A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Integrating Play and Imagination in Psychotherapy, Supervision and Training
Creativity can be vital to mental health and well-being. Featuring case accounts from therapeutic journeys that have used creative approaches, Creativity and Cognitive Analytic Therapy explores how both novice and seasoned CAT therapists can engage relationally with their creative selves and in doing so enable a more open and flexible exploration ......
Later life can be a time when our established routines and coping strategies are challenged by retirement, losses, changes in social role and disabilities, resulting in frightening threats to the integrity of self. Such changes may jeopardise longstanding and cherished ways of relating - patterns that may seem to be bound up with our very ......
This handbook brings together the experiences and perspectives of people working with trauma in a wide range of fields, and explores the innovative ways in which they each seek to overcome the problems they face, while relating this to new thinking that is altering our understanding of a complex medical and social issue.
An Exploratory Programme for People with Attachment and Relational Trauma
Traditionally, people with attachment and relational trauma have been excluded from longer-term psychological therapies on the basis that they are 'hard to engage' and considered 'untreatable'. This new model of group psychotherapy is underpinned by the theory and practice of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with necessary adaptions to address ......
A Care Quality Guide for Health and Social Care Staff and Carers
Communicating Effectively with Individuals with Learning Disabilities; A care quality guide for health and social care staff and carers explains the fundamental basics of good communication to inspire care workers to think about the way they communicate with the people in their care.
Early Intervention, Ongoing Support and Flexible Evidence-Based Care
This long-awaited successor to Children and Adolescents Mental Health Today (2008) updates and expands the content to offer a contemporary look at the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people across the whole age range from 0 to 25.
A Child-Centred Approach to Healing Early Years Abuse
Childhood Trauma and Recovery provides practitioners and students across a range of disciplines with a solid foundation of understanding to inform effective practice in promoting recovery for children traumatised by sexual abuse.
Child to Parent Violence and Abuse is the first accessible, step-by-step practitioner's guide to understanding and working effectively with the thousands of families experiencing an underreported but deeply traumatic problem within the home.
