Anxiety is the Enemy
How to eliminate your constant mental chatter and just relax. Yes, just relax.A noisy brain is the biggest cause of unhappiness. It prevents us from seeing what possibilities lie before us. Life turns into a minefield rather than a set of new opportunities. Let's change this - right now.You are your own greatest enemy. Now become your greatest ally in mental peace.Anxiety is the Enemy is a book that understands where you've been through, the exhausting situation you've put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.Learn to control your emotions and stay zen.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.Psychologically-proven tips to get out of your head and into your life.-Easy lifestyle changes to remove stress completely-How to understand your emotions and harness them-Controlling your mental imagery for relaxation-Crushing overthinking with means other than mindfulness-How to reframe your entire perspective on stress-How acting with role playing or alter egoing can de-tress youA day without worry, rumination, or anxiety. That could be yours.No more self-deprecating talk. No more sleepless nights with racing thoughts. Free your mind from overthinking and achieve more, feel better, and unleash your potential. Finally be able to live in the present moment.
Self-Supervision
The most current, comprehensive how-to resource for future and current psychotherapists and counselors seeking to improve their techniques, skills, and self-awareness through self-supervision.
ADHD Workbook for Women
You are packed with power and creativity. You've got it in you, but your potential is undeveloped.Many women grapple with ADHD. In fact, women are just as likely as men to have it. The cherry on top? The latest research suggests that incidents of ADHD in women cause even greater emotional turmoil. Great. The good news is, the Women with ADHD Workbook gives you with a precise roadmap to a more deliberate and focused life. One where your abilities can shine, and forward momentum can finally be achieved.Written by renowned women's mental health expert, Sarah Davis, this guide is specifically tailored for the struggle women face when dealing with ADHD in the world of today. You'll learn 29 individual exercises that help you stay organized, overcome disturbances, improve relationships, and manage emotions.You'll also explore and master topics including: ✔️ Evidence-based techniques and exercises to build executive functioning skills that will help you organize, plan and complete daily tasks.✔️ Strategies to help you overcome memory and focus issues that are associated with ADHD.✔️ Techniques and practices to let you regulate emotions and manage rejection sensitivity.✔️ How to manage relationships with others who may not understand ADHD.✔️ Cleaning and decluttering skills to help you maintain an organized home.✔️ Life skills that will help you navigate through the challenges of ADHD.✔️ And much, much more!The truth is, you have an immense amount of untapped potential. You just need help focusing your energy and improve your life to function through, and with, your ADHD. That's what this breakthrough workbook is all about.Live the life you deserve.
Acceptance and Committent Therapy (Act) Workbook
If you can't escape from depression, anxiety, panic attacks and anger in your everyday life, you can now discover how to it......thanks to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy!"Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution"Medical conditions such as anxiety, depression, OCD, addictions, and substance abuse can all benefit from ACT and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them.ACT develops psychological flexibility and is a form of behavioral therapy that combines mindfulness skills with the practice of self-acceptance. When aiming to be more accepting of your thoughts and feelings, commitment plays a key role. In the case of ACT, you commit to facing the problem head-on rather than avoiding your stresses.What if you could accept and allow yourself to feel what you feel, even if it's negative?You will discover it thanks to "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workbook: a Complete Guide to Mindfulness Change and Recover from Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks and Anger".Here's what you'll discover: introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)mindfulness and ACTbenefits of mindfulnessdealing with depression and anger how to face panic attacks and anxiety disorder...and much more!
