Treating Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Kids with "bad" behavior aren't inherently "bad" kids......and behavior problems don't occur in isolation. So why do we treat them like they do?In Treating Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders, clinicians will find a family-focused, phasic treatment approach known as integrative systemic play therapy (ISPT), which is designed for children and adolescents who exhibit challenging, defiant, violent, or antisocial behaviors.Rooted in family systems and play therapy, ISPT works to address the needs of the child and the system--that is, the relational interactions and processes in the family that are contributing to the presenting problem--rather than focusing on the child alone. Featuring handouts, vignettes, personal stories, and more, this clinical guide walks you through each phase of ISPT so you can: Reset family dynamics to break cycles of reactivity, power struggles, and punishmentRestore the child's sense of "goodness" and inherent worthReframe behavior problems as requests for connection, safety, and recognitionHelp children and their adults regulate, cope, and communicate more effectivelyEmpower parents to serve as the main change agents in their child's lifeAddress triangulation, ineffective commands, and other unhelpful patterns on the spotKids who act out are often only seen for their behavior, and not for who they really are. By recognizing the needs that underlie these behaviors--and the systems that reinforce them--you can facilitate paradigm-shifting change for the entire family.
Apothecary for the Afflicted
Apothecary for the Afflicted is a unique and transformative tool disguised as a book. The pages are filled with rich and potent shadow-work practices to uncover the authentic self while healing invisible wounds. Throughout the book, the reader encounters hauntingly beautiful imagery blended with the symbolism of fairy tales. The shadow speaks symbolically because it is beneath our conscious awareness. Therefore, we all have psychological blind spots. The Apothecary for the Afflicted is designed to creatively reveal these blind spots through shadow work practices rooted in the Jungian tradition. In this book, Melissa teaches you about the shadow, how to work with it, and the importance of facing inner darkness. As you work with the materials, you will discover supportive shadow-work practice to soften resistance when difficult emotions, feelings, and sensations rise to the surface. Shadow work involves the transmutation of stuck energy and transformation of repressed feelings. We must confront the things we ignore. There is power hidden in the places we are afraid to look. Within the shadow, the energy remains in limbo, and like a ghost, it eventually begins to haunt us . . . until we face it. To transmute darkness, we must turn our attention toward the many faces of the shadow. We can find the shadow mirrored in our dreams, triggering behaviors, emotional reactions, and qualities we refuse to see within ourselves. We all need a guide to walk with us through dark times, to navigate the unknown and uncover our blind spots. We need someone who can see in the dark. That person is Jungian and depth psychologist Melissa Kim Corter, and this book is your guide. The Apothecary for the Afflicted is a book you will return to time and time again to confront darkness, heal invisible wounds, and reclaim lost parts of the soul.
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.
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.
Living in Balance
The book Living in Balance: A simple guide to finding happiness and living your best life resulted from years of working with patients and speaking to people about the many stressors they have faced. These stressors included depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and unrealistic expectations. This book discusses what restrains people from feeling their best and finding happiness. This book identifies some common problems and provides coping skills to help people handle their stressors productively and effectively. This book can provide a road map to happiness when you feel like you do not know where to begin. About the Author: Christina Stern is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has her own private psychiatric practice. Christina has worked as a nurse for over ten years in diverse settings, including a psychiatric hospital, emergency department, and nursing home. Christina lives in New York with her husband and two daughters. Her mission has always been to help others, which is why she wrote her first book titled Finding balance: A simple guide to finding happiness and living your best life.
