Demonstrates the author's approach to therapy with men who have been abused or suffered trauma in the past. This work also includes her commentary, which provides insight into the life of a man who has experienced childhood trauma.
Existential-integrative therapy is one way to engage and coordinate a variety of intervention modes, such as the pharmacological, the behavioral, the cognitive, and the analytic, within an overarching existential or experiential context. This work demonstrates the existential-integrative model of therapy.
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. It demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive and nondirective approaches.
Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence explores risk management and successful intervention for children in public care who have committed, or are at risk of committing, acts of serious violence.The contributors identify different subgroups of children who are difficult to place, including those who sexually offend and those ......
An introduction for therapists, this work addresses fundamental questions about the nature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its causes, and how it can be treated with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). It begins by presenting clinically relevant features of BPD and describing the underlying causes of the disorder.
In "Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs", Dr. Don-David Lusterman demonstrates his empathic, psychoeducational approach to working with couples in which one partner has had an affair. Therapy begins with acknowledgement of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the ......
Concise, clear, and featuring numerous clinical examples, this is the first book to include empirical studies of supervisor/supervisee disclosure, plus extensive research on patient/therapist disclosure. Other unique topics include disclosure issues in child therapy.
This book is an introduction to gestalt play therapy a technique which combines the principles of gestalt theory with play techniques, so that children are able to use play to address their needs and problems.Research has shown that this approach can be applied successfully in children with different types of emotional problems in order to improve ......
Dr. Paul B. Pedersen shows how recognizing the centrality of culture can augment therapy and result in effective treatment of all clients. This approach involves recognizing cultural assumptions and acquiring knowledge and skills to get beyond them, something that may be done no matter what treatment model a therapist might use. The video ......
