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Six essays illustrate the diversity of theoretical perspectives on the five-factor model of personality and the opportunities it provides for communicating and sharing ideas among some of the major schools in personality research. They include a history of the model, lexical and socioanalytic persp
Teaching and Learning Therapy is an indispensable resource for clinical therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. It also serves as an ideal text for students in these fields.
An exhaustive synthesis of clinical material and empirical date, Counseling Clients with HIV Disease is essential reading for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses.
Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this volume presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group treatment for the chronically mentally ill.
The Meaning of Role in Drama Therapy & Everyday Life
The metaphor linking the world with the stage is one that has captured the imagination of philosophers, poets, and social scientists for centuries. Shakespeare, calling all the world a stage, described it best hundreds of years ago; now, in Persona and Performance, Robert J. Landy takes this concept a step further. He shows that drama is not only ......
Integrates the motivational and cognitive approaches to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action, presenting new findings and suggesting strategies for future research. An introduction outlines themes in the field, and chapters examine issues such as sources and contents, affective inf
Exploring the rich life of the infant, the author shows how early relational experiences form or deform the foundation for emotional living and examines how these states play out in the psychoanalytic situation. With detailed clinical descriptions, he portrays the means for understanding and mediating the emergence of these early experiences in ......
Written for students as well as for mental health practitioners, the book provides extensive overviews of the research areas and includes experiments for the reader to complete that illustrate the main point of the text.
