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This powerful, high quality two-disc set, produced with London based TA psychotherapist Robert Prior of Visions of Psychotherapy, features three hours of Claude Steiner leading a two day workshop in Berkeley, California and focuses on the training and practice of Emotional Literacy. Order direct from therapyindex.com
Regulating the Psychological Therapies: From Taxonomy to Taxidermy Denis Postle
This book is a relentless expose of the spurious claim that statutory regulation of psychotherapy is needed to protect the public. It chronicles the sustained machinations of a profession in pursuit of protection of its status by government edict, a pursuit that is driven by hidden and self-serving fear. Denis Postle reminds us that human helping calls for an open, unfettered
and self-regulating professionalism which honours the wide-ranging liberation and flourishing of its clients.
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Clinical Applications Thorana S. Nelson, Frank N. Thomas (editors)
A comprehensive guide for the application of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) with clients. Noted experts
explain in detail the therapy practices and various uses for the approach. A history of the practice model and its interventions is discussed, along with limitations, descriptions of practice strategies, applications to specific client populations, and clinical problems and concerns. This unique book also includes an illustrative case study that uses the SFBT model. Extensive references are provided at the end of each chapter.
Interventions with Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People From the Inside Out Jerry J. Bigner PhD, Andrew R. Gottlieb PhD (editors)
Gain a broader understanding of effective work with families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GLBTQ) people Though much literature is devoted to treating GLBTQ individuals, relatively little has focused on working with their family members. Interventions with Families of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People: From the Inside Out
presents ten first-hand, in-depth personal and professional perspectives by educators, researchers, administrators, and practitioners discussing various ways of working with families of GLBT individuals. This valuable reference explores the latest research and current innovative therapeutic approaches to work effectively with this unique population.
Person-Centred Therapy: A Clinical Philosophy (Advancing Theory in Therapy Series) Keith Tudor, Mike Worrall
The person-centred approach is
one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. "Person-Centred Therapy" returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies. Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on a wealth of experience as practitioners, a deep knowledge of the approach and its history, and a broad and inclusive awareness of other approaches. This significant contribution to the advancement of person-centred
therapy:
examines the roots of person-centred thinking in existential, phenomenological and organismic philosophy
locates the approach in the context of other approaches to psychotherapy and counselling
shows how recent research in areas such as neuroscience support the philosophical premises of person-centred therapy
challenges person-centred therapists to examine their practice in the light of the history and philosophical principles of the approach.
“Person-Centred
Therapy" offers new and exciting perspectives on the process and practice of therapy, and will encourage person-centred practitioners to think about their work in deeper and more sophisticated ways.
Existential Time-limited Therapy: The Wheel of Existence (Wiley Series in Existential Perspectives in Psychotherapy & Counselling) Freddie Strasser
Existentialism emphasises what it means to be human and accepts that anxiousness, loneliness or uncertainty are
perfectly natural states. The existential approach lends itself to time-limited, or brief, therapy. This book demonstrates how brief interventions with an existential emphasis are effective, topical and relevant. As people struggle with a sense of crisis and confusion they search for clarity and meaning. Increasingly they turn to psychotherapists and counsellors, who will find in this book a powerful existential approach to therapy that helps people to make sense of themselves by
addressing their social, cultural and political context as well as their personal and interpersonal issues. It makes room for paradox and the acceptance of the inevitable.
Interactive Art Therapy "No Talent Required" Projects Linda L. Simmons, PsyD
Help your clients gain deeper insight earlier in treatment - through art therapy
Most people are visual learners. Seeing our ideas in pictures gives them greater impact and more meaning. Interactive Art Therapy: “No Talent Required” Projects presents a cutting-edge therapeutic technique founded on sound clinical principles, providing another practical tool any therapist can effectively use without anyone having to be a da Vinci.
The book clearly discusses the clinical rationale behind using standard
drawings in therapy and demonstrates how the interactive nature of the approach helps clients to quickly and easily gain deeper insight. The text uses case examples to clearly illustrate techniques and reveal the ways that clients' drawings reflect their thought processes.
Therapy with Single Parents: A Social Constructionist Approach Joan Atwood, Frank Genovese
Examine how the social definitions of marriage, divorce, and family are changing
With
more than half of all first marriages ending in divorce, it's time to re-think the notion that divorce means failure. Therapy with Single Parents focuses on the strengths of the single-parent family rather than its weaknesses, stressing the need to look at the socially constructed norms, values, and definitions associated with marriage and family in order to provide effective counselling. This unique book examines experiences that are common to single parents and presents interventive
strategies for treating single-parent family issues, drawing on clinical case studies to provide technical knowledge in everyday language.
Acute Reactions to Trauma and Psychotherapy: A Multidisciplinary and International Perspective Etzel Cardeña, PhD (Editor), Kristin Croyle, PhD (Editor)
A single source where you'll find sound science as well as good practical advice for clinicians and researchers
This unique single source combines cutting-edge research analysis with practical advice for clinicians and researchers dealing with reactions to trauma. In this well-referenced book, seasoned researchers and clinicians share their expertise on diagnosis and evaluation, risk and process factors, and prevention and early intervention. In addition to an essential overview of the state of the literature on acute reactions to trauma, Acute Reactions to
Trauma and Psychotherapy: A Multidisciplinary and International Perspective presents immediately useful clinical considerations and interventions that are effective in practice with children and adults and recommends directions for further research.
