Advice from Successful Students and Prominent Psychologists
Shares personal accounts from both peer and expert perspectives to illustrate the ins and outs of applying and preparing for the graduate school experience. This title offers familiarity and identification with those who have successfully enrolled in graduate programs across the country.
Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and those who experience cardiac events suffer a range of psychological sequelae. This book provides an orientation to this specialization and, drawing on a variety of therapy models, describes empirically-supported intervention strategies.
In general, male culture holds values contrary to psychotherapeutic goals and methods, including a resistance to asking for help and an aversion to vulnerability and intimacy. This title modifies therapy to make it more compatible with men's ways of thinking and doing.
Shows a general way to work with Arab and Middle Eastern American clients that touches on certain commonalites across these cultures, such as greeting clients with respect, awareness of personal boundaries and potential internal conflicts about living in the West, and reconciling tradition with American culture.
Dreams frequently come up for discussion in the course of therapy, and the insights clients might gain from dreams can help the therapeutic process. This title teaches clients to use a technique called dream language, which emphasizes the client's own creation of the dream.
Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between the two fundamental dimensions of relatedness and self-definition. The author applies this model in great detail to the process of therapeutic change, with striking implications for further research.
In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Dr. Cheryl Bodiford McNeil demonstrates this approach to helping young children who present with conduct problem behavior. This empirically supported intervention focuses on improving the relationship between parent and child by teaching parents specific skills to develop a nurturing, secure bond with their ......
Causal Theories to Inform Research, Prevention, and Treatment
Reviews and critiques theories and the supporting literature on why adolescent and adult males commit such acts as child molestation, voyeurism, indecent exposure, rape, and other violent offenses against adults and children. This book presents an integrative theory of sex offending, and the ways it could influence prevention and treatment.
Perfectionism can be defined as a tendency to set standards that are unreasonably high, and to measure an individual's worth in terms of their ability to meet these standards. This title demonstrates an approach to working with clients wrestling with issues surrounding maladaptive perfectionism.
