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This practical text offers an in-depth examination of major issues in child psychotherapy and highlights frequently encountered challenges in working with children and parents. Basic concepts of adult dynamic psychotherapy--such as the therapeutic alliance, resistance, transference and countertransference, and insight--are redefined and adapted to ......
This volume explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences.
Helping Clients with Coexisting Mental and Relationship Disorders
This essential handbook describes effective treatments for a particularly challenging clinical population: couples struggling with both relationship distress and individual mental health difficulties. Distinguished scientist-practitioners provide detailed accounts of their respective approaches, reviewing conceptual and empirical foundations as ......
Dishion and Kavanagh (both of the Child and Family Center, U. of Oregon) present a model of adolescent behavior that is "ecological" in the sense that webs of influences are seen as determinants of behavior. After demonstrating the model, they describe how to use the model to make assessments, conce
This volume takes a multi-level approach to understanding and treating personality disorder, identifying core symptoms and problems that many patients share and providing a comprehensive framework for clinical intervention.
This volume presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethno-cultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European and Middle Eastern descent.
An Integrative, Personality-Based Treatment for Complex Cases
What can be done to help those persons who consistently do not respond to therapeutic interventions, despite significant suffering and repeated attempts to seek treatment? This text presents a powerful evidence-based approach to working with these individuals.
Regression toward the mean is a complex statistical principle that plays a crucial role in any research involving the measurement of change. This primer is designed to help researchers more fully understand this phenomenon and avoid common errors in interpretation.
