Integrating Traditional and Nontraditional Approaches
Presenting a dialog on the ""science"" and the ""art"" sides of the art-science debate, this book includes suggestions for achieving a balance between these two poles of the helping and healing process.
A highly illustrated guide to integrating Yin Yoga into treatment plans for substance abuse and mental health conditions. Yoga therapists, yoga teachers and mental health professionals will learn how to use accessible techniques for a variety of settings.
A Brief Treatment Approach for Mental Health Professionals
Provides mental health professionals with instructions for conducting written exposure therapy (WET) with clients who have posttraumatic stress disorder. Denise Sloan and Brian Marx developed WET in response to a growing demand for an effective PTSD treatment that is easier to implement, more affordable, and has lower dropout rates.
Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson are doing remarkable, deeply meaningful work with eloquence and compassion. They encourage writing to help heal spirits and minds. I salute their clarity and conviction we need their wisdom in this world.' Naomi Shihab NyePoet, Editor and Educator, TexasThe use of creative writing as a route to ......
A Reflective Guide to Anti-Oppressive Practice in Counselling & Therapy
In this reflective guide, Myira Khan encourages her readers to consider what it means to work within diversity, by examining the impact of ones own identity, as well as that of clients, in therapeutic relationships.
Dr Laura S. Brown shows her approach to treating female clients who have been traumatized or abused. Women are more likely than men to experience interpersonal trauma, including sexual assault and partner violence, and they also process traumatic or abusive events in a distinct way, mediated by their biology and by women's socialization. Dr Brown ......
In general, male culture holds values contrary to psychotherapeutic goals and methods, including a resistance to asking for help and an aversion to vulnerability and intimacy. This title modifies therapy to make it more compatible with men's ways of thinking and doing.
A Guide to Therapeutic Support and Protection for Children and Adults
The definitive guide to understanding childhood sibling sexual abuse. Author Christiane Sanderson provides an overview of the nature and dynamics of sibling sexual abuse, its impact and long term effects and how to improve therapeutic support for victims and families.