Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy for Supporting Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and New Immigrants
Unlock the secrets to creating a trauma-informed yoga program for supporting asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants in this accessible, practical guide. Asylum seekers, refugees and new immigrants often suffer with mental health concerns such as posttraumatic stress disorder, due to trauma experienced before, during, and after fleeing their country of origin. Yoga therapy is a holistic and compassionate tool that can help these populations regulate these trauma symptoms. This book is a brilliant, accessible introduction to applying trauma-informed yoga therapy in this setting, with useful insights and shared experience from a yoga therapist who has worked in the frontline for over 5 years.
A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Sexual Offenders, Families, and Victims
This unique text aims to aims to cover the many variations of presentations the mental health professional needs to address to conduct effective work with sex offenders and alleged offenders, their victims, as well as their families and children.The book is divided into three sections. It commences with an overview of the Criminal Justice Process and its ramifications, not just for the alleged offender, but also for the wider family and friends who may feel totally out of control of what is happening in their lives, as well as for the victim. It also covers the secondary victimisation of the children of alleged offenders. The next section is designed to take some of the fear out of working with these clients, looking at unexpected specific issues that may be presented with these clients, how to address the client's trauma history, and how to support them their journey through the Criminal Justice System. Chapters include working with non-offending partners, work within minority groups like those within the neurodivergent or LGBTQIA+ communities, women who commit offences, and children and adolescents. Section three covers some of the therapeutic ethical dilemmas within this work, including supervision, confidentiality, safeguarding and disclosure. Each chapter in the book is written by an experienced, hands-on therapist, giving voice and humanity to their clients.This book is designed for all the mental health workers who find the ubiquitous issue of sexual abuse, in all its forms, come through their office door.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families
This step-by-step training manual guides readers through the clinical practice of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for use with families. This book presents SFBT to family psychologists and other therapists and health care professionals in related fields in an easy to learn format that provides specific clinical skills and case examples to enhance learning. It provides an overview of SFBT, a brief history of its origins, underlying theory and research, and session sequencing and tools for using the SFBT approach with families, and teaches the reader how to conduct an SFBT session from beginning to end. Detailed procedures and case examples in this book illustrate practice with diverse clients in clinical and counseling settings, including the challenges therapists may face in working with families and how to avoid roadblocks in therapy. Readers will gain valuable insights and practical guidance in how to use this effective approach to therapeutic change.
Creative Play in Family Therapy
This practical resource integrates family therapy theory with playful interventions and techniques to allow family therapists to successfully engage and include children in the session.Many therapists that are trained in family therapy lack training in child-centered play techniques. This book effectively bridges the gap between popular theories and models in family therapy and the practice of working with children in a family context. Showcasing playful therapy techniques across and within each of the most common models of a family therapy such as Experiential, Structural, and Narrative Therapy, as well as Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), this book is accessible to a wide range of clinicians. Additionally, the author offers clear tangible interventions adaptable for both in-person and teletherapy sessions.This book is essential for practicing therapists, students in training, clinical supervisors, and anyone who works with children in a therapeutic capacity.
The Un-Making of Them
Ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists with many clinicians struggling to address their unique needs. This book presents a groundbreaking collection of chapters sharing insights and reflections on clinical work with ex-boarders in different settings and circumstances with the aim establishing a body of knowledge for clinical work with these clients.This book aims to demonstrate how the fall-out from boarding is much wider than was previously thought whilst reporting on new and innovative treatment methods that may serve to help clinicians address those consequences with boarders. Focusing on the experience and insights of clinicians, many of whom are ex-boarders themselves, the book features contributions from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds, including psychodynamic, 'energy psychology', post-Jungian, and more. It studies how the understanding of the "Boarding School Syndrome" has been enlarged by recent advances in Attachment therapy, trauma studies, neuroscience and pastoral/ safeguarding awareness within education, and brings the current research into new territories for this issue. Topics covered include the effect of boarding school on sibling relationships, miliary family boarders, ex-boarder therapists, and using EMDR for boarding school trauma. The reader will gain a wider understanding about how individuals and society are impacted by this way of raising children and what evidenced pathways to recovery are being evolved.This book is written in an accessible jargon-free style and will appeal to psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, and counsellors, as well as ex-boarders and parents interested in the impact of boarding schools from a professional or personal perspective.
