Healing Big Hurts
When parents seek therapy for their child, they assume that their role will be to find a therapist, set up an appointment, and transport their child to and from each session with the hope that things will get better.We now know that parents are the missing piece of trauma therapy (though the therapeutic process can leave them feeling out of the loop). It is parents who must provide the safe container their child needs to explore the big hurts that would otherwise remain deeply buried.Intended for parents of children and teens who have experienced significant relational losses and attachment ruptures, Healing Big Hurts is a road map for navigating the journey of trauma therapy. Whether your child has already started treatment or you are just beginning to look for a therapist, this reassuring guide walks you through each step of the process, including how to prepare other family members, overcome obstacles to involvement, manage the pace of sessions, navigate shifting priorities, monitor your own reactions in session, and more. If you are a professional, this book will explain how to offer families the life-giving experience of parent-child trauma therapy.Trauma therapy asks your child to step into hard places. When you are able to stay in the room and bear witness, you show them they are no longer alone in it. With this guide, the healing process can feel safer, more predictable, and more hopeful for everyone involved.
Other-Centred Therapy
Caroline Brazier offers an introduction to an innovative therapeutic approach which is founded on an understanding of human process that is both practical, and honoring of our place in an experiential world.
Healing TIME
Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, confused, or depressed, with no solutions in sight? Do you feel you'll never find happiness or peace in your life? It doesn't have to be like this! Healing TIME: Move into a Future of Freedom and Flow is a compassionate, empowering guide that helps readers heal from the pain of their past, and step into a more aligned and fulfilling life.Blending storytelling, therapeutic insight, and coaching strategies, author Rebecca D. Hogg redefines the reader's relationship with time as a unique ally in the healing process. If you're struggling with some health issues, anxiety, depression, grief and/or trauma and aren't ready for or interested in therapy, this book can help.Through the author's personal journey and the signature Healing TIME method - Talk, Investigation, Movement, and Embodiment - you'll learn how to: Uncover and release limiting beliefs rooted in the past Build a stronger connection with your future self Identify what truly matters and take meaningful steps toward it Create internal alignment between mind, body, spirit, and action Shift from feeling stuck to living with greater freedom and flowThis book is not about managing your time more efficiently - it's about changing how time moves with you, transforming every moment into an opportunity for healing, choice, and growth.
The Complete MI Response Library
Transform your counseling practice with 500+ field-tested Motivational Interviewing responses for every client situation. Struggling to find the right words when clients resist change, minimize problems, or feel hopeless about their future? This comprehensive response library provides evidence-based MI scripts organized by real-world counseling scenarios, giving you instant access to therapeutic language that creates breakthrough conversations. What's inside: 50 opening scripts for first sessions, returning clients, and reluctant participants 75+ simple reflections and 100 affirmation statements for building rapport Advanced techniques for developing discrepancy and rolling with resistance Situation-specific responses for substance use, health behaviors, mental health, and relationship issues Crisis intervention phrases and commitment-evoking language Professional scripts for court-ordered clients and mandated counseling Perfect for: Licensed counselors and therapists seeking practical MI tools Social workers managing difficult client conversations Addiction counselors needing specialized substance use responses Mental health professionals working with depression, anxiety, and trauma Students learning Motivational Interviewing techniques Supervisors training new counselors in evidence-based practices Key benefits: Reduces session preparation time with ready-to-use responses Builds confidence in challenging counseling situations Improves client engagement through proven therapeutic language Organized by specific counseling contexts for quick reference Based on Miller and Rollnick's foundational MI principles Stop searching for the right words in difficult moments. This response library puts effective MI language at your fingertips, helping you create the therapeutic conversations that facilitate lasting client change.
