Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals
Helping Skills for Counselors and Health Professionals provides a model of foundational helping skills that is grounded in a multicultural framework. Chapters explicitly examine implicit bias and the role of culture and systems of oppression and marginalization within the lives of both individuals and communities. The text also uses ecological systems theory to assist readers in conceptualizing the ways in which culture influences communication styles, perceptions of professional helpers, and individual needs. Readers will be introduced to concepts that increase awareness of micro and macro-level influences on helping skills, communication, and the patient's life. Within the book's multicultural framework, readers will also find tools for increasing self-awareness for improving the communication skills and cultural humility.
Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences
Feel it, stay with it, share it, and let it go. Take your life back from stress and trauma using self-help versions of proven treatments. Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or more traumatic events in their lifetimes, including interpersonal violence, traffic collisions, and sexual assault. Traumatic events and other difficult experiences (such as miscarriage, job loss, and divorce) can have a long-lasting impact on mental health and well-being. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use, anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting. Based on psychological treatments with strong scientific support, this book introduces readers to several useful tools that will help them to emotionally process difficult experiences, with the goal of moving on from the event and building future resilience. Many years of research (much of which has been conducted by the authors of this volume) have shown that people who try to avoid memories and reminders of difficult experiences are more likely to develop PTSD, depression, and other problems. Conversely, those who work to process the memory gradually regain a general sense of wellbeing, experiencing fewer mental health issues over time. This program is unique in that it is intended to be wholly self-directed. Readers can learn about and then immediately practice the strategies described, moving through and then past difficult experiences--whether they happened last week or years ago. The program takes the reader step-by-step through four skill sets to facilitate emotional processing of difficult experiences: Memory Exposure and Processing, Behavioral Activation, Social Connection, and Self-Care. Each set begins with a short description, followed by a self-assessment. Readers use this self-evaluation to determine what is working or not working for them, enabling them to focus more on certain skills, or to complete the full program based on their needs.
NCMHCE Study Guide
Introducing our NCMHCE Study Guide: Exam Prep and Practice Questions for the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Test! Trivium Test Prep's NCMHCE Study Guide includes everything you need to pass the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Exam the first time.Quick review of the concepts covered on the NCMHCE2 Practice tests with detailed answer explanationsTips and tricks from experienced mental health counselorsAccess to online flash cards, practice test, and moreTrivium Test Prep's NCMHCE Study Guide is aligned with the official NCMHCE framework. Topics covered include: Counseling Attributes and SkillsGroup CounselingProfessional Practice and EthicsIntake, Assessment, and DiagnosisTreatment PlanningAreas of Clinical Focus: Mood and AnxietyFamily and RelationshipsPhysical IntersectionsSocial IssuesHuman Growth and Development NBCC was not involved in the creation or production of this product, is not in any way affiliated with Trivium Test Prep, and does not sponsor or endorse this product.
Group Work
Social group work unites individuals, groups, and communities in times of struggle and times ofsuccess. The positive impact of group intervention becomes even more apparent and powerful when persons are confronted by extraordinary circumstances that cause social isolation, grief and loss, trauma, or despair during a global health emergency such as COVID-19. This book focuses on social group work interventions shared by scholars at the International Association for Social Work withGroup's 41st and 42nd Annual Symposia, highlighting social group work done by group work expertsfrom Africa, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Chapters appear in English (with one in French), and focus on the spirit of group work in building global connections to restore hope in a fragmented world. This book celebrates social group work interventions from across the globe, interventions focused on: assessing community needs; building partnerships between academic and professional communities;evaluating group work; and facilitating interventions to nurture hope, community, and belongingduring times of global despair. Chapters center on global aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice interventions to explore practical applications for incorporating social group work clinical practice within community and governmental organizations, as well as academicsettings. Readers will find these interventions to be timeless in offering hope and the ability to build a sense of belonging and community. This book should be of interest to anyone who is practicing, studying, or researching group work in thefield of social work or other related disciplines. Each chapter leads us through an exciting examination of various challenges facing social group workers who engage with individuals, groups, and communities to provide remedy and resolution through group work.