Weathering
Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we're transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences. So, what might these ancient natural forms have to teach us about resilience and change? In a stunning exploration of our own connection to these enduring forms, outdoor psychotherapist and geologist Ruth Allen takes us on a journey through deep time and ancient landscapes, showing how geology - which has formed the bedrock of her own adult life and approach to therapy - can offer us a new way of thinking about our own grief, change and boundaries. In a world shaken by physical, political, and medical disasters, Weathering argues for a deeper understanding of the ground beneath our feet to better serve ourselves and the world we live in.
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.
Good Goodbyes
Good Goodbyes is a concise resource on therapy termination. Organized in a Q&A format, this book works through the phases of psychotherapy, identifying warning signs of premature endings and helpful techniques to support treatment.
The Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workbook
Unbeknownst to many, mindfulness can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner-world, people struggling with trauma can experience flashbacks, dysregulation, or dissociation.Here, trauma specialist David Treleaven builds on his pioneering work to offer a practical guide for integrating trauma-sensitivity into mindfulness practices. From the nuances of trauma's impact on the individual to adapting mindfulness in diverse contexts, Treleaven provides step-by-step guidance, practical exercises, and real-world applications to ensure mindfulness is both safe and transformative. Structured to deepen understanding and skill, this comprehensive resource covers foundational principles and specialized adaptations, empowering mindfulness teachers with cutting-edge tools and insights. This is an essential guide for anyone looking to navigate the complexities of trauma with mindfulness and to foster environments of healing, resilience, and inclusivity.
Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
In Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thoroughly researched and informed by decades of work in the field, this volume includes contributions from well-known scientists and analysts such as Fran癟ois Gonon and Patrick Landman. Each contribution addresses sensitive and complex issues, including diagnostic criteria, behavioural problems and patterns, pharmacological intervention, ethical implications and the involvement of parents in treatment. Based on empirical data, the contributors offer a well-balanced critique of standardised approaches to ADHD, and make a case for psychoanalysis as an indispensable tool for both the child with ADHD and their caregivers. Throughout, the book shares the importance of the child having a safe space to explain, in their own words, their mind-body experience. Written in accessible language, this volume will be of interest to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with children, as well as those offering specialised care in a medical or educational setting.
Assessing Psychometric Fitness of Intelligence Tests
This book addresses issues and concerns regarding appropriate ethical and scientific underpinnings for the appropriate interpretation of intelligence tests. It's written for psychologists, professors, researchers, and practitioners concerned with applied psychometrics in evaluating intelligence or cognitive abilities and test assessment.
Justin Case Sits with Anxiety
Today is a big day...Justin Case is taking on his first babysitting job!He has been waiting for this day for what feels like forever, but suddenly gets a case of the "what ifs?"What if the twins fall and hurt themselves? What if I have to change a diaper? Everyone gets scared and worried sometimes, but worries don't have to stop us from doing the things we care about. Follow Justin's journey and learn how the brain comes up with worried thoughts and icky feelings, how normal that is, and what we can do about it. Based on the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy, this workbook is packed full of fun activities. It also includes a section for parents and caregivers with advice on how best to support your child.
Black American's Strengths-Based Cultural Practices
Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health.Building on experiences of racial oppression and cultural values, Dr's. Carter, Pieterse, and Forsyth offer an evidence-based framework for recognizing and enhancing strengths-based cultural practices of Black American clients and families in mental health interventions. This volume will broaden the base of work on the mental health treatment of Black Americans and provide an approach to understanding the unique cultural influences of Black people as they relate to psychological health.The book is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including social workers, mental health practitioners, nurses, teachers and sociologists at various levels of education and training.
