Demonstrates the author's use of a form of therapy, which centers on the experience of strong emotion. In this therapy, clients are directed to relive experiences in which they felt strong emotion and to truly be present with those emotions, so as to develop greater emotional openness and resilience in the face of future challenges.
This manual is specifi cally designed for therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals who are looking to add life coaching techniques to their portfolio of skills. Dave Ellis, author of Falling Awake, has produced a step-by-step practical guide to turning your natural people helping skills into a profitable life coaching business. Life ......
Cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention helps clients through the process of relapse recovery by focusing on cognitive, behavioral, and lifestyle choices that might be changed or reinforced to help the client prevent relapse. This work demonstrates an approach to working with clients dealing with addictions or compulsive habits.
Presents approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for clinical understandings. This book provides fresh insights on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children. It offers both strategies and techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.
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.
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 ......
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.
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. ......