Integrative Psychotherapy in Healthcare: A Humanistic Approach (Basic Texts in Counselling & Psychotherapy) by Tricia Scott
This text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a guide to working
integratively in time sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on research in neuroscience, infant studies and human development, this text offers an original framework for identifying key therapeutic metaphors to focus and guide the therapeutic process. It should be useful to any practitioner psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist, GP, health or social care professional who has opportunities to make a professional, therapeutic relationship with clients suffering emotional
problems.
Compassionate Therapy : Working with Difficult Clients by Jeffrey A. Kottler
Compassionate Therapy explores the characteristics of difficult clients. Arguing that resistance and conflict can
be a constructive force, Kottler shows how practitioners can use these struggles to examine their own abilities, deepen their compassion, and improve therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness.
Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems Brian Daines, Angelina Perrett
This is the first book to describe comprehensively a specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. It
reviews the range and nature of sexual difficulties, and evaluates the relevance of psychodynamic theory and interventions to the understanding, assessment and treatment of sexual problems with individuals and couples. Illustrated throughout with helpful case study material.
Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Re-Defining Women's Mental Health Tonda L. Hughes (Editor), Carrol Smith (Editor), Alice J. Dan (Editor)
Mental
Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women’s Mental Health presents much-needed research on sexual orientation and sexual minority populations missing from most mental health studies. This unique book identifies three areas of concern voiced in a 1999 Institute of Medicine report on lesbian health: whether lesbians are at a higher risk of mental health problems; the need for a better understanding of lesbian orientation and diversity in the lesbian population; and the need to
eliminate barriers to mental health care services for lesbians. Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women addresses those concerns with theoretical and empirical work that represents a broad range of disciplines and cultures.
Eating Disorders Mario Maj, Katharine Halmi, Juan José López-Ibor, Norman Sartorius (Editors)
Written by an internationally renowned psychiatrist, this book reduces the gap between research evidence and
clinical evidence in order to improve the diagnosis and treatment of these mental disorders with severe physical consequences.
Personality Adaptations by Vann Joines, Ian Stewart Paperback 428 pages
A practical guide to understanding personality, presenting a research based model of six personality adaptations. Assess
someone’s personality rapidly and accurately. Understand how to work most effectively with each personality type, whatever therapeutic approach you use. By the authors of TA Today.
Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Bernie Curwen, Peter Ruddell, Stephen Palmer
Based on the theory that emotional disorders arise out of negatively biased thinking, Brief Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy is a guide to helping clients to overcome such beliefs and patterns of thought.
An Introduction to Counselling by John McLeod Paperback 464 pages
This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. It covers the core approaches to counselling, and takes a critical approach to issues of professional practice.
An Intimate Loneliness: Supporting Bereaved Parents and Siblings by Gordon Riches, Pamela Dawson Paperback 231 pages
This book will be of value to students on courses in counselling,
health care, psychology, social policy, pastoral care and education. It will appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality. It is also aimed at professionally qualified counselling, health and social service workers, at informed voluntary group members, the clergy, teachers and others involved with pastoral care.
The Depression Workbook : A Guide for Living With Depression and Manic Depression by Mary Ellen Copeland Paperback 305 pages
This book is based on the responses of 120 survey
participants who share their insights, experiences, and strategies for living with extreme mood swings. Interactive exercises teach essential coping skills such as building a strong support system, bolstering self-esteem, fighting negative thoughts, finding appropriate professional help, and using relaxation and exercise.
Depression by Dorothy Rowe Paperback 272 pages
Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. However, by
understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it forever. Dorothy Rowe gives us a way of understanding depression, allowing us to take charge of our lives. She shows it is not an illness requiring drugs but a defence we use to hold ourselves together when we feel our lives falling apart. This text contains stories of people who have changed their lives by conquering depression for good.
A Guide to Treatments That Work by Peter E. Nathan (Editor), Jack M. Gorman (Editor) Hardcover 624 pages
This reference provides the results of a high-level task force created by the American Psychological Association - the largest professional society for psychologists in the United States - for the purpose of assessing the efficacy of therapeutic interventions for each of the major clinical disorders. The volume brings together all the outcome data and clinical trials, describing what works, what doesn't and what is not known. Among the disorders discussed are depression,
anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, substance abuse, and many more. As a reference work which integrates information from both clinical psychology and psychiatry, this work is intended as a desk reference for all practitioners.
Character Styles by Stephen M Johnson Hardcover 320 pages
Presenting
an integrated personality theory, this book shows how basic existential and developmental issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorders, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of character styles. It details both an external description of these personalities along the continuum of psychic structure and the internal experience that makes human behaviour understandable and worthy of empathy.
Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship by Michael Khan Paperback, 192 pages
This book examines
one of the most complex aspects of psychotherapy: the therapist - client relationship. Drawing on his extensive clinical experience and the theories of Freud, Rogers, Gill and Kohut, Kahn shows how classical transference analysis can be combined with contemporary humanistic emphasis on warmth and empathy. The new, streamlined Second Edition features greater discussion of ethics and countertransference. It is appropriate as a supplement for courses on psychotherapy/counselling theory or
practice.
Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems by Brian Daines, Angelina Perrett Paperback, 192 pages
Counsellors and therapists can be hesitant about addressing the sexual problems of their clients from any perspective and sometimes lack the confidence to tackle the issues as they arise. This text describes a specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction.
Couples Sex and Power by Rudi Dallos, Sally Foreman Paperback, 240 pages
An examination of power and sexuality in intimate relationships with a specific focus on sexual
difficulties and symptoms. The authors offer an integration of feminist perspectives with detailed illustrations of the dynamics of intimate relationships. Case studies are included.
The Presenting Past Michael Jacobs Paperback, 256 pages
A comprehensive introduction to the basic psychodynamic
themes of trust and dependency, authority and autonomy, and co-operation, this text makes a break from developmental stages, preferring to show the real issues that concern people are present at every point in life. It includes a number of illustrative case studies and this revised edition of the text includes a new chapter on the way the major themes appear at different points in the process of counselling and therapy.
In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the subject of abuse in childhood. Less attention has been paid to what happens to the vast number of women and men who have reached adulthood with this experience haunting them. Moira Walker overviews the experience and its implications, dealing with physical, sexual and psychological abuse. An essential part of the content is based on interviews with survivors of child abuse, voicing their views on the effects of
the experience and the effectiveness of the help offered. At the same time "Surviving Secrets" seeks to understand the context in which abuse takes place, the society which itself contains and sustains abuse at various levels. It is an account of the experience and effects of childhood abuse and a handbook for those in the caring professions, in voluntary organizations and elsewhere who are helping survivors of abuse.
A Bright Red Scream by Marilee Strong
Paperback, 252 pages
An investigation of why so many people deliberately hurt themselves and what can be done to help them. The illness "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, and continues to be practised mainly by middle-class women who start in their teens and self-harm throughout their lives. Most cutters are women who have been emotionally, sexually or physically abused as children, but Marilee Strong's research shows that
self-mutilation also appears in other groups. There are powerful first-person stories, in which cutters describe their ritualistic methods and somewhat addictive cravings for seeing their own blood. Though research is in its infancy, therapists say there are now promising treatments - from medication to intensive psychotherapy - for the millions of "cutters". Strong reveals what the afflicted and those close to them can do to start a process of healing.
Counselling in Independent Practice Gabrielle Syme Paperback, 160 pages
This text demonstrates and reflects the care and responsibility that must be taken by anyone considering counselling in independent practice. It is based upon the experience of a practitioner. For anyone contemplating setting up in private or independent practice as a counsellor or psychotherapist, it should offer a useful model. It explores in depth the practical, ethical and personal issues that should be considered before
taking such a major step. Concluding with a critique of private and independent practice, the book aims to make a contribution to the current debate about the difference between minimum standards set by Codes of Ethics and Practice for counsellors and what is good practice.
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani, Bill Young
The work describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions; explains their psychological and historical
context; shows how customs change on contact with the West; and considers the implications for the future. Indispensable for doctors, nurses, social workers and others involved in the care of the dying and bereaved.
Race, Culture and Counselling Colin Lago, Joyce M. Thompson Paperback, 192 pages
Race. Culture and Counselling seeks to explore some of
the major dimensions and subtleties underlying the issues of race and culture and how these might impact upon counselling-psychotherapeutic relationships. It contributes to the literature that urges awareness, understanding and acceptance between people of different cultural, racial and linguistic origins.
The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing With the Pain of Exploring Trauma by Stuart D. Perlman
Hardcover, 272 pages
This text offers
support and a framework for therapists treating traumatized patients. It conceptualizes and illustrates the establishment of safety and validation to set the stage for the interlocking dramas of the patient's trusting and opening up and the therapist's empathic immersion.
The Reflective Practitioner by Donald A Schon Paperback, 384 pages
Schon shows how professionals such as teachers, architects, and psychotherapists can
constructively analyze their practice. His perspective is based on insights from the philosophy of science and recent social thought, and illuminates the weakness of "technical rationality" while proposing well-founded alternatives. Extensive case studies are included.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision) by American Psychiatric Association Paperback, 943 pages
Since 1992, there have been many advances in knowledge of psychiatric
illnesses. The DSM-IV-TR spans the bridge between DSM-IV and DSM-V, to ensure that the most relevant new information since the DSM-IV literature review in 1992 was incorporated and to enhance the educational value. Specifically, new information on associated features, including associated laboratory and physical findings, has been added for many of the disorders. Sections on prevalence, gender/age/culture, course and familial pattern have also been revised to reflect research findings. More
comprehensive differential diagnoses have been incorporated for many of the disorders.
