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.
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.
Shows a general way to work with Arab and Middle Eastern American clients that touches on certain commonalites across these cultures, such as greeting clients with respect, awareness of personal boundaries and potential internal conflicts about living in the West, and reconciling tradition with American culture.
In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Dr. Cheryl Bodiford McNeil demonstrates this approach to helping young children who present with conduct problem behavior. This empirically supported intervention focuses on improving the relationship between parent and child by teaching parents specific skills to develop a nurturing, secure bond with their ......
Dr. Suzanne M. Miller demonstrates her approach to counseling women with breast cancer. The goal of her cognitive-social approach is to help women with the many challenges associated with treatment for breast cancer.
Clients who have concerns about weight typically go through a cycle of dieting and bingeing. Dr Kearney-Cooke works with clients to stop this unhealthy pattern by teaching them self-regulatory skills as well as forming realistic weight loss goals. She uses a cognitive-behavioural approach combined with interpersonal therapy.
Explores a different direction in psychoanalytic thought that can enable therapists of any orientation to better understand and help their patients. This book also preserves and extends, the depth of understanding of human experience and psychological conflict that has always been the strength of the psychoanalytic approach.
