Counselling category: 1931 books
Adult Attachment
A Concise Introduction to Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Adult Attachment: A Concise Introduction to Theory and Research is an easy-to-read and highly accessible reference on attachment that deals with many of the key concepts and topics studied within attachment theory. This book is comprised of a series of chapters framed by common questions that are...
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy
The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies and thanatology, uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how and why people grieve and how we can help the bereaved. In its pages, clinicians and students will gain a new understanding of the etiology...
Evidence-Based Treatments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
A Practitioner's Guide to Theory, Methods, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Evidence-Based Treatments for Alcohol and Drug Abuse encompasses the developments in the field over the last decade, blending theory, techniques and clinical flexibility.
Research in the past decade has shown that substance abuse and substance dependence are treatable. The field has witnessed...
The Buddha Pill
Can Meditation Change You?
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people?
In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. Separating fact from fiction, they reveal what scientific...
The Courage to Be Present
Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The quality of presence a psychotherapist or counselor brings to the therapeutic relationship makes all the difference in effective treatment. With this application of Buddhist practice to psychotherapy, Karen Kissel Wegela offers mental health professionals a new perspective on bringing compassion,...
Counting Our Losses
Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique...
by Sebern F. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Working with the circuitry of the brain to restore emotional health and well-being.
Neurofeedback, a type of "brain training" that allows us to see and change the patterns of our brain, has existed for over 40 years with applications as wide-ranging as the treatment of epilepsy, migraines,...
by Morley D. Glicken
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
At a time when the mental health difficulties/disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore of many practitioners' patient rosters, naming and treating those problems is still too often handled as an art as much as a science. Inconsistent practices based on clinical experience and intuition rather...
by Bill McHenry, Jim McHenry, Angela M. Sikorski
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A Counselor’s Introduction to Neuroscience is a guidebook to neurobiology that is customized for counselors’ unique goals and requirements. Drawing on years of experience, not only in the lab, but in the counselor’s chair, the authors unravel the complexities of neuroscience and present an easily...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Humanism is considered by many to be the foundation for the values and practices of counseling. This book explores and presents current counseling issues from a humanistic perspective, providing a valuable resource for counselors and therapists seeking effective approaches, founded on humanistic principles,...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work
Evidence-Based Interventions and Emerging Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Social work focuses on serving the most vulnerable members of society, and social workers must often address the contextual forces that contribute to human problems. Mindfulness and acceptance are powerful tools for this practice. By offering interventions like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT),...
Ethics in Counseling and Therapy
Developing an Ethical Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Ethics in Counseling and Therapy develops students' ethical competence through an understanding of theory. Houser and Thoma helps the counselor form his or her own ethical identity and reflect on his or her own values and issues by presenting a theoretical framework that draws on theories from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and moral psychology.
Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors
A Clinician’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors, 2nd ed, is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, during the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other...
Unifying Psychotherapy
Principles, Methods, and Evidence from Clinical Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
With over 1,000 approaches to psychotherapy, many of which have few substantive differences, how can a therapist know which one will provide the most effective treatment? Unifiedpsychotherapy, a significant new paradigm in the evolution of psychotherapy, is a multicomponent,biopsychosocial systems...