ONEplus Therapy
In this book, Windy Dryden explains why he now refers to the single-session therapy work that he does as ONEplus therapy. Two consistent themes that run through the book are that help is best provided at point of client need and that while therapist and client agree to work together to provide the help the client wants in one session (the ONE in ONEplus therapy), further help is available on request (the plus in ONEplus therapy). In the first part of the book, Windy details what a therapist needs to do to become a ONEplus (SST) therapist. In discussing the knowledge that a trainee needs, he places the ONEplus (SST) therapy mindset at the heart of this part of the training process. Then, he discusses the general skills that trainees need to acquire to practise effectively in this area. Next, he outlines the different forms of supervision available to trainee and trained ONEplus (SST) therapists. In the second part of the book, Windy discusses what independent practitioners and therapy agencies need to do to lay the foundations for the practice of ONEplus (SST) therapy. In the next part, Windy discusses the practice of ONEplus therapy and presents the specific skills associated with the effective practice of ONEplus therapy that stem from the mindset discussed previously. In doing so, Windy adopts a process view outlining the skills needed to begin the process, facilitate change and to bring the session to a successful conclusion. In the final part of the book, Windy makes the point that different therapists will be informed by different ideas in their practice of ONEplus (SST) therapy and discusses the 30 ideas that inform his practice in this area. While Windy Dryden has published several books on SST, ONEplus Therapy: Help at the Point of Need is perhaps the book that best captures his personal views and idiosyncratic practice of this exciting form of therapy delivery as well as providing the core text for his Certificate in SST courses.
Red
Nobel Laureates experimentally proved twin particles/atoms can be generated on Earth - simultaneously and instantaneously carrying data - even to the ends of the universe to its twin - by a process called entanglement teleportation. Recently, scientists documented that our CONSCIOUSNESS uses this same quantum entanglement teleportation! The New York Academy of Sciences recently published the criteria for RED - Recalled Experiences of Death which included CONSCIOUSNESS of resuscitated patients after their "clinical death" - "floating up there".
The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends
Addiction is a family affair, and one in four US families are impacted by its devastating effects. From the authors of the best-selling guide, Beyond Addiction, this empowering and healing workbook offers evidence-based skills for family members who want to understand what drives their loved one's addictive behavior, and learn how to discuss it without conflict. This practical, comprehensive workbook demonstrates how family members can be crucial instruments of change for loved ones struggling with substance abuse.
Trauma in Children and Young People
This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
Marriages in Trouble
First published in 1982, this title started as a study of clients with marital problems and how they came to seek help. Using a sociological approach to marriage, the authors compare the medical and non-medical settings the clients attended and looks at their social networks to see how people view and conduct their marital relationships.
The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare
This book examines the complexities of clinical social work practice in healthcare today. It identifies many of the psychological, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of physical illness in adults. The approach draws on theories from trauma, crisis intervention and supportive counseling, as well as empirical literature from other healthcare fields. Recognizing that social work roles in healthcare range from short-term or crisis-oriented interventions to ongoing, depth-oriented relationships, the authors develop clinical assessment and intervention useful for social workers in various healthcare settings. By utilizing a common frame of clinical analysis, social workers can deepen their critical thinking skills in examining the impacts of specific illnesses and injuries on coping and wellbeing. Each chapter includes an analysis of the psychosocial impacts of the given medical condition across the following spectrums: illness or injury (by onset, course, outcome, and degree of incapacitation) relationship between nature of illness, and emotional and psychosocial functioningcommon clinical issues, and impacts of historical and current trauma end-of-life and bereavementsocial justicethe authors' reflections on practice The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare is an essential guide for MSW students and social work professionals in healthcare.
Darwinian Hedonism and the Epidemic of Unhealthy Behavior
Psychological hedonism - the idea that people tend to act in ways that maximize pleasure and minimize displeasure - has a decidedly poor reputation among academics who study human behavior. Opinions range from outright rejection to those who believe it to be intuitively obvious, but untestable and therefore unhelpful. In this book, the author introduces an empirically testable and useful theory of psychological hedonism based on contemporary theory and research in the emerging field of affective neuroscience. He goes on to argue that people are genetically endowed with a tendency towards psychological hedonism as a function of Darwinian processes. This view of psychological hedonism in light of its Darwinian origins - thereinafter referred to as Darwinian hedonism - is essential to address the growing global epidemic of unhealthy behavior, such as poor diet, physical inactivity, and substance use.
Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth
This edited collection is the first book of its kind to apply the theory, research, and teaching of Emotion Focused Therapy to youth and their families, equipping clinicians and students with the practical skills to facilitate individual, dyadic, and parent sessions confidently.　 Mirisse Foroughe is joined by an impressive group of internationally acclaimed contributors, including clinician-scientists and scholars, as well as the developer of Emotion Focused Therapy, Dr. Leslie Greenberg. This clinical manual offers a trauma-informed perspective on how to apply EFT for primary care of youth as well as more complex mental health difficulties. The manual begins with an incredibly user-friendly overview of core EFT principles before moving onto clinical applications with individual youth, parents, and dyads. The contributors then address how EFT can be implemented with specific client populations, such as youth with anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorder, before examining important considerations that clinicians should bear in mind when working with parent and youth trauma and complex clinical presentations.　 Interweaving a trauma-informed perspective throughout, the manual is filled with practical summary tables, helpful tips, and eye-catching illustrations to ensure it is useful for students and experienced therapists. Emotion Focused Therapy for Youth is essential reading for marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and other mental health professionals working with youth and their families.
Addiction Counselor Exam Study Guide
Introducing our Addiction Counselor Exam Study Guide: 2 Full-Length Practice Tests and Prep Book for IC&RC ADC, NCAC I, and CASAC! Trivium Test Prep's Addiction Counselor Exam Study Guide includes everything you need to pass the Addiction Counseling exam the first time.Quick review of the concepts covered on the Addiction Counseling exam2 full practice tests with detailed answer explanationsTips and tricks from experienced alcohol and drug addiction counselorsAdditional online resourcesTrivium Test Prep's Addiction Counselor Exam Study Guide is aligned with the official Addiction Counseling exam framework. Topics covered include: Psychoactive Substances and Their EffectsScreening and Interviewing the ClientAssessmentsTreatment PlanningReferrals and Service CoordinationRecovery Beyond Primary TreatmentCounselingGroup CounselingProfessional Practice Etchis and Documentation IC&RC was not involved in the creation or production of this product, is not in any way affiliated with Trivium Test Prep, and does not sponsor or endorse this product.
Fundamentals of Group Process Observation
This edited collection covers the role of the process observer - a position that enhances the effectiveness of group functioning by observing the process, summarizing the behavior of the group so that the group can learn and, if needed, improve its functioning.
Complex Trauma Regulation in Children
This book outlines both the theory and application of regulation intervention strategies for children with complex trauma history. National statistics identify that 1:7 children in the United States are subjected to child abuse or neglect. The age group with the highest reported incidences are in the 1-3 year old age group. The primary perpetrators of this abuse are the child's caregivers. This age is closely associated with the critical period of development in the areas of the brain, the child's physiology and their social/emotional well being. When primary attachment is disrupted, delays and disruptions across many domains occur. When the perpetrator of their trauma is the same person who should be ensuring their safety, a child develops behaviors in an attempt to make sense of their world. The behaviors serve a purpose. Behavioral approaches which rely on positive and negative consequences do not adequately address the cause of the behavior and are therefore ineffective. Other existing trauma interventions rely on the individual to cognitively process information. However, when dysregulated, retrieval of information from the frontal lobe of the brain is not physiologically possible. All these approaches also intervene on the assumption that the child knows what normal regulation feels like. Most of these children however have only known chaos and fear novelty. This attachment based intervention model incorporates neurological, physiological, observational and practical regulation intervention strategies for anyone working with children with complex trauma history. It is able to be applied in home, school, community and in therapy environments. When a child feels regulated and safe, the effectiveness of the child's trauma treatment can be enhanced.
