New Perspectives on Medical Clowning
Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life.
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
Shame and Grace
In this book, shame theory meets memoir and meditation. Therapists, patients, and self-reflective readers from many walks of life will be moved and changed by time spent with this master clinician, thoughtful mentor, and fellow traveler.
Medical and Educational Needs for Autism
Medical and Educational Needs for Autism aims to provide understanding and assistance to clinicians interacting with ASD patients and their caregivers. This book is divided into two clear sections, first the medical coverage and second, an educational section. The first section includes chapters on sleep disorders, feeding/nutrition concerns, and medication. The second section focuses on the education component which includes IEP processes and activities for daily living.
Stepping Into Emotionally Focused Therapy
This accessible, practical, and thoroughly updated second edition introduces and presents how emotionally focused therapy can be used effectively across all three modalities, couple, family, and individual therapy, with clients from a diversity of backgrounds.
Pain, the Opioid Epidemic, and Depression
Long-term prescription opioid use occurs in a substantial proportion of new opioid users. Most concerning is that high risk patients with comorbid depression, anxiety, nicotine dependence, and substance use disorders, compared to patients without these factors, continue to be prescribed higher opioid doses for longer durations, and are more likely to receive opioids with high abuse potential. To understand this phenomenon, we must consider the relationships between pain, mental illness, substance use disorder and long-term prescription opioid use. While separate fields have investigated the bi-directional relationships between depression, pain, and long-term prescription opioid use independently of one another, there is no text which has brought together the complex interaction of all three together. Drawing on contributions from neuroscience, pain psychiatry, clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, clinical trials and research on social determinants of health, Pain, the Opioid Epidemic, and Depression is the first book to integrate currently siloed areas of investigation and clinical knowledge. This book takes a comprehensive approach, from neurophysiology to epidemiology to clinical practice, and explains the processes driving maintenance of chronic pain, persistent depression, and long-term prescription opioid use, as well as taper and buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. Readers will come to understand the central role of depression, other psychiatric disorders, and social determinants that contribute to pain management outcomes, the opioid epidemic, and our response to opioid dependence and opioid use disorder. By taking a multidisciplinary approach to compiling what is known about the relationships between pain, depression, other psychiatric disorders and opioids, this volume will be a valuable clinical resource for a range of healthcare and mental health professionals who encounter chronic pain and comorbid mood disorders, while also spawning new directions for researchers.
Technology in Mental Health
Technology in Mental Health focuses on the responsible integration of technology into therapy in a world affected by COVID.
Working Creatively with Obstacles to Client Change in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
This book will address the obstacles to client change that both client and therapist bring to rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT).
Getting Started as a Therapist
Getting Started as a Therapist provides students and new therapists a bridge between education and practice.
Asian American Identities, Relationships, and Post-Migration Legacies
Bringing together the personal and professional narratives of Asian American family therapists, this book offers insight into the Asian American experience through systemic theory and frameworks, individual and community stories, and clinical considerations.
Meditation for Psychotherapists
Meditation for Psychotherapists provides students and practitioners of psychotherapy with specific meditation techniques.
Transactional Analysis Proper--And Improper
Transactional Analysis Proper-and Improper: Selected and New Papers offers a critical reading of transactional analysis (TA), which analyses, deconstructs, and reconstructs its foundational theory.
Islāmic Counselling and Psychotherapy
Islāmic Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Theory and Practice provides a foundation level knowledge of and perspective on the fundamental principles and practices of counselling and psychotherapy from an Islāmic perspective.
Handbook of Cell and Gene Therapy
This book is intended as a one-stop resource for availability of state-of-the-art information related to cell and gene therapy products for researchers, scientists, management and other academic and research institutions working in the field.
For the Love of Therapy
Are you a therapist who's grown disillusioned with the therapy profession? Why do you feel so lost with your clients? Are you good enough to be a therapist? What do your clients actually need from you, and how can you best support them?If you feel overwhelmed, insecure, or uncertain about this career, you are not alone. In For the Love of Therapy, psychotherapists Nicole Arzt, LMFT, and Jeremy Arzt, LMFT, aim to answer the challenging and nuanced questions therapists regularly ask themselves. This heartfelt guide chronicles the good, bad, strange, and beautiful parts of being a mental health professional. Nicole and Jeremy offer compassionate blueprints for therapists to experience more fulfillment and settle into a deeper sense of love within this work.This book introduces the CHAIR framework, an intuitive model that encourages providers to embrace the following core themes: Consistency: Maintaining a predictable and beneficial sense of stabilityHope: Holding on to and harnessing hope, even in dire situationsAttunement: Accurately interpreting and responding to your client's needsImpact: Heightening emotion, delivering insight, and facilitating changeRepair: Recognizing mistakes and mending ruptures within the therapeutic relationshipNicole and Jeremy also provide practical guidance for relevant modern-day concerns, including harnessing perfectionism, managing decision fatigue, strengthening clinical competence, treating professional burnout, and more.
Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiation Therapy
Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition of Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiation Therapy: Applications to Dosimetry, Imaging, and Preclinical Radiotherapy, edited by Joao Seco and Frank Verhaegen, explores the use of Monte Carlo methods for modelling various features of internal and external radiation sources.Monte Carlo methods have been heavily used in the field of radiation therapy in applications such as dosimetry, imaging, radiation chemistry, modelling of small animal irradiation units, etc. The aim of this book is to provide a compendium of the Monte Carlo methods that are commonly used in radiation therapy applications, which will allow students, postdoctoral fellows, and university professors to learn and teach Monte Carlo techniques. This book provides concise but detailed information about many Monte Carlo applications that cannot be found in any other didactic or scientific book.This second edition contains many new chapters on topics such as: Monte Carlo studies of prompt gamma emission Developments in proton imaging Monte Carlo for cone beam CT imaging Monte Carlo modelling of proton beams for small animal irradiation Monte Carlo studies of microbeam radiation therapy Monte Carlo in micro- and nano-dosimetry GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulations for radiotherapy This book is primarily aimed at students and scientists wishing to learn and improve their knowledge of Monte Carlo methods in radiation therapy.
Good Practice in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
Good Practice in REBT does exactly what it promises. It helps the Rational Emotive Behaviour therapist to pinpoint areas of good practice helping them to make progress towards becoming competent REBT practitioners.
Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link
This book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America today.
Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma
Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma, 2nd ed, lays out a unified framework of neural plasticity and resilience and places it within a broader social context.
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the unique issues raised by having a child through Assisted Reproduction Technologies.
Conceptualizing Ego States in Transactional Analysis
Within this book, Gr矇goire reviews and extends the founding concepts ego states in Transactional Analysis, starting with Eric Berne's foundational thinking about ego states, and then examining and integrating the evolution of subsequent models and thinking.
Good Kids
"An old soul" ... "a delight to have in class" ... "so mature for your age" If you grew up as a Good Kid, you probably heard these words a lot. And you were good. Quiet. Easy. Responsible. So disciplined, you basically raised yourself. You're the one everyone counts on -- and you wear it like a good star. But nobody ever checks on you. And you're exhausted from proving your goodness by being an overachieving, people pleasing, perfectionist, pushover, and shape-shifting chameleon. Good Kids is about the invisible trauma and cost of always being "good" -- a lifetime of bottling your emotions, performing calm while constantly scanning everyone around you for the slightest sign of upset or disappointment and the crushing fear of being "a burden." Oh, and always worrying that you're in trouble. Maggie Nick was a Good Kid too -- the one who "never caused trouble" and always made sure everyone else was okay (even when she wasn't). Now a trauma therapist, parenting expert, and cycle breaking mom, she's here to help you heal from the fallout of being easy to raise and show you how to support the good kids in your life through those same messy, human moments you weren't allowed to have. This book answers the questions you've been asking yourself for years, like: Why do I feel crushing guilt when I say no? Why do I replay conversations for days, convinced I did something wrong? Why do I feel like I'm "too much" and "not enough"? With raw honesty, deep compassion and grounded research, Good Kids gives you the clarity and validation you've been searching for your whole life and the handbook for how to heal and break the good kid cycle for your children.
Gene Delivery Systems
This volume covers the development of gene therapy, the technology involved, clinical applications of siRNA, non-viral vector-based mRNA delivery using nanotechnology, and RNA based vaccines for treating the infectious diseases.
A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People
A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.
