Bookstore: Barry’s Books and Training Materials
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The Heart & Soul of Change: Delivering What Works in TherapyBarry L. Duncan, Scott Miller, Bruce Wampold, & Mark Hubble (Editors) “How do you improve on a classic? By incorporating all of the most recent research and making it readable and relevant to the student, the practitioner, and the researcher. This volume is a must-read for all of these groups.” List price: $59.95 US |
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The Heroic ClientBarry L. Duncan, Scott Miller, & Jacqueline Sparks “The Heroic Client calls into question the purity of therapy models…a timely and inspiring volume—itself a heroic provocation to the mental health profession.” List price: $35.00 US |
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Psychotherapy With “Impossible” CasesBarry L. Duncan, Mark Hubble, & Scott Miller “This is a truly significant work.” List price: $35.00 US |
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Brief Intervention for School Problems: Outcome Informed StrategiesJohn J. Murphy & Barry L. Duncan “Murphy and Duncan examine practitioner philosophies, theories, and models of intervention through the critical lens of evidenced-based practice. Their client-based approach is refreshing and necessary in the field today”. List price: $32.00 US |
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Coming Soon! (March 2010)On Becoming a Better TherapistBarry L. Duncan The possibility and novelty of Duncan’s ideas makes this an important and provocative contribution to the field. |
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What’s RIGHT With You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your LifeBarry L. Duncan “All is indeed right with Dr. Barry Duncan’s What’s Right With You: An engaging, compelling, and eminently practical book that will help you to capitalize on your strengths and cultivate your power.” See Barry’s TV interviews about this book as well as a friendly debate with a Harvard psychiatrist at http://www.whatsrightwithyou.com/resources.htm List price: $14.95 US |
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“Let’s Face it, Men Are @$$#%\e$” What Women Can Do About ItJoseph Rock and Barry Duncan Yes, it does sound negative, but unfortunately this is the view that many women hold—and for good reason! A reader says,“This book genuinely teaches you how to approach things differently, to understand why, and to enjoy yourself while doing it.” List price: $12.95 US |
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Changing the Rules: A Client Directed Approach to TherapyBarry Duncan, Andrew Solovey, and Greg Rusk This book started “client directed!”One of Barry’s early mentors, John Weakland said, “The common response to difficulties and impasses in therapy is to blame the patient–for example, as `resistant.’ Comforting as this may be, this book suggests how it would be more useful to take out clients’ `realities’ more seriously, and our own `realities’ of theory and technique less seriously with a resulting gain in both focus and flexibility.” List price: $45.00 US |
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The Greatest Hits (and Disasters) of Psychotherapy ResearchBarry Duncan, Psy.D. On this professionally-recorded 38 minute audio on CD, Barry Duncan surveys the last 25 years of psychotherapy research and identifies, in a rapid-fire, entertaining way, its greatest hits and disasters. This CD includes handouts for client-directed, outcome-informed clinical work and the presentation slides in PDF format. List price: $10.95 US |
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What Works In TherapyBarry Duncan, Psy.D. On this lively, professionally-recorded all day workshop audio on CD, Barry Duncan travels the territory of client-directed outcome-informed (CDOI) clinical work. Four tracks cover the empirical underpinnings, practical translations into everyday practice, and the nuts and bolts of using outcome and alliance feedback to improve effectiveness. In addition, this CD includes handouts for CDOI clinical work and the presentation slides in PDF format. List price: $14.95 US |
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Molly Explains It AllBarry Duncan, Psy.D.. You’ve been inspired by her in Barry’s workshops and read about her in his books. You’ve asked for a copy of this video for years. And now, it’s finally available—the incomparable Molly, from the “Impossible” Case project, explains what successful therapy is all about. This entertaining DVD tells the story of Molly, a veteran of failed therapy, and how she ultimately triumphs when given a chance to enlist her own resources and apply her own ideas about change. In addition to the Molly video and discussion by Barry, this DVD includes handouts for client-directed outcome-informed clinical work and the presentation slides in PDF format. List price: $39.95 US |
Digital Books, PowerPoint Presentations, and Webinars
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PowerPoint Presentation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly This PowerPoint presentation offers the compelling case for consumer driven outcomes management. It includes the latest research findings about efficacy, drop outs, and therapist variability, and presents practice based evidence as the solution for psychotherapy’s “bad” and “ugly.” 48 slides with animation and sound effects.Price: $19.95 US |
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PowerPoint Presentation: Becoming Client Directed and Outcome Informed: And Becoming a Better Therapist While You Are at It. This PowerPoint presentation offers a one day workshop in client directed, outcome informed ideas and practices. It covers the waterfront, from enhancing the effects of the common factors, particularly client and alliance factors to how to implement practice based evidence, the use of the Outcome and Session Rating Scales. 157 slides with animation and sound effects.Price: $39.95 US |
