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A positive bridge-building book, aiming to bring together two helping cultures, those of the person-centred therapist and the psychiatrist, that might otherwise see each other as hostile. With diploma and masters students in sight it should both widen placement possibilities, and encourage therapists to work in multi-disciplinary teams with
Sommerbeck provides a straightforward appreciation of the problems and offers solutions to working with clients with severe mental health problems. The book examines situations when the therapist feels outside their comfort zone and how to deal with them. In essence, it covers the areas that many academic courses don't teach.
This book presents accounts of the person-centred approach with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions.
Given that people who are distressed often choose to go for help in therapy, it is therapists' duty and responsibility to deconstruct practices and to be clear about the ethics, values and effects of the practices they use. This book is based on the values and ethics of justice and responsibility, to resist domination and totalising discourses.
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. Anne Gray, an experienced psychotherapist and teacher, uses lively and extensive case material to show how the frame can both contain feelings and further understanding within the therapeutic relationship. She takes the reader through each stage of therapeutic work, from the first meeting to the final contact, and looks at those aspects of management that beginners often find difficult, such as fee payment, letters and telephone calls, supervision and evaluation. Her practical advice on how to handle these situations will be invaluable to trainees as well as to those involved in their training.
Pre-therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin.
An expert collection investigating non-directivity, the distinguishing feature of the revolutionary, anti-authoritarian approach to psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers.
Introducing the first GIF book from Denmark! This living e-book is a fully animated English edition of Maren Uthaug’s critically praised graphic novel. Uthaug is a prizewinning author whose characteristic drawing style is already familiar to Danes from the back page of the newspaper Politiken and marensblog.com. In The Bright Side, Uthaug serves up brilliant portions of the dish that’s her specialty: life’s big questions, presented with humor and passion. Ingredients: a woman, a man, a dog and kids – and meatballs! Into the pot she stirs love, loneliness and dreams, spiced with imagination and narrative delight until she brings the whole thing to a boil. Impossible to put down before the last bite.
In this excellent, short and instructive book - maybe one of Jesper Juuls best - he explains how to handle yourself as an adult in conflict with children. The many ideas, concepts and practical suggestions apply whether you are a parent or a professional working in the educational system. The title summarizes the essence of true dialogue and through plenty of everyday examples this book provides adults with alternatives to shouting, criticizing and blaming - while respecting the personal integrity of everyone involved. Jesper Juul shows how to use personal language and thereby develop relationships built on equal dignity. Ultimately, this book helps adults become more authentic so children can be treated as real people.
Experts tackle subjects including person-centred understandings of psychotic functioning, autism and Aspergers, post-traumatic stress, postnatal depression and anti-social personality disorder.