Odysseus & the Oar
Odysseus and the Oar was written for military members, veterans, their loved ones, and those who counsel and serve them. Using Homer's Odyssey and the experiences of today's veterans, he explores the processes of homecoming, healing, and transformation. This is "the archetype of the warrior's return," a phrase coined by Magers that corresponds with the archetypal patterns seen in myths about returning warriors worldwide. Honoring these timeless patterns, Magers argues, is essential for veterans to heal and recover the meaning, vitality, and purpose of their lives. Odysseus and the Oar's novel interpretation of the Odyssey is possible because of the author's experiences in combat, his conscious exploration of his post-war dreams through his own Jungian analysis, and because of his expertise in Jungian psychology and mythology. Commentaries on the Odyssey have been written in dozens of languages over hundreds of years, and yet this book goes into territory never before explored, illuminating Homer's myth in new ways. Magers shares the storyline as an inner, archetypal reality. We learn that the archetypal imagery in the Odyssey and the dreams of modern combat veterans have an uncanny resemblance to one another because they depict psychological processes and content that is universal, and if we are to help veterans "come home" from war, this must be understood. At once entertaining and instructive, readers will find that they've taken a journey through ancient Greece, war, the painful process of homecoming, and even into new territory within their own souls. After Odysseus successfully navigates his immediate postwar trials, he is called "to carry an oar far beyond his home, to a land where people do not use salt with their food (whose lives lack flavor) and who do not even know the sea." He has a mission to share the truth of healing that he himself has integrated.
Equal to the Madness
Equal to the Madness: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis is among the first books of its kind to offer a semistructured psychoanalytic treatment for schizophrenia and psychotic disorders. Grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, with a strong focus on Wilfred Bion's seminal contributions to the treatment of psychotic states, this book presents a model for working with psychotic patients that emphasizes the key role of countertransference in understanding the patient and producing change. It addresses all the most important areas of treatment in one volume, presenting clinicians with comprehensive theory and technique for providing effective and thoughtful care to psychotic patients.Equal to the Madness was researched using an intuitive process of "distillation and matching," a means of selecting and identifying the common elements in treatment from diverse psychoanalytic literature spanning more than one hundred years. It effectively condenses, synthesizes, and streamlines much of psychoanalytic thinking on psychosis into an easy-to-access treatment compendium. The result is an explicit, well-articulated approach to psychotherapy that is sufficiently organized to be useful as a treatment manual, giving clinicians a reliable framework for intervening with psychotic patients. Equal to the Madness is didactic and applied in addition to theoretical. It offers basic instruction to those who are just learning about the treatment of psychosis for the first time but is far-reaching enough to be helpful to more seasoned professionals. It provides clinicians with information related to assessment, intervention, and therapeutic strategies tailored specifically for psychotic patients. Rich case materials illustrating important concepts are included to reinforce learning. Equal to the Madness is a foundational resource for mental health care providers that delivers an instrumental learning experience.
Mind the Science
A takedown of mental health misinformation and pseudoscience to educate and embolden readers who wish to make informed decisions about their mental health. According to some estimates, there are at least 600 different "brands" of psychotherapy, most of which are not supported by scientific research. There also exists countless unregulated providers of mental health services in the 5.6 trillion USD wellness industry and alternative medicine community who market themselves as "life coaches," "wellness consultants," and--depending on particular countries and jurisdictions--other various non-legally protected titles, such as "therapists," "psychotherapists," "counselors," and "practitioners." In a landscape where mental health concerns are at a fever pitch and anyone can call themselves a "therapist" without a license, the world of mental healthcare is very much caveat emptor: buyer beware. In Mind the Science, Jonathan N. Stea provides a takedown of mental health misinformation and pseudoscience to educate and embolden readers who wish to make informed decisions about their mental health. Readers are empowered to protect themselves from mental health scams, charlatanry, and poor or misguided health practices that thrive in the multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry. The book begins by acquainting readers with the nature, evolution, and seduction of pseudoscience, coaching them on how to become science and mental health literate. Next, the book teaches readers how to spot misinformation and propaganda, shining a light on various pseudoscientific practices, showing the psychological reasons that leave us vulnerable to believing misinformation, and helping readers to develop a keen eye for the tactics and tropes that are used to push propaganda in the wellness and alternative medicine communities. The book concludes with strategies and solutions, showing the concepts and science behind evidence-based ways to improve mental health and teaches what to look for when seeking real professional help. Mind the Science is the self-defense shield that we direly need to protect us against the onslaught of bogus mental health treatments and products that have increasingly flooded social media, popular media, and the business of healthcare itself. By the end, readers will be better positioned to identify mental health misinformation, to steer clear of misguided and predatory practices, and to understand what mental health really means.