Motivational Interviewing for Neurodivergent Minds
Transform your therapeutic practice with the first comprehensive guide to motivational interviewing techniques specifically adapted for neurodivergent minds. Traditional therapy approaches often fail ADHD and autistic clients, creating barriers instead of pathways to change. This groundbreaking resource bridges that gap by adapting proven motivational interviewing methods for neurodivergent brains, offering evidence-based strategies that work with different neurological wiring rather than against it. Discover practical techniques that address real challenges: - Sensory-aware environments that reduce overwhelm and support cognitive function - Concrete communication strategies replacing abstract language that confuses literal thinkers- Visual scaling tools and charts making therapeutic concepts accessible to different learning styles - Executive function support systems for planning, organization, and follow-through challenges - Movement-integrated conversations that channel hyperactivity into therapeutic engagement - Special interest leveraging techniques transforming intense passions into powerful motivators - Rejection sensitive dysphoria management for ADHD emotional regulation difficulties - Stimming accommodation strategies recognizing self-regulation as neurological necessity - Self-advocacy skill development building long-term independence and authentic living Perfect for mental health professionals, ADHD coaches, autism specialists, special education teams, and neurodivergent individuals seeking therapy approaches that honor their authentic neurological differences. This comprehensive manual includes detailed case studies, step-by-step protocol adaptations, ready-to-use visual aids, and practical tools for immediate implementation. Learn to create psychological safety for rejection-sensitive clients, design neurodiversity-affirming treatment plans, and facilitate genuine change conversations that feel sustainable rather than exhausting. Stop forcing square pegs into round holes. Discover how adapting motivational interviewing for neurodivergent strengths creates breakthrough moments in therapy rooms, classrooms, and coaching sessions nationwide. Evidence-based. Neurodiversity-affirming. Immediately actionable. Transform your understanding of therapeutic engagement with neurodivergent clients and watch authentic change flourish when approaches match neurological reality.
Culturally Responsive Motivational Interviewing
Transform your therapeutic practice with the first comprehensive resource for culturally responsive motivational interviewing across diverse communities. Mental health professionals working with Latino/Hispanic, African American, Asian, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, and LGBTQ+ clients need specialized approaches that honor cultural values while maintaining therapeutic effectiveness. This evidence-based guide provides practical frameworks for adapting motivational interviewing techniques within authentic cultural contexts. Core Topics Include: Cultural assessment tools that avoid stereotyping while recognizing patterns Adapting reflective listening for indirect communication styles Working with interpreters while maintaining MI spirit Family-centered approaches when individual autonomy isn't primary Integrating spiritual resources into change conversations Nonverbal communication variations across cultures Organizational implementation strategies for cultural responsiveness Specific Community Adaptations: Learn how personalismo influences Latino therapeutic relationships, navigate concepts of face and shame in Asian cultures, integrate traditional healing with Indigenous approaches, work within Islamic frameworks for Middle Eastern clients, address historical trauma in African American communities, and create affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ identity exploration. Practical Implementation Tools: Each section includes detailed case studies, modified MI techniques, assessment frameworks, and quality assurance measures. Training supervisors receive organizational cultural humility strategies, while practitioners gain confidence working across cultural differences through evidence-based adaptations. Research Foundation: Built on 120+ peer-reviewed studies documenting the need for cultural MI adaptations, this resource fills a critical gap in professional literature. Healthcare systems implementing cultural competency requirements will find systematic approaches for measuring cultural responsiveness and improving outcomes across diverse populations. Perfect for mental health counselors, clinical psychologists, social workers, addiction specialists, medical professionals using MI, training supervisors, and graduate students in counseling programs.
Islāmic Integrated Narrative Therapy
This book explores the integration of narrative therapy within the framework of Islāmic psychotherapy, combining modern therapeutic practices with the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Islām.Narrative therapy, which emphasises the importance of personal stories in shaping an individual's identity and experiences, finds a natural complement in the Islāmic tradition, where narration has always played an important role. This integration provides a culturally sensitive therapeutic model that respects and utilises the client's faith and cultural background. The book details how narrative therapy principles align with Islāmic teachings, particularly the emphasis on introspection, personal responsibility, and the transformative power of stories found in the Qur'璽n and hādith. It provides detailed guidelines and techniques for therapists to use narrative therapy with Muslim clients, including culturally relevant storytelling methods and exercises. These techniques are illustrated with real-life examples and case studies. In addition to practical techniques, the book addresses the ethical considerations involved in integrating narrative therapy with Islāmic psychotherapy along with emerging trends, ongoing research, and potential areas for further development.This book offers an original contribution by developing a culturally and spiritually integrated model of narrative therapy tailored for Muslim clients. By aligning therapeutic techniques with Islāmic teachings, it provides mental health professionals with practical, faith-sensitive tools, making it especially valuable for therapists, counsellors, and scholars working within Muslim communities.
