There is empirical evidence that spiritual approaches to treating clients with eating disorders are as effective, and sometimes more effective, than secular ones. This book shows how a theistic perspective of healing and change can enrich therapies in practice for eating disorders such as individual, group, and family therapy and 12-step programs.
Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship
During the course of psychotherapy, therapist and patient engage in an ""intersubjective negotiation"" based on their respective individualities. In this series of essays arranged in eight ""dialogues,"" leading clinicians wrestle with questions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality as they apply to the therapeutic relationship.
In "Cardiac Psychology", Dr. Robert Allan demonstrates his approach to working with patients who have or are at risk for coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death and disability in Western civilization. Arguably, the field of cardiac psychology/behavioral cardiology is informed by the largest empirical database in behavioral medicine. ......
A Story About Alzheimer's Disease for Young Children
Barbara Schnurbush helps children understand how Alzheimer's disease will ultimately change older people they are close to, such as their grandparents, and provides hints for parents to provide ways that they can help their children handle their feelings and worries.
Demonstrates the author's approach to treating depression. Emotion-focused therapy centers on helping the client to express emotions more easily and thus release unprocessed feelings and thoughts so that they may be dealt with openly. This two-session tape is an example of emotion-focused therapy featuring discussions with the author.
Discusses a present-focused therapy that first looks at a couple's past experiences for ways to improve their interpersonal exchanges. This work presents an approach that works from a perspective that motivates a couple to stay together and helps them to focus on this and break away from past patterns of thought and behavior.
Demonstrates the author's approach to working with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder. This video features a session the author had with a 40-year-old woman who reveals some potentially suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
Demonstrates the author's approach to therapy with men who have been abused or suffered trauma in the past. This work also includes her commentary, which provides insight into the life of a man who has experienced childhood trauma.
Existential-integrative therapy is one way to engage and coordinate a variety of intervention modes, such as the pharmacological, the behavioral, the cognitive, and the analytic, within an overarching existential or experiential context. This work demonstrates the existential-integrative model of therapy.