Solution Focused Coaching Supervision
Solution Focused Coaching Supervision offers the reader a theoretically coherent framework for coaching supervision, outlined in an engaging way that is simple to understand and apply immediately using a variety of collaborative coaching supervision moves grounded in practical examples.
A Patient's Workbook for Functional Neurological Disorder
This self-help workbook offers guidance for those coping with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). It uses a visual metaphor based on a ground-breaking new Pressure Cooker Model to help understand the condition and to reduce the symptoms.
Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy
Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy is a textbook for graduate-level counseling students and supervisees. It is both an introduction to Jung's theory and a practical guide to Jungian-informed practice.
Handbook of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Now in its second edition, the Handbook of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers a review of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) fundamentals, evidence-based group interventions, and practical guidelines for group psychotherapy.
Issue 19
Almost 40,000 words of psychological knowledge, theory and practice by bestselling writer Connor Whiteley in one great collection. If you want great, fascinating information covering a wide range of psychological topics you NEED to buy this issue!BUY NOW!Issue 19 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books: Gamification Of Autism: A Guide To Clinical Psychology, Cyberpsychology and PsychotherapyRetrieval-Based Learning: A Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology Guide To LearningAND contains 5 enthralling blog posts: 5 Ways Psychology Can Change Your LifeWhat is Human Branding?Fear of CrimeBPS 2020 ConferenceWhy Do People Cyberstalk Each Other?BUY NOW!
Stabilization in Trauma Treatment
Stabilization is considered the first of the three stages of trauma treatment and a prerequisite for successful trauma confrontation. But what does stabilization mean, what effect does it have and, above all, what variety of stabilizing interventions are available? This practical guide presents various approaches and a wealth of different interventions and exercises that have proven themselves in practice. In addition, it clearly shows that stabilization can achieve much more than one might expect: it brings with it a variety of other effects, so that it contributes to a comprehensive strengthening and healing of our clients. Thus, it facilitates, accelerates and expands the process of trauma treatment. A large repertoire of interventions, exercises and suggestions, as well as numerous examples, illustrate its implementation in practice. The book is intended for psychotherapists, psychologists, physicians, and members of other helping professions. Content: - Necessity, importance and effect of stabilization - Basics relevant to practice - Safety and resources - Various interventions and exercises - Suggestions and examples from practice
Navigating Relational Ethics in Day-to-Day Practice
The first in a new series on ethics in the counselling professions, Navigating Relational Ethics in Day-to-Day Practice contextualises the series and provides a practical 'how to' guide for bringing the theoretical concepts of ethics into practice.
DBT Principles and Strategies in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Eating Disorders
DBT Principles and Strategies in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Eating Disorders is an in-depth exploration of DBT strategies and principles that can be applied by all members of a client's multidisciplinary team, including dietitians and psychiatric providers.
Anxiety Free
Anxiety Free: A 12-Week Self-Help Guide for Managing AnxietyLearn effective strategies for understanding and managing anxiety with this comprehensive 12-week program designed by Dr. Dave Ferruolo, a licensed psychotherapist and former Navy SEAL. "Anxiety Free" offers over 80 evidence-based methods and practical exercises to help you navigate anxiety in a structured and supportive manner.Discover the Science Behind AnxietyUnderstanding Anxiety: Learn about the physiological, neurological, and psychological dimensions of anxiety, including how the fight-or-flight response works and the roles of neurotransmitters like serotonin, GABA, and dopamine.Psychotherapy Tools and TechniquesMindfulness and Relaxation: Practice deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery to calm the body's stress response and promote balance.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Identify and challenge negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety through proven CBT methods.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Embrace difficult thoughts and emotions while committing to actions aligned with personal values to enhance psychological flexibility.Internal Family Systems (IFS): Harmonize conflicting parts of the psyche to promote internal balance and reduce anxiety.Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT): Shift focus from problems to desired outcomes, setting realistic, achievable goals to manage anxiety.Behavioral Activation: Engage in activities that foster a sense of achievement and pleasure to break the cycle of avoidance and isolation that perpetuates anxiety.Neuroplasticity-Based Techniques: Utilize the brain's ability to adapt and reorganize itself through specific therapies and practices to reduce anxiety-driven thought patterns and promote long-term mental health.Week-by-Week Guide to Managing AnxietyWeeks 1-4: Build a foundation with mindfulness, relaxation, and CBT. Address acute anxiety symptoms and cognitive distortions.Weeks 5-8: Dive deeper into psychological concepts and therapeutic modalities. Explore Internal Family Systems and practical problem-solving strategies.Weeks 9-12: Focus on emotional intelligence, self-care, and finding personal meaning. Prepare for a sustainable, anxiety-managed life beyond the program.Empower Your JourneyHolistic Approach: Integrate physical, emotional, and psychological well-being for a balanced approach to managing anxiety.Real-Life Applications: Implement techniques that can be seamlessly incorporated into your daily routine for long-term success.Step-by-Step Guide: Follow a simple, easy-to-understand weekly guide to integrate practices into your life effectively.Join Thousands on the Path to an Anxiety-Managed Life"Anxiety Free" is designed to be a supportive guide and an informative resource for anyone dealing with stress and anxiety. Whether for yourself or supporting someone with anxiety, this book offers a multitude of diverse evidenced-based solutions for a more balanced, empowered life. Begin managing anxiety today with "Anxiety Free."
