Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for People with Parkinson’s Disease and Caregivers
The need for mental health support within the Parkinson's disease (PD) community has never been greater, yet many practitioners lack the knowledge or experience to address the unique challenges associated with PD. This book serves as a practical guide for mental health professionals to assist individuals with PD and caregivers through the use of cognitive- behavioral therapy techniques, with the goal of enhancing their well-being and quality of life. The book includes a review of information about PD and mental health, and four structured group programs designed to address issues that are common in people with PD and caregivers: - Coping with stress and illness - Communicating about PD - Emotional expression in PD - Interventions for caregivers The programs presented in this book can be utilized as they are, personalized for individual use, or adapted for research protocols. Additionally, the information can serve as a valuable resource for people with PD and their family members, who can learn about PD and be introduced to evidence-based strategies that can be used conjointly with professionals to improve their experience of living with PD.
Warriors of the Mind
Warriors of the Mind presents a compelling case for the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in treating combat veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), moral injury, and other mental health challenges. The book delves into the limitations of conventional therapeutic approaches and highlights the unique advantages of psychedelics in fostering profound healing experiences.The narrative begins by acknowledging the deep psychological scars borne by combat veterans and proposes psychedelics as a means to access therapeutic realms that conventional therapies often fail to reach. It cites empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of substances like psilocybin and MDMA in catalyzing emotional and cognitive transformations.The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the realities of combat and its aftermath, including the physiological, emotional, and cognitive impacts on veterans. It explores the challenges of reintegration into civilian life, the dynamics within veterans' families, and the broader societal implications. The author articulates the profound complexities of mental health issues that veterans face, including PTSD, moral injury, depression, anxiety, and the risk of substance abuse and suicide.Warriors of the Mind critically evaluates conventional treatment options, pointing out their limitations in addressing the holistic needs of combat veterans and facilitating deep psychological healing. The discussion extends to alternative therapies, emphasizing the necessity of integrating these with conventional treatments for a more comprehensive approach to healing.The book shifts to a more personal tone, recounting the author's experiences with psilocybin, Iboga, and 5-MeO-DMT. These accounts serve as poignant illustrations of the transformative potential of psychedelics, providing insights into their ability to facilitate profound introspection, emotional release, and spiritual enlightenment.Overall, Warriors of the Mind serves as a compelling call to action to expand therapeutic horizons for combat veterans. It advocates for a holistic, culturally sensitive treatment paradigm that includes the potential benefits of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, aiming to provide veterans with the tools and support necessary to navigate their complex healing journeys.
Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation provides a contextualised, research-based understanding of how to enhance and support the emotional health and well-being of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.The framework presented in this book is an innovative intervention that enhances the well-being of children who have experienced trauma by improving the therapeutic abilities for all who support and care for them. This book presents the evidence base for this new systemic and narrative trauma-informed framework of care, creates a wider understanding of working with trauma responses in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and offers coherence for practitioners wanting to use this approach. The authors provide a physiological view, as well as identify embodied aspects of trauma experience, and describe a narrative approach developed from a clinical understanding of trauma, as well as presenting the words of children who took part in the project. Creating a common multi-disciplinary language, this approach can be used to improve coherence, coordination, and excellence within the whole system.This book is essential reading for all practitioners working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. It will also be of interest to students and trainees of social work and other mental health disciplines, as well as other professionals seeking to understand the needs of this group.
How to Think and Intervene Like a Single-Session Therapist
Therapists new to Single-Session Therapy (SST) will often struggle to bring the SST mindset to the work and will in turn struggle to help their clients get the most out of the time that they choose to spend together.How to Think and Intervene Like a Single-Session Therapist provides the trainee with an opportunity to discover how experienced therapists think, and how their thoughts influence their interventions within the single-session context. Presenting SST in a way that both interests conventional therapists and shows the potential of this way of delivering therapy services, Windy Dryden details the multiple levels of thinking and intervening that go into single-session practice. He covers the orientation thinking experienced SST therapists have about the work when they are not doing it, the pre-session thinking they engage in while actively preparing to do the work, and the in-session thinking they engage in while doing the work. The book outlines the theory behind SST and the ways those ideas form its practice, using clinical vignettes and case scenarios to demonstrate how single-session therapists can make the best use of the limited time with their clients. The book additionally presents an ongoing dialogue between an SST therapist and a conventional therapist to highlight the thinking of the former and how the criticisms of SST by the latter can be responded to.This highly practical guide will be essential reading for any therapist who is new to or has recently been introduced to the practice of SST.
The Art of Holding in Therapy
Written by a pioneer in the field, this second edition provides updated skill-building tools and a more developed, comprehensive understanding of how therapists can use the holding approach when treating perinatal distress.First conceptualized by D.W. Winnicott, the "holding" approach refers to a therapist's capacity to respond to postpartum distress in a way that facilitates an immediate and successful therapeutic alliance. This model has continued to advance, and this newly updated edition will help readers learn how to contain high levels of agitation, fear, and panic in a way that cultivates trust and the early stages of connectedness. Filled with vignettes throughout, this book includes chapters on what holding is, how to prepare using this model, the emotions specific to postpartum mothers, the essential holding elements, and the practice of holding. This book uniquely addresses the needs of therapists who may find themselves confronting, struggling with, or recovering from their own reproductively related journeys, with chapters discussing the professional's identity, clinical challenges, and a new chapter on cultural humility.This book is essential reading for all of those in the perinatal mental health community, such as therapists, social workers, and clinicians.
Overcoming Anxiety in Sex and Relationships
This book gives readers an accessible and comprehensive understanding of how anxiety, stress, and pressure can have a profound impact on pleasure, connection, and sexual functioning, offering practical tips and techniques for resolving common sexual struggles.Anxiety can influence a multitude of aspects that make us who we are, changing how we move through, make meaning of, and interact with the world around us. Paula Leech begins by defining anxiety and how it affects our physiology before guiding readers to identify some of the primary sources of anxiety in their lives, such as family, gender, culture, religion, relationship dynamics, and sexual trauma. Encouraging clients to take responsibility, she offers alternative ways of conceptualizing and defining sex, sexuality, sexual values, and a client's ongoing sexual development as a way of addressing some of the emotional, social, and psychological barriers to intimacy. Practical and engaging, this book includes mindfulness and embodiment exercises to help clients release stored tension, work through specific sexual struggles and "dysfunctions," and deepen their connections with their body.This guide is essential reading for established and training sex therapists as well as for those who experience anxiety-based sexual challenges with their partner.