An Integrative Approach to Clinical Social Work Practice with Children of Incarcerated Parents
This book is an essential clinician's guide to understanding, unpacking, treating, and healing individual, familial, and communal wounds associated with parental incarceration. Readers gain familiarity with integrative micro and macro healing techniques and modalities that are currently being utilized as anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and innovative practices. They also develop an understanding of and deeper unpacking of their own biases within the therapeutic relationship. The book offers an extensive overview of clinical practice models such as trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, and relational and attachment-based therapy for treating trauma symptoms associated with children of incarcerated parents, their families, and their surrounding communities. The author provides guidance on healing complex trauma through phase-oriented, multimodal, and skill-focused treatment approaches, with emphasis on strengthening one's own narrative of power and pain while building community in supportive spaces. Among the topics covered: Why Criminal Justice Is Relevant to All Clinical PractitionersImpact of Secondary Incarceration: Collateral Consequences for Children and FamiliesPsychosocial Stressors for Children of Incarcerated Parents: Conspiracy of Silence and Ambiguous LossSupervision and the Therapeutic Alliance: Critical Consciousness and Anti-racist Clinical Training and UndoingClinical Partnership: Application of Dismantling Anti-Blackness Through Anti-oppressive Practice and Critical ConsciousnessAn Integrative Approach to Clinical Social Work Practice with Children of Incarcerated Parents enhances therapeutic relationships for social workers, teaches innovative clinical practices most effective for this population, and offers a comprehensive discussion and understanding of the complex traumas faced both historically and presently by children and families impacted by the criminal justice system. Although designed to inspire and train social workers, the guide has significantly wide-ranging application for mental health and medical providers and other clinicians interested in enhancing their work with children and families impacted by the criminal justice system in diverse clinical practice settings. Lay practitioners and policymakers within government and not-for-profit settings also will find the book of interest.
LoveSex and Relationships
LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality. This book challenges the cultural commodification of sex and sexuality, and it encourages the reader to experience 'being sexual' rather than 'doing sex' or 'looking sexy'. This is crucial to our development of sexual selfesteem, particularly in the digital era of pornography, dating and hookup apps. Bringing the material of the first edition up to date, chapters include anatomical diagrams and social commentary with a focus on trauma and Polyvagal Theory. Diversity and cultural changes are also addressed, including a more expansive understanding of gender identity, and greater awareness of the impact of power and rank in sexual relationships. Lastly, each chapter features a new partnered exercise alongside every solo exercise from the first edition. The book's accessible language makes it a valuable resource for sex and relationship therapists and trainees, general mental health and sex/relationship professionals, and clients themselves.
Self-Supervision
The most current, comprehensive how-to resource for future and current psychotherapists and counselors seeking to improve their techniques, skills, and self-awareness through self-supervision.
Master Lecture Series for the Nce, Cpce, Cece, and State Counseling Exams
WHO ELSE WANTS TO SAY, "I PASSED"?The Master Lecture Series Boosts Exam Scores While Reducing Test Anxiety and Study TimeSay goodbye to boring study sessions. Dr. Rosenthal's Master Lecture Series makes learning enjoyable. Revolutionize your exam prep and have fun doing it! This study guide will transform your comprehensive exam journey into an engaging adventure that you'll actually enjoy!The Master Lecture Series is a great standalone exam prep guide and the perfect companion to the Encyclopedia of Counseling and the Human Services Dictionary. The new edition includes updated and expanded lectures on every exam area and questions and answers on all major topics, including those frequently asked by users of Dr. Rosenthal's materials. The book includes a complete test anxiety prevention program, with hundreds of never-before published tiny test hints for effective micro-study sessions, exclusive memory devices, and the most advanced Super Review Boot Camp he has ever created.This is the perfect study tool for every counselor wanting to take their career to the next level.
Nature-Based Play Therapy
Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model. Throughout this book, play therapists are introduced to the histories of nature and play across cultures and cultural expectations and are then guided into an understanding of how nature and play intersect with current trends in society and psychotherapy. Readers will learn about how the therapeutic powers of play are activated and facilitated by the inclusion of nature in play therapy, and they will be taken step-by-step through a prescriptive case conceptualization model. They'll also find case studies that link theoretical tenets, the therapeutic powers and play and nature, and intended treatment outcomes.Nature-Based Play Therapy is an excellent introduction to a vital and growing area of the field, one that gives a well-rounded summary to a theoretically based model of treatment.
Live Wisely, Deeply, and Compassionately
This book creates a compelling picture of an approach to living that promotes happiness, acceptance, peace, and cooperation among people across the globe, independent of culture and religious faith. This approach incorporates everything Dr. Ebbe has learned about people in his forty-year psychology career and his near eighty years of living. Clear principles tell you what is needed to improve your life along these lines, in the major areas of your relations with reality, with yourself, with others, and with your emotions. These principles can enable you to seek wisdom, find the truth, have good self-esteem, and have positive relations with others. You will learn how to live a moral and ethical life in any society. Actual, concrete behaviors and skills that are needed to accomplish these changes and achieve these goals are also presented, so you know precisely what you need to do. Also described are how to apply these principles in making good decisions, raising healthy children, managing your emotions, discerning truth, telling right from wrong, and finding meaning, contentment, and fulfilment in life)!