Jesus and Logotherapy
""Tested in the rigors of concentration camp living, logotherapy offers a philosophy of life and a method of counseling which is more consistent with a basically Christian view of life than any other existing system in the current therapeutic world."" Beginning with this thesis, Dr. Leslie compares the modern counseling methods of Viktor Frankl, famed Viennese psychiatrist, with Jesus' own approach to counseling. The author presents vivid images of the people with whom Jesus dealt and illustrates how their situations and solutions are relevant today. He concerns himself with three basic, underlying principles: the pull of immediate pleasures, ambition for status and prestige, and the evasion of responsibility. Dr. Leslie incorporates many examples from his vast experiences and those of Frank., drawing especially from the years Frankl spent in concentration camps. Depth psychology, with its emphasis on determining past causal factors, is contrasted with ""logotherapy."" The latter proclaims the 'defiant power of the human spirit"" to rise above restraints of the past. This is indeed a book that should cause every reader to look at his own life with questioning comparisons and reappraisals.
Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice
Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice extends the dynamics of intercultural principles beyond the scope of the therapy room to the supervisory relationship.
The Therapist's Use of Self
This book encourages and trains students and practicing marriage and family therapists to bring themselves into the therapy room, offering guidelines and strategies for being more present and personal with their clients.
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their caregivers. The authors bring out the specific dynamics of the psychotherapeutic work through four composite cases woven through the book.
Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings
Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings provides a theoretical framework for the clinical applications of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) protocols in mental health. It offers evidence-based models for a range of conditions; including PTSD, anxiety and depression, grief, phobias and binge-eating.
The Disenchanted Therapist
As you have arrived at this book description it is likely that you are a therapist, or someone who is concerned about the wellbeing of therapists. If you are a therapist, then the chances are that you are struggling in some way. If so, you are not alone. Therapy is tremendously rewarding work. At the same time though, it is extraordinarily demanding. As a result, each year, many previously committed therapists burn out in their roles, or leave feeling discouraged and dispirited. This is a book for anyone whose voluntary or paid work involves elements of counselling or 'talk therapy'. The aim of this book is to help you spot, navigate, and overcome the common emotional challenges of counselling and therapy, so that you can continue to love the work, effectively support clients, and grow professionally and personally. Clinical psychologist and author, S. J. Southwell, draws on thirty years working in welfare, community, education, and mental health settings. She outlines the key personal, practical, and professional issues that contribute to therapist distress and disenchantment, and provides a wealth of suggestions to support therapists avoid or address the common challenges that arise on their professional journey. The first section encourages you to reflect on different aspects of your life that affect your work as a therapist. These include your habitual thinking patterns and responses, in Chapter 1, and your personal history and current physical and mental health, in Chapter 2. The second section takes a look at what happens in the therapy space, especially when it is likely to affect the wellbeing of the therapist. This includes Chapter 3, which explores the situations in which therapy tends to be particularly hard or slow, and Chapter 4, on three ways in which client work can have particularly powerful and disturbing effects on therapists, transference and countertransference, vicarious trauma, and moral injury. The final section addresses broader aspects of our professional experience, including our work context, in Chapter 5. The remaining chapters in this section address professional crises, including taking on too much client work too soon, and burnout, in Chapter 6, and professional crises of faith, in Chapter 7. The book assumes that if you are having struggles in these areas, you have already set aside time to reflect, that you are using all the therapeutic strategies and skills you have available to support yourself, that you have clinical supervision, you are engaging in regular and appropriate professional development training, and that you have a self-care plan. Of course, it is much easier to write this list of essentials than it is for anyone to put them all in place. They are so important that we return to them in the final chapter, Chapter 8, with some practical suggestions for how to consolidate your practice in these areas.
Pluralistic Therapy
50 FAQs of Pluralistic Therapy Book provides answers to the most important and common questions asked about the origins, principles and practice of pluralism.
Yes! I Said No!
Is it hard to find time for yourself? Do you often ignore what you want, and focus instead on what others want? Do you find it difficult to speak up for yourself?Yes! I Said No! gives you specific tools to set healthy boundaries and re-take control of your life. You will learn how to do what YOU want to do. Without Drama. Without Anger. Without Fear.A series of simple-to-follow examples and clearly stated tools will help you invest in yourself, will help you say YES when you want to and say NO when you need to. You will learn how to: say no without blowing upwimping out or running awaystop being a people pleasercare for people without carrying themrestore healthy relationshipsBarbra Russell's expertise in helping others take charge of their lives stems from a long successful career as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Her fresh and engaging style of communication and unique step-by-step process has helped thousands of people step up, move forward and be who they're meant to be. Whether from negative family patterns or a mistaken belief that pleasing others is a spiritual gift, this easy-to-read guide will free you of Approval Addiction. You will re-claim your life and enjoy the freedom that comes with declaring Yes! I said No!
