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The Vulnerable Therapist
A passionate, proactive stance on the present state of psychotherapy, The Vulnerable Therapist: Practicing Psychotherapy in an Age of Anxiety picks the brains of contemporary mental health professionals and finds a common symptom--fear. You’ll see why litigation, market forces, and ethical confusion have raised a dark umbrella of angst over psychotherapy practices and discover what therapists can do to restore the profession to its former good self.The Vulnerable Therapist will capture your interest with its broad systemic approach, contextual analysis, fascinating case studies, and anecdotal material. You’ll see the need for improvement at the institutional and individual levels of the ...
The Use of Self in Therapy
This new edition expands upon the first edition with new research, numerous case studies, tables, figures, interviews, and diagnostic criteria. You will benefit from the current and expanded material that will help you to realize and use the positive impact of self in therapy and give clients improved services."--BOOK JACKET.
Burdened Children
What are the developmental effects on children who must fulfill the family role of parent? Editor Nancy D. Chase defines parentified children as children who are compelled to perform the role of parent at the expense of their own developmentally appropriate needs and pursuits. With uncanny sensibilities, these children are attuned to their parents moods, wishes, vulnerabilities, and nuances. This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in the family, covering both theoretical as well as clinical topics by a group of distinguished contributors. Students, academics, and professionals in family studies, social work, child abuse, developmental psychology, school psychology, and family therapy will find Burdened Children an excellent resource on this phenomenon.
Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship
Seeking to transfer knowledge across ideological boundaries within a theoretically valid, scientific framework, Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship draws upon and relates existing research from psychotherapy and the allied fields of human behavior. Author Frederic J. Leger has successfully cut across multifarious therapies to create an integrated, high-order theory that unites psychotherapy’s disparate forces. In the process, he addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of psychotherapy, the paradigm of the therapeutic relationship and its centrality to therapeutic change, the difficulties of creating a “scientific discipline” from the study of the psyche, and the factionali...
Beyond the Rule Book
Learn to take a moral position as a feminist therapist! Beyond the Rule Book: Moral Issues and Dilemmas in the Practice of Psychotherapy examines feminist therapy and its commitment to work against injustice and work for social and personal change by providing quality and unbiased services to clients. A dialogue is opened among feminist psychotherapists about the moral aspects of psychotherapy from the standpoint that psychotherapy, without a moral stance, is defined as demoralizing. You will discover psychotherapeutic situations that do not fit into any established ethical code, so that the code must be interpreted and a decision must be made giving your clients unprejudiced and effective s...
Professionally Speaking
Your knees are shaking, your throat is dry, and out in front of you in the Lerenbaum Room of the Ramada Inn is the 167th Annual Meeting of the Tucson Dentists Weekend Warrior Organization. You step to the podium, there’s a short crackle of microphone feedback, and all eyes are on you. What do you say? Are you prepared enough? Will your audience love you? Hate you? If these are your fears, put them away and open up Professionally Speaking: Public Speaking for Health Professionals. In it, you’ll learn how to turn weak knees and wishy-washy introductions into confident gestures and words of wisdom. Packed with examples and proven tips and techniques from the front lines of public convention...
Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy
Six clinical psychologists from six different Eastern and Western religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--examine a single clinical case from their individual religious perspective. Each of six chapters includes an overview of the specific spiritual tradition; its theory of personality; its theory of the symptoms and etiology of distress, suffering, or pathology; its theory of therapy; procedures and techniques to facilitate change; relationships between the religious tradition and other traditions; and application to the specific clinical case. For mental health professionals and clergy, and for academic instructors and students in undergraduate and graduate courses on religion, cross-cultural studies, personality, counseling, and psychotherapy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
How the Brain Talks to Itself
This book synthesizes recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a psychoanalytic approach to human dynamics and a working model for clinical diagnosis. The author explores the functional anatomy of consciousness, the foundations of clinical neuroscience, the stages of life, the source of brain syndromes, how the schizophrenic brain talks to itself, and memory. Also provided is a guide for making structural diagnosis and performing corresponding structural therapy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction to Group Therapy
Provides a solid foundation for anyone interested in group therapy! Introduction to Group Therapy: A Practical Guide, Second Edition continues the clinically relevant and highly readable work of the original, demonstrating the therapeutic power group therapy has in conflict resolution and personality change. This unique book combines theory and practice in a reader-friendly format, presenting practical suggestions in areas rarely covered in academic settings. A proven resource for introductory and advanced coursework, the book promotes group therapy at the grassroots level-students-where it has the most opportunity to be put into effect. Introduction to Group Therapy: A Practical Guide, Seco...
101 Interventions in Group Therapy
Every clinician looks for the most effective interventions to apply in group therapy. 101 Interventions in Group Therapy gives practitioners exactly what they are looking for - effective interventions in a clear, simple, reader-friendly format. This comprehensive yet concise guide provides 101 short chapters written by 78 leading well-recognized practitioners explaining step-by-step exactly what to do to provide an effective intervention when something arises in group therapy. Each easy-to-learn intervention is profound in nature and has been shown effective in practice by the author of the chapter. Foreword by J. Scott Rutan.