Gamification Of Autism
A perfect book for psychology students and professionals interested in serious games and autism.Autistic children struggle with several areas of life, like communication, play and social skills, so they can need help in everyday life. Serious games and the gamification of autism offers great potential and tools for autistic people. Yet there are fascinating benefits and problems with the field.By the end of this great, easy-to-understand book, you'll know: What is gamification and serious games?What are the benefits of serious games for autistic people?What Are the Methodological and literature issues?How Do we fix these problems?Psychology students and professionals will love this great, conversational and engaging book.BUY NOW!Gamification Of Autism Content Includes: IntroductionHow Did This Book Come About And Why Is This Important To Look At?Introduction To The Gamification Of AutismUnderlying Theory of Gamification ResearchThe Benefits And Promising Results Of GamificationThe Issues With GamificationMore Problems With GamificationHowe Could We Fix These Problems?Conclusion
A Year In Psychology
Want an honest account of working in psychology for a year?Bestselling writer and University Student Connor Whiteley spends a year working in psychology academia. He experiences working in psychology first-hand. Connor tells you all the ups and downs and realities of work.Follow Connor in this brilliant, conversational and engaging book as he tells you about psychology placement years, why do one and reflects on his own interesting experience.If you want to work in psychology, do a placement year and more. Then you NEED this absolutely brilliant book!BUY NOW!Year In Psychology includesIntroductionWhat is A Psychology Placement And What Are The Benefits?Why Did I Choose A Psychology Placement?How Did I Find A Placement?The First Reflection A Week Of Improvement, Learning and A Major Google Scholar TrickFOMO On PlacementsThe Pickiness And Prettiness Of Academia And Tips And HopeWeek 10 ReflectionPersonal And Professional Development So Far And Other Note Worthy MentionsWhat have I Done For My Placement: mHealth Literature ReviewSomething Annoying And The Solution For YouThe New Year So FarA Week Into Examining PapersAfter The Behemoth TaskThe University Looks After You And Back To University DaysPlacement Experiences From Other People And Extremely Useful TipsThe New Literature ReviewHow Did I Find Writing A Literature Review From Scratch?After The First and Final ImprovementsConclusion: Do I Recommend Placements And Other Final Tips?
Processing Emotional Pain using Emotion Focused Therapy
Emotional pain is part of most people's reality. For some of us though, that pain can begin to impact on our ability to function in our everyday life. Despite years of valiant attempts to resolve or deny such pain, we may continue to suffer.Before her untimely death early in 2021, Dr Melissa Harte had experienced her own journey through emotional pain that led her eventually to become a counseling psychologist and an internationally accredited Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer. She spent years teaching hundreds of therapists how to use EFT as well as running her own thriving private practice.The legacy of her considerable skill and knowledge remains in this book which sets out a framework and model that works gently, effectively and deeply to assist in reversing the psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical damage of unresolved emotional pain. Applicable to a range of practitioners including counsellors and psychologists, this book will help you to help your clients whose emotional pain may be attachment-related, be a single episode, a series of major trauma experiences, or the culmination of many so-called 'small t trauma' events.This is a 'how-to' book, presenting techniques and concepts to assist practitioners, including investigating the use of the impacts of trauma case studies - an area until very recently often overlooked or minimised when formalising case histories. Chapters also address: The dilemma with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).The value of understanding the importance of emotions and how, as adaptive experiences, they provide essential information that can assist us in our daily lives.The concept of emotional pain and how to work through it with an extended version of the focusing task, including the influences that helped to shape the task and its significant components.The challenges around identifying dissociation and how to manage it.The use of chair work as another element of working through emotional pain.At Melissa's request, all royalties from sales of her book will go to the Australian Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy.