The Child I Left Behind
What if the voice holding you back isn t yours but a child you left behind? Behind adult struggles with self-worth, anxiety, perfectionism, and emotional disconnection often lies a silent presence: the inner child carrying stories they were too young to understand, but old enough to believe. This powerful guide invites you into the transformational process of inner child healing and teaches you how to reconnect with the part of you that was never broken just unheard. More than a typical self-help book, this is a blueprint for rewriting your personal narrative. Grounded in psychology and laced with profound insight, it offers step-by-step reparenting exercises, therapeutic reflection prompts, and real-world stories that help you safely revisit your past, not to relive it but to re-author it. Whether you're navigating childhood trauma recovery, struggling with emotional wounds from childhood, or simply yearning for a deeper sense of self, this book gives you the tools to parent yourself with compassion, clarity, and strength. Perfect for those on a journey of self-parenting, trauma-informed healing, or breaking cycles inherited from emotionally immature parents, this book is for anyone ready to step beyond survival and into authorship of their own life. If you ve ever wondered how to heal your inner child, this isn't just an answer it s an invitation to reclaim the story that shaped you, and choose how it ends.
The Inner Architect
When life feels like it's crumbling when burnout, failure, or major change leaves you stripped of certainty what you need isn t another pep talk. You need a blueprint. This book is your invitation to rebuild from the inside out. Not with fragile optimism or toxic positivity, but with a new kind of strength: structural resilience. Drawing on behavioural science for self-help, habit stacking, and minimalism for the mind, it guides you to craft a mindset that doesn t collapse under pressure it adapts, it endures, and it regenerates. You ll discover how to create your own mental architecture, rooted in clarity, simplicity, and sustainable routines. You'll learn how to declutter emotional debris, silence internal noise, and design a foundation built not on who you were, but on who you're ready to become. This isn t about bouncing back it s about bounce back better. Whether you're healing from exhaustion, rethinking your identity, or simply craving a new path forward, this book will walk beside you like a wise architect and a quiet friend. This is for those who ve outgrown hustle culture, who are tired of being told to just stay positive, and who want real tools to create lasting inner strength. If you ve ever felt the silent chaos of burnout or the slow unraveling of identity, this isn t just a book it s your inner transformation in action. For those craving clarity, this offers minimalism for the mind. For those seeking power, it delivers resilience mindset strategies that are quiet but unbreakable. And for those ready to redesign their life from the ground up, it s a masterclass in mindset design. This is the book that reminds you: your mind isn t a battlefield to conquer. It s a structure to build, reinforce, and inhabit with intention, intelligence, and grace. You re not broken. You re unfinished. Let s rebuild.
Voices from the Other Side of the Couch
"There's a big couch in my office, forest green with dark gold stripes. People who come to see me usually sit there to talk and tell their stories. But I don't hear only the person sitting across from me. I am always amazed at how many other voices are present when I am talking to people. Some talk to me as you would, others seem to come from visions, still others just appear in my mind. They seem to come from the other side of the couch, hovering in my mind just out of normal means of perception. They come from another world, a real world, but different from the ordinary reality of two people just sitting and talking. Learning how people connect to this other world, this greater world of the Universe, is what this book is all about."-From the Introduction"There are few doctors who are as brilliant as they are soulful, as powerful as they are compassionate. Dr. John Myerson is the most gifted shaman I've ever known and the only person I've ever encountered who can create a healing alchemy that can completely transform a life. I've experienced his power directly and watched him cure "incurable" problems with his astonishing spiritual intervention. Dr. Myerson is also a master teacher whose book is a gold mine of case studies and explorations of consciousness. Read it and allow John's wisdom to expand your ability to access your own spirit and to know the healing power of love." -Amelia Kinkade, best-selling author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles: A Celebrated Psychic Teaches You to Talk to Animals."How does a gifted shaman-healer actually work? This question is answered in this fascinating and sometimes dramatic book."Dr. Myerson not only shows various archetypes or patterns by which people connect to the power of the Universe but also demonstrates ways in which those patterns either can be disrupted or can enrich our lives with unlimited insight and creativity. He also describes the energies he sees around people and shows how we can become aware of them and use them beneficially."In a powerful last chapter he gives an account of his own spiritual and healing journey from an accomplished martial artist to a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and of Western psychology to a Shaman-healer."An exceptional book which I highly recommend." -Paul Gallagher, author of Drawing Silk: Masters' Secrets for Successful Tai Chi Practice.