Asian American Psychology and Psychotherapy
Asian American Psychology and Psychotherapy: Intergenerational Trauma, Betrayal, and Liberation is an essential resource for understanding the twofold battle many Asian Americans face of anti-Asian racism and intergenerational trauma. Drawing from liberation psychology and cultural betrayal trauma theory, it rightly situates Asian American trauma in its historical and cultural context. It also presents a liberatory approach to counseling that disrupts the inherent power differential between therapist and client, and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for deeper connection and healing. Models for theory, research, practice, and social justice are richly illustrated with testimonios and case examples.
Promoting Black Women's Mental Health
Promoting Black Women's Mental Health celebrates the strengths and complexities of Black women in American life. Many misunderstand and mis-characterize Black women and underappreciate their important contributions to families, communities, and the nation. In this book, a team of Black women mental health practitioners and scholars discuss a range of conditions that impact Black women's self-concepts and mental health. Drawing on a study of Black women across the United States, authors explore the social determinants of Black women's mental health and wellness and Black women's girlhood experiences. The book also explores Black women's stereotypes, their traumas, how they shift in relationships, and images that affect their racial and gender identity development. The book draws on scholarly and popular sources to present Black women's strength and challenges. Authors include commentary, case examples, reflection questions, and resources to improve practitioners' capacities to help Black women clients to recover, heal, and thrive.
Essentials of Clinical Psychology
Essentials of Clinical Psychology: An Indian Perspective offers a comprehensive, user-friendly introduction to the theory and practice of clinical psychology within an Indian cultural, social, and educational context. The book starts with an introduction of what Clinical Psychology is and what it looks like in practice, giving a review of its history and contemporary traditions with an essential emphasis on its development from both a global as well as the Indian perspective. The following chapters cover a range of topics such as research methods, mental health and hygiene, and clinical psychology functions and training. The second half of the book then focuses on the classification of mental disorders for knowledge in diagnosing and treating patients, with chapters devoted to the description of various types of behavioral and mental disorders appearing in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Disorders examined include eating disorders, sleep disorders, degenerative disorders, psychotic disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Each chapter ends with chapter summaries, review questions, and recommended readings. Each chapter has its sectionwise summaries and ends with review questions and cited references. This textbook will serve as a must-have reference for all undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in Clinical Psychology, as well as for candidates selecting Psychology as their optional paper in competitive examinations. The book is designed according to Indian university course syllabi but also provides a guide to anyone looking to understand the current state of study and practice within Indian Clinical Psychology.
An Introduction to Family Social Work 5th Edition
An Introduction to Family Social Work celebrates social work's proud history as the first professional group to work with families. The #1 bestselling book on the market for family practice, this book is written for BSW and MSW students who are employed in agencies that do not offer traditional office-based family therapy. Many beginning and community-based social workers are employed in agencies that provide support, teaching, and concrete services to families experiencing a wide spectrum of needs and problems. These services are provided in the community and client's home, not in the office. Such settings include child welfare, women's shelters, family support, mental health, schools, and prisons. An Introduction to Family Social Work provides an overview of initial work with families and multiple generations from a generalist perspective. This book draws from the rich theoretical base of family therapy literature and translates working with families into practical, hands-on, social work practice. It also incorporates a family-in-environment approach, so that social workers can tap into social environmental resources as needed.
Promoting Black Women's Mental Health
Promoting Black Women's Mental Health celebrates the strengths and complexities of Black women in American life. Many misunderstand and mis-characterize Black women and underappreciate their important contributions to families, communities, and the nation. In this book, a team of Black women mental health practitioners and scholars discuss a range of conditions that impact Black women's self-concepts and mental health. Drawing on a study of Black women across the United States, authors explore the social determinants of Black women's mental health and wellness and Black women's girlhood experiences. The book also explores Black women's stereotypes, their traumas, how they shift in relationships, and images that affect their racial and gender identity development. The book draws on scholarly and popular sources to present Black women's strength and challenges. Authors include commentary, case examples, reflection questions, and resources to improve practitioners' capacities to help Black women clients to recover, heal, and thrive.
Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice
Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice is the definitive guide to assessment in group therapy, offering the reader a means to understand and implement group therapy screening, process, and outcome tools.
Finding the Valuable Person
Finding the Valuable Person proposes a new form of therapy. The big theme is that experiences of being devalued when we are not seen or heard, diminished or suffer indignities evoke responses that show up in distress clients bring. These reactions show a prime human need for our personhood to be valuable and validated that generates soul-hungers (for connection, desire, significance, and hope) that are largely unconscious. It is a fundamental drive that can be explored with clients in the way we are relational, embodied makers of meaning and respond to agency and dignity. This constitutes four domains of the REMA approach to therapy developed in this book. Every counseling approach has its presuppositions: most describe the human person as an individual entity, separated from social context. REMA pays attention to both. REMA is theologically attuned but also incorporates realities such as gender and race that have reshaped society profoundly. For the alignment of biblical faith and counseling psychology, it is profoundly important to be attuned in both directions. REMA is not only an innovative theoretical approach, it is a working model, currently offered in a community setting but of wider application. Anyone can use it!
Asian American Psychology and Psychotherapy
Asian American Psychology and Psychotherapy: Intergenerational Trauma, Betrayal, and Liberation is an essential resource for understanding the twofold battle many Asian Americans face of anti-Asian racism and intergenerational trauma. Drawing from liberation psychology and cultural betrayal trauma theory, it rightly situates Asian American trauma in its historical and cultural context. It also presents a liberatory approach to counseling that disrupts the inherent power differential between therapist and client, and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for deeper connection and healing. Models for theory, research, practice, and social justice are richly illustrated with testimonios and case examples.
Sociocultural Trauma and Well-Being in Eastern European Family Therapy
This book examines the effects of sociocultural trauma throughout the 20th century on interpersonal and family relationships in five Eastern European countries, drawing on the perspectives of mental health practitioners. Chapters employ a systemic perspective to explore the unique social, political, and cultural contexts that influence relationships in each country with a particular focus on implications for psychological and relational well-being. The volume demonstrates the importance of examining the cultural and sociocontextual nuances and complexity that may influence the impact of historical events on relationships, elucidating similarities and differences among countries in how the collective trauma has influenced them. It assists family therapists and other mental health practitioners in recognizing cultural and social factors that may influence their work with families, individuals, or couples living in these countries or who have immigrated from them.Keyareas of coverage include: Descriptions of each country's experience of sociocultural trauma and the current social-cultural-economic-political contexts.Impact of trauma on interpersonal relationships across various social locations and national and ethnic identities within the existing borders.Current challenges, recommendations for clinical practice, and future directions for research and practice. Sociocultural Trauma and Well-Being in Eastern European Family Therapy 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.
Mentoring with a Coaching Attitude
Mentoring is today where coaching was fifteen years ago. Increasingly companies have understood its usefulness, with the transfer of knowledge between generations of managers and the impact of leadership on a company's values. Yet very few people really know what modern mentoring is, as a learning alliance between an experienced leader and a less-experienced leader where each participant benefits from an open approach to learning. To create a successful environment for mentoring it is essential to improve the core competencies involved; active listening, impactful questioning, providing feedback and leading to experimentation and action.The book is intended to be both practical and theoretical so that it can be used in both academic and corporate settings. It is the result of a collaboration between mentors from four continents. Three editors - Sylviane Cannio (Belgium), Cicero Carvalho (Brazil/Canada) and Fisher Yu (China), together with fifteen leading mentoring professionals from across the globe make the book particularly interesting and unique.