Psychological Healing
This book is intended as a text in the history and philosophy of professional psychology. It takes a broad view of psychological healing and traces the history of this endeavor from prehistoric times down to the present. The story should be useful not only to graduate students in professional psychology, but to others in the psycho-social or behavioral health fields. It emphasizes the importance of multicultural and diversity issues by covering a wide swath of relevant world history to help students understand the cultural matrix that is behind the many people we serve. America is a nation of immigrants and they bring with them the legacy of their varied backgrounds. A major metaphor is the stream of transmission. We practice based on what our teachers knew, we improve upon them, and in turn, pass them on to our students. This extended lineage of psychological healing can be summed in four archetypal roles: the shaman and priest, the physician, the teacher, and the scientist. Modern professional psychology incorporates all of those, and this book seeks to tell that story.
Christian Psychology
We can change and be changed. We are subject to many forces within and without. We have been shaped by nature and by nurture. But we can change. They say we each have 1.5 million pages of DNA code! We are complex. The physical part of man is often considered a reflection of the intricacy of his immaterial nature, his soul, or his spirit. Nature, our DNA, has given us certain dispositions. Neurological advances show us that our thoughts can reshape our physical brain. Nurture has lodged some beliefs in our unconscious mind, which are not always easy to identify. Christian Psychology looks at how we can identify these beliefs. Because these deep beliefs are often held emotionally, they are not easily changed, yet we can be changed. In this book, we look at guidelines, techniques, and tools from psychology, and from church history, that will enable us to transform our minds. But we must also see our limits, and how we can put ourselves in a place, where God can transform us in the areas beyond our reach.
Embark Psychedelic Therapy for Depression
EMBARK Psychedelic Therapy for Depression: A New Approach for the Whole Person represents a critical step forward in the field of psychedelic therapy. The book is a comprehensive guide for clinicians, offering a groundbreaking therapeutic framework for administering psychedelic medicines in treating depression. The approach is gaining traction with 4,000 people registered for the EMBARK foundational training. Developed in response to identified gaps in existing models of psychedelic therapy, the EMBARK model addresses the need for an ethical and inclusive approach. It bridges gaps from previous psychedelic therapies, such as lack of attentiveness to the body and rigorous ethical practice. The EMBARK approach has a growing evidence-base: in a recent psychedelic clinical trial, 79% of participants achieved full remission from depression three weeks after treatment. Benefits persisted with 75% of particpants in remission at the four-month follow up. EMBARK offers a transdiagnostic and trans-drug approach adaptable to various indications and psychedelic medicines. It's built on four Cornerstones of Care: Trauma-Informed Care, Culturally Competent Care, Ethically Rigorous Care, and Collective Care, reflecting the belief that efficacious treatment is ethical treatment. The EMBARK acronym represents six Clinical Domains that commonly emerge for people in psychedelic experiences: Existential-Spiritual, Mindfulness, Body Aware, Affective-Cognitive, Relational, and Keeping Momentum. The book provides practical instructions and suggested agendas for therapists, and offers a flexible, participant-centric approach to integration, focusing on the clinical domains that emerged for the participant. It also links theory to practice for the treatment of depression, drawing from twelve proposed psychological mechanisms of therapeutic change in psychedelic therapy, and provides a comprehensive guide to treatment factors. EMBARK psychedelic therapy is open-sourced to the clinical community for development and adaptation to other psychedelic medicines, diverse populations, and to inform the development of psychedelic practitioner trainings, making it an essential resource for those interested in the field of psychedelic therapy.
Attachment Centred Therapy
This textbook provides a detail guide to the use of Attachment Centred-Therapy (ACT), a model designed over the course of three decades which enables future and present therapists to co-construct a more coherent narrative of a person's life, an essential indicator of one's emotional and mental health. This book provides students and practitioners undergoing professional development with a detailed and applicable guide to using the model, written by the man who designed and developed the therapy. As such, this book is based on real world experience of the implementation of therapy, considering theory and research, and demonstrates how ACT can be used in applications across a wide range of clinical contexts. The purpose of ACT is to help those undergoing therapy equip themselves with new resources which can assist in dealing with their predominate issues by changing how they process information about the past in the present, to achieve a better outcome in the future. ACT is a growth-oriented psychotherapy, designed using Maslow's Modified Hierarchy of Needs as a guide, and is distinctive because it utilizes the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) as both an assessment instrument and as a vehicle for therapeutic intervention. Another of its benefits is that it's a collaborative treatment, with the therapist forming a team with the therapy's recipient, and then engaging together in a joint effort to create a more coherent narrative of the past, and to correct errors in information processing. This textbook is made up of practical guidance on the application of ACT, with each concept brought to life with case-study examples, complete with sections of dialogue from sessions annotated to illustrate the methods. It will provide a valuable new teaching tool for teachers and students of systemic practice, family therapy, clinical psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy, alongside qualified practitioners, and practitioners in training.
The Artificial Key To Success
Dive into the intriguing world of debunking with "The Artificial Key to Success." This groundbreaking book challenges the very fabric of success myths, unraveling the tangled webs spun by the multi-billion dollar self-help and motivational industry. Unlike any other, this book ventures beyond the confines of motivational clich矇s and self-help rhetoric. Delving deep into the realms of popular psychology, near-death experiences, body detox, haunted houses, body language, negative energy, fortune-telling, clairvoyance, precognition, paranormal spaces, success mantras, auspicious times, and omens, the author fearlessly exposes the fallacies that have long dominated our collective consciousness. But that's not all. Prepare to be captivated as the book meticulously explores the 'what-ifs' of the Second World War, presenting alternative speculations of history that challenge conventional narratives. "The Artificial Key to Success" is not just a book-it's a journey of enlightenment, offering a fresh perspective on the world around us. So, are you ready to unlock the truth and discover the real keys to success?