Narrative Practices and Emotions
Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine classic narrative therapy with the latest scholarship on the mind-body connection.Authors Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin and Gerald Monk tap into cutting edge discoveries on mindfulness, interpersonal neurobiology, and positive psychology. Each chapter offers a wealth of clinical questions and embodied exercises, while "conversation maps"--which provide important guideposts to practitioners--are illustrated with engaging transcripts of therapeutic work. These compelling case studies elegantly demonstrate how skillful conversations can invigorate hope and support personal development. Readers will discover a wide variety of ways to assist clients of all ages in reengaging with a meaningful life and sustaining well-being.
Healing Relational Trauma Workbook
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced abuse and neglect and are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Here, Daniel Hughes and Kim S. Golding provide a practical accompaniment to their highly successful DDP text coauthored with Julie Hudson, Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions (2019).In this workbook, practitioners are invited to reflect on their experience of implementing the DDP model through discussion, examples, and reflection prompts. Readers are encouraged to consider the diversity of both practitioners and those receiving DDP interventions, and how each unique individual's identity can be embraced within the application of DDP interventions. DDP can be practiced as a therapy, a parenting approach, and as a practice approach for those working within healthcare, social care, or education, and this workbook is an invaluable resource for readers who fall into any one of these roles.
When the Subject Is Rape
Rape is, unfortunately, an all-too-common violent crime usually perpetrated against women. For victims, the process of sharing information about an assault with loves ones or reporting the crime to the police can be harrowing, embarrassing, and painful. The responses of others can greatly affect the way a rape survivor copes. Often the men who are closest to rape survivors-intimate partners, friends, and family members-are simply unprepared to offer the right assistance. The wrong word or action may trigger an unexpected reaction. Written by Alan W. McEvoy, PhD, When the Subject Is Rape is designed specifically to illustrate the role men can play as allies in a woman's recovery from rape. This book examines the many aspects of rape. It looks at both the short- and long-term emotional and psychological impacts rape can have on a woman, what she can expect during the prosecution of her rapist, and strategies that can help her to recover from the assault. It discusses how the men in her life should communicate with her and address her needs throughout her recovery, and describes how they should conduct themselves to avoid unintentionally causing her more pain. It also explains how to identify changes in behavior that may signal an undisclosed rape. Even if a rape goes unreported, both the emotional consequences and the need for support throughout the recovery process will still be present. Rape is not an easy subject to discuss. Sexual violence can radically alter the course of a woman's life. By understanding the trauma associated with rape and other forms of sexual assault, men can play an important part in a woman's healing process. When the Subject Is Rape provides information that can help men to create a climate of support for the empowerment of women who are on the path to recovery.
Fortune Has Arrived
A husband and his wife on a journey of a gambling lifestyle from casino to casino in what becomes a quest to win and hit the big jackpot. The friends they meet, free plays, blackjack tables, and the slot machines they discover become a way of life, until greed, desperation and $1000's later all is gone.
Take Action Child Handout Workbook
The Take Action Child Handout Workbook is part of the Take Action program and is to be used only in conjunction with the Take Action Practitioner Guidebook. It contains all 84 Child handouts and work sheets from the Take Action program bound and numbered in a 92-page colour cover A4 sized book with contents page. The Take Action program teaches children aged 4-12 years helpful ways to cope with and manage anxiety. It is an evidence-based intervention combining recent research on threat-based cognitive biases and maladaptive thinking styles in childhood anxiety disorders with the well-established principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).
The Anxiety Management Workbook
This workbook is for clients undertaking professional therapy from Renee Mill's Anxiety Solutions CBT program. Overcoming significant levels of anxiety that affect your day-to-day life takes effort, practice and a little help from a professional. This workbook is designed to accompany therapy and help you work with your practitioner to develop new ways of thinking and feeling - effectively "rewiring" pathways in your brain to creative a better functioning you.Based on the well established principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), you will learn about the relationship that exists between cognition (thoughts), emotion and behaviour in the primitive parts of your brain and how to use strategies to replace negative thoughts with "smart" helpful thoughts along fresh pathways.Your practitioner will help guide you through 10 sessions covering 22 different cognitive and behavioral tools and encourage you to complete a daily monitoring diary and anxiety management worksheet. Completing the diary and worksheets regularly will help ensure a successful outcome.
