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Psychopathy remains one of the least understood personality disorders and one of the most intransigent to therapeutic amelioration. Encompassing all the significant viewpoints regarding the nature of psychopathic personalities, this volume surveys current typologies and treatment approaches.
This text illuminates the unique needs of gay male couples in therapy and provides a practical framework for clinical intervention. The authors review the basic principles of structural family therapy and guide therapists in adapting treatment goals and interventions to better serve gay men.
Providing nuts-and-bolts advice about the process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient, this title focuses on such tasks as setting up appointments and discussing payment, conducting effective assessments while setting patients at ease, and dealing with mundane and serious clinical concerns.
Designed for distribution to patients, this concise CBASP therapy guide provides basic information about chronic depression and a clear introduction to the CBASP approach.
This guide brings together representatives of the major family therapy approaches to demonstrate the nuts-and-bolts of their brief work with couples. The time- and cost-effective models discussed are explicitly short-term.
This hands-on guide is designed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Each chapter focuses on a particular method, describes its applications in the school setting, and offers clear guidelines.
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, this text covers this topic.
Four psychiatrists from the University of South Carolina draw on their experience conducting a 1994 study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to evaluate the effectiveness of multisystemic therapy as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization of youths with mental health emergencie
