Ronald Mah: 23 books

"I Don't… You Don't… It Don't Matter, Depression and Anxiety in Couples and Couple Therapy" Depression and anxiety are at the root of many relationship problems or are intricately and mutually related to several emotional, psychological, and intrapersonal or interpersonal dynamics. Feelings...

“Conflict, Control, and Out of Control in Couples and Couple Therapy” addresses the continuum of assertion, aggression, and abuse between partners. The therapist is guided how to promote appropriate assertiveness and aggression while avoiding crossing the boundary of abuse. Conflict is intrinsic...

The therapist must anticipate complications- anticipate uncovering a "can of worms," that confuse and overwhelm the partners and therapy. Issues arise or intrude that ignite intense emotional reactivity from beneath the psychic surface to make easy living difficult if not impossible. Often minor issues...

"How Dangerous is this Person?" identifies cues for potential violence, including profiles from mental health along with frustration-based aggression, bullying, cultural influences, substance abuse, psychosis, and special considerations. Key criteria are explained to formulate therapy,...

"Therapy? What's Therapy!?" Therapy takes many forms and requires the therapist to flex among many potential roles: judge, referee, facilitator, mirror, guide, educator, fixer, interventionist, parent, and cross-cultural guide. The therapy becomes the vehicle of hope- building, finding, and perhaps,...

“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...

Increase your understanding of children to guide and shape behavior in positive ways!  The author assists teachers in observing and understanding children so that they can respond appropriately to difficult behaviors, and enable children to make good behavioral choices for themselves. In an...

This resource examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can trigger tantrums and provides effective interventions to help teachers avoid long-term negative consequences for children.

This is the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Western Institute for Social Research (WISR). This issue's theme is “multiculturalism.” Included are articles on such topics as: multicultural therapy, ethnographies of learning, Chinese learners working in groups, the role of language in multicultural...