Harm Reduction With High School Students illustrates a brief intervention for working with risk-taking high school students that emphasizes helping students to recognize the potential outcomes of their risky behavior and creating motivation for change. Dr. Mary E. Larimer works in this session with a high school boy who regularly drinks to excess. ......
Working With Headaches presents an example of Dr. Donald B. Penzien's multidisciplinary, cognitive-behavioral approach to treating clients who suffer from headaches. In addition to talking directly with the client, the approach emphasizes working closely with the client's physicians to make sure that the client receives the best medical treatment.
Dr Marc A. Nemiroff shows how to help adopted children come to terms with the question of "Where did I come from?" and with any potential traumas they may have experienced before adoption. The child-centered approach illustrated in this video emphasizes empathizing with the child and helping parents to truly understand their adopted child's ......
Demonstrates the emotion-focused approach to process experiential psychotherapy. This DVD guides the client's affective and cognitive processing of experience through the use of active interventions that facilitate the resolution of painful emotions. It explores the sources of the client's affective state.
Because of the complexity of their lives, adolescents have difficulty describing their feelings and identifying source of stressors. This book describes their behavioral difficulties, family conflicts, and academic problems. It helps them find ways to reduce the tension with their parents and addresses some of the problems they have at school.
Discusses and illustrates the behavioral approach to treating clients with gambling problems. This work includes handouts and homework emphasizing self-monitoring and motivation to change. It highlights the adaptability of this approach for a variety of individuals with gambling problems.
Reflects on what is promising in working with the suicidal adolescent and provides information relevant to theory, practice, and intervention. This volume provides empirically based findings that can be easily translated for practical use by the clinician. It includes discussion of malpractice risk management, and an extensive list of references.
Examining Identity and Development in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People
Explores the impressive body of rigorous empirical research on mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual people that has emerged over the past decade. The chapters in this book address a wide range of topics, including sexual behavior and identity, and the links between psychosocial processes and physical health.
Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relationships
Introducing the Couple Power Therapy model, in which partners co-create a unified vision for their relationship, the authors use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture ""the couple as entity."" With exercises and illustrative case studies, this is a helpful resource for ......