Motivational Interviewing in Life and Health Coaching
Written by and for coaches, this groundbreaking book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can be infused into health and wellness coaching and life coaching to help clients clarify and achieve their goals. Cecilia H. Lanier, Patty Bean, and Stacey C. Arnold concisely explain how the MI spirit, method, and skills mesh perfectly with professional coaching standards and core competencies. The book is packed with concrete examples, sample dialogues that illustrate ways to use MI in coaching conversations, and learning questions and activities. The companion website features 20 downloadable handouts plus an overview of research support for coaching with MI.
Schema Therapy Adapted for Psychosis and Bipolarity
This book explores how schema theory and therapy might be used in work with clients who suffer from psychosis, bipolarity and related symptoms.
It's Not A Big Deal
Dive into the depths of resilience and inner safety with Milica Krstic, a psychologist and psychotherapist whose personal journey is nothing short of extraordinary. "It's Not a Big Deal" isn't just a memoir-it's a testament to the strength of the human spirit, capturing the raw and unfiltered experiences that have shaped Milica's life up to the age of 30.Through 30 deeply personal stories, Milica invites you to walk alongside her as she navigates the complex tapestry of her life. From battling health challenges to creating a non-profit that has saved 24,000 lives, her journey is one of courage, vulnerability, and relentless hope. As a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for Social Impact, Milica's story is both inspiring and profoundly moving.This book is for anyone who has ever felt overlooked, misunderstood, or overwhelmed. It's a call to embrace your true self and recognize that every experience, no matter how small, is significant. Milica's candid storytelling will resonate with your own struggles and triumphs, offering a mirror to your soul."It's Not a Big Deal" is more than just pages of words-it's a lifeline. It's about thriving amidst adversity, finding peace within chaos, and understanding that, contrary to what the world might say, everything you go through matters.Join Milica Krstic on this heartfelt journey. Let her stories remind you of the power of empathy, the importance of resilience, and the beauty of inner safety. This is your invitation to reflect, heal, and find strength in your vulnerabilities.
Transformative Effects on Well-being and Development Through Dolphin Therapy
Dive into the transformative world of dolphin therapy and discover its potential to impact lives. In this groundbreaking book, we explore the positive effects of dolphin therapy on individuals with various physical, emotional, and developmental challenges. From children with autism spectrum disorder to individuals with physical disabilities, dolphin therapy has captured the imagination of therapists, researchers, and families seeking alternative interventions. Through compelling stories and scientific insights, this book sheds light on the potential benefits of dolphin therapy. Learn about the experiences of families who have embraced dolphin therapy as a complementary approach to traditional interventions, and gain a deeper understanding of the emotional, social, and physical impacts observed in individuals who have participated in dolphin-assisted sessions. Delve into the ethical considerations surrounding dolphin therapy and the ongoing debates in the field. Understand the need for rigorous scientific research to support the efficacy of dolphin therapy and explore future research directions that could shape the evolution of this form of intervention. Whether you are a parent seeking alternative therapies for your child, a therapist interested in animal-assisted interventions, or a researcher looking to explore the potential of dolphin therapy, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the subject. Join us on a journey through the waters of dolphin therapy and uncover the potential positive effects that have captivated the imagination of many.
