Quality of Life Therapy

Quality of Life Therapy is a self-contained, easy-to-use, step-by-step guide on how to conduct Quality of Life Therapy, an effective system of interventions designed to manage and solve so-called "problems in living" or quality of life issues that may or may not be related to a clients health. This important new work also includes a CD featuring a number of client exercises and handouts that can be used in therapy.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORY.
1. Quality of Life Therapy (QOLT): An Introduction.
2. Happiness through the Ages and Sages.
3. QOL Theory.
4. How to Do QOLT.
PART TWO: CORE TECHNIQUES IN QOLT.
5. QOLT Assessment: Integrating QOL with Traditional Health Assessments.
6. Sharing Case Conceptualizations with Clients.
7. The Three Pillars of QOLT: Inner Abundance, Quality Time, and Find a Meaning.
8. Five Paths to Happiness and Other CASIO Techniques.
9. The Tenets of Contentment: A Summary of Key Concepts and Skills in QOLT.
10. Emotional Control and Life Management Skills in Goal Striving.
PART THREE: AREA-SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS.
11. Goals-and-Values and Spiritual Life.
12. Self-Esteem.
13. Health.
14. Relationships.
15. Work and Retirement.
16. Play.
17. Helping.
18. Learning.
19. Creativity.
20. Money and Standard of Living.
21. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, and Community.
22. Relapse Prevention and Maintenance.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.