Repairing Attachment Injuries in Close Relationships
This book is an essential guide for those who have experienced an attachment injury in an important relationship and are struggling to process their hurt and betrayal or to imagine rebuilding the trust in this precious bond.
Group and Team Coaching
Group and Team Coaching is a best-seller offering a new perspective on the 'secret life of groups', the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Originally published in 2010 and designed for easy navigation, it is a highly regarded team coaching handbook, and required reading on many courses.This new edition is fully updated, with a completely new chapter on working with groups and teams on virtual platforms, including hybrid and blended working. Christine Thornton uses key concepts from psychology, group analysis and systems theory as well as her own extensive experience to give practical advice. Topics include: the invisible processes of group dynamics; common dilemmas; pitfalls of team coaching and how to avoid them; pros and cons and best practice online; how to design coaching interventions; supervising coaching; ethics.Based on research and including many vignettes and case studies, this new edition is essential reading for coaches working with groups and teams, and leaders working with their own teams or commissioning coaching.
Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy
Mindfulness Techniques and Practices in Islamic Psychotherapy is a guide for Muslim spiritual care providers, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and others who use spiritual and religious concepts, values, and rituals as novel interventions to offer culturally appropriate mental health services.
The Practice of Family Therapy
Now in its sixth edition, The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse groups who are grappling with the many challenges unique to family therapy practice. With expanded coverage of different models, along with new developments in evidence-based and postmodern practices, this integrative textbook bridges the gap between science and systemic/relational approaches, as it guides the reader through each stage of family therapy.Part I lays the groundwork by introducing the first-, second-, and third-generation models of family therapy, teaching the reader to integrate different elements from these models into a systemic structure of practice. Part II explores the practical application of these models, including scripts for specific interventions and newly updated clinical examples that highlight how to effectively work with diverse client populations of today. Students will learn how to make connections between individual symptoms and cutting-edge family practices to respond successfully to cases involving substance abuse, trauma, grief, depression, suicide risk, violence, LGBTQIA+ families, and severely mentally ill clients and their families. This newly updated and streamlined edition includes fresh information on working with LGBTQIA+ families and on the family as a resource for suicidal members, and it also includes new discussion of models, such as emotion-focused couple therapy and internal family systems. This text also encourages students to think more broadly about community connections as important resources for clients, such as chosen families and cultural identities that affect one's sense of belonging in relationships.With study guides for each model and a glossary to review main concepts, this text is a comprehensive and accessible guide for students and practitioners. Aligned with the knowledge and content statements of the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards (AMFTRB), this textbook will be key reading for graduate students who are preparing for the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy.
Beyond Adaptation
This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines' entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile individual support with social justice. In current times of accelerating crises, professionals often see only few opportunities to influence the conditions of their work. Thinking and acting beyond adaptation, authors from seven countries provide inspiration for researchers, practitioners, and students who want to be more than brokers of a broken system. Cultural-Historical Theory is a powerful framework that can depict the dynamic of individual minds in society. Building on this, Critical Psychology has formulated an elaborate theory of human agency. Linking individual and social change needs such theorizing. This volume is a rare intellectual exchange by scholars drawing on these traditions. An alternative to both control science and abstract criticism, it inquires the capacity to act. The editors took part in organizing the Summer School Critical Psychology in Berlin, which inspired this volume.
Mindfulness and the Self
The image we have of ourselves is shaped during our childhood and is often influenced by various emotional wounds. Mindfulness and the Self describes four types of these wounds and shows how they can be healed and transformed through developing mindfulness and self-compassion.
What Works in Stepfamilies
This book uses a strengths-based approach and resilience perspective to offer guidance on what works in creating effective stepfamily relationships, sharing findings and empirically supported best practices for stepfamily members and the family professionals that work with them.Drawing from over 2,500 studies, Ganong, Coleman, and Sanner present a comprehensive overview of research on what works to create positive and satisfying stepfamily relationships. Chapters address how to work with stepcouples, stepparents, biological parents, co-parents, stepsiblings and half-siblings, and biological and stepgrandparents, with illustrative case studies throughout. It emphasizes the diversity and complexity of stepfamilies, including work with LGBTQ+ stepfamilies, stepfamilies from various racial and ethnic groups, and stepfamily relationships across the life course, from childrearing stepfamilies to those formed later in life.This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in strengthening stepfamily relationships, such as those studying or working in family science, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work.