Warriors of the Mind
Warriors of the Mind is meticulous in its presentation, weaving together a multidisciplinary perspective that incorporates medical, psychological, spiritual, and philosophical insights. It argues for a paradigm shift in the treatment of combat veterans, advocating for an approach that is not only empathetic and scientifically grounded but also open to the unconventional pathways to healing offered by psychedelics.Warriors of the Mind presents an intricate exploration of the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for combat veterans grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), moral injury, and other mental health challenges. It delves into conventional and alternative therapeutic approaches, highlighting their limitations and the unique advantages offered by psychedelics in fostering profound healing experiences.The narrative begins by setting a profound context, acknowledging the deep psychological scars borne by combat veterans and proposing psychedelics not as a panacea but as a means to access therapeutic realms that conventional therapies often fail to reach. It suggests that psychedelics, under professional guidance, can offer veterans a pathway to confront and integrate traumatic memories in ways traditional therapies cannot, citing empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of substances like psilocybin and MDMA in catalyzing emotional and cognitive transformations.Warriors of the Mind is structured to first provide a comprehensive understanding of the realities of combat and its aftermath, including the physiological, emotional, and cognitive impacts on veterans. It then explores the challenges of reintegration into civilian life, the dynamics within the families of veterans, and the broader societal implications. Warriors of the Mind articulates the profound complexities of mental health issues that veterans face, including PTSD, moral injury, depression, anxiety, and the risk of substance abuse and suicide.Moving beyond diagnosis and symptom management, Warriors of the Mind critically evaluates conventional treatment options like pharmaceutical interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and exposure therapies, among others. It points out their limitations, especially in addressing the holistic needs of combat veterans and in facilitating deep psychological healing. The discussion extends to alternative therapies, underscoring the necessity of integrating these with conventional treatments to offer a more comprehensive approach to healing.In transitioning to the exploration of psychedelics, Warriors of the Mind shifts to a more personal tone, recounting the author's own experiences with psilocybin, Iboga, and 5-MeO-DMT. These accounts serve as poignant illustrations of the transformative potential of psychedelics, providing insights into their ability to facilitate profound introspection, emotional release, and spiritual enlightenment. The descriptions of these experiences are vivid and detailed, emphasizing the importance of preparation, setting, and professional guidance in navigating the intense and often challenging journeys these substances can precipitate.Overall, Warriors of the Mind serves as a compelling call to action to expand therapeutic horizons for combat veterans. It advocates for a treatment paradigm that is holistic, culturally sensitive, and inclusive of the potential benefits of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. By doing so, it aims to provide veterans with the tools and support necessary to navigate their complex healing journeys, ultimately guiding them towards a future where peace and mental fortitude are within reach.
Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress
Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a comprehensive guide that merges profound theoretical insights with practical compassion-based practices. Tailored for helping professionals working with survivors of trauma, this book illuminates a path toward addressing secondary traumatic stress and promoting vicarious posttraumatic growth through a compassionate lens. Distinguished by its in-depth and hands-on creative approach, inclusion of East Asian philosophical principles, and harmonization of self- and other-oriented compassion, this resource guide provides empowering tools for helping professionals from diverse fields of practice and their host organizations.
Levinas and the Other in Psychotherapy and Counselling
For Emmanuel Levinas the danger of Western thought is that, if we start with ourselves, we end with ourselves. Psychotherapy and counselling would be for the sole purpose of strengthening self-initiated and self-directed fulfilment, resulting in individual and societal forms of totalitarianism. Levinas suggests that ethics should be about putting the Other first, but not in some fundamentalist Christian sense of the self-choosing to give one's life for others. The origin of authentic ethical behaviour is not from the self but from the Other.Levinas offers us a fundamental shift in our thinking about therapeutic practices. His writings call on us to have an ethical responsibility in the very way we practice therapy. This is with all the complexities of negotiating from nearness and distance, involvement and boundaries, and how we view ourselves in attempting to do this. Levinas inspires us towards ontological, epistemological and methodological shifts. The attempt to put the Other first can significantly change our notion of being. It can help us be taken away from the dangers of a therapy based on ego psychology, which seems to permeate so much of our therapies whether classified as humanistic, psychoanalytic, behavioural or existential. All except the Introduction and two of the chapters were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Toxic Young Adulthood
This book is for those interested in providing psychotherapy and counselling for young adults, and those who wish to bring a therapeutic sensibility to working with this client group.Two main questions are addressed: What are the implications of providing a therapeutic ethos for young adults; and what, if any, additional training might be required for psychotherapists and counsellors working with this client group? In so doing this book explores what has too long been seen, at least for childhood, to be an urgent need for a therapeutic ethos. Such an ethos is to bring both therapeutic and educational sensibilities to bear on preventative and curative approaches to issues of young adults' well-being.The chapters in this book, except one, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
Psychology Worlds Issue 14
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Over 50,000 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 15 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books: - Clinical Psychology Reflections Volume 3: Thoughts On Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Abnormal Psychology and More- Clinical Psychology Reflections Volume 4AND contains 5 enthralling blog posts: - Why Do Children Start Fires?- Why Are Careers In Psychology Important To Investigate?- Why Most Online Trolls Have Subclinical Sadism?- How To Precent Burnout In Autistic People?- 5 Things Therapists Shouldn't Do In TherapyBUY NOW!
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Over 45,000 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 13 contains two brilliant full-length psychology books: - CBT For Anxiety: A Clinical Psychology Introduction To Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Anxiety Disorders- Careers In Psychology: A Guide To Careers In Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Business Psychology and MoreAND contains 5 enthralling blog posts: - How Do Narcissists Use Cult Leader Tactics?- What Is Forensic Psychopathology?- Why Dyslexia Is A Cognitive Strength, Not A Disorder?- Is There A Better Model To Diagnose Mental Health Conditions?- How Russian Espionage Links To Evolutionary Psychology?BUY NOW!
Handbook of Hypnotic Techniques, Vol. 3
Hypnosis has proven efficacy for helping individuals make important changes in their lives. In Vol. 3 of the Handbook of Hypnotic Techniques series, master clinicians from around the world describe an additional set of favorite hypnotic strategies and techniques that they have found to be most effective in their own clinical work.
This Isn't Working for Me
It's me. No, it's you. Maybe it's both of us? We all want to avoid drama and pain in our relationships, yet we remain stuck in never-ending cycles of misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and triggering interactions. Sometimes it just seems easier to decide we are "done" with people rather than continue trying over and over again. Even our best and closest relationships - with our partners, friends, family, and colleagues - can feel unduly challenging. In this straightforward guide, expert relationship therapists, Ilene Cohen and Edrica Richardson get to the heart of what it means to really be in fulfilling relationships and why connecting with the ones you love can feel so hard. You'll learn how "doing the work" encourages healing and growth within yourself and within your relationships. Filled with activities, quizzes, and prompts that offer support in every step of the process, This Isn't Working for Me will help you go deeper in your relationships by exploring: * Six steps to creating the relationships you want - Discover the foundational elements that will help you build (or build back) strong, sustainable connections. * Self-empowerment - Learn how a willingness to focus on yourself helps cultivate resilience, trust, and a stronger sense of self. * The science of relationships - Understand what happens in the brain and body when you are upset and angry, and learn the benefits of turning impulsive reactions into responses that you choose. Creating and maintaining strong, fulfilling relationships doesn't mean disregarding your own boundaries or letting go of what you want for the sake of "keeping the peace" in your home, family, friend group, or workplace. Instead, it means being more yourself! By moving into the fulness of who you are, you can claim freedom and agency in your own life, learn how to release blame, and cultivate happier and healthier relationships with those you love.