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The Game Therapy Toolbox
Games aren't just fun--they're powerful therapeutic tools!Game therapy--the use of games and playfulness to help clients explore their experiences--is a fun, interactive approach to therapy that allows kids, adolescents, and their families to practice new skills, process their thoughts and feelings, and develop connections in an engaging way.The Game Therapy Toolbox is packed with over 110 game-based, step-by-step interventions you can use right away to address a wide range of therapeutic topics, including: Rapport buildingFeelings expressionFocus and self-regulationSocial skillsAnxiety and fearsTrauma and stressSelf-esteemFamily interactionEnding therapyAnd more!Whether you're looking to teach important skills, gain insight into your clients' worldview, or overcome therapeutic roadblocks--and have fun doing it!--The Game Therapy Toolbox has what you need!
Touching Clay, Touching What?
In this thought-provoking book, Lynne Souter-Anderson invites her readers to accompany her on a journey into an exciting and relatively unexplored area of therapy. She builds on sound research foundations to formulate a way of working with perhaps the most basic medium - that of clay - and shows, with the aid of numerous case vignettes, how such work can be effective for a range of presenting problems. She writes in an accessible and engaging manner of her own development as a therapist, and the circumstances in which she came to be an authority onthis approach. The book provides a valuable overview of the development of this field and of current initiatives in therapeutic use of clay. Souter-Anderson draws on insights from her own practice to propose practical suggestions for therapists to introduce work with clay with, among others, young children, adolescents, and disabled clients; she makes a convincing case for its potential as a therapeutic tool and supports this with a new theoretical underpinning which she terms a 'Theory of Contact'. Avoiding the limitations of a reductionistic manual, this book offers a wealth of ideas, exercises and resources for anyone wishing to make use of clay in their own practice. While of obvious relevance to trainees and practitioners working in art, play or drama therapy, the author's journey returns the reader to the existential root of therapy - its concern with what it means to be human. For this reason alone, this is a book worthy of the attention of therapists from all theoretical backgrounds, while as a pioneering text on therapeutic use of clay it more than earns its place on the bookshelves of creative-minded practitioners.
Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training
This handbook examines digital systemic psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, couples, families, and groups. It addresses online supervision for professionals working in mental health services as well as online training in systemic family and couple therapy. The handbook explores the dramatic changes in the use of digital technology since the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a theoretical perspective on the impact of digital technology on family life as well as therapeutic work. The volume offers state-of-the-art practical recommendations to trainees, therapists, supervisors, and trainers for implementing online systemic practices. Key areas of coverage include: Therapeutic alliance in online systemic therapy. Online systemic therapy with individuals presenting psychological difficulties as well as families of adolescents with mental health issues. Online couples therapy. Online systemic group therapy with oncology patients. Online multifamily group therapy with youths facing psychotic symptoms. Online systemic supervision with individuals and teams. Online training in systemic couple and family therapy. Methods and guidelines for online systemic practices. The Handbook of Online Systemic Therapy, Supervision, and Training is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in clinical psychology, family studies, psychotherapy, social work, public health, and all interrelated disciplines.
A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Using the experiential frameworks of phenomenology and existentialism, A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy unveils the layers of relational intersectional racism which are embedded within our culture, and its many forms.
Understanding Self-Worth
Understanding Self-Worth is a guide for psychotherapists confounded by the struggle of working with clients who present with a pervasive pattern of denied self-worth.When self-worth is perceived as conditional or denied altogether, clients may become complicit in creating a lost-worth story--the story they tell that keeps them denying their own worth. The denial may include generational abusive and/or intrusive injunctions that go against their lived truth.Psychotherapists will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the importance of attending to the degree of trauma experienced when the client's self-worth is separated from their individual truth. Moreover, where there is worth-based trauma, the psychotherapist will learn models both for helping clients gently and honestly reestablish a worthy and true sense of self and for consciously guiding clients towards recovery of human worth as a birthright.