Take Action Practitioner Guidebook
In these challenging times, disturbing reports of high levels of anxiety in our young school children reinforce the need for a time- and cost-effective intervention. The Take Action program was developed and refined during extensive research to create a standardised and reliable treatment tool. It is a user-friendly, flexible, robust, CBT-based 8- or 10-session treatment designed for both group and individual use with children aged 4-12 years.This easy-to-follow and comprehensive guidebook contains six treatment modules, an assessment module with useful information on a range of assessments for those practitioners wanting to use pre- or post intervention outcome measures, a background and theory section, and 124 child and parent handouts which may be photocopied. The treatment modules can be used sequentially across eight or ten weeks to provide an individual or group intervention or the modules can be used as stand-alone guides to teach specific skills.Children can be provided with a professional and permanent record of therapy via the handouts and worksheets from the guide being purchased separately. Optional child and parent workbooks are also available.The program teaches children helpful ways to cope with and manage anxiety. It is an evidence-based intervention combining recent research on threat-based cognitive biases and maladaptive thinking styles in childhood anxiety disorders with the well-established principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).Designed for easy use by mental health and educational professionals trained in CBT, Take Action allows flexible delivery by practitioners to individuals and groups of children with anxiety. The word ACTION is a coping-oriented acronym used throughout the program. Children are encouraged to take action against their anxiety. This means children approach their fears and worries using strategies learnt during the program.
Strengthening Social Connections and Individual Resilience in Adolescence
This book introduces a group counseling curriculum that provides both a foundation to confidently lead a counseling group for adolescents and inspiration for how a group leader can adapt and modify the text in a range of settings. The curriculum is three-fold, corresponding with the three major sections of the text. In Part One of the text, the authors provide a conceptual and practical way of understanding two matters: first, the critical leadership challenges faced by group counselors as well as the skills they need to navigate those challenges successfully, and second, the critical developmental challenges faced by adolescents and the skills they need to navigate those challenges successfully. Part Two introduces a nine-week social skills curriculum - Belong and Be You - designed and modified over ten years of use to help adolescents be better socially connected as well as confidently independent. Part Three provides an additional resource which is meant to be used in tandem with the curriculum: 40 strategic stories on four different themes contributed by faculty and students. This book will benefit school counselors and group counselors working with adolescents to successfully navigate group leadership and help students embrace themselves and find belonging.
Living a Fulfilled Life
Medical doctor, naturopath, and positive psychotherapist Richard Werringloer targets his patients' physical and emotional pain with an array of holistic, psychosomatic tools. Central among them is Positive Psychotherapy (PPT), a cross-cultural approach developed by his mentor, Professor Dr. Nossrat Peseschkian in the 1960s, to help patients overcome their mental obstacles and find balance and wholeness in their lives again. Living a Fulfilled Life goes beyond PPT in theory and practice, encompassing many other therapeutic schools that complement Dr. Peseschkian's teachings, making a more profound understanding of PPT and ourselves possible.This encyclopedic book has evolved from Dr. Werringloer's twenty-five years of medical and psychotherapeutic studies and therapy. It is directed to all who are interested in discovering themselves and undertaking a perpetual voyage of self-development. It invites us to reflect on who we are, our current situation, and how we can search for new ways to flourish
Safety, Danger, and Protection in the Family and Community
This book provides an analysis of the meaning of safety and security across the contexts of community and public life, throughout the life span, and within a therapeutic framework, examining threats and the strategies for coping with them.The book starts in Part I with a discussion of general safety and security concepts in the socio-cultural context. Part II of the book details the role of a sense of security in psychological assistance, psychotherapy and supervision, while Part III centres on safety and security at different life stages. Drawing on the tenets of modern attachment theory and trauma theory, chapter authors address questions of safety, danger, and protection for both individuals and groups, across a variety of fields of knowledge and expertise. Themes such as loneliness, play and exploration, evil and forgiveness, health and death, and spirituality and healing are discussed as practice examples, learning points, and tips. A wide range of health and social care professional practitioners will find this book useful in exploring social, interpersonal, and psychological aspects of safety and security.
Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare
This book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour - Perceptual Control Theory - can be applied to create mental health services that are more effective, efficient, and humane.Authored by clinicians, academics, and experts-by-experience, the text explores the way Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) principles can be applied within the secondary mental healthcare system - from the overall commissioning and design of services to the practice of individual clinicians. A range of topics relevant to the delivery of secondary mental healthcare are covered, including community and inpatient working, the delivery of individual psychological therapy, the use of restrictive practices, and working with relatives and carers. The book concludes by describing PCT's unique contribution to the field of mental healthcare.The book, one of the first of its kind, will be of interest to students and practitioners from a range of health and social care backgrounds, as well as service managers, commissioners, academics, and policy makers. The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships
This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance in relationships.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Cybersecurity and Data Protection
A Practitioner's Guide to Cybersecurity and Data Protection offers an accessible introduction and practical guidance on the crucial topic of cybersecurity for all those working with clients in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, psychotherapy and counselling.
Black Lives Are Beautiful
Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment.As readers explore each part of this workbook, they will develop tools to overcome the mental injuries that occur from living in a racialized society. Clinicians who use this workbook with clients will find a practical toolbox of racially informed interventions to aid clinicians, particularly White clinicians, in culturally sensitive clinical practice.
Transactional Analysis
The second edition of Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques synthesizes developments in Transactional Analysis (TA) and psychotherapy research, making complex ideas accessible and offering therapists practical guidance on refining TA psychotherapy skills.Divided into seven parts, the 100 key points cover: The philosophy, theory, methods and critique of the main approaches to TA New developments and approaches in TA TA perspectives on the therapeutic relationship Client assessment, diagnosis and case formulation Contracting and treatment planning using TA A troubleshooting guide to avoiding common pitfalls Refining therapeutic skills Specific updates incorporate emergent approaches in TA, recent developments in the understanding of neurodiversity and current best practice thinking.This book is essential reading for trainee and beginner TA therapists, as well as experienced practitioners looking to update their field knowledge for a skilful and mindful application of this cohesive system of psychotherapy.
A Trauma-Informed Understanding of Online Offending
This book examines the contemporary one-size-fits-all model of treatment for sexual offenders and challenges the confrontational approach to working with this group.In recent years, the incidence of people (predominantly men) getting arrested for inappropriate online usage has increased exponentially. This book attempts to understand why this is the case and what can be done to help these individuals and, in turn, reduce the risk of them re-offending. A stand-alone follow-up text from Hudson-Allez's popular Infant Losses, Adult Searches, this book carries forward the compelling case study of Gordon from the previous text. Throughout his journey from arrest to rehabilitation, the chapters provide insight into the relationship between internet offending and dysfunctional attachments and neurodiversity. Our current understandings of childhood trauma, transgenerational transmission, and diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and ADHD are all investigated in relation to cases of online offenders and practical therapeutic models are presented.This book is relevant to psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and therapists working with forensic clients, and probation officers, social workers and police officers working within child-protection agencies.
Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Volume 2
With virtual therapy becoming ever more ubiquitous, how can you keep young clients engaged while providing them with the effective, evidence-based treatment they need? Look no further! Dr. Amy Marschall is back with even more teletherapy interventions for your practice in her newest book, Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Volume 2. As with the first volume, you'll find over 125 ready-to-use telehealth games, exercises, and activities tailored to each client's unique interests, treatment goals, and developmental level. As an added bonus, this volume also features a directory of activities based on what telehealth features are available to your client so you can find an activity that works regardless of the device, WiFi restrictions, and platform options available. Designed to fit with any therapeutic orientation, this toolbox targets the same skills as the first volume, including: - Frustration tolerance - Perspective taking - Problem-solving - Cognitive flexibility - Perfectionism - Empathy building - Winning and losing well - Impulse control - Decision-making - Emotion regulation - Following directions - And more!
The Journey To Freedom
Kimberly shares a testament of different trials and obstacles she endured. Even though it was hard, she overcame and persevered. The "Journey To Freedom" reveals the adversity that most face or have at some point in life. Instead of running away, one must deal with the issues head on . In order to deal with anything, one must first admit and acknowledge there is a problem. To overcome and conquer with victory, you must prepare with the right tools. Sometimes we allow our challenges in life to make us lose sight of our purpose and it costs us our freedom in God and life itself. May this book be a driving force and encouragement to overcome every obstacle you face. I pray it gives you hope that you get back up and live.
Single-Session Therapy and Regret
In this book, Windy Dryden presents and discusses transcripts of single sessions he conducted with volunteers from Onlinevents who were seeking help to deal with a variety of problems related to regret. 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 single-session therapy (SST) and what they can achieve from it.
Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy
This book explores the way in which loving kindness, contained within professional boundaries of practice, is essential to the building of trust necessary to the psychotherapy relationship.Arguing that loving kindness has both biological and ethical relevance in assisting recovery from the trauma of emotional injury, Heather Reeves brings forth a renewed philosophical and cultural discourse about its importance in professional work with vulnerable people. The philosophical premise of the book is the concept of alterity, or awareness of the subjective reality of others, developed by Emmanuel Levinas and expressed in psychotherapy theories since the mid-twentieth century. Understandings drawn from attachment theory, affective neuroscience and psychodynamic psychotherapy are applied to case studies (one of them written by a client) from the author's practice and themes from literature and biography, including the long-term impact of the Covid pandemic. Loving Kindness in Psychotherapy will appeal to psychotherapists, counsellors and other mental health professionals as well as a range of other readers, including medical and palliative care professionals, educators, clergy, theologians and philosophers.
Africana Health Psychology
The purpose of this book is to explore variables related to health promoting behaviors, using a culturally grounded perspective. The author argues that discussing health and wellness among African-descended people with resilience in mind sets the stage for solution-focused interventions.
Supervision Can Be Playful
This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.
Bringing Our Histories Into School-Based Therapy
This is a book that delves into the relationship between therapists' sometimes fraught engagement with their own emotional histories and those of their clients, offering a creative template for opening up important conversations. Each of the chapter authors contributing to this volume focuses on seminal life events that inflect the emotional tenor and quality of attunement in the consulting room. A broad range of subjects is covered, which either highlight themes around identity or reflect the kinds of challenges that bring young people to therapy, including bereavement, the experience of otherness, dislocation and migration, disrupted family relationships and life-threatening illness.With compelling clinical vignettes illuminating the resonances between therapists' stories and those of the clients they present, this book is an engaging and insightful read for all practitioners in the field, especially those working in child and adolescent mental health.
Single-Session Therapy
The new edition of Single-Session Therapy: Distinctive Features provides an up-to-date general introduction to the field of Single-Session Therapy (SST).Written by eminent clinician and author Windy Dryden, this book challenges mainstream therapeutic assumptions, predicated on the certainty that clients will have more than one therapy session. Following the popular Distinctive Features format, the book is divided into two sections, with 15 chapters describing theoretical features and 15 offering practical techniques of SST. Updates to the revised edition include new chapters on the importance of the working alliance in SST, on different types of help that clients seek from SST and on common errors in SST and how to avoid them.Single-Session Therapy will be of interest to those across the psychotherapy and counselling professions and will provide extensive guidance for students, trainees and practitioners alike.
An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment
An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper's prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen, administered, scored, interpreted and developed. In providing students, researchers, test users, test developers and practitioners in the social sciences, education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing, using, interpreting and developing tests, it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing, together with the necessary methodological detail.This book has three distinctive features. First, it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave, rather than reading equations. Readers will "learn by doing". Second, it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating, designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally, it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing, it stresses the underlying principles, merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment, and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text, it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques, and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance, methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models, and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages, drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians, this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources, including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues, this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics, and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality, cognitive abilities, educational attainment, mood or motivation.
You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting for
A groundbreaking approach for practicing courageous love and resilient intimacy--from the creator of Internal Family Systems therapy Do loving relationships end because couples lack communication skills, struggle to empathize, and fail to accommodate each other's needs? That's a common belief within and outside of the therapeutic world... but what if it's all wrong? In You Are the One You've Been Waiting For, Dr. Richard Schwartz, the celebrated founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, offers a new way--a path toward courageous love that replaces the striving, dependent, and disconnected approach to solving relationship challenges. The breakthrough realization of IFS is that our psyche contains multiple parts, each with a life of its own. Most problems in relationships arise because we unknowingly burden our partner with the task of caring for our disowned and unloved parts. In this book, you'll discover essential insights and tools to foster healthy dialogue with your parts and your partner, including: - How to recognize and disarm the cultural assumptions that create shame, guilt, and isolation in relationships- The Three Projects--why we fool ourselves into thinking we must change our partner, change ourselves, or give up on true intimacy- Finding and Healing Exiles--transforming the way our most vulnerable parts influence the way we treat each other- How to reorient relationship conflicts to help each of us grow toward the Self--the center of our clarity and wisdom- Courageous Love--building resilient intimacy with each other and our parts to create healthy, lasting partnerships "No one can do the work of healing our orphaned parts for us," says Dr. Schwartz. "Yet when we begin with Self-leadership, a relationship can become a safe place in which we help each other heal and grow." Here is an invaluable guide for therapists and laypersons alike to promote connection, trust, and understanding--within yourself and with the one you love.
