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Parental alienation is an important phenomenon that mental health professionals should know about and thoroughly understand, especially those who work with children, adolescents, divorced adults, and adults whose parents divorced when they were children. In this book, the authors define parental alienation as a mental condition in which a child - usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict divorce - allies himself or herself strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and rejects a relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification. This process leads to a tragic outcome when the child and the alienated parent, who previously had a lov...
Published in 1996, Corporate Therapy and Consulting is a valubale contribution to the field of Psychotherapy.
This is the type of book instructors, trainees, and clinicians need—a short text that demystifies the case conceptualization process and provides a streamlined method for learning and mastering this competency. It presents an integrative model for conceptualizing cases, dispels common myths about case conceptualization, and provides straightforward guidelines and strategies for mastering this essential competency. Writing clinically useful case conceptualizations is no longer optional today, and this training guide is the only resource you will need to increase your expertise and incorporate this competency in professional practice. Five detailed clinical case studies are referred to throu...
Child a buse can be curbed in the Muslim Arab World, since preventive measures a re really in our hands. They a re a ctually a part of a binding force that impacts a lmost each a nd every step we take in life; that force is simply Islam: our religion, which does not only define our relationship with God (Allah) Almighty but is a lso in a ctuality a way of life. This book makes the a rgument that a culture in which true or a uthentic Islamic values a re rightly implemented measures up to being one that safeguards a nd recognizes the rights granted to children by no one other than their merciful a nd gracious creator Allah. It a lso proposes a practical framework that explains the types of measures, cultural changes, a nd structural modifications needed to be implemented to combat child a buse in the Muslim Arab World, with a ll the religious, cultural, a nd social specificities of it a s a region.
Psychotherapy and counseling take place within the basic context of human relationships. This book was written with the fundamental goal of providing an enhanced awareness and in-depth appreciation of the alliance impact and relevance within the context of all forms of addictions psychotherapy, counseling and treatment. Each chapter examines several specific facets of therapeutic alliance related to outcomes, patient retention, and exposure to interventions, actions, and ingredients that facilitate patient engagement and recovery. Beginning with an Introduction, the major topics include: psychotherapy relationships that heal; the therapeutic alliance; alliance ingredients in effective psycho...
Fathers are critical to their children's growth and development. Research on the involvement of men with their children stresses the important role that fathers play from infancy to adolescence. Due to the ethnically diverse population of fathers in America, culture and context frames the nature of fathering and shapes expectations within a cultural milieu. The book offers a wide range of vantage points–social work, family studies, marriage and family therapy, counseling, sociology, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, urban studies, and health. There are five primary parts within this book, each of which looks at numerous facets of fatherhood in the twent...
Joint custody. Same?sex custody. Young children with the mother. Which is the best arrangement? Unfortunately, for those who seek a trustworthy solution, research has proven that there is no single best arrangement for all children. This timely volume, however, does offer a practical and realisic methodology with which to confront the challenging and often confusing issues facing the custody evaluator. THe only book of its kind, The Custody Evaluation Handbook offers a strikingly helpful model for evaluating and assigning weight to the mountains of disparate information accumulated during a custody suit. Written by an unparalleled expert in the field of custody evaluation, the book eschews w...