Dynamic Security describes the inner workings and dynamics of democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) in prisons. Chapters on theory, practice, management and on outcome and evaluation of work in TCs in prisons are linked with clinical examples. The contributors explore the complexities of working in therapy with the powerful emotional impact ......
Combining theory, research, and practical clinical strategies, this work provides framework for understanding the developmental impact of maltreatment; assessing the needs of each child and family; building a therapeutic relationship; and, implementing a variety of effective interventions. It gives emphasis to empirically supported treatments.
Demonstrates the author's approach to treating depression. Emotion-focused therapy centers on helping the client to express emotions more easily and thus release unprocessed feelings and thoughts so that they may be dealt with openly. This two-session tape is an example of emotion-focused therapy featuring discussions with the author.
Demonstrates the author's approach to working with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder. This video features a session the author had with a 40-year-old woman who reveals some potentially suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
Discusses a present-focused therapy that first looks at a couple's past experiences for ways to improve their interpersonal exchanges. This work presents an approach that works from a perspective that motivates a couple to stay together and helps them to focus on this and break away from past patterns of thought and behavior.
Demonstrates the author's approach to therapy with men who have been abused or suffered trauma in the past. This work also includes her commentary, which provides insight into the life of a man who has experienced childhood trauma.
Existential-integrative therapy is one way to engage and coordinate a variety of intervention modes, such as the pharmacological, the behavioral, the cognitive, and the analytic, within an overarching existential or experiential context. This work demonstrates the existential-integrative model of therapy.
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. It demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive and nondirective approaches.
Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence explores risk management and successful intervention for children in public care who have committed, or are at risk of committing, acts of serious violence.The contributors identify different subgroups of children who are difficult to place, including those who sexually offend and those ......