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism
Despite the growing cultural and empirical interest in narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, therapists often feel confused and overwhelmed about how to help patients struggling with these problems. "Mentalization" refers to the ability to read, access, and reflect on mental states in oneself and other people. Research shows that people with narcissism can suffer from extreme difficulties mentalizing themselves and others, leading to instability in their mood, interpersonal relationships, and sense of self. Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook provides much needed guidance about how to effectively help patients suffering from narcissistic vulnerabilities. Mentalization-based treatment, or MBT, is an evidence-based therapy for patients with personality disorders, helping patients to reflect on mental states in themselves and others, resulting in significant improvements in everyday functioning. This book reviews the deficits in mentalizing associated with pathological narcissism, describes how to give the diagnosis of narcissism to patients, outlines how to structure therapy sessions, and offers step-by-step techniques about "what to do and say" when sitting with these patients. Utilizing vibrant case examples and verbatim scripts from actual psychotherapies, the authors explain how to address the most common clinical challenges associated with narcissism: disconnection from emotions; impairments in empathy; rigid thinking; monologues and intellectualization; unstable self-esteem; and tendencies to blame other people for disruptions in their relationships.
Emdr and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children
The third edition presents innovative child and adolescent EMDR therapy approaches and tools designed to meet the challenges of today's youth Written for all EMDR child therapists--new and seasoned--this text is a comprehensive guide toward the effective practice of EMDR therapy with children, from infants to adolescents. It offers step-by-step instructions translating each of the eight phases in creative and developmentally appropriate ways for children and teenagers while providing advanced protocols for therapists. The third edition combines the updated guide and accompanying treatment manual into one volume for greater convenience. Chapters now integrate content, explanations, and instructions with associated checklists, protocols, and worksheets for quick access to crucial information. The book also provides new leading-edge chapters on EMDR therapy regarding telehealth, cultural and social responsiveness, and addictions and includes inventive methods, techniques, resources, and protocols. Additionally, the third edition features engaging exercises for target identification, a child client readiness checklist, and a brochure explaining EMDR therapy with children. The book offers abundant case examples, drawings, tables, detailed scripts, and complete instructions along with useful links and resources for therapists to apply in their practice. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers. New to the Third Edition: Streamlines content, scripts, checklists, protocols and instructions combining them with the treatment manual in one handy book Introduces groundbreaking new chapters on EMDR therapy and telehealth, cultural and social responsiveness, and addiction--highlighting addictions to screens Expands Phase One of EMDR therapy--History-Taking, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning--into two chapters emphasizing the complexity in working with children Addresses contemporary areas of trauma, including COVID-19, school refusal, climate change, school shootings, and political divisiveness Updates chapter references and resources and reflects gender neutral pronouns Key Features: Integrates powerful, creative play and art therapy interventions with EMDR therapy Offers child-friendly exercises for target identification Contains a reference table listing developmental adjustments to the eight phases of EMDR therapy for children 0 to 18 years old Provides a chapter on diagnoses specific to children, including attachment, dissociation, neurodiversity, and more
The Astrologer, the Counsellor and the Priest
This is a reprint of the original CPA Press version. The two seminars in this volume, given by astrologers with extensive psychotherapeutic training as well as many years' experience of astrological work, will be an enormous asset to any astrologer working in a counselling role. This book may also be disturbing to those astrologers who feel that reading the horoscope, because it seems "detached" and different from traditional psychotherapy, alleviates the astrologer of any personal responsibility for inner work. The real depth and richness of astrological work is presented here in an accessible but profound fashion, enlivened by the seminar format and relevant for anyone wishing to use astrology to work with others.