Rants for Rachel
"Rants for Rachel" is a 'rant collection' of my private journal entries taken from my bigger book, "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life". This book is specifically dedicated to Rachel, and includes lots of humor, hardships, stressful rants, heavy cursing, and overall wacky disgruntledness at life and its absurdities; hopefully in-turn causing encouragement towards existence. It also includes exclusive excerpts being saved for my second book! If interested, you can find "Excerpts of a Mental Illness Life", by Zelphie Addams, at most retail stores and online, it's the full book of my private journal excerpts that also include more in-depth tales of my life and struggling with a disease. This first book covers my life years from 2004-2020. Please enjoy! PS I am currently in the process of writing my second full book for years 2021-2026. Keep an eye on that coming out sometime 2028! Still not sure the title for it, but it will be found under "author Zelphie Addams", and most likely printed through Lulu.com
Psychological Treatment Approaches for Young Children and Their Families
Positive Sexuality
This book focuses on an emerging, multidisciplinary, positive sexuality framework that guides sexuality research, education, and practice.Using this positive sexuality framework, this book will provide helping professionals and others with current research and information on topics and populations that are often missed or misrepresented, including but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and other orientations; transgender, nonbinary, and other non-cisgender identities; seniors; sex workers; racial minorities; and other marginalized peoples. This framework, based on the social and behavioral sciences, can be used in tandem with other theoretical frameworks, modalities, and methodologies to better support a growing, multifaceted, and unique human population. Chapters are authored by topic experts and utilize the most recent scholarship pertaining to positive sexuality. Readers will come to understand diverse sexuality more completely and inextricably linked to other parts of one's identity and learn to address diverse sexual topics and issues more openly and with a spirit of compassion and human connectedness.This edited volume is a must-read for sexuality researchers, clinicians, helping professionals, policymakers, and students from diverse educational backgrounds who are interested in human sexuality.
Individual Counseling and Therapy
The fourth edition of Individual Counseling and Therapy: Skills and Techniques decodes the nuances of therapeutic language and helps students discover their clinical voice.Lucidly written and engaging, the text integrates theory and practice with richly illustrated, real-life case examples and therapeutic dialogues that demystify the counseling process. The therapeutic skills and techniques delineated here will build students' skillsets and deepen their confidence throughout the counseling process--from intake to problem exploration, awareness raising, problem resolution, and finally to termination.Students will delight in the text's depth, insights, genuineness, and accessibility as they develop and hone their therapeutic voice for clinical practice. An instructor's manual, PowerPoints, and chapter test questions are available to instructors on the Routledge website.
Telling the Truth
Honesty is important in any relationship but within psychotherapy, honesty takes on a different dimension. The impact of speaking the truth has many repercussions to the therapeutic relationship and may harm the perception of the therapist in the eyes of the client or the relationship in its entirety. Thus, what are the limits of what a therapist can therapeutically share with a client? What are the implications of the therapist choosing to conceal what they congruently experience? Have therapists in the past been more able and more willing to tell the truth with their clients? Rob Hill engages with these and many more questions, which lead into related territories - those of shame, power, love and hate, narcissism, intersubjectivity and madness - and invites the reader to consider them from a fresh perspective. Presented in essay form interspersed with 'stories' which focus on Hill's inner reactions to working with various clients, the book seeks to evoke curiosity and contemplation rather than definitive answers. Using language that is personalised and 'immediate' rather than academic and abstract, Hill hopes to engage all therapists, including those who rarely read academic and research literature. Telling the Truth is an enjoyable, thought-provoking, and accessible read that raises many important ideas. Rob Hill's own honesty, insight, and openness in addressing this important topic makes this essential reading for practising therapists.
Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care
Giving voice to the perspectives of children and families with lived experience of children's palliative care, Music Therapy in Children's Palliative Care: Collaborative Family and Practitioner Voices explores the integral role of music therapy and its benefits for supporting child and family wellbeing within a range of children's palliative care settings. This book places the voices of children and families supported by children's palliative care at the centre as they articulate their own experiences of music therapy alongside music therapists to develop theory and practice in this area.Through their unique, collaborative writing approach, contributing authors ensure that both perspectives of the therapeutic relationship - those of the families and the therapists - are represented throughout, offering a comprehensive view of their shared journey. Readers will benefit from learning about how music therapy may offer physical, emotional, social and spiritual support, aiming to enhance quality of life for both children and families. Equality, inclusion and belonging operate at the heart of this book, capturing the diversity of families that use palliative care services.This book is a must read for any music therapist working within a children's palliative care setting. It will also be a compelling text for those with lived experiences, practitioners, educators, students and researchers.