Pluralism in Counselling and Psychotherapy
This book explores the concept of pluralism in therapy, emphasising the value of multiple therapeutic approaches. It introduces 'pluralistic therapy', developed by Mick Cooper and John McLeod, as a response to divisions in the therapy field, particularly the dominance of CBT and medicalised models.Within its chapters, the philosophical roots of pluralism are discussed, which, when applied to therapy, encourages drawing from multiple approaches in contrast to a monistic attitude, which promotes using singular approaches 'purely' the therapeutic relationship is emphasised as more important to outcomes than specific approaches or techniques. The political meanings of pluralism are also examined, especially in relation to regulation, professional identity, and the impact of political and professional power structures on therapists' practices. The book also critiques increasingly standardised 'treatments', AI therapy, and rigid research methodologies, advocating for a more inclusive, relational, and flexible attitude towards the practice and provision of therapy.Addressing contemporary challenges such as the SCoPEd framework, the rise of AI, and the resurgence of psychedelic therapies, the book ultimately argues that a philosophically and politically informed pluralism is essential for a brighter future for the therapy professions and their diversity of therapies, therapists, and clients. This is an essential read for any therapist or mental health practitioner who is interested in learning more about pluralistic approaches to therapy.
The Handbook of Neuro-Dramatic-Play
An innovative contribution to our understanding of research and practice behind Neuro-Dramatic-Play (NDP), this book demonstrates how readers may apply this attachment and play-based approach to teaching, parenting and therapy. This essential book will provide guidance on new techniques and methods, enhancing their practice and providing potential solutions to problems they may be encountering in their work with clients.Filled with diverse contributions from a team of multi-cultural authors, this book is divided into five distinct parts: Section 1 begins by considering the roots and development of NDP, including the science and evidence supporting it as a practice. Section 2 covers applying NDP to work with children and young people, including neurodivergent children and those who have experienced trauma. Section 3 explores how readers can integrate NDP practices into art, drama and play therapy. Section 4 moves on to discuss international perspectives on NDP, including NDP practice within a range of different geographical and cultural contexts. Section 5 concludes the book by examining case studies of work with diverse populations, including pregnant individuals, forensic settings and people with young onset dementia. Written for clinicians and therapists of all specialisms, this is a compelling read for any mental health practitioner seeking a practical approach to develop (or re-develop) attachment experiences for individuals who have experienced loss, neglect, rejection or abuse.
The Handbook of Neuro-Dramatic-Play
An innovative contribution to our understanding of research and practice behind Neuro-Dramatic-Play (NDP), this book demonstrates how readers may apply this attachment and play-based approach to teaching, parenting and therapy. This essential book will provide guidance on new techniques and methods, enhancing their practice and providing potential solutions to problems they may be encountering in their work with clients.Filled with diverse contributions from a team of multi-cultural authors, this book is divided into five distinct parts: Section 1 begins by considering the roots and development of NDP, including the science and evidence supporting it as a practice. Section 2 covers applying NDP to work with children and young people, including neurodivergent children and those who have experienced trauma. Section 3 explores how readers can integrate NDP practices into art, drama and play therapy. Section 4 moves on to discuss international perspectives on NDP, including NDP practice within a range of different geographical and cultural contexts. Section 5 concludes the book by examining case studies of work with diverse populations, including pregnant individuals, forensic settings and people with young onset dementia. Written for clinicians and therapists of all specialisms, this is a compelling read for any mental health practitioner seeking a practical approach to develop (or re-develop) attachment experiences for individuals who have experienced loss, neglect, rejection or abuse.
A Therapist's Guide to Child Development
A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents.The chapters take the reader through the various physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each age, explaining how each stage of development is closely linked to mental health and how that is revealed in therapy. This ideal guide for students, as well as early and experienced professionals, will also give readers the tools to communicate successfully with the child's guardians or teachers, including easy-to-read handouts that detail what kind of behaviors are not cause for concern and which behaviors mean it's time to seek help. In the new edition, each chapter also includes new sections on brain development and cultural identity development, as well as updates on child development in the age of technology.As an aid to practitioners, this book matches developmental ages with appropriate, evidence-based mental health interventions.
