A practical, hands-on guide to understanding and resolving common ethical issues that arise in mental health practice. This book, intended for a broad audience of professionals, is a practical, handy guide to ethical decision-making in one's daily work. Each chapter outlines key ethical issues that arise in mental health practice, cites relevant ......
This essential guide for helping professionals offers an insightful, conversational approach to mastering empathic communication with clients. Douglas Flemons invites readers to join him in a dialogue that incorporates voices from multiple disciplines, including clinical research and practice, philosophy (both Eastern and Western), ......
A brief, practical guide to the most current research on and treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with severe emotion dysregulation, widespread impulsivity, and highly unstable interpersonal relationships. BPD patients often threaten suicide, make attempts, or suffer from ......
A Comprehensive Approach to Management and Treatment
This comprehensive guide shows how integrating hypnosis with psychotherapy and mindful meditation can help clinicians treat patients who suffer from chronic and acute pain. David R. Patterson and M. Elena Mendoza present hypnotic analgesia as a viable alternative to psychopharmacological interventions for pain resulting from physical injuries, ......
A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Treatment for Diverse Communities
This book details the history, science, and practice of Functional Family Therapy (FFT), an evidence-based model practitioners can use to understand families, the problems they face, and how to enable families to create real and lasting change. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) has evolved from a theory taught only in universities to become a ......
Multicultural Care, now in paperback, offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing a clinician's understanding of clients' contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting a healing approach to one's clients' needs. Each chapter demonstrates the application of cultural competence to a different aspect of ......
Presents essential background necessary for understanding the role of theory in psychotherapy practice, and shows how understanding psychotherapy theory is the first step to becoming an effective therapist. The book is an accessible resource for students in training and practitioners seeking to reevaluate theories.
This book helps teachers bring positive psychology into the classroom with a series of hands-on activities presented by contributors who are experienced teachers and leading scholars in their topic areas. A rich source of ideas for all teachers of psychology.
This book summarizes the psychological research on the concept of mattering in children and adolescents, and outcomes associated with the presence or absence of feelings of being valued by others.
