{"product_id":"matters-of-interpretation-isbn-9780787909574","title":"Matters of Interpretation","description":"An effective new therapeutic model that integrates the client's and therapist's values \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This groundbreaking book offers therapists and counselors an effective new therapeutic model based on hermeneutics--the art and science of interpretation. It recognizes that the clinician is not a neutral observer in the therapeutic process but brings to the interaction his or her own values, judgments, and prejudices. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Grounded in theory yet deeply inspirational, the book is filled with rich personal reflections from real-world clinicians who have used this model and found the process to be deeply transformative. This new approach not only deepens the therapeutic relationship but has proven to be especially effective with young clients at risk for negative outcomes.  AN INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Forward Arc of Projection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Hermeneutic Methodology for Theory, Research, and Practice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Where We Come From, What We Bring: The Historical and Relational Underpinnings of the Hermeneutic Framework.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ROLE OF INTERPRETATION.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Self-Reflection and Mutual Transformation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Becoming Uncomfortable: Transforming My Praxis (Sharon M. Ravitch).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Flight of a Black Butterfly: A Hermeneutic Investigation of Metamorphosis (Gregory Seaton).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Another Backward Arc: Further Reflections on \"Expert\" and \"Problem\" (Karen E. Liiv).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fear and Courage: Interpretations from Beyond a Life Half-Lived (Kristin M. Carvill).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MISSING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Critical Absences and Hidden Influences in Interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Meaning, Purpose, and Hope: The Case of the Disappearance (Shuna Keenan).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Treading Softly: A Critical Phenomenological Investigation of the Voiceless in the Hermeneutic Circle (Deborah H. Cheng).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Concealed Influence and Power of Nondirective Counselors (Hugh McDonough).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Dance of Interpretation: The Dialectic of Loss and Connectedness (Anna Mackey).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE SOCIALIZING INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Rules of the Game\" Applied to Play, Power, and Politics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Language and Politics: Translating the Rules of the Game--Ayer, AHORA y Manana (John Ramirez Jr. \u0026amp; Marco Antonio Bravo).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Entering Play: Lessons of Grief, Joy, and Growth (Tara Edelschick).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What's Love Got to Do with It? Combining the Influences of Race and Love to Create an Effective Black Counselor (Randy B. Hayward).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Theatrical Dialogue: A Hermeneutic Analysis of Change in One Act (Robert W. Leary).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 19. Coming Full Circle: The Return Art of Reflection.  \"The authors have initiated a revolutionary line of inquiry, sure to have a major impact across the full spectrum of fields that care about youth development. This ambitious theory and practice book marks a true innovation in teaching. Students . . . will gain a deeper respect for the developmental challenges and cultural complexities faced by the youth they wish to serve. Faculty and supervisors . . . will be amazed at how much more their students can learn when they are trained to use hermeneutic tools to study and support the lives of children and adolescents in the world.\" (Robert L. Selman, director, Risk and Prevention Program, and professor of psychology and education, Harvard University)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"How rare it is to open a chapter in a book of psychology and find a compelling story of human experience.\" (Frank Richardson, associate professor of educational psychology, University of Texas, Austin) MICHAEL J. NAKKULA is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he has helped to create the program in Risk and Prevention. He is also cofounder and director of Project IF: Inventing the Future, a school-based preventive collaborative involving Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Boston Public Schools. SHARON M. RAVITCH is a doctoral student in the Education, Culture and Society Program, an interdisciplinary program in anthropology, sociology, and education, at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She is a research fellow at the Cantor-Fitzgerald Center for Research on Diversity in Education at the University's Center for Urban Ethnography. Matters of Interpretation presents and develops a self-reflective approach to therapeutic interventions and psychosocial research that is particularly relevant to working with children and adolescents at risk for negative life outcomes. The approach recognizes the value-laden aspects of human science and allows for the integration of the therapist's and the researcher's values into the processes of psychological inquiry and clinical or counseling psychology. At the core of this orientation is an explicit acknowledgment that therapists and researchers are not objective observers, but instead bring values, judgments, and prejudices to every client interaction and to every act of psychological inquiry.The theoretical framework behind the authors' approach is hermeneutics?fundamental for many years to philosophical and literary studies and of increasing interest to psychologists. Hermeneutics is the art or science of interpretation, such as the interpretation of values in philosophy or the interpretation of a text in literary studies. In this book, a distinctly expressed connection is made for the first time between the abstract realm of hermeneutics and the real world work of both applied psychology and psychosocial inquiry. The authors present a dynamic system wherein therapists simultaneously interpret their client's concerns and their own responses to these concerns. This interpretive process is presented both as a form of intervention and as a systematic approach to the study of human growth and change.The descriptive and theoretical presentations in Matters of Interpretation are richly enhanced by cases from graduate students in training in the Risk and Prevention Program at Harvard University. These original and very personal reflections document the students' in-depth self-assessment as \"applied developmentalists\"?counselors, therapists, and educators. The students find that working with clients using this approach is a deeply transformative process as it r Matters of Interpretation presents an integrative, self-reflective approach to clinical and counseling psychology and psychosocial inquiry that is based on hermeneutics?the art and science of interpretation.  This effective approach?particularly relevant to working with children and adolescents at risk for negative life outcomes?allows for the integration of both the client's and the therapist's values in the therapeutic relationship. The goal is a mutually transformative experience that results in increased self-understanding and a deeper therapeutic relationship.","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989590032613,"sku":"NP9780787909574","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787909574.jpg?v=1761784719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/matters-of-interpretation-isbn-9780787909574","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}