Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights

Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights
Author: Michael Kerman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2009-12-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0393705870

Often when you attend conferences you overhear people telling their colleagues about the most exciting workshops they have attended. Here, for your reading and clinical pleasure, is a book that contains just these clinical 'pearls' of wisdom, from the field's leading practitioners.

Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents

Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents
Author: Craig Haen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351332163

Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents provides principles for effective use of different arts-based approaches in adolescent group therapy, grounding these principles in neuroscience and group process practice-based evidence. It includes chapters covering each of the main creative arts therapy modalities—art therapy, bibliotherapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, and poetry/expressive writing therapy—written by respected contributors who are expert in the application of these modalities in the context of groups. These methods are uniquely effective for engaging adolescents and addressing many of the developmental, familial, and societal problems that they face. The text offers theory and guiding principle, while also providing a comprehensive resource for group therapists of diverse disciplines who wish to incorporate creative arts-based methods into their practice with teens.

Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health

Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health
Author: Adam N. Danquah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134675240

In the fifty years since its inception, John Bowlby’s attachment theory has been powerfully influential on developmental psychology and, more recently, mental health. Bringing together the experience of a diverse range of mental health practitioners and researchers who routinely use attachment theory in their own work, Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health provides a guide to using attachment theory in everyday practice. Adam N. Danquah and Katherine Berry present a wide-ranging and practical approach to the topic which includes studies on clinical practice, the provision of mental health services and accommodating intercultural perspectives. Section One covers the basics of attachment theory and practice. Section Two presents clinical problems and presentations including, among others, the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, psychosis, personality disorder and eating disorders. Section Three addresses the needs of specific populations, discussing the influence of sociocultural factors like gender, ethnicity and age. Finally, Section Four examines the organisation and the practitioner, including using the theory to organise services and how individual therapists can integrate their own attachment histories into their approach. Including the most up-to-date theories and practice in the field, Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health is ideal for psychologists and psychological therapists, counsellors, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers and mental health service managers and commissioners.

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy
Author: Lorrie L. Brubacher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2024-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1040088759

This accessible, practical, and thoroughly updated second edition introduces and presents how emotionally focused therapy can be used effectively across all three modalities, couple, family, and individual therapy, with clients from a diversity of backgrounds. Responding to critical updates in the field, this second edition once again follows Emily, an EFT therapist, to demonstrate how EFT can be used in practice. With updated references, research, and terminology throughout, this new edition reflects recent theoretical and practical updates by refocusing the model toward therapist interventions, such as the "EFT Tango," rather than the client change events, making it more accessible for readers to learn. It addresses the current need to integrate explicit socio-cultural sensitivity into EFT by including diverse case studies, explicit discussion of how the model can be applied with a diversity of clients, and how EFT therapists can integrate cultural sensitivity and attunement across multiple and diverse identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurotypicality, class, and religion. It can also be used alongside a practical new workbook, Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy, providing therapists with all the tools needed to confidently integrate this approach into their practice. This book is an essential read for all marriage and family therapists in practice and in training as well as counselors who are looking to use EFT with couples, families, and individuals.

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy
Author: Joseph Loizzo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000879917

Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the art of integrating contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices, including mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians, scholars, and thought leaders of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in the rapidly growing field of contemplative psychotherapy. The new edition offers an expanded array of effective contemplative interventions, contemplative psychotherapies, and contemplative approaches to clinical practice. New chapters discuss how contemplative work can effect positive psychosocial change at the personal, interpersonal, and collective levels to address racial, gender, and other forms of systemic oppression. The new edition also explores the cross-cultural nuances in the integration of Buddhist psychology and healing practices by Western researchers and clinicians and includes the voices of leading Tibetan doctors. Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers a profound and synoptic overview of one of psychotherapy’s most intriguing and promising fields.

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Author: Lorrie L. Brubacher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919476

This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training. It provides clinicians with practical tools, an experiential tour through case examples, and simple guidance to step into EFT. An overview of the change events includes both client processes and therapist interventions moment-to-moment. 'In Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change, each step and stage of EFT is laid out in a practical and theoretically simple manner that extends beyond what therapists need to do, to helping therapists grasp what experiential therapy is, providing moment-by-moment examples of how to engage clients emotionally, and how to foster emotional engagement between partners.'- From the Foreword by S. Johnson and A. Lee

Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis, Fourth Edition

Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis, Fourth Edition
Author: Nancy Boyd Webb
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462522211

"This book aims to provide professionals and clinicians-in-training with the latest forms of treatment for children and adolescents who have been impacted by crises and trauma. The various treatment options presented here include approaches that focus on the individual as well as many that include a parent in conjoint or filial therapy, and others that employ a family treatment model. Many chapters in this book demonstrate the use of a variety of creative methods with young people who have suffered traumatic experiences such as sexual abuse, bullying, immigration, natural disasters, and witnessing violence"--

Healing Moments in Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Healing Moments in Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
Author: Daniel J. Siegel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393708837

Distinguished clinicians explain what lies at the heart of change in effective psychotherapy. A wide range of distinguished scientists and clinicians discuss the nature of change in the therapeutic process. Jaak Panksepp, Ian McGilchrist, Ruth Lanius, Francine Shapiro, and other luminaries offer readers a powerful journey through mindful awareness, neural integration, affective neuroscience, and therapeutic presence to reveal the transformational nature of therapy. Healing Moments in Psychotherapy dives deep into the art and science of healing from the perspective of a variety of clinical approaches and scientific viewpoints, including interpersonal neurobiology. Through the voices of a dozen clinicians and scientists presenting their combined experiences and wisdom, it serves as a window into the process of healing. Practical examples and empowering research data support the ways in which therapeutic relationships can help catalyze health and restore wellness within psychotherapy.

Talking Bodies

Talking Bodies
Author: Kate White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919816

This monograph brings together the presentations from the nineteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference in 2012, organised by The Bowlby Centre. It explored the growing role of the body in relational psychotherapy over the last decade, and to bring us up to date in thinking about the relationship between attachment, the body and trauma. Questions addressed included: How do we anchor the new understandings we are gaining within the framework of attachment? How might the integration of these ideas about the body change what we do in the consulting room? What impact might this have on the therapy relationship? Can we maintain and respect the place of a secure, attuned attachment between therapist and client, and its healing potential, at the centre of our therapeutic work?

Morning Meditations: Awaken Your Power to Change

Morning Meditations: Awaken Your Power to Change
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2014-07-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0393709477

Powerful reflections on life’s biggest questions . . . all in a pocket-sized book Do you ever wish you could take a moment from your busy day to reflect on life’s larger questions? Do you wonder how you could experience your relationships differently? Or how to prioritize your goals? It can be challenging to reflect on our own experiences, to lean on the wisdom of others, and to draw inspiration from the world around us. Now you can . . .. without a big commitment of time. Morning Meditations is filled with more than 150 bite-sized entries about some of life’s most important questions about the nature of change, stress, mindfulness, gratitude, relationships, self-esteem, and health. Carefully curated from the writings of some of the world’s leading mental health practitioners, the passages offer insight and comfort, as well as prompts for further thought. Whether you read one entry each morning, or pick it up as needed, Morning Meditations offers expert life advice—all in the convenience of a pocket- sized book.