Children and adolescents with chronic illnesses face extraordinary psychological stressors. This book provides scientific understanding of the interventions that promote psychological adaptation and adherence to treatment for children and adolescents with chronic health conditions.
Demonstrates the author's use of a form of therapy, which centers on the experience of strong emotion. In this therapy, clients are directed to relive experiences in which they felt strong emotion and to truly be present with those emotions, so as to develop greater emotional openness and resilience in the face of future challenges.
Cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention helps clients through the process of relapse recovery by focusing on cognitive, behavioral, and lifestyle choices that might be changed or reinforced to help the client prevent relapse. This work demonstrates an approach to working with clients dealing with addictions or compulsive habits.
Judith Beck illustrates how this present-oriented, brief form of psychotherapy works. Dr Beck meets with an African American woman in her late 30's who is a single parent dealing with life-long depression. Dr Beck helps the client begin to sort out her problems and modify her dysfunctional cognitions through Socratic questioning and other ......
Carlson and Glasser demonstrate effective techniques for psychologists, counselors, and social workers consulting with teachers individually and in groups. This program provides a step-by-step, empirically supported approach.
Provides a resource for both mental health professionals and attorneys regarding mental health law in each state. This book addresses areas pertinent to mental health professionals. It discusses about private practice, working with health care provider organizations, and understanding the duty to warn and report abuse of children and adults.
Diabetes, like all chronic illnesses, impacts all aspects of a person's life, perhaps even more so in childhood. Using a developmental, social-cognitive approach, Dr Alan M. Delamater works closely with children and their parents to help children learn to live with and manage their own diabetes. In this session, Dr Delamater meets with an ......
Creating a Positive School Climate and Developing Social Competence
Brings years of experience in research and applied behavioral sciences to show how educators, school psychologists, counselors, and other professionals can address the problem of bullying and aggression in schools. This book provides definitions, statistics, and theories that helps identify and characterize bullying.
Provides research on interpersonal processes of depression and develops an explanatory framework for this persistent mental illness. This book surveys the sources of chronic depression, discussing negative feedback-seeking, conflict avoidance, and blame maintenance. It is for students, researchers and therapists working with cases of depression.