The Multimodal Brief Systemic Training Programme (Mbstp) for Primary Care
This textbook presents an innovative educational and training protocol for treating mental health patients in primary care: the Multimodal Brief Systemic Training (MBSTP). Blending theory with practice, this manual offers a rigorous, versatile, and integrative approach, grounded in research, that can be easily adopted by primary care professionals--including general practitioners, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. It is not only invaluable for psychotherapy students but also serves as a vital resource for physicians and other non-mental health professionals seeking to support individuals facing cancer, chronic pain, palliative care, and other conditions that intertwine emotional, mental, and behavioural challenges within their close relational systems. The MBSTP is a compelling alternative to existing evidence-based training programs, which often centre on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Designed as a continuing education course led by a team of mental health specialists, this training provides a structured pathway for professional development. This book will help to reignite practitioners' interest in systemic thinking, encouraging them to revisit its significance in their work, or, for those new to the concept, to embrace it as a crucial aspect of their professional growth and contribute meaningfully to their evolution in the field.
Revitalizing Health Care Ethics
This open access book explores the origins and development of the clinician's moral voice and how that voice is embedded in the informal ethical discourse of everyday health care. This moral voice, developed over the course of a lifetime--including through professional education and practice--enables clinicians to understand and address the ethical issues that arise in their everyday work with patients, families, and colleagues. The early chapters explain how health care students move from outsiders to insiders--members of the distinct moral and professional communities that define each particular field of health care. The book describes how students, trainees, and clinicians draw on and extend their own existing intellectual, emotional, and moral capacities, and how they use these capacities to address the daily challenges, ethical and otherwise, that arise in the clinic. This approach is designed both to empower clinicians and to inform bioethicists and others in their attempts to work more effectively within clinical settings. This book is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Dial M for Mentor
Dial M takes a creative and fun approach to improving your mentoring skills. It uses stories of learning relationships from film, TV and literature as a tool for reflecting on, understanding and evolving your mentoring and coaching practice.
Der Sinn des Lebens
In seinem Alterswerk Der Sinn des Lebens fasste Adler seinen der Individualpsychologie zugrunde liegenden philosophischen Tenor zusammen. Der Ausdruck "Sinn des Lebens" hat bei Adler zwei verschiedene Bedeutungen: einmal den Sinn, den ein bestimmter Mensch in seinem Leben sucht und findet und der aufs engste zusammenh瓣ngt mit der Meinung, die er von sich, den Mitmenschen und der Welt hat; zweitens wird darunter der "wahre" Sinn des Lebens verstanden, jener Sinn, der au?erhalb unserer Erfahrung liegt und der auch von jemandem verfehlt werden kann, der fest davon 羹berzeugt ist, zu wissen, worauf es im Leben ankommt. "Nach einem Sinn des Lebens zu fragen hat nur Wert und Bedeutung, wenn man das Bezugssystem Mensch-Kosmos im Auge hat". Die stete Anforderung aus dem Kosmos hei?t "Entwicklung", welche aus dem nativen Minderwertigkeitsgef羹hl nach Selbsterhaltung, Vermehrung, Kontakt mit der Au?enwelt und Streben nach einer "idealen Gemeinschaft der Zukunft" im Sinne von Immanuel Kant dr瓣ngt. Alfred Adler (1870-1937) war ein 繹sterreichischer Arzt und Psychotherapeut. Inhalt: - Die Meinung 羹ber sich und 羹ber die Welt - Psychologische Mittel und Wege zur Erforschung des Lebensstils - Die Aufgaben des Lebens - Das Leib-Seele-Problem - K繹rperform, Bewegung und Charakter - Der Minderwertigkeitskomplex - Der ?berlegenheitskomplex - Typen der Fehlschl瓣ge - Die fiktive Welt des Verw繹hnten - Was ist wirklich eine Neurose? - Sexuelle Perversionen - Erste Kindheitserinnerungen - Gemeinschaftshindernde Kindheitssituationen und deren Behebung - Tag- und Nachttr瓣ume - Der Sinn des Lebens - Stellung zum Berater - Individualpsychologischer Fragebogen
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words
Understanding Your Child Beyond Words: Psychoanalytic Techniques for Parents will help you unlock a deeper knowledge of your child's feelings, inviting you to explore the deepest questions about parenting and find meaningful answers.In this book, expert psychoanalyst Cayetano Garc穩a-Castrill籀n Armengou teaches you how to look beyond your child's spoken and non-verbal behavior to truly listen to them. By adopting the methods explored in the book, you will become open to new ideas on how to talk, act, and guide your child more effectively. This understanding will help your family grow together, avoid common misunderstandings, and create lasting, meaningful relationships. The book uses simple language and offers numerous examples from everyday reality, showing how everyone in the family can get to know each other better.Whether your child is already in therapy, you're considering it, or you simply want to enhance your parenting approach, this book provides invaluable insights and guidance to help you unlock your family's full potential.
Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Dsm-5-Tr Personality Disorders
The Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-5-TR Personality Disorders is a hands-on manual of the most current and effective, evidence-based assessment and treatment interventions for challenging disorders.The beginning chapters describe several cutting-edge trends in the diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatments. This is followed by specific chapters focusing on evidence-based diagnosis and treatment interventions for each of the 10 DSM-5-TR personality disorders. Emphasized are the most recent developments from Cognitive Behavior Therapies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Schema Therapy, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Treatment, and more. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and includes new research for each chapter on DSM disorders. As in previous editions, extensive case material is used to illustrate key points of diagnosis and treatment.This book provides essential knowledge and skills to health and mental health practitioners working with personality disordered clients, as well as to students in psychology, counseling, psychiatry, nursing, and social work programs.
Secrets in Psychotherapy
This book brings together contemporary perspectives from psychodynamic treatment, advances in cognitive science, medicine, and neuroscience in a user-friendly format to guide the beginning to more advanced practitioner in working with secrets that emerge during psychotherapy.Despite their ubiquity in life and in clinical practice, secrets and secret-keeping receive limited attention in the training and skill set required for mental health clinicians. Drawing on personal experience and clinical expertise as well as film, memoir, and literature, Dr. Kathryn Zerbe shares how secrets come to light in life and within treatment and demonstrates the powerful hold that secrets can have on our lives. This book offers a fresh take on how we view our secrets, and how we can use them as a tool to sustain our most intimate and valued connections over the course of a lifetime. Using cutting-edge research as well as honed clinical expertise, the author suggests how one might go about managing the secrets of everyday living that we must keep as well as how we can identify which we can let go. Particular attention is paid to the mind/body relationship and somatic countertransference reactions. Each chapter suggests guidelines to promote wellness and resilience in the secret keeper, whether that be the psychotherapist or their patient.Written with compassion and in a user-friendly style, Secrets in Psychotherapy will benefit anyone who is navigating the thorny terrain of keeping a secret for themselves or someone they know. It is an essential read for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and practicing mental health professionals of all disciplines.
Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness
This book introduces the concepts of "therapeutic love" and "heartfullness," combining models of group analysis, art therapy, and individual psychotherapy to present a new psychotherapeutic framework where non-erotic love is engendered and evoked within therapeutic encounters.The heart has often been conceptualised as symbolic of sexuality and eroticism, with little meaning beyond the romantic, and therefore often removed from psychotherapeutic perspectives. Responding to this, the author calls for placing the heart as the central point of reference in therapeutic work, emphasizing how it is touched during a therapeutic session. This, in turn, gives way for the therapist's own emotions and thoughts, such as empathy, identification, concern, protectiveness and laughter, to be released.Building upon the author's 40 years of experience in practice and new developments in these models, this book 'meanders' through evolving theories and integrates them for both patients and trainees across backgrounds and cultures. Enriched with the author's personal clinical vignettes and unique influences of music, art, golf, and even Ireland, this book aims to give a greater voice to the patient-and their heart- within the therapeutic space.This book is essential reading for any counsellor, therapist, or analyst and offers a new way of looking at therapeutic endeavours across methodologies in all their simplicities and complexities.
Creative Counselling with Adults
Tanja Sharpe's Creative Counselling model shows how to incorporate creativity at every stage of the therapeutic process, from contracting through to the final session. In this book, she provides practical ideas and interventions to work creatively with adults. Separated into three parts, the book provides creative interventions relevant for a wide range of presenting issues, journaling prompts for clients and ideas to incorporate creativity into the supervision process. Bonus content! This book grants access to ten videos that demonstrate creative counselling interventions in practice and will further inspire your creativity in the therapy room.
