Investigates the interplay of psychological and physical aggression between partners. This book explores different levels of severity and types of aggression, illustrating that for both risk factors and interventions, 'one size does not fit all.'
This book integrates the basic and applied literature to provide mental health providers with concrete, evidence-based strategies for building and strengthening the parent-child relationship and addresses challenges typically neglected by intervention manuals.
Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatil
Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, this book shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.
Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervision in this highly instructive work.
A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients)
Right now, an estimated 4-5% of people are engaged in consensually non-monogamous relationships, while 20% of people explore consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives. Yet there is still next-to-no guidance for therapists seeking to work with this marginalized population.
A Transdiagnostic Model for Caregiver-Focused Interventions
This clinical manual describes how to use emotion focused family therapy, an exciting new psychotherapeutic approach in which caregivers play a pivotal role their loved ones' treatment.
Using Guided Reflection to Strengthen Relationships and Improve Outcomes
Provides an overview of the science and practice of relational savoring, a brief, guided reflection exercise that helps clients reconnect with memories of being closely connected with another person.
Rich in clinical examples, this book offers a fresh perspective on the roles of shame and guilt in psychological distress and presents a step-by-step framework for treatment. Martha Sweezy explains how the principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy are ideally suited to helping trauma survivors and other clients who struggle with ......
Features new scholarship in children's emotion socialization and childhood aggression, and offers parenting interventions developed through the lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The authors recommend a holistic, process-oriented approach to support parents of aggressive children of varying ages.