Healing Broken Bonds
This one-of-a-kind theoretical and practical workbook provides couples with tools to work towards healing their relationships and experiences of trauma.This is an valuable resource for mental health professionals working with trauma survivors and those are using Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma with the couples they work with.
The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Thriving Beyond Narcissistic Abuse
"The Savvy Girl's Guide to Thriving Beyond Narcissistic Abuse" is a comprehensive exploration of narcissistic abuse, its impacts, and the path to healing. Drawing from personal experience and professional expertise, the author guides readers through understanding narcissistic behaviors, recognizing abuse patterns, and breaking free from toxic relationships. The book offers unique insights into the roles of human design and nervous system regulation in recovery, providing practical tools for rebuilding self-esteem, setting boundaries, and cultivating healthy relationships. With a blend of storytelling and psychological insights, this guide empowers readers to reclaim their authentic selves and create a life free from narcissistic influence.
Condensed Guide for the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Tests
Helping?
This book exists to encourage helping professionals, particularly those at the beginning of their careers, to critically explore and understand current strategies in fields such as psychotherapy, psychology, and social work. Historical examples of helping policies and strategies used over the years are reviewed and critically evaluated as to whether they helped or hurt the communities they were designed to support. Current policies will be discussed to evaluate whether they are helping the communities they serve. In alignment with an Indigenous African-centered philosophy of holism, multi-dimensionality, and interconnectedness, this work takes a multilayered approach to storytelling by weaving together three journeys: the author's personal journey of exploration, the journey of the Black Girl from George Bernard Shaw's novella (described below), and the reader's. In it, the author details her understanding of the philosophical framework she learned in professional helping training programs, why she came to believe they were inadequate, and how this sparked her global search to understand how to be an effective helper. The author's journey is paralleled with the famous and controversial novella by George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, which is a depiction of the universal search for understanding. This text contrasts this alternative perspective on helping with the dominant approaches to what constitutes "helping." The protagonist's journey is mirrored by the author's stories of discovery, and reflective questions are designed to enable the reader's journey toward becoming a professional helper in the context of current systems. This text explores what helping may look like from an alternative philosophical perspective, seeking to facilitate a process that will enable people to live more satisfyingly. Each chapter offers theoretical underpinnings from an Indigenous African-centered perspective, a critique of dominant approaches to helping, and a different stage of the Black Girl and authors' paralleled searches for understanding about God and healing, respectively.
A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Sexual Offenders, Families, and Victims
This unique text aims to aims to cover the many variations of presentations the mental health professional needs to address to conduct effective work with sex offenders and alleged offenders, their victims, as well as their families and children.
Community Psychology
Community Psychology, 7th Edition presents the field's conceptual roots and possible applications in a comprehensive overview of the field. Clearly organized and easy to navigate, the text is divided into sections on basic concepts, social change, applications, and the future.The book opens the field of community psychology to students who are interested in how psychology is relevant to their own lives and the systems around them. The applied chapters discuss how community psychology relates to mental health, social and health services, schools and children, law and crime, health and public health, and community/organizational psychology. The new edition updates research and literature and presents developments in theoretical and research methodologies. This edition focuses particularly on description and consideration of critical theory, liberation theology, and decolonization as part of community psychology's intellectual and value-based evolution. Examples of community psychology in practice are provided throughout the text, and each chapter also features discussion questions for students to consider. A student website and instructor resources provide further ways to engage with the content and support teaching and learning.This highly engaging book explores social change, the mental health of the community, and the importance of the environment upon the individual. It will appeal to advanced undergraduates as well as graduates taking courses on community psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, and related fields.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
This step-by-step training manual guides readers through the clinical practice of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for use with families. This book presents SFBT to family psychologists and other therapists and health care professionals in related fields in an easy to learn format that provides specific clinical skills and case examples to enhance learning. It provides an overview of SFBT, a brief history of its origins, underlying theory and research, and session sequencing and tools for using the SFBT approach with families, and teaches the reader how to conduct an SFBT session from beginning to end. Detailed procedures and case examples in this book illustrate practice with diverse clients in clinical and counseling settings, including the challenges therapists may face in working with families and how to avoid roadblocks in therapy. Readers will gain valuable insights and practical guidance in how to use this effective approach to therapeutic change.