Interracial, Intercultural, and Interfaith Couples and Families Across the Life Cycle
This book examines issues of intersectionality and multicultural competency, humility, and sensitivity necessary to work with interracial, intercultural, and interfaith couples. It describes a therapeutic approach that combines a social constructionist framework with ecological systems theory using an intersectional lens. Chapters explore key issues relevant to interracial, intercultural, and interfaith couples across the lifespan, including attraction and dating, cohabitation, marriage and polyamory, children, retirement as well as such potentially challenging topics as sex, politics, and religion. Featured areas of coverage include: How to apply ecological systems theory and social constructionism to guide self of the therapist reflections and clinical interventions that address the nuances of intersectionality among interracial, intercultural, and interfaith couples across the lifespan. Attention to intersectionality between therapists and clients. Strategies for addressing challenging issues within the current political environment in which diversity is debated and may become divisive. Case applications and extended reflections Interracial, Intercultural, and Interfaith Couples and Families Across the Life Cycle: A Clinician's Guide is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in family studies, clinical psychology, and public health, as well as all interrelated disciplines.
Ending Evil
Reading the news, it would seem that the world is filled with senseless harm and destruction, enormously degrading our quality of life. Is this inevitable? Is it human nature for people to take advantage, exploit, abuse, and wreck each other? Is this normal? Is this who we are? Or are there identifiable influences that foster and encourage such behavior, influences that can be modified, reduced, and eliminated? Is it possible to develop a science of good and evil?For more than 2,000 years, as far back as Plato and Socrates, people have likened evil to a disease, but none thought the analogy to be anything more than a metaphor. What if evil is a disease? What causes it? How does it work? How do we stop it, heal from it, and prevent it?Psychic illness is caused by a mind virus transmitted through social behavior. Ending Evil offers ten proofs that this is an infecting, metabolizing, reproducing, disease-causing organism. Hijacking the enormous power of culture, behavior-borne viruses can be far more dangerous than biological viruses. They alter our thinking, emotions, beliefs, and behavior, turning them against us, and we are in a pandemic of infectious misbehavior.This disease is spreading. Its problems are intensifying. It has infiltrated our culture, our institutions, our media, and our minds. This is the issue of our age, and if we don't come to terms with it, it will destroy us.We are, by nature, neither good nor evil. We are what we choose to be, and the world is what we make it. We are free. Culture and psyche are software, and we are programmable. There is no innate human nature. Evil is not baked into our souls. It is a parasite latched onto us that can be starved and shed. We can become our own worst nightmare, or we can make a paradise of Earth and live amazing lives. The choice is ours.Recognizing evil as an infectious disease allows us to use the tools of science to combat it. Suddenly we can diagnose, research, prevent, and treat many of our oldest and worst problems. The disease model allows us to reveal its operations, heal, and disrupt its life cycle using existing, off-the-shelf epidemiological methods, public health strategies, and psychological treatments. Evil is weaker, and we are more powerful, than we ever dreamed.Evil is a dysfunctional problem-solving strategy, a response to contrived, man-made situations and problems. What happens when these no longer exist? We end evil by starving it and removing the corrupt incentives for it we've installed in our culture. We quit evil by denying it habitat and refusing to feed, model, or transmit it. We displace evil by providing more effective and pleasant ways of addressing life's challenges. We move beyond evil by providing alternatives that render it unnecessary and obsolete. We lose our need of it. We outgrow it. Certainly, this is a phenomenal undertaking. But the fact that we can imagine it raises the possibility that it can be done. We imagined many things in the past that seemed fantastic, preposterous, utterly impossible to accomplish. And then we did them. Why not this? We are immensely powerful, far more than this parasite virus. We have enormous problems that require equally enormous solutions. This is a time to think big. We are living below our potential, and another world is possible.
A Therapist’s Guide to Adolescent Development
A Therapist's Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying that knowledge in therapeutic practice.Chapters explore development and therapeutic considerations for specific age ranges in pre-adolescence and early, middle, and late adolescence. The final chapter includes reproducible, age-specific handouts about adolescent development for use by counselors and therapists to educate and collaborate with adolescents and their significant adults, including parents, caregivers, teachers, and mentors. Clinical examples representing diverse clients are provided throughout the book to support culturally sustaining practice and practical application.This unique and meaningful book will benefit any mental health professional or student who wants to integrate developmental knowledge into practice in a way that educates, empowers, and promotes collaboration with adolescents rather than pathologizing them.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga
This book focuses on the intersection of polyvagal theory, yoga, and psychotherapy by weaving together the wisdom tradition of yoga with neuroscience, attachment theory, somatic psychology, and traumatology. The application of polyvagal theory allows practitioners to compassionately support growth by enhancing the health of the autonomic nervous system, while therapeutic yoga allows one to attend to the interrelationships between mind, emotions, physiology, and behavior. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga provides conscious breathing, vagal toning, mindful movement, and meditation practices that aid in rewiring the nervous system. Readers will discover how to help both clients and themselves cultivate a felt sense of ease during times of safety; enhance their capacity to handle challenges with equanimity; and reclaim their ability to recover from stress swiftly and efficiently. Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga offers practitioners a new and effective way to support clients who are stuck in a trauma response mode.
Couple and Family Assessment
This fourth edition text features the latest, most common, and important assessment measures and strategies for addressing problematic clinical issues related to working with families, couples, and children.Chapters provides strategies for systematically utilizing these various assessment measures with a wide range of family dynamics that influence couples and families. These include couples conflict, divorce, separation, mediation, premarital decisions, parenting conflicts, child abuse, family violence, custody evaluation, and child and adolescent conditions, i.e., depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, Asperger's syndrome, and learning disorders that can significantly influence family dynamics. Filled with extensive clinical case material that illustrates the use of these various assessment measures and strategies in an array of clinical situations, this edition is filled with new assessment devices as well as a new chapter on family trauma and family chronic illness.This book is essential reading for both students in family and couple therapy courses as well as practitioners working with families, couples, and children.
The Alchemy of Cooking
""It takes a brave person to write a cookbook these days,"" begins Thomas Moore (author of Care of the Soul: A Guide to Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life) in his foreword to The Alchemy of Cooking. ""In this book you will sense no heroics . . . What you get is a sophisticated man choosing to eat simply and inviting others to share in his culinary happiness. Chef as therapist."" ""I was reminded of James Hillman's Freud's Own Cookbook with its recipes for such psychological fare as ""momovers' and 'Paranoid Pie.'""
Enhancing Treatment Benefits with Exercise - WB
There can be no better example of mind/body integration than the use of exercise to improve mental health. There is substantial evidence that exercise can be used to depression, treat anxiety and panic, enhance cognition, reduce stress, and enhance psychological resilience. This workbook can be used as a stand-alone treatment, as an addition to other ongoing treatment, or as a strategy to extend gains or prevent relapse following success with a prior treatment. The motivational strategies in this workbook offer a fresh way to approach exercise and make the program work for each individual's lifestyle. In addition to information on how to start and maintain an exercise program, this workbook comes complete with worksheets and logs for scheduling and tracking physical activity. Exercise-based treatment and the guidance provided by this workbook helps to improve mood, reduce anxiety, and achieve better cognition, along with promoting a general sense of psychological resilience (including specialty applications such as using exercise to aid smoking cessation). Fully updated to reflect new research and organized in an easy-to-use session-by-session format, this new edition will be a valuable resource and powerful tool for readers who want to enhance their lives through exercise.
Reparenting Your Wounded Inner Child
Free yourself from the pains of the past... and powerfully create a life you can love now and in the future.Everyone knows there is no such thing as a perfect childhood. Since it's typically about trial and error, the whole experience can be pretty challenging, stressful, and even jarring.When you were a child, your mind and heart were extra fragile and vulnerable. Even with the best parenting in the world, you probably learned some unhelpful or unhealthy behavior that you carried on as an adult.That connection you have to your child self and your childhood memories - especially negative or traumatic ones - is known as your "inner child." And when left unhealed, your inner child can heavily influence your own parenting style, affecting your kids in turn.How do you know if your inner child is unhealed? You will see the signs: Do you have toxic habits you just can't break?Do people ride roughshod over you... and you always come last after their needs?Does it feel like you are walking an emotional highwire of irritability, anger, or sadness, and you never know when you might fall?Most of these stem from unresolved childhood experiences... but this should not be your life sentence. With some compassion and patience, you can start to heal and transform. You can break the cycle of pain and suffering for yourself and future generations. Looking at your childhood with the compassionate eyes of a mature and conscious adult, you can recognize where you needed something more or better than what you got... and take the steps to fix it.With the help of this guide, you can gently rewrite your story into one that works for you, not against you.Inside this supportive and transformative resource, you will discover: 7 simple steps to emotional and mental freedom and personal power - heal your inner child and be amazed at how it changes your lifeThe top signs that your inner child is wounded... and how to start the process of healing and support from yourselfHow to do inner child work safely and calmly (plus quick, feel-good tips to help you calm down and feel better fast, no matter how triggered you feel)The gentle art of reparenting - rewrite the past and usher yourself into a happier, brighter futurePractical exercises to get you started on your healing path - release emotional blocks and become the best version of yourselfThe top limiting beliefs we learn in childhood... and how to turn them completely around for goodA practical plan for rebuilding self-worth, self-forgiveness, and confidence in yourselfHow to let go of guilt, shame, and blame - stop the past from continually bringing you down in the present10 steps to becoming more resilient and stronger - find out how to fill the room with your presence and personal powerInspirational stories and practical examples to illustrate the incredible possibilities of inner child workAnd much more...With the help of this guide, you don't have to wonder if you'll ever get over the bad experiences of the past or ever be free of their hold on you. Every single exercise, reflection, or action you take as you read this book will help create positive shifts in your life that will have beneficial ripple effects echoing constructively on every level of your world.It's time to look forward to a happy and shining future... because you deserve to enjoy the beauty, excitement, and peace life offers.
Reparenting Your Wounded Inner Child
Free yourself from the pains of the past... and powerfully create a life you can love now and in the future.Everyone knows there is no such thing as a perfect childhood. Since it's typically about trial and error, the whole experience can be pretty challenging, stressful, and even jarring.When you were a child, your mind and heart were extra fragile and vulnerable. Even with the best parenting in the world, you probably learned some unhelpful or unhealthy behavior that you carried on as an adult.That connection you have to your child self and your childhood memories - especially negative or traumatic ones - is known as your "inner child." And when left unhealed, your inner child can heavily influence your own parenting style, affecting your kids in turn.How do you know if your inner child is unhealed? You will see the signs: Do you have toxic habits you just can't break?Do people ride roughshod over you... and you always come last after their needs?Does it feel like you are walking an emotional highwire of irritability, anger, or sadness, and you never know when you might fall?Most of these stem from unresolved childhood experiences... but this should not be your life sentence. With some compassion and patience, you can start to heal and transform. You can break the cycle of pain and suffering for yourself and future generations. Looking at your childhood with the compassionate eyes of a mature and conscious adult, you can recognize where you needed something more or better than what you got... and take the steps to fix it.With the help of this guide, you can gently rewrite your story into one that works for you, not against you.Inside this supportive and transformative resource, you will discover: 7 simple steps to emotional and mental freedom and personal power - heal your inner child and be amazed at how it changes your lifeThe top signs that your inner child is wounded... and how to start the process of healing and support from yourselfHow to do inner child work safely and calmly (plus quick, feel-good tips to help you calm down and feel better fast, no matter how triggered you feel)The gentle art of reparenting - rewrite the past and usher yourself into a happier, brighter futurePractical exercises to get you started on your healing path - release emotional blocks and become the best version of yourselfThe top limiting beliefs we learn in childhood... and how to turn them completely around for goodA practical plan for rebuilding self-worth, self-forgiveness, and confidence in yourselfHow to let go of guilt, shame, and blame - stop the past from continually bringing you down in the present10 steps to becoming more resilient and stronger - find out how to fill the room with your presence and personal powerInspirational stories and practical examples to illustrate the incredible possibilities of inner child workAnd much more...With the help of this guide, you don't have to wonder if you'll ever get over the bad experiences of the past or ever be free of their hold on you. Every single exercise, reflection, or action you take as you read this book will help create positive shifts in your life that will have beneficial ripple effects echoing constructively on every level of your world.It's time to look forward to a happy and shining future... because you deserve to enjoy the beauty, excitement, and peace life offers.
Misophonia Matters
Misophonia Matters is an advocacy-based coping skills approach for adults, teens, and clinicians by long-time advocate Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond. Shaylynn has been advocating for misophonia since 2015 and moved to a career in counselling based on her experiences as a misophonia advocate and sufferer of the disorder. The Misophonia Matters approach includes advocacy, psychoeducation, sensory-based skills, and cognitive and psychological skills. Worksheets are presented throughout the book. Central to Misophonia Matters is the idea that while we cannot treat and prevent misophonia, we can learn to navigate and adapt to our world through accommodation, coping skills, and an empathetic advocacy-based approach. A class based on the Misophonia Matters book will be offered through The International Misophonia Foundation. A review for Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond's other work, Full of Sound and Fury: Living With Misophonia;"Being able to read the words of other sufferers, including the writer, helps me feel so much less alone, knowing there are many people who struggle with the same condition in so many similar ways. Knowing that there is someone advocating and pushing for research to be done for us, humbles me and gives me hope that maybe something will be done to help treat these conditions in my lifetime." - Tanya Curtis
Unlocking the Emotional Brain
This highly influential volume, now in a much-expanded second edition, delivers major advances for psychotherapy, all empirically grounded in memory reconsolidation neuroscience. A great increase of therapeutic effectiveness can be gained, thanks to a clear map of the brain's innate core process of transformational change--a process that does not require use of any particular system or techniques and is therefore remarkably versatile.Twenty-six case examples show the decisive ending of a vast range of major symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic, shame, self-devaluing, anger, perfectionism, alcohol abuse, sexual aversion, compulsive eating and obesity, paralyzed self-expression, and teen ADHD--all transformed through deeply resolving underlying disturbances such as complex trauma, lifelong oppression by systemic racism and homophobia, childhood sexual molestation, parental narcissistic domination, violent assault trauma, natural disaster trauma, and childhood traumatic aloneness and neglect.This is a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical, lucid understanding of therapeutic action, based, for the first time in the history of the psychotherapy field, on rigorous empirical knowledge of an internal mechanism of change, and it achieves a fundamental unification of the confusingly fragmented psychotherapy field: diverse systems no longer seem to belong to different worlds, because they now form a wonderful repertoire of options for facilitating the same core process of transformational change, as shown in case examples from AEDP, Coherence Therapy, EFT, EMDR, IFS, IPNB, ISTDP, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and SE.It's now clear why therapy systems that differ strikingly in technique and theory can produce the same quality of liberating change. Practitioners who value deep connection with their clients are richly rewarded by the experiential depth that this core process accesses, where no awareness had previously reached, whether sessions are done in person or via online video. It is an embarrassment of riches, because in addition we gain the decisive resolution of several longstanding, polarizing debates regarding the nature of symptom production, the prevalence of attachment issues, the operation of traumatic memory, the functions of the client-therapist relationship, the role of emotional arousal in the process of change, and the relative importance of specific versus non-specific factors.
Don't Get Derailed By Your Attachment Style
Unravel the secrets to regain your confidence and become the best version of yourself. Address attachment-related anxiety and unlock satisfying, secure relationships using this step-by-step approach. Are you anxious about why your partner hasn't replied to your texts? Do you always wonder what they're doing? Who are they with? Are they mad?Before you know it, one text from them makes all the difference, and you find yourself waiting for those little affirmations of their love.Or do you pull away when your partner tries to get too close? Does sharing emotions and feelings make you uncomfortable?Before long, you crave space and want to throw yourself into work.If this sounds familiar, you may struggle with insecure attachment issues.Your attachment style can significantly affect how successful your relationships are and how secure and confident you feel.Going around in circles while figuring out the best solution to save yourself and your relationship can be exhausting and confusing.But what if there was a way to finally make sense of what's happening so you could move forward more positively? What if there was a solution that would help you regain your confidence and become the best version of yourself?Luckily for you, there is... and you don't have to find your way through this process on your own.Whether you are anxious, avoidant, or fearful, this book will provide proven strategies for effectively dealing with an insecure attachment style.In this sympathetic and insightful guide, you will discover: The secrets to gaining back your control - without all those familiar fears, doubts, and insecuritiesHow to exude overflowing confidence and create an unshakeable sense of trust and securityFool-proof tips for breaking harmful patterns (and creating good ones)The reasons why some relationships fail... plus the key to lasting joy and fulfillment in building a connection with your partnerHow to make your partner love and respect you more - without sacrificing your self-respectThe key to creating healthy boundaries in relationships... and why it's importantHow to act assertively without compromising your values or integrityHow to turn negative thoughts into positive ones and build a strong, healthy, and resilient mindsetYour pathway to finding a healthier and more secure relationship with yourself (and others)The secret to unleashing your full potential and taking charge of your lifeAnd much more.You might not think that you have what it takes to turn things around, but remember that there is strength within you that can help you accomplish anything.You're beautiful and strong on your own, and this guide won't force you to change... But it will help you bring out the best in yourself - the version you've always had inside, just waiting to be revealed.Don't let your attachment style take control of your life. It doesn't define who you are - YOU DO.If you're ready to embark on a transformative journey and reclaim your power, "Don't Get Derailed By Your Attachment Style" is the book for you.
LGBTQ＋ Affirmative Counseling
Addressing a need for LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling in training, this meticulously crafted book is designed for graduate counselling students, new practitioners, and cross-disciplinary professionals. Authored by top researchers and clinicians, this collection synthesizes best practices in training and intervention, presenting a blueprint to seamlessly integrate affirmative counselling into academic curricula. Individual chapters cover topics including history, culture, assessment, treatment planning, crisis response, international perspectives, technology, and training. Enriched with resources, real-life case examples, and thoughtful reflection questions, the book moves beyond theory to provide actionable insights for effective LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling in diverse organizational settings. Tailored for graduate programs, this book equips future practitioners to adeptly navigate the complexities of affirmative counselling.
Play in Childhood
This book is essential reading for all those involved in the Psychology of the Child.
Coaching Skills
Coaching Skills is a popular text for coach training schools all over the world, brought to life with dozens of case studies and practical guidance, while also emphasizing the importance of underpinning psychological awareness and understanding.Substantially updated throughout, the latest edition has new material on coaching and the human brain, working with clients on their self-limiting beliefs, new models of understanding what coaching is and being a coach during the psychological stresses of a severe economic recession.Coaching Skills is a popular text for coach training schools all over the world, brought to life with dozens of case studies and practical guidance, while also emphasizing the importance of underpinning psychological awareness and understanding.This book will support you whether you are an experienced coach working with senior executives, or a beginner taking your first steps on the journey to becoming a master-practitioner. The book answers questions such as: -Are there really boundaries between coaching, therapy and training, or is it all more fluid than many people acknowledge?-Which tools and techniques pay dividends every time and which should you avoid?-What are the magic ingredients that determine whether the coach-client relationship works?-Why are goal-setting and questioning such important skills for any coach and how can you acquire them?-How as a coach can you work with clients to make truly transformational changes in their lives?"A straight-forward approach to the simple art of coaching conversations, while offering insight into the complexity and sophistication of coaching for those looking to take their practice to the next level."Dr Jonathan Passmore
Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for Clinical and Counseling Skills Building
This text is specifically designed to meet the needs of those teaching and learning interviewing and diagnostic skills in clinical, counselling, and school psychology, counselor education, licensed clinical social workers, and other programs preparing mental health professionals.It offers a rich array of practical, hands-on, class- and workshop-tested role-playing and didactic exercises. The profiles included throughout provide students/trainees with a wealth of information about each client's feelings, thoughts, actions, and relationship patterns on which to draw as they proceed through the different phases of the initial interview, one playing the client and one the interviewer. Each client profile is followed by exercises thathighlight attending, asking open and closed questions, engaging in reflective listening, responding to nonverbal behavior, making empathetic comments, summarizing, redirecting, supportively confronting, and commenting on process. This second edition is based on the new diagnostic system (DSM-5-TR) and all profiles and case examples are updated. Throughout, the author emphasizes the importance of understanding diversity and respecting the client's perceptions, and of reflecting on the ways in which the interviewer's own identity influences both the process of interviewing and that of diagnosis.This text is essential for both students and practitioners of clinical psychology, counselling, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and other allied professions.
The Heart of the Gospel
An age-old approach has quietly been addressing the issues confronting the human condition. An approach that in our science-driven world we have almost forgotten, the heart of the Gospel message. It can no longer be ignored. Our mental and emotional health and well being are being constantly challenged and even under threat, accelerated by the rapid changes to our daily lives brought on by the recent 2020 global pandemic. Times are uncertain. The future is no longer as clear. Therapy has gained rapid traction, promoted as the best evidence-based alternative to medication for addressing the increasing mood and anxiety disorders we are experiencing. While therapeutic approaches have merits in helping to modify or adapt our ways of thinking and behaving, therapy alone cannot fully address the root issues that affect us all. The purpose of this book is two-fold. The first is to explain why therapeutic approaches tend to fall short of effecting lasting change. The second is an attempt to share fresh insights into why the Gospel message is more relevant to us today, the only true therapy for the human soul.
Case Conceptualization in Couple Therapy
This textbook provides undergraduate and graduate students with a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the primary models of couples counseling, allowing them to compare and contrast each theory alongside a single case.Designed to be the core text for couple therapy courses, the book begins by introducing the field as well as presenting Carissa and Steve, a couple whom readers will follow as each model is applied to their case. The chapters focus on 11 different theoretical models such as Bowen family systems theory, emotionally focused couple therapy, the Gottman method, solution-focused couples counseling, narrative couple therapy, and more, with expert therapists writing on each of these unique models. Each chapter addresses the history of the model, the conceptualization of problem formation, diversity considerations, and the conceptualization of problem resolution. With session transcripts throughout, this book allows training therapists to easily compare, contrast, and apply the most prevalent models in couples counseling.This textbook is a core text for graduate marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, clinical psychology, and social work students. The book is also useful for practicing professionals who want to explore how to apply a specific model of counseling to couples.
How Do You Hug a Cactus? Reflective Parenting with Teenagers in Mind
Have you ever wondered what's going on in your teenager's mind? This engaging book will give you the tools to understand just that to ultimately help you keep the close connection you both need during these tricky years.Following on from her acclaimed book for parents of younger children, Sheila Redfern brings the reflective parenting model to parents of teenagers. Teenagers can be experienced as prickly and hard to get close to - like a cactus - but Dr. Redfern shows us how this stage of your child's life can be more enjoyable and connected than you'd imagined. Rather than focusing on their behaviours, this book emphasises how we can teach teenagers to manage their feelings and relationships in safe ways. It advocates theories underpinning reflective parenting - mentalizing, attachment and neuroscience - as essential for building resilience and security in young people, which is crucial through the storm and stress of adolescence. Chapters are filled with everyday, relatable scenarios and practical advice on pressing issues such as self-harm, social media and gaming, risk and ASD. There is also a chapter devoted to adoptive parents and foster carers.This practical guide aims to help readers become more reflective and available as parents and understand what might be in their teenager's head. It also serves as an essential resource for clinicians working with families.
Let Her Speak
A clinical psychologist lets herself speak when she tells her own trauma narrative in an indie graphic novel. Drawing on her education and training in psychology, she embarks on a journey into her own psyche in order to exorcise an abusive ex-boyfriend from 20 years ago. Fasten your seat belts: This trip is trippy.
ONEplus Therapy and Common Emotional Problems
In this book, Windy Dryden outlines the fundamentals of ONEplus Therapy and shows how it can be used to help people seeking assistance with common emotional problems (such as anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, hurt and the unhelpful forms of regret, anger, envy and jealousy) He presents and discusses transcripts of single sessions he conducted with volunteers from Onlinevents who were seeking help with these problems. Each volunteer presents a reflection on their session several months later, and in the final chapter, Windy Dryden brings together the themes that emerge from volunteers' reflections. The book shows how people experience ONEplus Therapy and what they can achieve from it.
Recovery from Schizophrenia
Evidence from two highly regarded three-decade NIMH follow-up studies of schizophrenia and other psychoses, conducted by Courtenay Harding and her research team, have revealed that one half to two-thirds of even the most disabled schizophrenia patients achieved significant improvement, and even recovery, over time. These findings are consistent with those from nine other decades'-long studies from across the world, as well as many shorter-term investigations as well. But the field of psychiatry has nevertheless largely failed to accept that recovery is possible for most psychotic patients. Recovery from Schizophrenia provides numerous examples of patients becoming productive citizens, overcoming difficult starts in early life, alongside exciting program strategies and additional research evidence - evidence that provides a blueprint for both how to build new and successful mental health systems, and how to significantly improve clinical training programs. Unfortunately, most service systems still provide primarily stabilization, maintenance, medications, and entitlements under the new guise of rehabilitation. Critical changes need to occur in public policy, funding mechanisms, program design, and new clinical expectations to improve patient care-all of which will promote much more significant improvement and recovery. Discussion of these critical issues is presented here in accessible prose, allowing readers from a range of backgrounds - families, clinicians, and researchers alike - to experience the ups and downs of an entire field trying to solve the puzzle of recovery from schizophrenia in the usual settings. Recovery from Schizophrenia is the remarkable story of these patients and the scientists and caring professionals who refused to let go of hope for better outcomes.