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Heroic Clients, Heroic Agencies Barry Duncan & Jacqueline Sparks In this brief, easy-to-read treatment and training manual, therapists, counselors, case managers, students, supervisors, and administrators of agencies will find step-by-step instructions for conducting client-directed, outcome-informed (CDOI) therapy services. Written in common, everyday language, the manual contains suggestions for everything from the “nuts and bolts” of helpful therapeutic conversations to using systematic and ongoing feedback from clients to evaluate and enhance outcome. This manual details the how to’s of involving clients as valued partners and provides down-to-earth suggestions for bringing justice to your agency, and perhaps beyond.Price: $39.95 US E-BOOK |
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The Outcome and Session Rating Scales Manual Scott D. Miller & Barry L. Duncan This e-book summarizes the latest research about the ORS and SRS as well as provides step-by-step instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting the measures in routine clinical practice. Full length case examples illustrate use of the scales with a variety of typical as well as challenging clinical situations. A must have for any user of the outcome and alliance tools. Price: $39.95 U.S. (your order will be added to a shopping cart in case you want to return to these pages for additional purchases).This manual is available in English and French. When you purchase the manual, you will download a zipped file that contains both versions.Price: $39.95 USE-BOOK |
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The Lone Changer Barry L. Duncan & Joseph Rock–Barry was on Oprah (see that appearance at http://heartandsoulofchange.com/2009/12/) about this book (published as Overcoming Relationship Impasses). The Lone Changer dispels the commonly held myth that it takes two to help a troubled relationship. Joe Rock and Barry Duncan offer unique one-person strategies to help with the most common problem areas of relationships: communication, power, and sex, as well as a host of other parenting and relational problems.Price: $12.95 US E-BOOK |
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For the Love of the Work: The Treasure Chest–Barry Duncan This webinar discusses the fifth and final step to keep your development as the therapist in the viewfinder: collecting client notes, cards, and letters about your work with them as well as client stories that mark significant events in your growth as a psychotherapist—what I call the Treasure Chest. The Treasure Chest is a way to buffer burn out, a momentary sanctuary from the downsides of the work, when the requirements of the system bring you down, or when you see several clients in a row that aren’t benefiting much, or when a client story hits home in a particularly painful way. The Treasure Chest is the place to go to escape tough times and reconnect to the work, to why you become a therapist in the first place. It is also the place to record, through your clients and your own narrative accounts, your development as a therapist.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinarAUDIO ONLY |
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You Do What? Describing What You Do in A Way You Can Believe In–Barry Duncan Okay, now we are getting personal. What is your identity as a therapist, a helper? How do you describe what you do? At your very best, what role do you play with your clients? What recent client represents the essence of your identity, illustrating what you embrace most about your work? This webinar encourages you to define and continually edit your personal rendition of what you do as a therapist. Psychotherapy is presented as a discovery-oriented process, a non-cookie cutter search for what works for each unique client. Feedback provides a comforting compass, a way to manage the uncertainty that is just as characteristic of therapy as it is of life. Barry discusses: A description of psychotherapy that promotes both allegiance and flexibility, and that is 1) Client Directed; 2) Outcome Informed; 3). Alliance Focused; 4) Discovery OrientedPrice US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Supervision For A Change: In Clients and Therapists–Barry Duncan This is the seventh of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. You’ve heard the word that gets plenty of lip service in supervision-isomorphism-but what does it really mean, and is it possible to supervise the way you would like the supervisee to conduct clinical work? This webinar says yes and describes a process in which you can both ensure therapists are providing the best tailored clinical services possible while simultaneously attending to supervisee’s growth as a therapist.Barry discusses: Outcome Informed Supervision1) Based on outcome data-not theory or pontification; 2) Aimed at early identification of clients at risk so services can be modified; 3). Offers feedback, support, and training to encourage therapists to aspire to be better. Collaborates with therapists to track their cumulative career growth, theoretical breadth, and more importantly, their currently experienced growth-the teachings of their clients. The nuts and bolts issues of supervision are also addressed including the four steps of supervision, under and over utilization, percentiles and trajectories, and using the statistics to encourage therapist growth.