Culturally Responsive Psychotherapy, Counselling & Psychology
This textbook brings together experienced educators, researchers, counsellors, and psychotherapists who offer insights on how to practice, teach, research, and supervise within a framework of social justice and cultural responsiveness. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own role in making counselling and psychotherapy more accessible, especially for marginalised communities. The book challenges the language that often stems from a colonial mindset, focusing instead on the counsellor's critical reflection and the ability to approach issues of equity, justice, and inclusion thoughtfully as core to the work. It explores Eurocentric ideas about colonisation, binary thinking, and "othering" through the diverse perspectives of each chapter's authors. Each chapter tackles an aspect of counselling practice that will be reframed offering a more inclusive and culturally responsive approach. These practices will draw on six core principles: 1) decolonising education in counselling and psychology, 2) intersectionality, 3) cultural humility, 4) self-awareness and critical reflection for therapists, 5) engagement and connection, and 6) activism. This textbook serves as a valuable resource for teachers, students, and practitioners of systemic practice, family therapy, clinical psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy, as well as for professionals in training.
With Love from a Children’s Therapist
In With Love from a Children's Therapist, Stacy Schaffer takes readers on a deeply personal and professional journey through trauma, resilience, and healing.As a survivor and a therapist with more than twenty years of experience, Schaffer weaves together her story with the lessons she's learned from working with children, teens, and young adults. She exploresThe lasting impact of childhood trauma and the path to recovery.How anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation manifest in young people.Practical ways to create safety, understanding, and healing for ourselves and others.Raw, honest, and deeply compassionate, this book is a testament to the power of storytelling in breaking silence and fostering healing. For anyone seeking understanding, hope, or a way forward, With Love from a Children's Therapist is an essential read.
Creative Play in Family Therapy
This practical resource integrates family therapy theory with playful interventions and techniques to allow family therapists to successfully engage and include children in the session.
The Un-Making of Them
Ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists. This book presents a groundbreaking collection of chapters sharing insights and reflections on clinical work with ex-boarders in different settings and circumstances with the aim establishing a body of knowledge for clinical work.
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes offers a comprehensive model for ending therapy well. Bad "goodbyes" in therapy can contribute to therapist burnout and pessimism regarding the efficacy of therapy. Within the framework of the therapeutic relationship and a clearly articulated set of goals for therapy, Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick describe how to recognize and respond to termination themes from the very beginning of treatment. Each phase of treatment brings its own challenges, as well as the risk of premature ending by patient or therapist. Each chapter in this book addresses specific danger signals to look out for and helpful techniques to support treatment. Organized in a pedagogical question-and-answer formant and with vivid clinical examples from all diagnostic groups and all stages of development, Good Goodbyes is a fundamental text on termination for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapists. New to this Second Edition: New preface by the authors discussing updated content and outlining the book format, for pedagogical useUpdated organization for course usage and flow of Socratic question dialogueUpdated terminologyThematic application to practicing psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, therapists, and counselors, and their relationships with clients as well as students and traineesExamination of the micro-terminations and transitions at each treatment stage
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy.
Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
In Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Posthuman Possibilities of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
This timely book explores an eco-feminist approach to dance movement psychotherapy, with an emphasis on the posthuman possibilities of differently enabled bodies and fostering social, political and environmental justice.
Assessing Psychometric Fitness of Intelligence Tests
This book addresses issues and concerns regarding appropriate ethical and scientific underpinnings for the appropriate interpretation of intelligence tests. It's written for psychologists, professors, researchers, and practitioners concerned with applied psychometrics in evaluating intelligence or cognitive abilities and test assessment.
Justin Case Sits with Anxiety
Today is a big day...Justin Case is taking on his first babysitting job!He has been waiting for this day for what feels like forever, but suddenly gets a case of the "what ifs?"What if the twins fall and hurt themselves? What if I have to change a diaper? Everyone gets scared and worried sometimes, but worries don't have to stop us from doing the things we care about. Follow Justin's journey and learn how the brain comes up with worried thoughts and icky feelings, how normal that is, and what we can do about it. Based on the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, this workbook is packed full of fun activities. It also includes a section for parents and caregivers with advice on how best to support your child.