European Radiation Protection Course
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
An Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling
Now in its fourth edition, this book introduces the key theoretical ideas, assumptions and techniques behind psychodynamic approaches to therapeutic practice. Written by an experienced and leading expert in psychodynamic counselling, this key text addresses a range of issues that challenges practitioners of all levels, ranging from basic concepts to more complex cases, and providing practical guidance across various therapeutic settings. This new edition: - Includes a brand-new chapter on basic psychoanalytical ideas, exploring the link between psychoanalytic and psychodynamic principles- Explores the rise in digital technology and remote access to therapy- Makes extensive use of vivid clinical examples now presented in a more reader-friendly way By paying attention to the setting, particularly in organizations, and the different stages of counselling, this book remains a valuable text for all counsellors, psychotherapists and professionals in related psychological and mental health fields.
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: A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice 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 toward recovery of human worth as a birthright.
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians is an essential resource designed to empower mental health professionals with the foundational skills and knowledge required to effectively implement Motivational Interviewing (MI) in their practice. Authored by a seasoned expert in the field, this book demystifies the core principles of MI, offering a clear and practical guide tailored to the needs of clinicians seeking to foster meaningful change in their clients. This comprehensive guide begins with an exploration of the origins and theoretical underpinnings of MI, illustrating its significance as a client-centered approach in mental health. The book progresses into detailed explanations of the fundamental MI techniques--open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries--and the pivotal role they play in building a therapeutic alliance based on empathy, collaboration, and respect. Clinicians will find valuable insights into how to effectively engage clients who are ambivalent about change and how to evoke their intrinsic motivations for making sustainable life adjustments. The text is enriched with case studies, dialogues, and real-life scenarios that illustrate MI in action, providing readers with concrete examples of how to apply the techniques in various clinical settings. Advanced topics are also covered, including: Strategies for integrating MI with other therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).Tips for adapting MI techniques to cater to diverse client populations.Guidance on using MI in group settings and other non-traditional contexts. Each chapter contains practical exercises and reflective questions designed to enhance understanding and facilitate skill development. Additionally, the book discusses the challenges and solutions in MI practice, ensuring clinicians are well-prepared to overcome common obstacles. "Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians" is more than just a textbook--it is a dynamic tool that encourages mental health professionals to grow and refine their therapeutic skills. It is ideally suited for both new and experienced clinicians who wish to enhance their ability to engage and empower their clients effectively. This guide promises not only to educate but also to inspire its readers, making it a valuable addition to the professional library of any mental health practitioner committed to improving client outcomes through the thoughtful and compassionate application of Motivational Interviewing.
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.
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 women, forensic settings, and people with young on-set 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 caregivers 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.
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 women, forensic settings, and people with young on-set 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.
Internal Family Systems Therapy for Ocd
Internal Family Systems Therapy for OCD offers a groundbreaking integration of the compassionate, parts-based IFS approach with evidence-based OCD treatments.This innovative guide introduces IFS for OCD and demonstrates Self-led Exposure and Response Prevention (Self-led ERP), a unique approach that maintains therapeutic effectiveness of treatments that work while enhancing client engagement and facilitating enduring recovery. This approach helps clients develop healing relationships with the protective parts driving the obsessions and compulsions that perpetuate OCD. Through detailed case examples and practical techniques, clinicians learn to help clients access their inherent self-leadership, transform their relationship with uncertainty and fear, and achieve not just symptom reduction but internal balance, harmony and perspective. This vital resource bridges the gap between relational psychotherapy and behavioral interventions, offering hope for clients who haven't fully responded to conventional treatments.This invaluable book is essential reading for family therapists and clinical psychologists who are interested in IFS and treat clients with OCD and other anxiety disorders.