A Cultural Humility and Social Justice Approach to Psychotherapy
Achieving effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy across a diversity of patients continues to be a foremost concern, and many training programs and professional societies in clinical psychology are at a loss as to how to systematically approach this issue. In A Cultural Humility and Social Justice Approach to Psychotherapy, Anu Asnaani provides an applied guide for working with clients from a diverse set of intersectional identities within the context of evidence-based practice. Drawing on her extensive clinical experience with a range of clients and therapy protocols/approaches, her active and ongoing research program in addressing health disparities, and considerable work in training clinicians across practice settings to incorporate diversity perspectives into treatment, Asnaani presents practical ways to engage in culturally humble, socially just clinical practice. Guidelines are derived from the consensus across published literature and established practice, and cover the full trajectory of treatment, from assessment through to relapse prevention; the book further offers some considerations for adopting these principles within the context of clinical supervision. Suitable for a broad range of mental health practitioners providing evidence-based clinical care for individuals with psychological disorders, this book provides worksheets, reflection exercises, and short-hand figures, making these concepts as easy-to-use in clinical practice as possible.
Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence
This book bridges together research, theory, and practice to offer future directions for new treatment policy and context-based intervention with children exposed to domestic violence.
An Evidence-Based Systems Approach to School Counseling
This book presents strategies for using systemic theory and evidence-based practice in schools to support students, the adults in their lives, and their wider communities.
Finding the Valuable Person
Finding the Valuable Person proposes a new form of therapy. The big theme is that experiences of being devalued when we are not seen or heard, diminished or suffer indignities evoke responses that show up in distress clients bring. These reactions show a prime human need for our personhood to be valuable and validated that generates soul-hungers (for connection, desire, significance, and hope) that are largely unconscious. It is a fundamental drive that can be explored with clients in the way we are relational, embodied makers of meaning and respond to agency and dignity. This constitutes four domains of the REMA approach to therapy developed in this book. Every counseling approach has its presuppositions: most describe the human person as an individual entity, separated from social context. REMA pays attention to both. REMA is theologically attuned but also incorporates realities such as gender and race that have reshaped society profoundly. For the alignment of biblical faith and counseling psychology, it is profoundly important to be attuned in both directions. REMA is not only an innovative theoretical approach, it is a working model, currently offered in a community setting but of wider application. Anyone can use it!
Walk and Talk Therapy
Feeling restricted by her office-bound clinical practice, licensed clinical social worker Jen Udler decided to take therapy outdoors. Walking on local nature trails with her clients proved to be the breakthrough Jen was looking for. The calming presence of nature provided a rich and varied backdrop for every therapy session, offering natural metaphors for each client's experience, while the rhythmic movement cultivated deeper connections between mind and body. Walking side by side also deepened the interactions between Jen and her clients, empowering her to gently guide them forward on their path through one season and into the next. In Walk and Talk Therapy: A Clinician's Guide to Incorporating Movement and Nature into Your Practice, Jen presents the many benefits of an outdoor, movement-based psychotherapy practice and provides tools for clinicians to develop their own version, no matter where or with whom they practice. The book is organized into four parts, each corresponding with a season of the year that serves as a metaphor for our adaptability in the face of life's constant changes. Inside, you'll find answers for your questions about how to take your therapy practice outside, including: - Advice on foundational concerns such as ethics and safety - Tips to preserve confidentiality in an open and public setting - Practical considerations like timing, note taking, and the inherent unpredictability of the great outdoors- Client stories, from inspiring breakthrough moments to spontaneous encounters leading to poignant illustrations of growth - A roadmap for crafting a holistic sensory experience to aid your therapeutic work As you read, you'll learn how the connection between natural conditions at various times of year may parallel the moods and mindsets you encounter in your clients. Learn how you can harness the unique beauty of each passing season to help your clients discover a healing sense of direction and meaning.
