Counselling category: 1931 books
Clean Coaching
The insider guide to making change happen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Most coaches today see their role as mainly non-directive, helping to uncover their coachee’s own wisdom. However, coaches may unwittingly and unconsciously constrain what their coachees talk and think about, getting in the way of unique, self-generated solutions. Clean Coaching provides a different,...
Co-Dependency
Issues in Treatment and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Co-dependency has finally become recognized in the late 1980s as a legitimate and a key issue in the chemical dependency field. Most of the literature available on the topic is addressed to the consumer--the co-dependent individual. In Co-dependency, leading therapists share some remarkable insights...
The ACT Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Compassion
Tools for Fostering Psychological Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is proven effective in the treatment of an array of disorders, including addiction, depression, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders, and more. Evidence shows that mindfulness and acceptance exercises help clients connect with the moment, uncover their true...
Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats
A cognitive behavioural self-help guide to the menopause
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The menopause is still a taboo topic and a source of uncertainty and embarrassment for many women. In Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats Myra Hunter and Melanie Smith aim to provide women with up to date and balanced information about menopause and a self-help guide to reduce the impact of hot...
The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights
A Guide to the Needs of Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose voice is seldom listened to, and whose rights are seldom acknowledged. Children are dependent on adults for their survival and wellbeing, and as such are...
by Jeffrey A. Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Based on original research conducted by the author over the past twenty years, this book is a definitive investigation of enduring change. Hundreds of therapists and change agents, in addition to a diverse group of people who have self-initiated experiences, or structured therapy, have been interviewed...
Coaching Creativity
Transforming your practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Creativity and coaching are two of the buzzwords of the twenty-first century and yet little is known about how to coach creativity. In business, education, health and many other fields there is an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of innovation and recognition of what is lost when creativity...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
With the United States’ involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical. In this practical and important...
by Christopher Bollas
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'.
Moving...
Already Free
Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why are more and more psychotherapists embracing meditation practice, while so many Buddhists are exploring psychology? “Both psychology and Buddhism seek to provide freedom from suffering,” explains Bruce Tift, “yet each offers a completely different approach for reaching this goal.” In Already...
Not Just A Wedding… But a Marriage
Setting the Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Grief and the Expressive Arts
Practices for Creating Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The use of the arts in psychotherapy is a burgeoning area of interest, particularly in the field of bereavement, where it is a staple intervention in hospice programs, children’s grief camps, specialized programs for trauma or combat exposure, work with bereaved parents, widowed elders or suicide...
Treating the Trauma Survivor
An Essential Guide to Trauma-Informed Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Treating the Trauma Survivor is a practical guide to assist mental health, health care, and social service providers in providing trauma-informed care. This resource provides essential information in order to understand the impacts of trauma by summarizing key literature in an easily accessible and...
Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Suicide is increasingly understood and predicted as an intersection of biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors. We have some basic knowledge of these factors and how they interact, but presently we know very little about how culture can play a role as a variable that influences...