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Islāmic Psychotherapy for Managing Chronic Pain
This book proposes a psychotherapeutic intervention integrating Islamic Psychology with Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Muslims with chronic pain conditions.
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.
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.
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, so they can 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.
Internal Family Systems Therapy for Ocd
Internal Family Systems Therapy for OCD offers a groundbreaking integration of the compassionate, parts-based IFS approach with evidence-based OCD treatments.This innovative guide introduces IFS for OCD and demonstrates Self-led Exposure and Response Prevention (Self-led ERP), a unique approach that maintains therapeutic effectiveness of treatments that work while enhancing client engagement and facilitating enduring recovery. This approach helps clients develop healing relationships with the protective parts driving the obsessions and compulsions that perpetuate OCD. Through detailed case examples and practical techniques, clinicians learn to help clients access their inherent self-leadership, transform their relationship with uncertainty and fear, and achieve not just symptom reduction but internal balance, harmony and perspective. This vital resource bridges the gap between relational psychotherapy and behavioral interventions, offering hope for clients who haven't fully responded to conventional treatments.This invaluable book is essential reading for family therapists and clinical psychologists who are interested in IFS and treat clients with OCD and other anxiety disorders.
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
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.
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.
Integrating Schema, EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Approaches
Integrating Schema, EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Approaches A Complete Guide to Multi-Modal Therapy for Complex Trauma and Personality Disorders Transform your therapeutic practice with this comprehensive guide to integrating four powerful modalities for treating complex presentations. This evidence-based manual combines Schema Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and somatic approaches into a unified framework that addresses the full spectrum of human psychological healing. What You'll Learn: Master systematic protocols for combining Schema Therapy with EMDR processing Understand how IFS parts work aligns with schema modes for deeper integration Apply somatic techniques to enhance nervous system regulation during processing Navigate complex case formulations across multiple modalities Implement practical session structures and transition techniques Manage challenging presentations including complex PTSD, personality disorders, and developmental trauma Key Features: Detailed case examples demonstrating integration principles in action Step-by-step assessment frameworks for multi-modal treatment planning Evidence-based protocols tested with hundreds of clients Cultural adaptation guidelines for diverse populations Crisis management strategies for high-risk presentations Training pathway recommendations and supervision considerations Perfect for: Licensed therapists, clinical psychologists, trauma specialists, and mental health professionals seeking advanced integration skills. Includes practical tools for both individual practitioners and training programs. This manual bridges the gap between theoretical understanding and clinical application, providing concrete strategies for implementing integration approaches safely and effectively. Each chapter builds systematically toward mastery of complex multi-modal interventions.
Learning Companion for Counselors about Dsm-5-Tr(r)
This updated learning companion is designed to assist professional counselors with a smooth transition from the DSM-5 to the DSM-5-TR. The text highlights diagnostic changes and new developments within the DSM-5-TR. Each chapter features updated research with implications for evidence-based practice alongside practical strategies for holistic, culturally-responsive, and wellness-based counseling. As with the original DSM-5 Learning Companion for Counselors, this revision is intended for counselors, counseling students, counselor educators, and mental health professionals who engage in mental health diagnosis and evidenced-based services. The DSM-5-TR includes some important changes of which counselors must be aware, and this updated learning companion will help them incorporate these changes into practice. This new edition addresses these noteworthy changes specifically, delineating the differences and guidance, as well as case examples. DSM-5-TR is a registered trademark of the American Psychiatric Association. This book is neither endorsed by nor a product of the American Psychiatric Association.
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.
