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"You've dedicated your career to taking care of others - you are a helper and a healer...Now, with this one last act, you can continue to feel confident that you are doing your best to take care of your clients, colleagues, and family."- Julie A. Jacobs, Psy.D., J.D.Have you been procrastinating getting your professional will completed? Is this the first time you are hearing of it? You aren't alone. This may be one of the most avoided ethical tasks in the mental health profession. This book not only makes this task easier, it gives you a wealth of information about things to consider as you prepare your professional will and serves as a workbook. What is a professional will?"A professional w...
Have you ever found yourself wondering whether a past or current relationship may be unhealthy? Have you encountered any red flags or patterns of behavior in a partner which left you feeling uncomfortable, but you weren't sure how to speak up or put your foot down? In these pages, you will learn to identify patterns of toxic behavior, the tools for healing and self-care, and above all, how to set and maintain boundaries that work for you. Whether you are still healing from a toxic relationship in the past, or are currently in a relationship where unhealthy qualities are present, let this workbook be a guide to navigating relationships in a healthy, informed, and empowered state of mind.
Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide covers suicide assessment and safety planning in measurable and empowering ways that takes away some of the fear of asking about suicide when working with clients of diverse backgrounds. Experience a modern, compassionate take on suicide assessment in this book through client stories, and explore how you can adopt the ALERT suicide assessment framework into your own client work. With a predicted quarter of mental health professionals, clinical supervisors, and therapists losing a client to suicide sometime in their career, this book also serves to explore this life-altering event, including an in-depth look at the personal and professional impact on clinicians through therapist stories, the mental health leadership and support needed to heal, and tools that encourage a purposeful transition from crippling anxiety and grief towards post-traumatic growth and meaning.
Realizing you have been scammed is devastated. You experience many of the same effects as other crime victims, but the shame associated with fraud and scams creates isolation, a desire for secrecy, and a deeply felt trauma that is very difficult to overcome. In this book, we provide you with a way out of the despair you may be feeling. You'll understand more about how scammers are so successful, and you'll find ways to heal from what has happened. Whether you are the person who was scammed, or a friend or family member trying to help, the information here will help.
Jan believed she was 'in love'. She accepted a proposal of marriage, and then sent money to a professional scammer. Jan is one of the rare few survivors of a romance scam who has the courage to speak up, and she does - loudly, eloquently and frequently telling the whole sordid story. You might think it can't happen to you, but can you be sure?
This book presents a decade of advances in the psychological, biological and social responses to disasters, helping medics and leaders prepare and react.
Marriage counselor Lori Epting shares both her own and her clients' stories of marital conflict, compromise, and forgiveness to help guide couples from separation and heartache to connection, security, and trust.
Discover your true self and find hope beyond your messy relationships! As a mental health therapist, Judy prepares to see her next client. As a wife, she falls apart in the midst of her husband’s psychosis. His inpatient psychiatrist says, “This is going to be a hard case”. Judy’s first marriage of 29 years ended in divorce after toxic patterns of chronic bitterness. Facing the shame of her past and mothering four children, she recognizes divine invitations toward her authentic self. After four years into a new marriage with her beloved dance partner, Judy suddenly faces frightful realities. Can Judy’s second marriage recover from damage caused by his psychosis? Beyond Messy Relati...
Increasingly adopted by therapists and mental health professionals, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients to cope with social, emotional and mental health issues by using the six core ACT processes: Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, Being Present, the Self as Context, Values and Committed Action. This is the go-to-guide for evidence-based ACT techniques to be used by professionals to help their transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, third gender and agender clients. It provides the tools to help these clients develop emotional processing skills they can implement throughout their life, from coping with mental health issues and substance abuse, to navigating prejudice and social pressure, to building a career and developing a family.