Counselling category: 1931 books
Internalized Oppression
The Psychology of Marginalized Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
ìIt is a great honorÖto write the foreword to such an important book edited by E.J.R. David, filled with contributions from leading and emerging psychological scholars on internalized oppression. One of the best features of the book, in my opinion, is that the chapter authorsÖare allowed to share...
by Ronald Mah
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
“Therapy Interruptus and Clinical Practice, Building Client Investment from First Contact through the First Session.” Therapy commences immediately with the very first contact and proceeds through the initial phone intake and the first session. The very first contact is in how the therapist or...
Committed to the Sane Asylum
Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health...
The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy
When Therapy Works-And When It Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works_And When It Doesn't Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and the therapist's capacity to...
The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
How can a theory of the self be used to understand the psychotherapeutic process?
The basic assumption of the 'dialogical self' is that there is no centralised 'headquarter' in the mind, but that the internal self is made up of a number of different 'characters'. Interpersonal relationships,...
Being Alive
Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book is a celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in children has been important internationally. This book:
* brings together assessment of the influence of Alvarez's work across a...
Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services
"I Am More Than My Label"
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness
Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient’s personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have...
by Robert Taibbi
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Making Psychotherapy Count from the Start
The average client today only comes to therapy five to eight times, and many only come once, so it is increasingly important, therefore, for therapists to achieve first-session success. Therapeutic skills and sales and marketing savvy are equally important...
Understanding Domestic Violence
Theories, Challenges, and Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Understanding Domestic Violence not only highlights and reexamines the different challenges that we continue to face in effectively addressing issues of domestic violence but provides innovated approaches to interventions that are more in keeping with the complex nature of domestic violence. This...
Stress, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth
Social Context, Environment, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
What happens in the trauma’s aftermath? How do its effects manifest differently on the individual, family, and community-wide levels? Stress, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Growth: Social Context, Environment, and Identities explores the way traumatic events are defined, classified, and understood throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
"David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field...The author meets an important need by addressing the presence of grief among...
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist
A cyclical model
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist considers how to meet the supervision needs of trainee and experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals using an integrative approach that will appeal to practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds and theoretical persuasions....
Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Learning the Essential Domains and Nonlinear Thinking of Master Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Research has shown that the most effective way to prepare students for practice with real clients is to learn to think in a new way rather than simply learning and using a set of steps. While there is much to be learned from what master practitioners do in their sessions, there is even more knowledge...
Simply Effective Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (GCBT) and guided self-help widen the availability of evidence-based treatment for common mental health disorders. This volume provides GCBT protocols for common disorders as well as session-by-session teaching materials and self-help survival manuals covering:
Depression
Panic...