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Islāmic Psychotherapy for Managing Chronic Pain
A Black Empathic Approach to Psychotherapy
This book presents the concept of a black Empathic Approach, an experiential model used as a means of developing powerful feelings associated with racism, such as fear, guilt, and rage, into a useful THERAPEUTIC tool for healing the intersectional impact of anti- black racism and associated oppressions. Providing a framework for training, continued professional development, and therapeutic client work, this book explains the concept of the black Empathic Approach and discusses its usefulness in addressing racialization in a therapeutic context. It helps readers to unpick their use of empathy as a generic concept and develop it as a skill that can be used to assist others in addressing the trauma and impact of racism. Through a series of honest and transparent personal vignettes, Dr. McKenzie- Mavinga shares her own learning experience and personal growth from feelings of rage about racism to developing the approach and transforming pain into compassion. Chapters support processing, engagement and dialogue with contexts of anti- black racism in psychotherapy and counsellor training to provide a powerful framework for therapeutic discussion, teaching, learning and practice. This book is intended for therapists, coaches, support workers, social workers, training institutes, and anyone else attempting to support individuals and groups impacted by racism.
Spirituality and Holistic Spiritual Health
Spirituality and Holistic Spiritual Health makes the case for the key role that spiritual care and chaplaincy work play in healthcare.Chapters articulate an innovative approach to spirituality, spiritual health, and spiritual care that integrates concepts from healthcare research, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, theology, and religious studies. By engaging all these fields, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of spirituality and spiritual health while also describing clinical techniques and insights that can be used at the frontlines of care.This book will be of interest to those researching chaplaincy and spiritual care practices, to professional Spiritual Care Practitioners/chaplains themselves, and to those who work in mental health and spirituality in healthcare more generally.
The How-To of Psychotherapy
This is an essential guide for therapists at the beginning of their career. It goes beyond academic theory to provide readers with confidence and competence around core aspects of therapeutic processes, contend with professional and ethical issues as well as assist in establishing their identity and standing as a therapist.Informed by years of clinical work and supervision, Bianca Denny presents practical answers to burning questions in an authoritative and accessible manner. The book offers plain language explanations of common dilemmas that often flummox trainee and early career therapists, such as keeping time in session, coping with 'imposter syndrome', decisions around managing confidentiality and working with patients who get under your skin. These are accompanied by practical tips and ready-to-implement skills, encouraging readers to consider the application of these skills to the patients and presentations in their current practice. Further supported by diagrams, tables and call-out boxes, the book is easy to navigate and revisit throughout the first weeks, months and years of a career in psychotherapy.Practical and accessible, this book is ideal for trainee and early-career psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, and other helping professionals.
Breathwork and Psychotherapy
Breathing is at the center of our lives, yet we are only beginning to tap into its full potential as a tool for healing. Conscious breathing is a powerful mechanism for transforming our physiological, emotional, and brain states, and is the fastest way to cultivate integrated presence. However, its full capacity for facilitating healing, personal development, stronger relationships, self-actualization, and personal and collective love is vastly unrecognized and underutilized.In this book, breathwork expert Jessica Dibb offers compelling reasons to integrate the power of breathwork with psychotherapy and other healing and wellness practices. Here readers will find inspiration for daily breathwork practice as well as the methods, case examples, and actionable advice needed to incorporate breathwork into therapeutic sessions. Seamlessly marrying ancient wisdom with contemporary science, this insightful guide is for clinicians, breathwork practitioners, and anyone interested in exploring the transformative power of breath.
The Clinician's Guide to Intensive Couples Therapy
With intensive couples therapy, you can create the opportunity for real progress to be achieved--not weeks or months down the road but now, when the couple needs it the most.In The Clinician's Guide to Intensive Couples Therapy, you'll find an accelerated framework for couples therapy that involves meeting with clients for two to three consecutive days, for six hours at a time. Written by relationship expert and renowned Gottman therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw (@lizlistens), this approach allows you to dive deep into the heart of relational issues--issues that are often too complex or take far too long to address in a typical weekly format.Whether you practice emotionally focused couples therapy, imago therapy, relational life therapy, or another modality, this book will allow you to work effectively (and quickly) with couples who are unable to meet weekly or who have reached a crisis point in their relationship.Inside, you'll find: Step-by-step instructions for navigating day one (joining, observation, assessment, goal setting) and day two (enactments, exercises, interventions)Policy recommendations related to suicidality, domestic violence, substance use, and secret-keepingPractical advice on policies, paperwork, billing, marketing, and managing client expectationsDetailed vignettes illustrating how to integrate "intensives" into your current practice
Music, Music Therapy and Refugees
This book is the first of its kind dealing with music, therapy, and traumas for music therapists, psychotherapists, and other mental health workers working with refugees, asylum seekers and their families. It follows the music therapy literature by studying music and traumas from the psychodynamic principles and can be used for the educational purposes of treating, especially from different cultural backgrounds. In addition to the clinical and educational purposes, this book can also be used as a reference book for researchers of music therapy and its methods for refugees. This book is contributing to the most recent psychological, social, and philosophical discussions and aspects of liberating musical practices from oppression and discrimination. Cultural attuning and dialoguing are proposed as the methods for building ethically sound practices with clients from different social and normative backgrounds.