Helping Adults to Grow Up
This book presents Stage Climbing, an innovative seven stage developmental model as a new tool to help practitioners recognize cognitions, attitudes and behaviors-- typical of different life stages and thus levels of maturity-- in order to select the most effective treatment interventions with adult clients. It is the first book to integrate cognitive behavioral (CBT) concepts into the entire human development spectrum for any area of life that clients choose to work on. It demonstrates how resistance to change can reflect thinking and behavioral patterns that are characteristic of earlier developmental stages. It also presents a model of maturity along with treatment strategies and action steps to motivate change, as well as reactivate a client's natural and organic maturation process. Practitioners at all levels from diverse disciplines and modalities will learn to assess how, why, and where clients are "stuck" developmentally. This volume offers practitioners, whotreat individuals, couples and/or families a psychologically integrated road map that guides clients to take responsibility for living their best life, by removing self-created obstacles which prevent this from occurring naturally. The integration of the most robust aspects of psychodynamics, developmental psychology, and cognitive behavioral therapy will help the field continue to evolve, by providing state of the art interventions to help clients make mature and healthy changes in their lives. All mental health practitioners, regardless of their therapeutic orientations can use the strategies in this book to assess the underlying core belief patterns of clients at each life stage, and apply appropriate interventions to challenge self-defeating beliefs, and proactively work on agreed upon desired outcomes.
Play Therapy
This is the latest edition of Garry Landreth's comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.
Resilience in the Team
This essential provides insights into approaches, procedures and ideas on how resilience, understood as resistance, can be promoted and implemented in a team. Most of the time, these concepts are only applied to individuals. But many of the findings from resilience research can be transferred to teams and even extended. Today, resilience is also playing an increasingly important role in teams: whether it is to strengthen the sense of coherence according to Antonovsky's principle of salutogenesis, or to consider other resilience factors that support team capability
Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training
The book examines the lived experiences of systemic family therapy educators. It addresses the issues of power and justice that they face in family therapy training programs, including their teaching experiences with students, interactions with faculty, and challenges within academic institutions. It describes how family therapy programs attempt to incorporate cultural awareness with mixed results (e.g., focusing only on how to work with diverse clients or not supporting faculty from across social locations). The book explores the ways in which family therapy educators with intersecting marginalized identities continue to be oppressed across different areas of academia.The book addresses issues of power that systemic family therapy educators face within the academia itself at three different levels: Personal interactions with students that create more complete understanding of issues of power.Professional interactions with colleagues that provide support and accountability.Political interventions aimed at changing the larger academic institution.Chapters focus on countering unjust practices in academic settings. Authors reflect on personal experiences across these three levels and, then, offer concrete suggestions for intervention. These include teaching experiences or meaningful interactions with students that support empowerment or increased awareness; relationships with colleagues that promote accountability and growth; and needed changes or challenges to the larger structure of academia.Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training 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.
INSIGHTFUL SELF-THERAPY - Increasing Your Awareness about Mental Health and How to Live a Happier Life
Geared toward mental health, this book addresses the everyday problems many of us face and provides helpful tools for correcting them. Like a daily devotional, digest it one chapter at a time, or use it as a reference book for yourself to create optimal physical health, satisfying relationships, and overall feelings of peace and happiness.
The Solution-Focused Parent
This practical book presents readers with a skills-based, child rearing approach to supporting a child's growth and help them overcome both minor and major developmental challenges.
Energy Psychology Journal 15(1)
Energy Psychology: Theory, Research, and Treatment is a peer-reviewed professional journal dedicated to reporting developments in the field of Energy Psychology (EP) that are of interest to healthcare professionals and researchers. It contains original empirical research into the efficacy of EP methods; theoretical, experimental and basic science papers illuminating the mechanisms of action of EP; clinical insights on the application of EP to various populations, and interfaces with other interventions; book reviews, and abstracts published in other journals that are of relevance to the EP field. Its goal is to further the development of EP as an evidence-based method in the healing sciences. Topics in this issue-Living in flow; Energy Psychology, bilateral stimulation, and mindful breathing for trauma and chronic pain: A theoretical framework and case history; Single-session reductions in emotional distress in an addiction clinic after Thought Field Therapy treatment; and Advanced Integrative Therapy: Origins, research, theory, and practice.
The Coach’s Guide to Completing Creative Work
This book brings together 40 creativity coaches from around the world to offer coaches, therapists, creatives, and clients accessible and practical tools to get their creative work done.
Counselling Skills
The book professionalizes counselling through the scientific application of appropriate knowledge and skills at various stages of the counselling process.
No Bullshit Therapy
Do you have clients who do not want to be helped? Clients who don't trust you, your profession, or your service. Clients who don't want to change, despite needing to and despite your best efforts. Then No Bullshit Therapy (NBT) is for you! Most simply, NBT is about being authentic.