Governed by Affect
Governed by Affect offers a new history of psychology's contradictory and contested public life in the United States and beyond since World War II, with a special emphasis on a series of transformations which have occurred since the 1970s. For both policymakers and ordinary people, the discipline of psychology has come to furnish a seemingly inexhaustible array of tools and concepts for making individuals healthier, wealthier, and happier. At the heart of this psychologized neo-liberalism is the notion that attention or the will exists as a scarce resource in a distracted and tempting world. Breaking with the austere and deliberative rationality of Cold War cognitive science, the new psychology depicts individuals as beholden to their unbridled passions and wants. At the same time as this unprecedented cultural influence, psychologists' expertise came under greater scrutiny than ever before, with the discipline finding itself mired in a pair of moral and epistemological crises which threaten to overturn the field's self-image as an objective science and a helping profession. The book traces a series of key transformations: a switch from psychology identifying as a social science to a health science; the greater engagement of psychological scientists in the realms of self-help and public policy; and the overshadowing of cognitive science by theories of affect. These three transformations--in psychology's political economy, in its public engagement, and in its theories of the self--constitute distinct but interconnected areas of analysis for constructing a new history of the psychological society. Such a perspective offers a critical genealogy of the stakes and public face of psychology at a time when the provision of mental health services and the use of behavioral interventions to improve both personal and social well-being are acute matters of concern.
Somatic Ego State Therapy for Trauma Healing
This book integrates Ego State Therapy with body-based therapies to present a multidimensional approach to working with clients who have experienced trauma.
Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research
Discrepant Results in Mental Health Research probes the most common outcomes of mental health studies. Discrepant results appear in scores of studies traversing the globe--a literature dating back to the 1950s. This literature reveals that any two studies often differ in their estimates of anything from the prevalence of mental health conditions to the effects of mental health treatments. In fact, researchers often encounter discrepant results among findings made in a single study. Discrepant results factor into what we think we know about how often mental health conditions occur, what causes them, and how to treat them. Yet, researchers do not know what to do with discrepant results when they encounter them. The problem is not with their methods--discrepant results appear even when researchers use high-quality instruments to collect data. The problem lies with how researchers interpret their data, and the decisions they make with those data. To address this problem, the book reveals a conceptually grounded, evidence-based approach to discrepant results in mental health research. It describes the robust nature of these discrepant results, along with theoretical models for understanding and interpreting them. These models inform sound scientific practices. The book reviews work that has implemented these practices, and it also leverages illustrative case examples to facilitate content mastery. Additionally, it describes future directions in research on discrepant results across several areas of work, including measurement development, intervention science, data analysis, and clinical populations that have received relatively little attention on issues surrounding discrepant results, such as suicide risk and autism.
Getting Over Your Parents
Our parents are a huge deal: and no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (our love stories, our attitudes, our self-esteem) is crucially connected to our relationships with our origin families.Following on from the bestselling How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our parents, and how to parent ourselves. By exploring different types of parents, such as "The Preoccupied Parent", "The Overprotective Parent"' and "The Controlling Parent", it offers a vocabulary to understand some of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children, as well as giving advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always on understanding. Offering constructive solutions for dealing with the symptoms of a difficult childhood, this book helps us to explore the past so that we can avoid the mistakes our parents made, and secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future we deserve.
Energy Psychology Journal 16
Energy Psychology: Theory, Research, and Treatment is a peer-reviewed professional journal dedicated to reporting developments in the field of Energy Psychology (EP) that are of interest to healthcare professionals and researchers. It contains original empirical research into the efficacy of EP methods; theoretical, experimental, and basic science papers illuminating the mechanisms of action of EP; clinical insights on the application of EP to various populations, and interfaces with other interventions; book reviews; and abstracts published in other journals that are of relevance to the EP field. Its goal is to further the development of EP as an evidence-based method in the healing sciences. Topics in this issue: Traveling to the Ultimate Destination; Optimizing Plant Morphology, Chlorophyll, and Yield Across Plants Through Pranic Healing Techniques: Three Converging Field Studies; and Energy Psychology for Social Anxiety and Erythrophobia: A Case Study.
The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology
This diverse, global, and interdisciplinary volume explores the existing research, practice, and ethical issues pertinent to the field of human-animal interactions (HAI), interventions, and anthrozoology.
