of simultaneously giving up the need to see clients change while holding open the possibility of change.
Magazine Article
The Dog Ate It
When Clients Don't Do Their Homework
How do you get clients to do homework assignments? For one, please don't call them homework assignments.
Magazine Article
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Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT, has authored or co-authored 31 books, the latest being Quick Steps to Resolving Trauma (W.W. Norton, 2010). He has published 59 articles or book chapters. His books have been translated into 16 languages. He has appeared on Oprah (with his book Do One Thing Different), The Today Show, and a variety of other television and radio programs.
For the past 30+ years, Bill has given over 2,000 talks around the world. He has been a top-rated presenter at many national conferences and was awarded the Outstanding Mental Health Educator of the Year in 2001 by the New England Educational Institute. He is a Licensed Mental Health Professional, Certified Professional Counselor, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Bill is clinical member of AAMFT (and winner of the 2003 New Mexico AMFT Distinguished Service Award), certified by the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists and a Fellow and a Board Member of the American Psychotherapy Association. Bill is known for his storytelling, irreverent humor, clear and accessible style and his boundless enthusiasm for whatever he is doing. His seminars are as entertaining as they are educational.
For the past 30+ years, Bill has given over 2,000 talks around the world. He has been a top-rated presenter at many national conferences and was awarded the Outstanding Mental Health Educator of the Year in 2001 by the New England Educational Institute. He is a Licensed Mental Health Professional, Certified Professional Counselor, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Bill is clinical member of AAMFT (and winner of the 2003 New Mexico AMFT Distinguished Service Award), certified by the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists and a Fellow and a Board Member of the American Psychotherapy Association. Bill is known for his storytelling, irreverent humor, clear and accessible style and his boundless enthusiasm for whatever he is doing. His seminars are as entertaining as they are educational.
