Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Self-Esteem Across the Lifespan
Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
As long as clinicians write “increase self-esteem” on treatment plans without knowing precisely what that means, there is a need for information on the construct of self-esteem and how its many components can have an effect on outcomes. This text defines self-esteem, describes its history and...
Illusions of Immortality
A Psychology of Fame and Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000
What drives people to crave fame and celebrity? How does fame affect people psychologically? These issues are frequently discussed by the media but up till now psychologists have shied away from an academic away from an academic investigation of the phenomenon of fame. In this lively, eclectic book David...
Transcultural Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Transcultural Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Anxiety and Depression is a practical and accessible guide, drawing on current research in CBT and clinical practice. It aims to support therapists in taking a reflective and evidence based approach to genuinely improving access and outcomes for Black...
The Female Trickster
The Mask That Reveals, Post-Jungian and Postmodern Psychological Perspectives on Women in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Female Trickster presents a Post-Jungian postmodern perspective regarding the role of women in contemporary Western society by investigating the re-emergence of female trickster energy in all aspects of popular culture.
Ricki Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when...
Failure to Launch
Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying causes such as entitlement, narcissism, enabling family systems, and undiagnosed mental health problems....
Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress
Disorders of Vigilance and Defence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder remains one of the most contentious and poorly understood psychiatric disorders. Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress provides a valuable new perspective on its nature and causes.
This book is the first to examine PTSD from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning...
by Simon Parke
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
What does solitude mean to you? Albert Einstein once said: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.In his latest book Simon Parke, author of The Beautiful Life and One-Minute Mindfulness describes solitude as the active path to inner silence and takes...
by David Denborough
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change.
Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference....
by Peter Felix Kellermann
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Time does not heal all wounds: decades after a disaster, entire communities may still experience the long-term effects of trauma.
Sociodrama and Collective Trauma examines the psychological and social damage of trauma to society as a whole. Kellermann argues that collective trauma has been...
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma
Theory, Practice, and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma explains the theoretical basis for understanding collective and national trauma through the concept of systems theory, and gives ways of implementing systems theory in interventions at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Particular attention...
Grow
Change your mindset, change your life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In GROW, Jackie Beere demonstrates how we can all change our mindsets, learn to learn and chose to think on purpose. Our thoughts and beliefs lead us to develop habits that can predict our success or failure. We can all choose to grow – and coach our loved ones to do the same – by fostering and...
Transformation through Journal Writing
The Art of Self-Reflection for the Helping Professions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Transformation through Journal Writing is a grounded guide to self reflection through journaling for those in the helping professions. Journals are shown to be an effective method of self-care and self-development.
Full of inspiring and original ideas, this book provides everything you need...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Erotic Transference and Countertransference brings together, for the first time, contemporary views on how psychotherapists and analysts work with and think about the erotic in therapeutic practice. Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian,...
Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities
Don't guess my happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots...