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.
Applying Decision Research to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Psychological Assessment, and Clinical Prediction
Mental health professionals often make explicit or implicit predictions involving crucial matters--Is a client at risk for self-harm or harming others? What treatment approach is most likely to be successful? Has a child been subjected to sexual or physical abuse? Decision research has particularly strong applied use for improving the accuracy of such determinations; unfortunately this work has not been broadly disseminated in the mental health field. Applying Decision Research to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Psychological Assessment, and Clinical Prediction introduces graduate students and practitioners in the mental health field to research, knowledge, and practical strategies that can enhance diagnostic and predictive accuracy and thereby improve client care. Major chapters of the book address well-established, but often under-recognized, principles and procedures for improving the integration of clinical data and interpretive accuracy; the differentiation between seemingly accurate but illusory, as opposed to genuine, associations between signs, symptoms, and outcomes; and the minimization of impediments to accurate decision making. The authors merge applied clinical tasks in the mental health field with decision research and cognitive psychology to suggest ways in which prediction, diagnosis, and assessment can be accomplished with greater efficacy and precision.
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.
Staying One
Marriage is the most demanding and potentially rewarding relationship for many adults. Learning to navigate its challenges can be difficult. Staying One is a practical guide that not only teaches the spiritual what and why of marriage but also provides advice and practice in the how. Intended to save readers from the pain of learning the hard way, it illustrates and explains biblically sound approaches to building a healthy and fulfilling marriage that lasts. These include things married people should and shouldn't say to each other. Staying One will prove useful to pastors in their pre-marital counseling and to the couples they are ministering. It will serve as powerful source material for marriage enrichment workshops, retreats focused on marriage, and church-based growth groups and adult education classes. The book will prove of special interest to engaged couples, newlyweds, those wanting to revitalize their marriages, and married people on the brink of divorce. A key feature is that each chapter concludes with a response from the author's wife, reflecting a woman's point of view. We also offer a Workbook for use in completing the twenty hands-on activities contained in Staying One, as well as a comprehensive Leader's Guide for those facilitating workshops based on the book.
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.
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book examines shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how mental health providers can work with each of them to produce therapeutic change. Although very different emotions, shame and anger are highly related in therapy. Because shame and anger have both adaptive and maladaptive forms, intervention differs depending on what type of shame or anger is being experienced and in what sequence they occur. Therapists need to consider the type of shame or anger they are dealing with and how the two emotions interact before they can make process diagnoses of what is occurring at different moments in a session. This book emphasizes the benefits of accessing and experiencing shame and anger viscerally to promote emotion change in therapy. It teaches therapists how to help clients access their shame or anger in a safe therapeutic setting to make this emotion amenable to transformation, and create new narratives based on the transformed feelings.
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.
Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals
Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals, 4th edition, is the essential introductory text for studying multicultural counseling. Providing a broad survey of counseling concepts and techniques for different marginalized ethnic and cultural groups, it is at once practical and easily understood. Beyond its culture-specific sections, Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals also includes chapters on a basic framework and generic concepts in multicultural counseling. Chapters include case study vignettes, exercises, and thought questions, highlighted brief topics of special interest, and additional cultural resources.The fourth edition has been updated and revised to reflect an inclusive ecological framework and social justice context for counseling. It offers a broad perspective on multicultural counseling theory, including thought from other disciplines, reflections on race and Whiteness in counseling, and new contributions from diverse cultural voices. The text is supplemented with online materials, including PowerPoint slides with suggested discussion questions and classroom activities, a test bank of relevant items, and a sample course syllabus.
Reflections on Play Therapy
This book explores an extensive range of questions and challenges within the training, theory, and practice of play therapy, with the aim of providing a stimulating and thought-provoking debate around many of the issues and dilemmas therapists experience.Drawing upon the author's own experience as both a therapist and trainer/educator/supervisor, the volume grapples with questions of power, privilege, self-care, and mental health. It additionally addresses the wider challenges and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and international conflict upon practice and personhood. Questions around training are explored as well as specific practice challenges relating to managing limits and boundaries within play therapy and working with adopted children. Throughout the book, the author will reflect upon aspects of personal and clinical experience, sharing something of his own developmental narrative through training, teaching, and practice.Reflections on Play Therapy will serve as a core text for trainee play therapists and also a valuable resource for any experienced clinicians working therapeutically with children, young people, and families.
Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychologists use psychological theory and evidence to decrease distress, improve lives and help people. But how?In this fascinating, updated 2nd edition, you learn the ins and outs of clinical psychology including: - What is clinical psychology and how did it develop?- What are the different models of therapy?- What are the different jobs of a clinical Psychologist?- What's formulation?- And so much more.You will love this detailed, informative, compelling book allowing you to deepen your understanding of clinical psychology and mental health. All written in a fun, engaging and easy-to-understand way.BUY NOW!Clinical Psychology 2nd Edition ContentIntroduction Part One: Introduction To Clinical PsychologyWhat Is Clinical Psychology?Key Concepts In Clinical PsychologyWhat Is The Medical Model And Critique Of The Medical ModelInfluences On Modern Clinical PsychologyPopulations And Settings Part Two: Models Of TherapyIntroduction To Cognitive Behavioural TherapyModels Of TherapyCompassion-Focused TherapyThird Wave Of CBT Part Three: Intervention And AssessmentInterventionAssessment Part Four: FormulationIntroduction To FormulationWhat Are Disorder Specific Models Of Formulations?Final Introductory Chapter For FormulationFormulationTypes Of FormulationAntecedent, Behaviour And ConsequenceWhat Are Person-Centred Models Of Formulation?What Are Trans-Diagnostic Models Of Formulation?Understanding Research In Clinical PsychologyAdditional Roles In Clinical Psychology Part Five: Mindfulness-Based Clinical Psychology InterventionsIntroduction To MindfulnessHow Does Mindfulness Help Our Mental Wellbeing?How Can We Be More Mindful?Mindfulness Interventions Part Six: Mental Capacity ActThe Mental Capacity Act (2005) And What Is Mental Capacity?How Does The Mental Capacity Act Help People? And The Five Principles Deprivation Of LibertyWrapping Up The Five Principles
What Happens in Couple Therapy
Bringing contemporary couple therapy to life, this casebook candidly illustrates the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of leading clinical approaches. Well-known contributors provide a window into their work with couples seeking help for a variety of relationship challenges. Cases depict the moment-by-moment process of therapy, from the initial assessment and case formulation through the beginning, intermediate, and concluding phases. Themes addressed include working across cultural divides; helping couples living with psychological or medical disorders; and treating interfaith couples, military couples, and same-sex and queer couples. Enhancing the book's utility for course use, the expert editors concisely introduce each case and describe how the approach fits into the broader field. See also Lebow and Snyder's Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Sixth Edition, which provides an authoritative overview of theory and practice.
Healing Disquiet
Relational Disquiet is a vivid description of the kinds of things that affect us in our relationships. It denotes not only the initial disruptions in a relationship but also the ongoing experience of life following those disruptions. This book introduces an approach to healing this relational disquiet. it provides useful ideas for practitioners, pastors, and others involved in the ministry of healing relationships and the narratives of those involved in relationships.This book presents an integrated method to counselling and psychotherapy. It considers both the personal and systemic aspects of who human beings are. It provides a description of humans as both personal and communal. It describes both the psychodynamic and the systemic theories of helping in order to provide a brief, but comprehensive, description of human persons and relations. Interspersed throughout the book are rich discussions of the biblical and theological reflections that such ideas evoke for Christian counsellors.This book provide a starting point for those who are called to the privilege of becoming counsellors, for those who engage in helping conversations, and for those who are curious about the field of counselling
Psychotherapy
The radical and controversial treatise on the practical applications of modern Psychology."Psychotherapy is the practice of treating the sick by influencing the mental life." -Hugo M羹nsterberg"Succeeds in being at once interesting and instructive. It professes to elucidate the relations of psychology to medicine, and this, not with the idea of stirring up interest, but rather of bringing an already present interest from mere gossip, vague mysticism, and medical amateurishness to a clear understanding of principles." -The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 5, 1910"A new and urgently needed contribution to the science of curing mental and bodily disorders through influence on the mind....There had been too much misguided curiosity on the part of the public, too much dabbling in psychological half-knowledge and, on the part of the physicians, too much ignorance of the curative virtues of psychological treatment. In the interest of physicians who needed information, not from a psychiatrist but from an experimental psychologist, and in the interest of the public groping among the mists of indefinite conceptions, there was needed such a book. Accordingly, as soon as it was published, it was devoured by hungry readers." -Margarete Anna Adelheid M羹nsterberg, "Hugo M羹nsterberg: His Life and Work"
Healing Disquiet
Relational Disquiet is a vivid description of the kinds of things that affect us in our relationships. It denotes not only the initial disruptions in a relationship but also the ongoing experience of life following those disruptions. This book introduces an approach to healing this relational disquiet. it provides useful ideas for practitioners, pastors, and others involved in the ministry of healing relationships and the narratives of those involved in relationships.This book presents an integrated method to counselling and psychotherapy. It considers both the personal and systemic aspects of who human beings are. It provides a description of humans as both personal and communal. It describes both the psychodynamic and the systemic theories of helping in order to provide a brief, but comprehensive, description of human persons and relations. Interspersed throughout the book are rich discussions of the biblical and theological reflections that such ideas evoke for Christian counsellors.This book provide a starting point for those who are called to the privilege of becoming counsellors, for those who engage in helping conversations, and for those who are curious about the field of counselling
Workouts for Stepping Into Emotionally Focused Therapy
Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy is a companion to Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2nd ed.). Inspired by Deliberate Practice, it is filled with exercises called workouts first with couples (EFCT), followed by a series of workouts in that same skill or move with individuals (EFIT).The workouts are more than skill-drills. They are clear, tangible ways for the reader-practitioner to become emotionally engaged within self and in attunement with each client scenario and to strengthen their EFT muscles with the practice of each of these EFT ingredients of change. Part 1 includes workouts of ten micro-skills across a wide range of client scenarios, including diversity of racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, religious, neurodiversity, and other contextual diversity. Workouts with the five moves of the EFT Tango, from beginning of therapy to the completion of Stage 2 change, first with a couple and then with an individual, make up Part 2. The reader-practitioner has opportunity in Part 3 to apply the macro-intervention to Stages 1 and 2 change in their own lives, to explore barriers to following and deepening emotions, and to utilize a series of antidotes for typical EFT therapist challenges and goal-setting.Containing practical handles for the new clinician or graduate student wanting to integrate EFT into their practice, it is also stimulating and relevant for seasoned therapists and counselors seeking to sharpen EFT skills and develop confidence in the model with both couples and individuals.
Mental Health and Psychopathology
This volume is a compilation of articles that shed light on psychopathology, how the one struggling with it experiences its implications, and how it affects everyday life.
Black Men and Racial Trauma
This volume comprehensively addresses racial trauma from a clinical lens, equipping mental health professionals across all disciplines to be culturally responsive when serving Black men. Written using a transdisciplinary approach, Yamonte Cooper presents a Unified Theory of Racism (UTR), Integrated Model of Racial Trauma (IMRT), Transgenerational Trauma Points (TTP), Plantation Politics, Black Male Negation (BMN), and Race-Based Shame (RBS) to fill a critical and urgent void in the mental health field and emerging scholarship on racial trauma. Chapters begin with specific definitions of racism before exploring specific challenges that Black men face, such as racial discrimination and health, trauma, criminalization, economic deprivation, anti-Black misandry, and culturally-specific stressors, emotions, such as shame and anger, and coping mechanisms that these men utilize. After articulating the racial trauma of Black men in a comprehensive manner, the book provides insight into what responsive care looks like as well as clinical interventions that can inform treatment approaches.This book is invaluable reading for all established and training mental health clinicians that work with Black men, such as psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
"Dialectical Behavior Therapy" is your essential guide to mastering the transformative skills of DBT, equipping you with tools to navigate emotions, build resilience, and create a life of balance. Grounded in evidence-based practices, this book offers a comprehensive approach to cultivating mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.Understanding DBT Principles: Explore the foundations of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, understanding how it blends acceptance and change strategies.Mindfulness Mastery: Dive into mindfulness practices to enhance awareness, focus, and the ability to stay present in the midst of life's challenges.Emotion Regulation Techniques: Learn effective strategies to identify, understand, and regulate intense emotions for a more balanced emotional life.Interpersonal Effectiveness: Develop skills for navigating relationships, setting boundaries, and communicating assertively in various social contexts.Distress Tolerance Tools: Acquire techniques to cope with crises, manage stress, and tolerate distress without resorting to destructive behaviors.Practical Applications: Apply DBT skills to real-life situations, fostering personal growth, resilience, and lasting well-being.���� Ready to embark on a journey of emotional mastery? Dive into "Dialectical Behavior Therapy" and discover the tools to transform your relationship with emotions and create a life of balance. Whether you're navigating mental health challenges or seeking proactive strategies for personal growth, this guide provides the roadmap to a more resilient and fulfilling future. Harness the power of DBT-start your journey today! ����
The Magic of Living Consciousness
​This book demystifies the notion of living consciousness and aims to show that, far from being a mere accompaniment to brain functions, living consciousness defines the features of both physical objects and human artifacts. The distinction is between living consciousness, which includes subjective experiences 'here and now' (e.g., perceptions, feelings, imagination, and creative thinking) and conforms to the laws of magic, versus objectified consciousness that comprises physical (e.g., computers) and symbolic (e.g., languages and concepts) human artifacts and conforms to the laws of nature and formal logic.The magnificent success of science in the modern world has plunged many scientists into the illusion that magical events are ancient history and exist today only in art and night dreams. The illusion reached its pinnacle in the middle of the 20th century, when nuclear power stations, flights to the Moon, early computers, genetic engineering and other wonders of science made some scientists believe that there is nothing in the world that cannot be explained by science. But there was a price to pay for this scientific optimism - the scientists became blind to their living consciousness. They began looking at the world as if nature and objectified consciousness were the only things that mattered, with living consciousness being viewed as a mundane thing that accompanies brain processes but has no causal powers.This book examines how our living consciousness works, and how our understanding of this work helps in solving key problems of modern life, such as facilitating creativity, protecting from magical manipulation with minds, fighting certain kinds of crime, managing fake reality, preventing misuses in psychotherapy and other psychological practices, comprehending controversial issues in science, and tracing origins of totalitarian media narratives that trigger hatred and wars.
Professional’s Guide to Trauma-Informed Decision Making
Professional's Guide to Trauma-informed Ethical Decision Making offers helping professionals a framework comprising the 10 Principles of Trauma-informed Ethical Practice (Stark, Tapia-Fuselier, & Bunch, 2022) enhanced with prominent ethical decision making models. These principles build upon the SAMHSA (2014) conceptualization of trauma-informed care, address key concepts such as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their long-term impact, marginalization stress, the influence of military and law enforcement experience, and others. Despite distinctions between the diversity of helping professions (in credentials, scope of practice, and theoretical approach), the same decision making models for trauma-informed care is a requirement for best practice. Thus, this volume is designed to address the needs of professionals serving diverse clientele, particularly those who've experienced trauma and adversity. Practitioners may utilize this text to as a guide to assistwith ethical decision making when working with client survivors of trauma, and educators may select this text as required reading to support the development of trauma-informed clinicians-in-training.
Disorder-Specific Psychodrama Therapy in Theory and Practice
The open access book explains the practical approach in psychodrama with the help of multidisciplinary theories of self-development, mentalization, play, and psychosomatic resonance. These theories help to structure the therapeutic experiences of Moreno and other psychodramatists and to compare them with experiences and theories of other psychotherapy methods. Against this background, the author develops models of a disorder-specific psychodrama therapy for people with personality disorders, borderline organization, trauma disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, depression, grief reactions, suicidal crises, masochism, psychoses, addiction disorders, eating disorders, and behavioral addictions. The therapy models convey a deep understanding of these disorders and sometimes open up new ways of treatment. They can be used both in individual and in group therapy. The methods are explained with the help of more than 120 case examples. The theoretical explanation makes the psychodramatic action methods accessible and applicable to therapists from other schools of therapy as well as in counseling and coaching. This makes the practical work therapeutically more effective and creative.This is an open access book.
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life
Alain de Botton's redemptive volume - now in paperback - charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom."Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives." -- The MarginalianA Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties.At heart this is a book about happiness - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.
Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Approximately one in ten adults over the age of 65 has greater memory or thinking problems than expected for their age. This is called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI. The previous edition was the first book exclusively geared towards people with MCI, their families, and the healthcare professionals who help them. Written by three clinicians and scientists who have years of experience working with people with MCI, this new edition provides up-to-date and reliable information based on the science of MCI. In short, digestible, MCI-friendly chapters, the authors explain how MCI is diagnosed and treated, and they provide information on how to improve cognitive health through healthy eating, exercise, and social and cognitive engagement. The book also provides practical and effective memory strategies, using patient stories to illustrate the real-life issues facing people living with MCI. The book includes "Questions to Ask Your Doctor," recommended readings, links to relevant Web pages, and worksheets to guide readers through healthy lifestyle change. This second edition contains 52 accessible chapters with a new chapter on sex differences to summarize the growing knowledge of its importance in health and treatment of MCI. As advances in research continue to evolve, this book will continue to be essential reading for those impacted by MCI.
Understanding and Managing Emotional Eating
This highly accessible therapy workbook is designed to help individuals who are engaged in weight management and obesity treatments improve their relationship with food and manage their emotional eating.Emotional eating is a very common and distressing problem for many people who are trying to manage their weight. Emotional eating can contribute to weight gain and/or difficulties losing weight. It can also have a psychological impact, as people often feel very ashamed, frustrated and self-critical about their difficulties in stopping this behaviour. Instead of trying to address these emotional eating patterns through dieting or focusing on food, the approach presented in this workbook focuses on understanding the psychological and emotional drivers for the behaviour. Drawing on ideas from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Compassion-focused Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the book is a step-by-step programme to help you develop a detailed understanding of the psychological drivers for your emotional eating behaviour and will help you develop a range of psychological strategies to manage your emotions and thoughts about food. The workbook contains practical resources and exercises, and by the end of the programme, you will have developed your own Emotional Eating Manual.This therapy workbook is for people who are unhappy with their emotional eating habits and the impact these have on their emotional health. It is also a valuable resource for therapists, dietitians and other allied professionals who work with this population.
Start-Up Cultures in Times of Global Crises
This open access volume analyses the challenges, problems and solutions of startups in times of global crises. It, first, provides an overview of the principles and fundamentals of successful entrepreneurship and startup development and talks about important resilience factors for meaningful entrepreneurship. Then, it analyses the findings and events that have come to light during the Covid-19 crisis and the Ukraine war. The volume discusses examples of successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurship for startups and small businesses in various Asian countries and thereby also provides an international perspective. Against these discussions, the contributors talk about possible political framework conditions for successful entrepreneurship. The volume overall provides experts in the fields of organizational studies, well-being and resilience research, economic policy, economic promotion, and science with a useful resource that condenses and summarizes current economic crises, financial crises and political crises from the perspective of entrepreneurship. The findings produced here are the result of many years of international research cooperation between the contributors and the editor.
Understanding Mental Health Apps
This is the first book to look exclusively from at the use of MHapps from an applied psychosocial perspective. Much of the academic literature on MHapps in psychology focuses on the clinical efficacy of using apps (e.g., depression reduction as result of using a certain app) and will typically report on the use of randomised controlled trials (or a similar method) to illustrate the use of apps as a tool for improving a psychological condition. Therefore, the main benefit of this book is that it recognises the impact of apps from a social perspective and will aim to show how everyday forms of distress are embedded in the use of these apps and the broader set of relations that constitute people's everyday lives. The content of this book will identify how an applied social perspective can offer insight into the power of apps to shape our sense of ourselves and of others. This book will be of use to educators and students in psychology, sociology, health studies, media studies andcultural studies.
The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People
In The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People, social scientists Nancy Guerra and Kirk R. Williams provide easy to follow steps to help you understand the what, the why, and the how of compassion.
The Wounded Attorney
In The Wounded Attorney, authors Young and Packman explore how mental health issues appear in the legal profession by examining attorney disbarment records and arguing for a therapeutic approach to attorney discipline that destigmatizes mental health issues.
Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis
This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives.The psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic individuals is both rare and controversial with a limitation in availability of clinical material. As psychoanalytically oriented therapy is private, it is almost impossible to "witness" the actual human interaction of therapeutic process. While catatonia is a rare disorder, there are many attempts to hypothesize a theoretical psychic structure for the range of disorders called psychotic. Therapists rarely report "successful" outcomes of long and unusual treatments. In the book, a fragment of the treatment of a catatonic adolescent is reconstructed as an endeavor in representing that which is not clinically representable. Following the case report, which also reveals part of the history of the therapist, prominent analytic clinicians of different theoretical orientations share their understanding and comment on the material revealed.With a fresh perspective on psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinicians involved in the treatment of psychosis.
Assessing Psychosis
This second edition of Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide offers both a practical guide and rich clinical resource for a broad audience of mental health practitioners seeking to sharpen their understanding of diagnostic issues, clinical concepts, and assessment methods that aid in detecting the presence of psychotic phenomena. Case vignettes deepen clinical understanding, and all chapters include a summary of practical clinical guidelines. This new edition includes two new chapters and updated diagnostic criteria considering the new DSM-5-TR. Practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and students will find this a valuable resource for clinical practice, training, and teaching purposes.
What Therapists Need to Know about Perinatal and Early Relational Health
What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health is a vital and timely text that will strengthen any clinician's awareness and competence when working with children, infants, and caregivers. All the chapters are written from a framework of cultural humility to support the competent care of individuals with different intersectionalities. Cultural humility involves critical self-reflection and critique of values, beliefs, and experiences, and so each chapter provides reflective questions and tools that support clinicians' anti-oppressive practices.What Therapists Need to Know About Perinatal and Early Relational Health offers practical strategies that are rooted in diversity-informed tenets and support reflection on our values, beliefs, and experiences. By embracing the wisdom within these pages, therapists can transform their practice into one that is more relational and heart-centered.
The Gifts We Receive from Animals
The Gifts We Receive from Animals is a book guaranteed to brighten a reader's day. Professionals engaged in therapy work as well as those who have companion animals at home will enjoy learning about the many ways in which animals impact people's lives.
Couple Skills
Discover the keys to a lasting and deeply fulfilling relationship in this essential guide. From the first page, you'll be captivated by the power of dialogue and open communication as the foundation of a strong bond. Explore the two fundamental aspects necessary for a truly harmonious connection, and learn how to show appreciation and gratitude to your partner in ways that keep the sparks flying.With Robin's guidance, you'll uncover the secrets to building a strong foundation of trust to get a strong couple's life.With each chapter, you'll delve deeper into the expert techniques and insights that will transform your relationship into one that is truly extraordinary. Unlock the hidden potential within your relationship and embark on a profound journey toward lasting love and fulfillment. This is the book you've been waiting for to unlock a world of endless possibilities with your partner.
