THE POWER OF ONE
This powerful new resource for the therapist is loaded with activities and processing considerations that can help facilitate personal growth and change in sessions with individual clients. Adventure-based, individual counseling invites clients to take action during the session and utilize the material that arises in the moment, at the point of performance, to address and move toward treatment goals. The connection to DSM-IV TR diagnoses and treatment planning represents an alignment with mental health treatment that strengthens the literature, making this book an innovative and important contribution to the fields of counseling and therapy.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

“Lung, Stauffer, and Alvarez are front-runners in a new and refreshing wave for psychotherapy. This book offers practitioners a wonderful tool to incorporate in their professional repertoire by providing therapists with clinically focused activities for individual sessions. This text serves as a resource for the technically eclectic therapist and offers a concise and pragmatic explanation of the associated conceptual framework.”
Joshua Meyer M.S. LCPC
ACCT Level 2 Facilitator

“The Power of One answers that question of how to work with individual clients using active, experiential methods. This book provides thoughtful, tested adaptations of adventure activities and connects them to common client issues and psychiatric diagnoses. Note to mental health providers: This is a ‘must have’ for your library!”
H. L. "Lee" Gillis, Ph.D.
Chair of Psychology and Licensed Psychologist, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville GA

“This text is a valuable resource for any therapist/counselor. The authors did a great job of tying activity ideas to the diagnostic work and documentation that we are all required to do. I particularly appreciated the DSM Connection with treatment goals, matching activities, and treatment notes for each diagnosis. The book’s structure is simple enough for providers unfamiliar with adventure work to understand and apply these activities, but deep enough for experienced providers to enrich their practices.”
Bobbi L. Beale, Psy.D.

“This publication is critical to the development of the field of adventure therapy, as it fills a large void in the literature related to individual adventure practice. It concisely details accepted practices in experiential and adventure clinical practice and remains focused on applications to individual adventure therapy. The authors have given us a wonderful guide to using adventure in individual therapy.”
Kim Sacksteder, MSW, LISW-S

“This text provides a valuable addition to the field of adventure therapy in moving the work to individual psychotherapeutic interventions. It moves many of the ideas that have been honed and developed in the application of adventure activities to the therapeutic process with groups to work with individuals. The case examples provide a glimpse as to how three master practitioners engage with individuals doing adventure therapy.”
Dr. Christian M. Itin, MSW


“The Power of One is an excellent resource for clinicians. It is easy to use with clear, understandable directions of activities as well as their clinical utility with a variety of treatment modalities. This resource will appeal to the seasoned therapist as well as clinical trainees. I have used these activities in my practice and teaching to reach productive and positive results.”
Mary Ortega, LMSW, ACSW,
Clinic Administrator, Family Assessment Clinic, School of Social Work, University of Michigan & Supervising Faculty, University Center for the Child and the Family, University of Michigan