Demonstrates the Rogerian style of therapy, which is based on the fact that a safe, accepting relationship between the therapist and client is key to the process of client self-discovery and actualization.
Gina Smith, RMN, RGN, Dip Thorn, MSc is a consultant nurse in the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. She is a co-facilitator on the Integrated Approaches to Serious Mental Illness Course at the University of Gloucestershire, a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England and the Clinical Director of Studies for the ......
Psychotherapy and Healing Through theMInd-Body Connection
This unique, practical and accessible healing manual explores the most powerful methods of healing, primarily focusing on guided imagery, a healing technique that fully exploits the connection between mind and body. In addition, it encourages a multi-modal approach to healing through an analysis of other techniques, including psychotherapy-based ......
Activity scheduling is a powerful intervention and is more complicated than it may seem at first. This video provides guidelines for successful activity scheduling, a demonstration with a client who is depressed, and a discussion of the theory and practice of this technique. It features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of case material.
Demonstrates and discusses the use of the thought record in cognitive - behavioral therapy. The thought record helps show the client how his or her negative thoughts lead to negative feelings and maladaptive behaviors and helps promote a change in this pattern. This video provides a foundation for these two uses of the thought record.
This book provides an approach to understanding and treating higher level personality pathology. It describes a specific form of treatment called "dynamic psychotherapy for higher level personality pathology" (DPHP), which was designed specifically to treat the rigidity that characterizes that condition.
Demonstrates a narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a ""novel being written,"" and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.
Reflecting on the implications of changes in our society, including political struggles for gay civil unions, marriage, and adoption rights, this volume focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and explores how to provide them with effective psychotherapy across a range of presenting concerns.
There are many possible contributing factors to depression in this population, as issues of grief, loss, and physical decline are unavoidable aspects of later life. This book demonstrates the author's multimodal approach to treating this common presenting problem in older clients.