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Clinical Application

The Provocative Reversal (PR) Method

Pages 229-233
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Provocative Reversal is an interactive therapeutic technique utilizing mutual storytelling, role play, role reversal, and role rehearsal. In addition, the therapist frequently employs provocation, sometimes in a paradoxical fashion, to stimulate adaptive coping with difficult problem issues. The provocative reversal (PR) method is designed to invite insight and behavior change through specific therapeutic interaction with an individual client. Because of the often playful storytelling nature of certain sequences in the technique it is readily adaptable to a pre-adolescent population.

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Tom Mabee

Tom Mabee, M.A., RM, is currently studying for his doctorate in counseling psychology at Florida State University. His background includes school psychology and community mental health. The PR method was devised while he worked as a child and family therapist at a clinic in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1983.