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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How Being Bad Can You Make You Better: Informing and Tailoring Services Based on Feedback–Barry Duncan This is the sixth of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. When clients are not benefiting provides the opportunity to do your best work. In fact, it gives you the possibility of being helpful to everyone you see. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. By identifying clients who are not responding to your usual fare, when outcome is bad in other words, you have the chance to make it better in two ways: first by changing something about the therapy that turns things around; and second, if things don’t turn around, by moving the client on to a different provider or venue of service that better suits the possibility for change.Barry discusses: Informing and Tailoring Services Based on Client Feedback• Informing requires: 1) Comparing the current ORS score with the last. Only two options: there is change or there isn’t. If there is change, implement the “Listening for a Change” skill. If no change, discuss with the client what needs to happen next. 2) If no change persists, the discussions increase in urgency, represented by the Checkpoint Conversation and the Last Chance Discussion, both intended to brainstorm options and entertain the possibility of referring the client elsewhere. 3) If no change persists, it is time to fail successfully, or gracefully move the client on to another provider or venue of service including peer related services . Topics also discussed: graphing, potholes, zigzags, and recovery.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Just the Facts, Ma’am: A No Nonsense Guide to Getting Started with the ORS/SRS–Barry DuncanThis is the fifth of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. This presentation provides a no nonsense discussion about how to get started using feedback to help clients help you do good work—not sometime, next month, or even next week—with your next client. It covers the first session pragmatics and details all you need to know to get started becoming a better therapist. Barry discusses:Introducing the Measures: 1. Building a culture of feedback; 2. Understanding that there is no bad news on the measures and viewing feedback as a gift that can only improve outcomes; 3. Fitting the introduction into your own language and style; 4. and Scoring and charting the measuresIntegrating Client Feedback into Practice Integration:1. Providing feedback about the client’s score and the clinical cutoff and allowing the client to make sense of it; 2. Connecting the client’s described experience of the reason for service to his or her marks on the different scales; and 3. Ensuring that the client’s rating represents the described experience—that you have a good rating on the ORS.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Practice Based Evidence: The ORS and SRS–Barry DuncanThis is the fourth of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. This presentation provides a brief overview of the empirical rationale for practice based evidence and a detailed look at the measures themselves—the Outcome Rating Scale and the Session Rating Scale. Barry discusses:• The Good News and Bad News of Psychotherapy Effectiveness. The Good News: Therapy works! The Bad News: Drop outs, therapist differences, and the loss of consumer confidence. The Solution—Practice Based Evidence• The Reliable Predictors of Positive Outcomes: Early Change and the Alliance• The ORS and SRS: How they were developed, their psychometric properties (reliability and validity), their feasibility, and how in the world we were able to get the job done with such short measures.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Reliance on the Alliance : The Power of Partnership–Barry Duncan This is the third of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. This presentation provides a detailed recipe for enhancing our most significant contribution to the change process—the underappreciated power of the therapeutic relationship.Barry discusses:• Staying Close to the Client’s Experience: Stay close to their descriptions of their lives and walk softly when taking a different path.• Validation: Validation occurs when client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are accepted, believed, and considered completely understandable given trying circumstances.• Work on the Client’s Goals: Period! Ask directly about goals and continue to discuss and monitor• Client’s Theory of Change: Simply his or her ideas and preferences about how he or she can be best helped. Honoring the client’s theory occurs when you follow, encourage, and implement the client’s ideas for change or when you select a technique that fits clients’ beliefs about the problem(s) and the change process.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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The Heroic Client: Recruiting Resources and Resiliencies–Barry DuncanThis is the second of seven webinars that focus on the specific skills of client directed, outcome informed work. This presentation provides pragmatic guidelines for recasting the client as not only the star, but also the director of a new psychotherapy drama, showing how to harness the client’s powers of regeneration to solve life’s challenges. Barry discusses:• Telling Heroic Stories: Unfortunately, the Killer Ds have persuaded us to believe in the story of pathology as the only or best version of the client’s experience. It is neither. Many others of survival and courage simultaneously exist—help clients tell stories that portray their courage and heroism.• Listening for a Change—whenever and for whatever reason it occurs. Change is a constant and on our side as helpers. Change spotlights client resources and offers an opportunity for further movement. Help clients notice change and link the positive change to their behavior.