Health and Healing in World Religions
Health and Healing in World Religions is a comprehensive introduction to the field that explores the research that links spirituality and well-being, including work with addiction and trauma.
The Observer and the Observed
This book approaches the God-question in a different way than normal: from the perspective of psychotherapy. In a world of machine intelligence, the key idea is an analogy of being between human personhood and divine personhood as the only satisfactory way of showing that our inner conscious awareness (nourished by the validation of the self) is responded to in ultimate terms. It aims to extrapolate ""from below,"" from our psychological experience to asking ultimate questions, drawing lines between: -Observation in quantum physics -The maternal gaze -Recognition in social worlds that confer perception in place of invisibility -The power of inter-subjectivity in relational neurobiology and therapy What has to be accounted for is our sense of personhood and how that fits in with a cosmos that is at best neutral. The metaphor of a ""wifi"" universe is proposed but rather than a soulless device being switched on, how a human psyche comes to a sense of consciousness of its own value is the issue here. A personal God is the best explanation for the evidence of how our personhood and subject status requires correspondence. As engaging with a neutral AI entity is bound to be ""soulless,"" the first-person perspective requires an I-thou relationship. A universe constructed from ""nature"" by itself or one where the ultimate is impersonal energy just does not cut it or respond adequately to what is inside us. This book offers an account of how the realm described by physics and our inner world can tie up--perhaps the only way they can!
Virtual Reality for Serious Illness
Virtual Reality for Serious Illness explores the important role virtual reality interventions can play in symptom management, anxiety control, and spiritual meaning.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying the Rasch Model Using R
This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable ("latent") variables. Although the focus is on simple R code, the book provides updated guidance through the point-and-click menus of BlueSky Statistics software.
Addressing Diversity Dynamics in Group Therapy
This book illustrates group dynamics and group interventions in response to diversity-related content and processes in group therapy.
Humanitarian Competencies for Global Mental Health Professionals
A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior
A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior discusses how to utilize functional assessment and function-based treatment for patients with severe problem behaviors. The book begins by defining problem behavior, contrasting functional and structural definitions, and clearly reviewing the term "severe". The second section, Functional Assessment of Problem Behavior, reviews three different assessments in detail, providing sample questionnaires, methods for interviewing and brief bonus videos. The third section, Function-Based Treatments, outlines three main treatment options, including comprehensive and trauma-informed strategies and outline information on collecting, graphing, and analyzing treatment data. The final section, Promoting Sustainability and Compassionate Care will review strategies to implement these assessments and treatments in a culturally relevant and compassionate way.
Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process
Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention presents an in-depth analysis by experienced psychologists on how to engage in clinical reasoning and decision making from assessment to intervention with children and youth. This book emphasizes the importance of using and articulating clinical reasoning within a well-defined framework and its goal in guiding diagnostic and treatment decisions. This book encourages critical thinking including reflection, judgment, inference, problem solving, and decisionmaking based on the interaction of efficient and effective clinical judgment and truth-seeking accountability. With a primary goal of providing examples of processes and procedures, this book validates and enriches the importance of clinical reasoning and decision making in psychology.
Relational Counselling and Psychotherapy
An introduction to relational counselling and psychotherapy, focusing on the therapeutic relationship and relational therapy skills. This book is relevant to trainee therapists across training levels and modalities.
Relational Counselling and Psychotherapy
An introduction to relational counselling and psychotherapy, focusing on the therapeutic relationship and relational therapy skills. This book is relevant to trainee therapists across training levels and modalities.
Interfamily Therapy
This book helps us to understand the therapeutic processes involved in the multifamily group and gives us tools for effective management, making it an indispensable guide for professionals in all areas of human care who are interested in including multifamily therapy in their institutions. In recent years we have witnessed the emergence of forms of social and health care that incorporate the voices of the people who suffer and those of their family and social environment as a therapeutic resource. These include Multifamily Therapies, therapeutic interventions carried out through groups made up of several families (multifamily groups) in which the mechanisms of family therapy and group therapy mutually enhance each other. Among the various models of multifamily therapy, Interfamily Therapy has become the most widespread. It is an integrative and eclectic model inspired by attachment theory and dialogical practices and represents a new way of approaching human problems through sharing and learning together with others. The simplicity of its theoretical statements and methodology facilitates its application in any social, educational and health context by professionals from different backgrounds.
