Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Step Out of Your Story
Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
REFRAME YOUR STORY, RECLAIM YOUR LIFE Every day we relate stories about our highs and lows, relationships and jobs, heartaches and joys. But do we ever consider the choices we make about how to tell our story? In this groundbreaking book, Kim Schneiderman shows us that by choosing a version that values...
The Invisible Man
A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, compulsive exercising or bigorexia. Others are distressed by slightly lesser degrees of disordered eating or over-exercise...
Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care
Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition.
This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within...
The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children
A Nature Therapy and Expressive Arts Program for Groups
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma. For the first time in the English language, this book presents the theory behind the approach along with detailed guidelines for introducing it to the classroom and other group settings
The...
The Self Under Siege
A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own destiny or are we unconsciously repeating the lives of our parents, living according to their values,...
Forgiving, Forgetting, and Moving On
Living a Less-Conflicted Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
How do we come to relative peace when we have behaved badly, or how do we come to grips with the misbehaviors of those around us? Forgiving oneself or others may not always be fitting, and forgetting may represent more denial than accommodation. Moving beyond conflict to beneficial solutions is often...
by Andrew P. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
The author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it paralyzes us, individually and collectively. He draws on powerful case stories to illustrate the language and impact of shame and how it can be overcome.
Beyond Psychoppression
A Feminist Alternative Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
A guide to therapy that explores the intersection between the personal and the political.
Head Games
De-Colonizing the Psychotherapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process. It examines a family therapy program being run by a major public university, tied to the criminal justice system and the educational establishment, aiming...
Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis
The Promise of Integrated Care and Diagnostic Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides specific recommendations. Some of the serious concerns...
Intercultural Arts Therapies Research
Issues and methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Intercultural Arts Therapies Research: Issues and methodologies is the first overarching study on intercultural practice and research models in the arts therapies. It provides a new departure from traditional arts therapies education and research in that it focuses on research studies only. Written...
Therapy Outcome Measures for Rehabilitation Professionals
Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Previously published as two separate books for Speech and Language Therapists and for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Nursing, this book has now been updated and expanded and combines the two first editions into one. This fits in with the increased amount of team working...
ESSENTIALS OF COUNSELLING COMPETENCIES
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
A counsellor’s self-awareness and understanding of what counselling is (and what it is not) are foundational for a beginning counsellor’s learning journey. Just as important is the ability to connect with a client from the first contact to closure, as well as to understand and utilise eff ective...
The Course of Eating Disorders
Long-Term Follow-up Studies of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More and more clinicians as well as researchers realize that anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa often are extremely difficult to treat and that the short-term outcome can be very misleading. In many cases these disordersprevail for a long period of time and can have serious consequences for the...