Social Entrepreneurship in Art Therapy
This book explores social entrepreneurship in art therapy through case studies presented by contributing authors, highlighting the work of art therapists who have used innovative and collaborative approaches to increase access to art therapy services and promote system-level changes within the communities and institutions where they practice.As creative changemakers, art therapists are often developing innovative solutions to address social problems impacting the communities they serve. This book reveals practical aspects of these initiatives by offering strategies, skills, and practice-based examples. By addressing issues related to equity, inclusion, and access through innovative programming, grassroots advocacy, and policy development, the authors demonstrate how their entrepreneurial initiatives in art therapy produce social impact.Practitioners in art therapy and allied mental health professions will be inspired to seek and embrace opportunities for innovation.
Social Entrepreneurship in Art Therapy
This book explores social entrepreneurship in art therapy through case studies presented by contributing authors, highlighting the work of art therapists who have used innovative and collaborative approaches to increase access to art therapy services and promote system-level changes within the communities and institutions where they practice.As creative changemakers, art therapists are often developing innovative solutions to address social problems impacting the communities they serve. This book reveals practical aspects of these initiatives by offering strategies, skills, and practice-based examples. By addressing issues related to equity, inclusion, and access through innovative programming, grassroots advocacy, and policy development, the authors demonstrate how their entrepreneurial initiatives in art therapy produce social impact.Practitioners in art therapy and allied mental health professions will be inspired to seek and embrace opportunities for innovation.
Peer Support Work in Mental Health Services
Responding to a growing understanding surrounding the unique knowledge and skill set of individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions, this book responds to a gap in current literature by exploring the role of peer support work through the four realms of theory, research, policy and practice with a particular focus on mental health discourses.Filled with practical case studies and guidance on the most effective approaches to peer support work, chapters support readers in building their knowledge of: The theoretical models of peer work including historical underpinnings, benefits and drawbacks, and the ontological, epistemological basis for lived experience as a knowledge sub-set. The research behind the value of experiential knowledge, models of peer support work, ethical dilemmas and how peer support work relates to traditional mental health discourse. The policy developments in relation to peer support work. Peer support work in practice, including work with families, support work specialisms and current guidance on best practice. An essential read for anyone working within mental health services, this book provides a comprehensive guide to peer support work for mental health professionals, programme managers, peer support workers and service users.
Developing Recovery Pathways for Mental Health Disorders Through Creative Coproduction
This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of patients with Anorexia Nervosa. Written by authors with expertise in both mental health provision and experience of mental health services, the book advocates a creative, co-productive approach to treating mental disorders. Co-production involves significant interaction and collaboration between health and social care professionals, sufferers, recovered patients, educational establishments, families and scientists at all levels of interaction. The book emphasises the importance of working together creatively as a diverse yet cohesive team, adding to existing knowledge through every interaction and discovering and developing alternative recovery pathways. It challenges the stigma faced by people with mental health difficulties, using Foucault's concept and theory of unreason. The book further uses the neuroscience of creativity as a lens by which to identify creative characteristics and actions, discussing ways this can be harnessed to transform recovery pathways through creative practices. Centering the voices of service users and their families alongside mental health professionals, this important book will be valuable reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in health and allied sciences, mental health and social work programmes. It will also be highly relevant for health and social care professionals including mental health nurses, allied practitioners, managers of community mental health teams and community practitioners.
