The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies

The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies includes contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable resource and reference for therapy students, scholars, educators, and practitioners.Along with discussing key postmodern approaches, including collaborative-dialogic, narrative, solution focused, and open dialogue, the handbook features advances in theory, research, and applications of postmodern practice. It covers both critical perspectives and methodologies, such as narrative, poststructuralist, performative, and postqualitative. Considerations of issues of diversity, power, and privilege are infused throughout the handbook.This handbook is essential for practitioners and students interested in teaching, using, and researching postmodern practice, including counselors, clinical psychologists, family therapists, psychotherapists, and social workers.Chapter 28 and Chapter 38 of this book are freely available as dwnldable Open Access Pds at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license (CC-BY-NC).

About the Author

Olga Smoliak , PhD, C. Psych, RMFT, is Professor of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is interested in advancing critical and discursive perspectives and inquiry in counseling/psychotherapy and family therapy.

Eleftheria Tseliou , PhD, is Professor of Research Methodology and Qualitative Methods at the University of Thessaly (Greece) and a systemic therapist. She is also President of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP). She is interested in discursive qualitative methodologies and systemic/postmodern therapies, and counseling/psychotherapy process research.

Tom Strong , PhD, is Professor and Counselor-Educator who recently retired from the University of Calgary, Canada. He writes on the collaborative, critical, and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy.

Saliha Bava , PhD, LMFT, is Program Director and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Mercy University, United States. She is the Cofounding Board Member of the International Certificate Program in Collaborative-Dialogic Practices (ICCP) and Board Member of Taos Institute. Her scholarship and consultation focus on critical discursive change practices in psychotherapy, educational, organizational and social context.

Peter Muntigl , PhD, is Staff Scientist in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University (Belgium) and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (Canada). His recent publications include Interaction in Psychotherapy (2024).