A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology
Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy-statement focusing on epistemology and ethics.
Navigating Research in an Applied Graduate Program
Are you a graduate student in an applied psychology, mental health, or education program? Are you learning to apply your field's theories and methods in practice while anticipating conducting a final research or scholarly project? Or are you a faculty member advising, mentoring, and chairing dissertations or theses? This guide is for you. Navigating the research process in an applied graduate program can be exciting but also daunting. For students, this book will guide you through the nuts and bolts of identifying research interests, developing a project topic, writing and managing a project, as well as the various interpersonal and academic skills necessary to successfully complete such a project. Based on a well-recognized national competency model developed by the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP), this guide will teach you the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to navigate research at three stages of graduate school: familiarizing yourself with research and scholarly work, developing a proposal and managing a project, and finishing your final project and beyond. It will also advise on ways you can foster successful mentoring relationships and work collaboratively in applied settings. Worksheets, visual aids, and checklists are provided throughout to highlight factors to consider at each stage and help you plan work and time, self-evaluating and improving research, and troubleshooting obstacles. Student examples are included to illustrate real experiences of conducting research in an applied program. Using this book throughout graduate school will help you experience your final project as an exciting capstone to your academic career. Recommendations for how faculty can use this guide in research related courses, advising, and mentoring are also provided.
Motivational Interviewing Across Cultures
This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from different cultural backgrounds; in particular, when clients are members of marginalized groups. Using rich examples and sample dialogues, Christina S. Lee shows how affirming a client's cultural identity is part and parcel of MI's humanistic, person-centered mindset. The book provides instruction on key therapeutic tasks, such as strengthening rapport, asking about culture without stereotyping, and inquiring about experiences of stigma and discrimination in a way that increases motivation to change. Links between social and structural determinants of health, sociocultural stressors, mental health disparities, and substance use are highlighted. Special features include "Pause and Consider" sidebars and end-of-chapter key takeaway points. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.
Contemporary Issues in Music Therapy Training
Watson and Warner introduce approaches, practices and dilemmas in contemporary learning and teaching of music therapy to current and future trainees, practitioners, placement educators and trainers by including the voices of recent graduates, trainers and practice educators, offering a unique window into the field.
Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma
Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma offers 17 chapters, each focusing on a different experiential psychotherapy for treating trauma, written by clinicians with expertise in that modality.
Appraisal, Assessment, and Evaluation for Counselors
The cutting-edge resource that equips instructors and students with essential assessment tools and provides practical guidance for effective treatment planning. Understanding and addressing the diverse needs of clients is critical now more than ever. This foundational textbook prepares future counselors and educators with the essential tools and knowledge to master the assessment and testing standards required for CACREP accreditation. Authored by leading experts in the field, Appraisal, Assessment, and Evaluation for Counselors: A Practical Guide examines the intricacies of client assessment, emphasizing ethical and accurate evaluation as the cornerstone of successful counseling. Through a blend of historical context, legal and ethical considerations, and practical applications, this book provides a robust framework for understanding and implementing assessment methods. Covering the new 2024 CACREP standards and grounded in the DSM-5-TR, the book is designed to be well-organized and engaging, making it a practical resource for future counselors. The inclusion of social justice and advocacy considerations, along with real-world case examples, ensures students can connect assessment issues to real client situations, making it an essential resource for both classroom and clinical practice. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Offers in-depth case studies, examples, and podcasts throughout the book to grasp the nuanced process of testing and assessment across various treatment stages and settings. Presents assessment practices relevant to mental health, addiction counseling, school counseling, and rehabilitation counseling. Incorporates CACREP mapping, thoughtful discussion questions, and interactive class activities in every chapter. Delivers real-life perspectives from content experts through podcasts and a video role-play modeling diagnostic interviewing. Italicizes key terms for easy scanning and review. Includes the history and nature of assessment, legal and ethical implications, statistical concepts, and practical applications for many counseling scenarios. Instructors will welcome comprehensive Test Banks and chapter PowerPoints to enhance learning.