Integrating Art Therapy Approaches in School Counseling
Using this book, school counselors can increase their knowledge on the benefits of art therapy approaches in school counseling. This book serves as a frame of reference for school counselors to use throughout their careers, as it includes examples of integrating art into direct school counseling services, art directives and prompts, case studies, and how to process art in a safe and inclusive way within the school counselor role. While gaining an understanding of the history of art therapy, readers will learn how the use of art in school counseling practice aligns with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model to achieve student outcomes. The author holds a master's degree in art therapy and licensure in school counseling and speaks on behalf of both fields and their benefits, allowing for school counselors to incorporate art therapy practices into their program.Readers will recognize that art is a valuable resource to obtain the information they need from students in a creative way, and as an alternative and/or supplement to the traditional talk therapy counseling session.
Integrating Art Therapy Approaches in School Counseling
Using this book, school counselors can increase their knowledge on the benefits of art therapy approaches in school counseling. This book serves as a frame of reference for school counselors to use throughout their careers, as it includes examples of integrating art into direct school counseling services, art directives and prompts, case studies, and how to process art in a safe and inclusive way within the school counselor role. While gaining an understanding of the history of art therapy, readers will learn how the use of art in school counseling practice aligns with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model to achieve student outcomes. The author holds a master's degree in art therapy and licensure in school counseling and speaks on behalf of both fields and their benefits, allowing for school counselors to incorporate art therapy practices into their program.Readers will recognize that art is a valuable resource to obtain the information they need from students in a creative way, and as an alternative and/or supplement to the traditional talk therapy counseling session.
Developing Recovery Pathways for Mental Health Disorders Through Creative Coproduction
This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of patients with Anorexia Nervosa. Written by authors with expertise in both mental health provision and experience of mental health services, the book advocates a creative, co-productive approach to treating mental disorders. Co-production involves significant interaction and collaboration between health and social care professionals, sufferers, recovered patients, educational establishments, families and scientists at all levels of interaction. The book emphasises the importance of working together creatively as a diverse yet cohesive team, adding to existing knowledge through every interaction and discovering and developing alternative recovery pathways. It challenges the stigma faced by people with mental health difficulties, using Foucault's concept and theory of unreason. The book further uses the neuroscience of creativity as a lens by which to identify creative characteristics and actions, discussing ways this can be harnessed to transform recovery pathways through creative practices. Centering the voices of service users and their families alongside mental health professionals, this important book will be valuable reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in health and allied sciences, mental health and social work programmes. It will also be highly relevant for health and social care professionals including mental health nurses, allied practitioners, managers of community mental health teams and community practitioners.
Insights from Music Therapy Practice and Research
This book, drawing on the author's 26 years as a music therapist, explores experience and evidence in music therapy. It asks which experiences count, why, and what is revealed of the cultures of music therapy when some experience is regarded as evidence and some is not. At the heart of music therapy lies a nonverbal phenomenon: shared musical encounter. Those involved can recognise it and respond without words, as 'insiders'. However, what this experience is, and how it relates to evidence, is not widely explored in music therapy practice and research. Furthermore, the investigations which do exist tend to be verbal, even when participants are nonverbal. As an alternative, this autoethnographic book honours the arts-based encounters fundamental to music therapy by offering the reader their own arts-based experience through poems, images, and more. Through them, the reader (or 'Collaborator') is invited to consider the other knowing which comes from arts-based encounter, and its value. Using phenomenological and Aesthetic Critical Realist approaches, this work argues that relational, musical experience central to music therapy is valuable on its own terms as musically mediated, therapeutic evidence of personhood. This challenges the professional status quo which privileges verbal knowledge-creation and evidence measured by outsiders.
Contemporary Developments in Supportive Therapy
This book explores Open-Ended Supportive Therapy, a psychoanalytically informed approach designed to offer a compassionate and flexible alternative to more rigid therapeutic methods. Supportive therapy is particularly valuable for individuals who find traditional therapeutic models either too directive or insufficiently supportive, as it prioritizes the therapeutic relationship over specific goal-oriented techniques. The book presents consistent research indicating that early termination of treatment, when patients abruptly leave the therapeutic process, is often linked to therapists offering interventions that patients are not ready for. Supportive Therapy assigns a specific role to the therapist in the use of transference, leveraging this understanding to create a supportive environment through a strong therapeutic alliance. This framework guides the therapist in navigating the complexities of providing support without colluding with the patient's pathology.
