Carolyn Smith was educated at the University of Derby and University of Wales and is a qualified librarian. This is her first book, which is inspired by her own experiences of psychotherapy and self-harm. She currently lives in London with her partner and three cats.
Carlson and Glasser demonstrate effective techniques for psychologists, counselors, and social workers consulting with teachers individually and in groups. This program provides a step-by-step, empirically supported approach.
Judith Beck illustrates how this present-oriented, brief form of psychotherapy works. Dr Beck meets with an African American woman in her late 30's who is a single parent dealing with life-long depression. Dr Beck helps the client begin to sort out her problems and modify her dysfunctional cognitions through Socratic questioning and other ......
Presents an evaluation of the status of major psychotherapeutic approaches. This book presents evidence for the efficacy of widely used interventions for frequently encountered mental disorders for special populations, including children, adolescents, and adults. It addresses the methodological challenges in translating research into practice.
Diabetes, like all chronic illnesses, impacts all aspects of a person's life, perhaps even more so in childhood. Using a developmental, social-cognitive approach, Dr Alan M. Delamater works closely with children and their parents to help children learn to live with and manage their own diabetes. In this session, Dr Delamater meets with an ......
Harm Reduction With High School Students illustrates a brief intervention for working with risk-taking high school students that emphasizes helping students to recognize the potential outcomes of their risky behavior and creating motivation for change. Dr. Mary E. Larimer works in this session with a high school boy who regularly drinks to excess. ......
Acting as a teaching text and clinical resource, this book is about: how to do psychotherapy; and how to apply the science of change, to the complexities of helping people develop meanings in their lives. It shows how to nurture the therapeutic relationship, while implementing interventions as: centering techniques, problem solving, and others.
This book offers practical guidance for assessing the amenability of patients to psychotherapy. By focusing on which patients are likely to respond well to therapeutic intervention and which will prove most resistive, the book can assist clinicians in determining with what kinds of patients will most likely succeed.
