Founded in 1973, Guilford Press has built an international reputation as a publisher of books in mental health, education, geography, and research methods. We pride ourselves on teaming up with authors who are recognized experts, and who translate their knowledge into vital, needed resources for practitioners, academics, and general readers. Our dedicated editorial professionals work closely on each title to produce high-quality content that readers can rely on.
This volume provides the tools professionals need to help adult and adolescent survivors of childhood abuse and other traumas who struggle with addictive disorders. Systematically integrating mental health paradigms with disease models of addiction, this easy-to-implement model combines psychotherapeutic techniques with 12-step recovery practices ......
This book shows how clinicians can utilize narrative therapy to help patients find their own voice, describe their experiences, and replace oppressive and debilitating perspectives with liberating and legitimizing life stories.
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which ......
Seven contributions address the practical details involved in conducting group therapy, covering such topics as patient selection, developing structure, the therapist's role, and dealing with difficult patients and challenging situations. Intended for students as well as practicing psychotherapists
This book should be of interest to social scientists interested in marriage, family issues, emotion, self esteem, guilt, and human coping should find the book illuminating. It will also be of interest to anyone who has experienced unrequited love.
What do Madonna, Confucius, and Jackie Robinson have in common? What does it take to go down in history as a great political leader? Why do revolutions occur, riots break out, and lynch mobs assemble? Which events do people find the most shocking or memorable? This path-breaking work offers the first comprehensive examination of the important ......
Shows how cognitive therapy can be applied to the treatment of family of origin issues, such as alcoholism and incest, without compromising depth and clinical sophistication. Using an integrative cognitive model and structured techniques, the volume shows how ideas highlighted in other orientations
Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how ......
