Shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories also guide systematic case formulation.
Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and those who experience cardiac events suffer a range of psychological sequelae. This book provides an orientation to this specialization and, drawing on a variety of therapy models, describes empirically-supported intervention strategies.
Dr. Raine Weiner demonstrates her approach to working with adolescent clients who present with eating disorders. Eating disorders, which include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, are common among teenagers, especially among girls. In this session, Dr. Weiner works with a girl who is experiencing obsessive thoughts, recurrent anxiety, and ......
Generalized anxiety disorder involves consistent feelings of anxiety and excessive worry and tension. This book uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, focusing on thoughts and actions that might contribute to the anxiety and on helping clients see any negative bias they may have in interpreting information.
Demonstrates relational psychotherapy, in which the therapeutic task is to work collaboratively to understand what is going on between the therapist and client and to look for the relational meaning in everything that arises in therapy, from responses to interventions to client-therapist interaction.
Demonstrates an approach to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same-sex attracted clients. This book sees a therapeutic task as determining whether and, if so, how sexuality impacts a client's self-perception, identity, relationships, career options, and life choices.
Provides clinicians and students with an overview of the key issues involved in measuring client change within clinical practice. This book reviews the history, conceptual foundations, and status of trait- and state-based assessment models and approaches, exploring their strengths and limitations for measuring change across therapy sessions.
Dreams frequently come up for discussion in the course of therapy, and the insights clients might gain from dreams can help the therapeutic process. This title teaches clients to use a technique called dream language, which emphasizes the client's own creation of the dream.