Psychotherapy category: 2884 books
Introducing Counselling
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Introducing Counselling: A Practical Guide is an accessible and practical route into counselling techniques. What is it? How does it work? And how can it change your life? With expert advice on everything from the ethics of counselling to identifying steps forward, this book offers an invaluable guide...
Happiness, Healing, Enhancement
Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Praise for Happiness, Healing, Enhancement
"Filled with good strategies based in research, compelling case material, and most importantly, practical advice, this book belongs in the library of everyone interested in what it means to live well. It provides not only ample food for thought, but...
by Elliott Connie, MA, LPC
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
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What is Solution-Focused Therapy?
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a unique, goal-directed therapy aimed at helping clients regain autonomy by determining and achieving their own goals. Solution focused therapists encourage clients to focus on solutions, not problems, and help...
Self Supervision
A Primer for Counselors and Human Service Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Self-Supervision synthesizes past and current literature on the theory and practice of self-supervision and provides counselors and human service professionals with a plan for the pursuit of independent professional growth.
Beginning with a historical overview and discussion of the counselor-client...
Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
In this book, Calhoun and Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes they sum up as posttraumatic growth.
Posttraumatic growth is the phenomenon of positive change through struggle with even the most horrible sets of circumstances. People...
Redecision Therapy
A Brief, Action-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Editor Carolyn Lennox characterizes the redecision therapist as a director in an improvisational theater. Guided by the client's personal contract for change, the therapist helps the client select and rewrite old scripts in which he or she was cast as victim. By keeping the dialogue moving and assisting...
by Fredrike Bannink
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Helping clients focus on well-being and optimal functioning in many areas of life.
201 Positive Psychology Applications is organized along the five elements of the well-being theory of Martin Seligman, one of its founders. These elements are essential to leading pleasant, engaging, and meaningful...
by Babette Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations.
This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.
It...
Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury
A Light on a Dark Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be `unreachable' or `non-responsive'.
Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic,...
Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
* Are you about to write a dissertation for an MA in an arts therapy?
* Is your workplace pressuring you to do research on your practice?
* Do you fancy trying your hand at a bit of research without any pressure from anyone?
* Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered?
A...
Using the Creative Arts in Therapy and Healthcare
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Using the Creative Arts in Therapy and Healthcare provides a practical introduction to the uses of arts and other creative processes to promote health and encourage healing.
This latest edition includes newly edited chapters from the original and second edition covering the therapeutic use...
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
First developed in 1955, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the original form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and one of the most successful psychotherapeutic techniques in the world. Its founder, world-renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, now offers an up-to-date description of the main principles...
Smiles are Everywhere
Integrating Clown-Play into Healthcare Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The role of humour, laughter and play in healthcare and wellbeing is a hot topic. Smiles are Everywhere: Integrating clown-play into healthcare practice is a practical handbook aimed primarily at healthcare professionals and those working in healthcare settings who wish to bring play and humour into...
by Marion Milner
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the...