Gerrard B.A., Shinefield J.M. Psychological Type Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Strengthening Relationships

Routledge, 2022. — 295 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-56289-2.This book uses psychological type as a model for organizing mental health interventions, including assessing how a client’s personality is affected within a specific relationship using the Psychological Type Relationship Inventory and the Psychological Type Relationship Scale.By examining each psychological type characteristic, the book demonstrates how to help a client overcome a psychological type challenge by using techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and family therapy approaches. Over 20 techniques are described in explicit how-to format and chapters show the reader how to assess both positive personality characteristics as well as negative or challenging personality characteristics in developing therapy plans.The interdisciplinary nature of the text benefits a wide spectrum of mental health practitioners who are interested in incorporating personality into their case conceptualizations to develop more effective interventions in relationship therapy.An Overview of Psychological Type
Principles of Psychological Type Development
Psychological Type Development Using Talking in Type
Strategies for Developing Extraversion
Strategies for Strengthening Introversion
Strategies for Strengthening Sensing
Strategies for Strengthening Intuition
Strategies for Strengthening Thinking
Strategies for Strengthening Feeling
Strategies Strengthening Judging
Strategies for Strengthening Perceiving
Strategies for Using Type Development with Children and Adolescents
Detailed Case Studies in Psychological Type Development
The Importance of Therapist Type Development