Lcsw C: 12 books
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents
A Practitioner's Guide to Treating Challenging Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Adolescents are more likely than any other age groups to engage in behaviors that contribute to injuries, violence, unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and reckless alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. At-risk adolescents may also exhibit signs of moodiness, aggression, and even self-injury,...
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions
DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
P****arenting a teen with intense emotions can be extremely difficult. This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you’ll learn the skills for managing your own reactions so you can survive these difficult years and help your...
What Works with Teens
A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
**Two clinical social workers offer clinicians, educators, coaches, and other youth counselors the first professional book that focuses on engaging authentically with teens in order to create lasting change. Anyone who works with teens should read this book. **
If you work with teens,...
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts and Aggressive B
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional...
The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness
How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Speaking up for yourself has benefits, but it has costs, too. Many people who struggle with assertiveness are paralyzed by worries that they’ll seem mean, petty, or that they will hurt the other person’s feelings. Even though they want to speak up, they may keep their true needs and opinions to...
The Infertility Workbook
A Mind-Body Program to Enhance Fertility, Reduce Stress, and Maintain Emotional Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
If you and your partner have struggled with fertility issues, you’re well aware of the emotional roller coaster of confusion, frustration, and disappointment that infertility can set in motion. This book offers a comprehensive set of mind-body techniques you can use to help improve fertility from...
by Andrew Walen, LCSW-C
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
There are three sections to Man Up to Eating Disorders, starting with the development of my emotional eating experience, and into my first forays into body loathing and dieting. My period of anorexia in late high school and failure out of college due to depression and grief are covered. This begins the...
Direct Practice Skills for Evidence-Based Social Work
A Strengths-Based Text and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Featuring an evidence- and strengths-based approach to practice methods, this new text teaches students how to apply social work skills in a variety of settings. Designed to enhance self-awareness, professionalism, ethical reasoning, cultural sensitivity, and an appreciation for social justice issues,...
The Stronger Than BPD Journal
DBT Activities to Help Women Manage Emotions and Heal from Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Your story is just beginning. In The Stronger than BPD Journal, influential BPD blogger, advocate, and peer educator Debbie Corso and psychotherapist Kathryn C. Holt offer guided writing activities to help you work through strong emotions, strengthen emotional resiliency, and build lasting relationships.
If...
Great Expectations: Becoming a Dad
The First Three Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Few authors are better prepared to write about fatherhood than John C. Carr, a social worker and psychotherapist who understands the psychological development of both infants and men. And, as a dad of three, he's on the front lines of fathering. Carr covers not only practical “how-tos,” but also...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
The Behavioral Health Specialist in Primary Care
Skills for Integrated Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes required to prevent disease complications. This innovative text, with contributions from respected clinicians and researchers in all arenas of behavioral health,...