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Thoroughly revised, the tenth edition of this bestselling textbook introduces students to clinical psychology as a bridge between science and practice. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this pedagogically rich textbook teaches its readers to think critically, consolidate their learning, and stay up to date in the field.
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Thoroughly revised, the tenth edition of this bestselling textbook introduces students to clinical psychology as a bridge between science and practice. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this pedagogically rich textbook teaches its readers to think critically, consolidate their learning, and stay up to date in the field.
Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy
Clinical Thinking in Psychotherapy empowers practitioners and students to better understand clients by attending to both verbal and nonverbal forms of expression. Readers will find tools for unlearning biases and for providing effective therapy with transcripts and dialogic tools.
ADHD and Sex
This innovative workbook allows couples and individuals to explore the intersection of ADHD and sexuality and its many manifestations in a couple's sex life and relationship.
Developing a Therapeutic Treatment Programme for Traumatised Children and Young People
This manual sets out an accessible model for assessing the emotional needs of traumatised children and young adults and using the outcomes of the assessment to develop individualised therapeutic programmes to support their needs and emotional development.
Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment
Integrate cultural awareness and humility into your psychological assessments In Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment, editor Jordan A. Wright curates a collection of invaluable work that helps psychological assessors be more deliberate in acknowledging--and, in some cases, mitigating--the role that culture and cultural experiences can play in the psychological assessment process. It encourages assessors to think about cultural issues as they relate to clients, including the cultural background clients bring with them to the assessment and the oppressive experiences they may have endured. You'll explore the roles that power and privilege might play in the assessment process and the cultural variables that affect the interaction with clients and the process as it unfolds. You'll also discover how culture and oppression can be considered and accounted for throughout the entire lifecycle of a psychological assessment. Readers will also find: Tools and strategies for conducting culture-informed and diversity-sensitive psychological assessment Techniques for understanding the data that arises from clients from various backgrounds Ways to integrate culture into every aspect of psychological assessment Perfect for psychology clinicians of all kinds, Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment is a can't-miss resource that will inform, improve, and transform the way you conduct psychological testing and assessment on clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
Understanding Postmodern Family Therapy
This accessible textbook provides therapy students and practitioners with an understanding of postmodern theories, founders, and practical applications to family therapy. It introduces complex concepts in bite-sized pieces so readers can cultivate and master competent real-world applications of postmodern philosophy in therapy.
A Gestalt Therapist's Guide Through the Depressive Field
This book is intended for psychotherapists working with depressed clients. In particular, it focuses on how working with depressed clients affects the therapists themselves, and elaborates on how therapists can care for themselves in such demanding work to prevent burnout, or process it meaningfully as part of their professional development.
Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice
This book explores the ethics around everything connected with setting up and running a therapy private practice.
Wahine Warrior
The preparations for the sea journey are complete. Suddenly, a gentle breeze caresses our bare skin, its direction indicating favourable weather. 'Ua logo i tino matagi lelei - Upu fiafia'. A favourable wind is felt on the body - the joy of expectation. Embark on a voyage of diverse winds! Blending life experiences with soul-searching journeys, this book crafts a delicate tapestry of heartache and healing, finding its way to peace, love and genuine forgiveness.It takes an incredible amount of strength, determination and resilience to ask questions about the most foundational aspects of our lives, and those who raised us, in a quest to create new pathways and spiritual realities for those who come after us. In this brave and vulnerable book, this is exactly what Losa has done. Her commitment to the integrity of her wairuatanga and the wellbeing of her children, grandchildren, and future generations shines through in this book, sustained by empathy and deep appreciation for the wisdom of those who have gone before her. An insightful resource that I believe has the power to change generations!
The Resilient Practitioner
The Resilient Practitioner, 4th edition, builds on the first three editions and on the lived experience of practitioners in the helping, caring, and relationship-intense fields.
Counselling Children
The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. It contains lots of short chapters offering practice frameworks, skills and interventions.
Counselling Children
The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. It contains lots of short chapters offering practice frameworks, skills and interventions.
