Demonstrates a multimodal, evidence-based approach to working with families. Anchored in a client-oriented philosophy, the author first delineates client goals and then uses the most appropriate generic evidence-based strategies that can help achieve the goals set by the clients.
A Step-by-Step Plan for Gaining Admission to Graduate School in Psychology
Suitable for those considering graduate study in psychology, this book simplifies the process for applicants and increases their chances of being accepted. It includes useful timelines, tips, and tools that break the tasks into manageable steps and help readers define their goals, select programs, and navigate the application process.
Integrative Relational Psychotherapy is a demonstration and discussion of Paul L. Wachtel's approach to treating clients. In this approach, the therapeutic work centers on disrupting the vicious circles in which clients' interactions with others perpetuate the distressing affect states and the internal conflicts that generated their actions in the ......
Demonstrates the Rogerian style of therapy, which is based on the fact that a safe, accepting relationship between the therapist and client is key to the process of client self-discovery and actualization.
Activity scheduling is a powerful intervention and is more complicated than it may seem at first. This video provides guidelines for successful activity scheduling, a demonstration with a client who is depressed, and a discussion of the theory and practice of this technique. It features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of case material.
Demonstrates and discusses the use of the thought record in cognitive - behavioral therapy. The thought record helps show the client how his or her negative thoughts lead to negative feelings and maladaptive behaviors and helps promote a change in this pattern. This video provides a foundation for these two uses of the thought record.
Features chapters that are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD. This book is useful for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists.
Demonstrates a narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a ""novel being written,"" and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.
Reflecting on the implications of changes in our society, including political struggles for gay civil unions, marriage, and adoption rights, this volume focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and explores how to provide them with effective psychotherapy across a range of presenting concerns.