I’m Anxious and Can’t Stop Overthinking. Dialogues to Understand Anxiety, Beat Negative Spirals, Improve Self-Talk, and Change Your Beliefs
Anxiety is the real pandemic of our modern ages. Our brains were simply not built for the all of our modern stressors.What can we do about it? It's time to take a deeper look.Understand yourself through 10 sample therapy dialogues that you will 10000% be able to relate to.I'M ANXIOUS AND CAN'T STOP OVERTHINKING is a book that deeply understands the anxious and noisy brain. Every fictional therapy session will contain elements that you can immediately recognize in your own life. There are 10 dialogues that take you from problem to solution and cure.Take a journey with Leah and Dr. Amanda -- Leah is the typical anxiety and overthinking patient that suffers from negativity and false beliefs, and Dr. Amanda is the therapist extraordinaire that corrects her beliefs and sets her on the right path. This is not just a book of actionable advice, it gives you someone to root for (and see yourself in) and follow to draw parallels to your own life.Learn therapy and CBT techniques in an entertaining and educational way.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.A completely unique book that teaches mental health using your own words. The following techniques are all taught and used with Leah and Dr. Amanda.- The empty chair Gestalt technique of talking to your inner detractors.- How to create behavioral experiments to test and validate your beliefs - or smash them.- So-called shame-attacking exercises to clear your head of negative spirals and thoughts- Affirmations - not the useless woo-woo kind, but the ones that really make a difference to your mindset- Behavioral activation tips and how to track your energy to know what you must change in your world- The value of knowing your values and how you stray from them and betray yourself- How to postpone your worries and schedule in worry time, instead of constantly being bombarded by themI'M ANXIOUS... will make you say "This book is SO me, and that's exactly what I went through and how I would react!!"
I’m Anxious and Can’t Stop Overthinking. Dialogues to Understand Anxiety, Beat Negative Spirals, Improve Self-Talk, and Change Your Beliefs
Anxiety is the real pandemic of our modern ages. Our brains were simply not built for the all of our modern stressors.What can we do about it? It's time to take a deeper look.Understand yourself through 10 sample therapy dialogues that you will 10000% be able to relate to.I'M ANXIOUS AND CAN'T STOP OVERTHINKING is a book that deeply understands the anxious and noisy brain. Every fictional therapy session will contain elements that you can immediately recognize in your own life. There are 10 dialogues that take you from problem to solution and cure.Take a journey with Leah and Dr. Amanda -- Leah is the typical anxiety and overthinking patient that suffers from negativity and false beliefs, and Dr. Amanda is the therapist extraordinaire that corrects her beliefs and sets her on the right path. This is not just a book of actionable advice, it gives you someone to root for (and see yourself in) and follow to draw parallels to your own life.Learn therapy and CBT techniques in an entertaining and educational way.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.A completely unique book that teaches mental health using your own words. The following techniques are all taught and used with Leah and Dr. Amanda.- The empty chair Gestalt technique of talking to your inner detractors.- How to create behavioral experiments to test and validate your beliefs - or smash them.- So-called shame-attacking exercises to clear your head of negative spirals and thoughts- Affirmations - not the useless woo-woo kind, but the ones that really make a difference to your mindset- Behavioral activation tips and how to track your energy to know what you must change in your world- The value of knowing your values and how you stray from them and betray yourself- How to postpone your worries and schedule in worry time, instead of constantly being bombarded by themI'M ANXIOUS... will make you say "This book is SO me, and that's exactly what I went through and how I would react!!"
To Thine Own Self Be True
A seminal work on ethical therapy and the vital connection between responsibility, personal values, and peace of mind. "To Thine Own Self Be True is one of the most valuable, enlightening books I have read."--Hugh Prather, author of Notes to Myself For some, conventional psychotherapy just isn't enough. In To Thine Own Self Be True, Dr. Lewis M. Andrews debunks the cultural stigma that says being religious is antithetical to being logical or scientific, and explains how incorporating spirituality and traditional ethical values into therapy can lead to a deeper understanding of your true self. "[To Thine Own Self Be True] cannot help but affect the reader profoundly, both personally and professionally."--Pennsylvania Psychologist
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.The authors explore how this form of group work can strengthen resilience and prevent an increase in antisocial behavioural tendencies among children. Based on a process of shared meaning communication, the book explains how professionals can help children to engage in in-group creative play and allow them to experience their self in relation to others. Castrechini-Franieck and Bittner draw on their experiences of working with children in groups, supplemented with therapeutic elements from Gestalt therapy and ontological psychoanalysis. This approach helps children to achieve a stable state of emotional well-being while improving their behaviour at school, along with their social skills.Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children will be a key reading for psychotherapists and other professionals working with vulnerable children including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.
Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance
This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.Collating voices from across the fields of dramatherapy, theatre and performance, this book examines how different interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches offer unique and unexplored perspectives on the body as a medium for the exploration, expression and resolution of chronic, acute and complex trauma as well as collective and intergenerational trauma. The diverse chapters highlight how the intersection between dramatherapy and body-based approaches in theatre and performance offers additional opportunities to explore and understand the creative, expressive and imaginative capacity of the body, and its application to the healing of trauma.The book will be of particular interest to dramatherapists and other creative and expressive arts therapists. It will also appeal to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and theatre scholars.
Beyond IQ Scores
Gain confidence in creating a neurodiversity-affirming assessment experience with BEYOND IQ SCORES, the essential handbook for clinicians seeking to navigate the complexities of cognitive and developmental evaluations. This comprehensive guide by clinical psychologist Lydia Meem takes you through every stage of the assessment process - from initial engagement with children and families to the nuanced analysis of responses, observations and neurodiversity affirming report writing. Packed with practical insights, this handbook provides a user-friendly checklist of key observations to decode and understand. The book offers invaluable suggestions for interpreting presentations in cognitive assessments, including subtle indicators of autism. Drawing from Lydia Meem's clinical expertise and case review research, the book is a treasure trove of neurodiversity-affirming strategies, explanations and recommendations that seamlessly integrate into your reports. Learn how to bring families on the assessment journey, modify assessments to allow clients to engage, and provide feedback on brain styles with recommendations that truly make a difference. BEYOND IQ SCORES is the go-to resource for clinicians committed to embracing neurodiversity affirming practice and advocating for reasonable supports and accommodations at school.