Working with Parents in Child Psychotherapy
Grounded in decades of clinical experience, this empathic, practical book presents a research-informed framework for delivering parent guidance as a stand-alone intervention or adjunct to child therapy. Elisa Bronfman and Johanna D. Sagarin delineate flexible coaching strategies to enhance family relationships and parenting skills and find new solutions to struggles around discipline, homework, bedtime, meals, screen time, and other daily routines. The approach can be tailored for parents dealing with any child mental health concern or behavioral challenge. Assessment, treatment planning, clinical decision making, and progress monitoring are all discussed in step-by-step detail. Packed with illustrative case material, the book features 34 reproducible clinical tools that can be photocopied or downloaded.
Virtual Reality: Unlocking Emotions and Cognitive Marvels
Formulation in Mental Health Nursing
This book offers a comprehensive overview of formulation applied within the mental health nursing context. It presents a contemporary outlook on the role of the mental health nurse, exploring and reflecting on the foundational values-based and person-centred principles of mental health nurse education and practice. Through this timely and accessible textbook, the authors demonstrate how a variety of theories can be used to enhance formulation in practice, ensuring mental health assessment and intervention are meaningfully connected to support patient recovery. Including service user experiences and viewpoints throughout, each chapter also benefits from tailored discussion points to enable learners to develop critical thinking around formulation. An invaluable guide to the field, it provides a clear, up to date and thought-provoking overview of formulation, essential for students and practitioners in clinical psychology or psychotherapy, as well as clinicians working in all areas of mental health and social care, psychology, therapy, and counselling.
Group Counseling
First published in 1979, Group Counseling has consistently been a widely used and praised text, providing both novice and experienced counselors with a framework from which to expand group counseling skills and knowledge.
The School Counselor's Preparation and Professional Practice Desk Reference and Examination Study Guide
This third edition of The School Counselor's Preparation and Professional Practice Desk Reference and Examination Study Guide is a comprehensive resource for both pre-service and practicing school counselors.
Embedding Counselling and Communication Skills
Embedding Counselling and Communication Skills provides a step-by-step approach for those looking to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of using counselling and communication skills within the helper role and applying these skills in the context of professional practice.
So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy?
So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice.
Working with Parents in Child Psychotherapy
Grounded in decades of clinical experience, this empathic, practical book presents a research-informed framework for delivering parent guidance as a stand-alone intervention or adjunct to child therapy. Elisa Bronfman and Johanna D. Sagarin delineate flexible coaching strategies to enhance family relationships and parenting skills and find new solutions to struggles around discipline, homework, bedtime, meals, screen time, and other daily routines. The approach can be tailored for parents dealing with any child mental health concern or behavioral challenge. Assessment, treatment planning, clinical decision making, and progress monitoring are all discussed in step-by-step detail. Packed with illustrative case material, the book features 34 reproducible clinical tools that can be photocopied or downloaded.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud's theories and clinical practices focused primarily on individuals. As such, they are rarely considered when critiquing collective behavior or symbolic re-presentations. However, as the founder of depth psychology - a field of study that considers how unconscious components of the human experience influence psychological conditions - Freud understood the collective nature of thought and behavior. While his ideas are not typically a perspective applied to the study of media and popular culture, of audiences, or of content creation, once unpacked through a psychoanalytic lens, Freud's theories shine a bright light on human motivation and expression. This book is the first presentation of his ideas within this context. It is primarily an introduction to Freud and his theories intended for a communication studies audience. In addition to summarizing Freud's major concepts, how/when/if they are taught in psychology programs, and the resultant "Freud Wars," this book offers examples of application of his ideas to cinema, advertising, public relations, and other forms of expression and recommendations for future research. There are implications and applications to the everyday world as well for anyone interested in how theories of human development, beginning with childhood personality construction through adult sexuality, repression, and expression, can be understood through a contemporary lens. "Of all of the contentious and oft-misconstrued figures in the history of ideas, few provide such a thorny and frustrating subject as Sigmund Freud. In this short-butsubstantial book, Deb Merskin gives us a considerate and approachable understanding of Freud's work. She begins with a biographical sketch of Freud, builds on this foundation to outline the full spectrum of Freud's theoretical interventions. With the basic rhythms and motifs established, Merskin then combines all of these elements to develop a symphonic sense of what Freud's ideas can contribute to communication and media studies, with emphases on social theory, film theory, advertising, political communication, media psychology, and cultural studies. Here is a true introduction to Freud's ideas as they relate to communication and media studies." -David W. Park, Lake Forest College
