Skilled forensic consulting psychologists help clients prepare for courtroom trials. This book helps psychologists understand the demands of this challenging yet deeply rewarding field. This volume includes nuanced discussion of the ethical challenges that consultants must navigate as part of their work.
Explores the history and effects of so-called conversion 'therapy' on LGBT people. What motivates individuals to seek these harmful treatments either for themselves or for their children? What does the record show about the efficacy and effects of SOCE and GICE? This book synthesizes findings to answer these and other important questions.
Facing Therapist Indiscretions, Transgressions, and Misconduct
Examines the events leading up to sexual boundary violations as well as what happens to clients and therapists once they are discovered. The book also considers the broader effects of such behaviour on colleagues, institutions, families, and others. Case illustrations are included to illustrate how therapeutic relationships are compromised.
This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time. Expert contributors from a variety of theoretical orientations synthesize key research and identify common factors across the field of psychology as ......
Career and work contribute significantly to personal and life satisfaction-and, when they are problematic, to personal unhappiness and stress. In this comprehensive career assessment book, Rodney L. Lowman addresses the three major areas that matter the most for understanding and helping people with their career choices: occupational ......
Examines challenges that arise for educators teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practices for addressing them. Contributors cover issues such as incorporating current events related to social justice into classroom discussion, navigating one's own stigmatized or privileged identities, and dealing with bias.
Emotional pain experienced by a client, whether it is loneliness, sadness, shame and fear, for example, are responses to an injury that prevents or violates the fulfillment of the basic human need to be loved, feel safe, and be acknowledged.
A practical guide for clinicians and other professionals working with children and adolescents exposed to trauma, offering an overview and rationale for a comprehensive approach to trauma-informed assessment, including key domains and techniques.
How It Originates, Develops, Manifests, and Spreads
With hate crimes on the rise, it is more important than ever to understand how hate originates, develops, manifests, and spreads - and how it can be counteracted. In this book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg assembles a diverse group of experts to examine these central issues from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.