Black American's Strengths-Based Cultural Practices
Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health.
The Betrayal Bind
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR PARTNER, YOUR PRIMARY PERSON, IN AN INSTANT BECOMES A SOURCE OF DANGER AND PAIN? The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing. Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is gone, and everything you thought you could count on is in question. Betrayed partners, whether dealing with an isolated infidelity or a pattern of sexual compulsivity, need immediate support to navigate the new terrain of their relationship. They need a clear articulation of betrayal trauma, a thorough education about their normal attachment-based reactions, and a proven path to healing. By focusing on how a partner's attachment system functions in the wake of sexual portrayal, The Betrayal Bind offers a new, game-changing exploration into an age-old problem andconnects the dots from research to the lived experience of betrayed partners. Michelle Mays, LPC, CSAT-S, is a licensed professional counselor and expert in treating sexual betrayal and trauma. She is the founder of the Center for Relational Recovery and the creator of the Braving Hope(R) Treatment Model. To learn more visit michellemays.com.
Rants for Rachel
"Rants for Rachel" is a 'rant collection' of my private journal entries taken from my bigger book, "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life". This book is specifically dedicated to Rachel, and includes lots of humor, hardships, stressful rants, heavy cursing, and overall wacky disgruntledness at life and its absurdities; hopefully in-turn causing encouragement towards existence. It also includes exclusive excerpts being saved for my second book! If interested, you can find "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life", by Zelphie Addams, at most retail stores and online, it's the full book of my private journal excerpts that also include more in-depth tales of my life and struggling with a disease. This first book covers my life years from 2004-2020. Please enjoy! PS I am currently in the process of writing my second full book for years 2021-2026. Keep an eye on that coming out sometime 2028! Still not sure the title for it, but it will be found under "author Zelphie Addams", and most likely printed through Lulu.com
Psychological Treatment Approaches for Young Children and Their Families
Early childhood is the most critical phase in human development. Negative influences can contribute to irreversible life-long struggles. What is learned in the first five years of life becomes the foundation for subsequent learning. It is vitally important that we effectively treat mental health problems when we find them in preschoolers.Psychological Treatment Approaches for Children and Their Families provides a comprehensive overview of 14 commonly available therapeutic interventions for children aged 3-5 years. It fills an important gap in a field where information about treatment options is limited compared with those suitable for older children and adolescents. The interventions presented are evidence-based and reflect various research backgrounds and theories of change. They are grouped into four sections covering individual child treatments, parent-focused approaches, dyadic carer-child interventions, and family-systems models. Each section describes the models in a condensed yet comprehensive summary, offering information on its evidence base, key concepts, stages of therapy, session structure, treatment effects, and training options, along with a case study example illustrating the therapy in practice. The structure allows the reader to decide what treatments can be used for what presenting problem and under what conditions. A set of exercise questions concludes the end of each chapter to encourage better theory-practice links. The result is a text that provides ample opportunities for students and therapists to develop a knowledge base and understanding of how to best approach the treatment of psychological disorders in this age group.Edited and authored by a select group of experienced clinical psychologists and psychiatrists with a particular interest in paediatric clinical psychology, this text is relevant for students, therapists, trainers and supervisors, referrers, researchers, and funding bodies, as well as all those undergoing training in disciplines related to child development and clinical child psychology.The Interventions reviewed are: Play Therapy Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Circle of Security (COS) Tuning into Kids (TIK) Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Integrated Family Intervention for Child Conduct Problems (IFI) Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Watch, Wait, and Wonder (WWW) Narrative Therapy (NT) Strategic Family Therapy (SRFT) Structural Family Therapy (SFT) Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT)
Positive Sexuality
This book focuses on an emerging, multidisciplinary, positive sexuality framework that guides sexuality research, education, and practice.
Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care
This book places the voices of children and families supported by children's palliative care at the centre as they articulate their own experiences of music therapy alongside music therapists to develop theory and practice in this area.
Individual Counseling and Therapy
The fourth edition of Individual Counseling and Therapy: Skills and Techniques decodes the nuances of therapeutic language and helps students discover their clinical voice.