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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What Works in Therapy: All Roads Lead to Feedback–Barry DuncanWithin the field and especially between different theoretical schools, quarrels and contentious claims continue unabated. At the root of many controversies is the important question of what works. Is its efficacy based on the singular curative powers of specialized techniques or do other variables account for the change occurring in therapy? As it turns out, the answer is not to be found in the different languages, theories, or procedural differences of the field’s warring camps. Instead, it lies in the pantheoretical or common factors–the ingredients of effective therapy, shared by all orientations. This webinar provides a never before seen account of the factors that create change—and proposes that feedback is itself a common factor. This proposal seeks to apply the common factors commensurate to the dynamic and fluid proportion of variance they account for; to put aside the specific v. common factors debate in favor of a contextual perspective that values, if not depends on their interdependence; and permit the application of the common factors without the creation of another model, one client at a time. This webinar is the first of a series of seven that integrates MyOutcomes and the Six Skills of CDOI work.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Just Say No to Drugs as a First Intervention for Child Problems–Barry Duncan The data clearly indicate that given the meager benefits of medicating children and substantial risks, psychosocial interventions should be tried first. Knowing that there is no irresistible scientific justification to medicate, therapists are free to put other options on the table and draw in the voices of their clients to confidently facilitate medication decisionsùthey can help children and parents get the facts about risks and benefits, and make clear the take-home message that there are many paths to preferred ends. This presentation advocates for a critical risk/benefit analysis, suggesting that therapists become informed so that they can assist families with decisions about medication. You’ll learn that you need not feel timid in the face of medical authority and will leave empowered to talk about medication, raise concerns about robotic prescription practices and side effects, and offer alternatives.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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The Evolution of Common Factors–Barry DuncanDespite the overwhelming support for the common factors, much confusion remains. Are the common factors a model of practice? Does it dismiss technique and promote an anything goes mentality? This presentation discusses the evolution of the common factors and addresses oft heard rebuttals. Participants will learn how to embrace the evidence for common factors without creating a new model, and how a focus on client feedback and therapist differences allows the application of the common factors one client at a time.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
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Isn’t It Good, Norwegian Wood: The Norway Feedback Study–Morten Anker and Barry Duncan Barry interviews the principal investigator, Morten Anker, of the Norway Feedback Study, the largest randomized clinical trial (RCT) ever done with couples. Morten presents the design features that make the study noteworthy as well as the incredible findings. For example, four times more couples achieved clinically significant change in the feedback condition over couples in the treatment as usual condition, and at six month follow up, couples in the feedback condition separated nearly 50% less. Morten and Barry also discuss the response to the study and the national roll out of CDOI in Norway Family Counseling Offices. This webinar presents the first RCT using the ORS and SRS—the study that put CDOI on the map of academic credibility, enabling it to be taught in graduate programs on a large scale. And this is only the beginning.Price: $9.95 US 1 hour webinar |
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Yes, It Is Time For Clinicians to Routinely Track Outcomes–Michael Lambert Feedback pioneer Michael Lambert answers the question he and his colleagues posed in an influential previous article, “Is it time for psychotherapists to routinely track outcome?” He reviews the evidence about client based outcome feedback, particularly his own five RCTs using the Outcome Questionnaire 45.2, and makes a strong case for an affirmative reply. His research has shown time and time again, that systematic feedback significantly improves outcomes, doubling the effectiveness of clients headed for treatment disaster. This webinar allows you to access to the person most responsible for the greatest innovation in psychotherapy outcomes ever.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
| Respect, Resources, and Recovery: Putting the 3 Rs Into Action with Children, Adolescents, and Schools–John Murphy School psychologist, prolific author, and international trainer Dr. John Murphy discusses what’s most important about working with kids–the 3 Rs. Based on the persistent belief that young people and their caregivers are capable of remarkable changes when invited to and actively participate in services and to apply their “natural resources” toward solutions, this webinar describes practical ways to put the principles of respect, resources and recovery into action in schools, counseling agencies, and other child/youth settings. Real-world examples are used to illustrate the power of partnership and the benefits of client-driven/strength-based practice.Price US $9.95 1 hour webinar |
