Luciano L Abate: 10 books
Using Workbooks in Mental Health
Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The use of workbooks in therapy might represent one of the biggest breakthroughs that has occurred in decades.
Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers examines the effectiveness of mental health workbooks designed...
Beyond the Systems Paradigm
Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This monograph owes its origins to the decades-old proposal by David Bakan (1968) about the duality of human experience. He proposed that community and agency would be two necessary and sufficient constructs to classify and to encompass most human relationships. This dichotomy has been...
by Luciano L'Abate
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Never has the need for a compendium of self-help workbooks been so great!
From the founder of the world’s first PhD program in Family Psychology comes an extensive guide to nearly all of the mental health workbooks published through 2002. Placed together in one volume for the first time,...
Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology
Evaluations and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This provocative volume updates L' Abate's signature ideas, focusing in particular on the concepts of concreteness and specificity as basic tenets of evaluation and therapy. Noting society's growing familiarity with technology, current concerns about treatment accessibility, and widespread interest...
Relational Competence Theory
Research and Mental Health Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Relational competence—the set of traits that allow people to interact with each other effectively—enjoys a long history of being recorded, studied, and analyzed. Accordingly, Relational Competence Theory (RCT) complements theories that treat individuals’ personality and functioning individually...
Self-Help in Mental Health
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Self-help is big business, but alas not a scienti c business. The estimated 10 billion—that’s with a “b”—spent each year on self-help in the United States is rarely guided by research or monitored by mental health professionals. Instead, marketing and metaphysics triumph. The more outrageous...
Paradoxical Psychotherapy
Theory & Practice With Individuals Couples & Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Published in 1982, Paradoxical Psychotherapy is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychotherapy.
Hurt Feelings
Theory, Research, and Applications in Intimate Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Hurt feelings are universal and are present in human beings as well as in animals. These feelings are usually avoided by human beings and overlooked by the scientific and professional mental health communities. Yet, if unresolved and not shared with loved ones and professionals, they tend to fester...
Models of Psychopathology
Generational Processes and Relational Roles
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book explores current relational models of psychopathology that undergird a great many conflicts and destructive outcomes in family and intimate relationships. These models have similar features and can be considered as a group. They are all: (1) generational; (2) relational; and (3) fundamentally reactive processes stemming from existing psychopathology.
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy as a Science
An Iconoclastic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This book demonstrates how clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices may reach a scientific level provided they change the three basic paradigms that have controlled those practices in the last century. These three, now outdated, paradigms, are: (1) one-on-one (2) personal contacts (3) through...