Modern Integrative Counseling and Psychotherapy
This practical, affordable guide for integrating multiple clinical approaches into mental health treatment plans shows therapists how to structure sessions and evidence-based techniques to benefit individual clients, including within the constraints of short-term modalities.
The Mindful CBT Workbook for Kids
When kids understand how their thoughts, feelings, and actions work together, they're better prepared to deal with life's many challenges! Written by one of the most trusted voices in the field-psychologist, CBT expert, and anxiety specialist Dr. Seth Gillihan-in collaboration with his daughters, Ada and Faye, The Mindful CBT Workbook for Kids is a child-friendly, colorful resource that teaches kids cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness skills they can use to handle the not-so-great things that come up in their lives. Whether they're struggling with worry, self-criticism, perfectionism, anxiety, taking responsibility, friendships, homework, or more, each lesson in this book includes simple skills to help kids train their minds to think differently, choose the best actions, and decide where to put their attention-and even have some fun doing it! With over 100 engaging, fun activities and fill-in worksheets, they'll learn how to: - Set right-sized goals (not too big, not too small) - Get quiet inside so they can pay attention to their thoughts and feelings - Overcome fears of all kinds, like getting sick, going to school, and meeting new people - Work through disagreements with friends and family - Bounce back from mistakes and be nicer to themselves - Feel calm in tough times - Have fun on purpose (yes, really!) And more! Great for parents, therapists, and educators too!
5 Minute Psychotherapy Techniques
Five Minute Psychotherapy Techniques is a one-stop resource that makes psychotherapy from many schools of thought easy to learn and apply. The techniques are trauma-informed, evidence-based, and drawn from mindfulness, body-based therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, mentalization-based therapy, interpersonal therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, psychoanalysis, and hypnotherapy.These straight-forward techniques can be used to treat many different mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, substance use, post-traumatic stress disorder, and relationship challenges. Each technique is presented alongside a concise verbal script, so it can be used even under tight time constraints. Dr. Hsueh empowers clinicians to guide patients through effective interventions while sticking to their preferred appointment length.
5 Minute Psychotherapy Techniques
Five Minute Psychotherapy Techniques is a one-stop resource that makes psychotherapy from many schools of thought easy to learn and apply. The techniques are trauma-informed, evidence-based, and drawn from mindfulness, body-based therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, mentalization-based therapy, interpersonal therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, psychoanalysis, and hypnotherapy.These straight-forward techniques can be used to treat many different mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, substance use, post-traumatic stress disorder, and relationship challenges. Each technique is presented alongside a concise verbal script, so it can be used even under tight time constraints. Dr. Hsueh empowers clinicians to guide patients through effective interventions while sticking to their preferred appointment length.
Peer Support Work
As health and social care policy evolves, peer support is an increasingly recognised method to help improve the outcomes of care by drawing on those with lived experience. However, despite the establishment of a research basis that demonstrates the methods' value in care, implementation of lived experiences of peers in practice contexts faces difficulties. To aid the progress of peer support care, Peer Support Work highlights the experiences of contributors who work or study social care and have lived experience with mental health, substance use, homelessness, criminal justice, and migration. Beginning with the historical context of peer support and moving through the practical implementation of peer support into policy and organizational contexts, this innovative title draws on the contributors' collective experiences, supported by rigorous academic research, to distil the outcomes, benefits, training and implementation challenges within this emerging practice and research context. Researchers interested in moving the field forward will benefit from this comprehensive analysis of the existing research on peer support work. The input from contributors with lived experience makes this unique title an excellent resource for policymakers in addition to academics.
