Essential Papers in Consulting Psychology for a World of Change
What is executive coaching? And, how has it emerged as such a strong subdiscipline in psychology? This book aims to answer these questions and more. It also explores the various expectations held by practitioners, clients, and the tactics and methods coaches use to help clients improve their performance in situations.
In ""Brief Therapy With Adolescents"", John Littrell, EdD, demonstrates his approach to working with teenage clients. This approach seeks to shorten the length of therapy by looking at the client's patterns of behavior and helping to change the patterns that do not fit the client's goals. In this session, Dr. Littrell works with a 17-year-old boy ......
Contains essays which show clinical applications of quantitative cognitive science in charting abnormalities among groups and individuals, and discuss ways in which readers can apply these techniques in their own research and potentially in clinical assessment and practice.
A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy
A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.
Executive wisdom emerges from a complex matrix of factors that affect an individual leader's thoughts, behavior, and emotions, including his or her organization, biopsychosocial systems, behavioral interfaces, internalized human wisdom system, and external and internal challenges. Integrating large data, this book talks about executive wisdom.
Describes a different approach to treating complicated depression. Using Theodore Millon's personality-guided psychology as framework, this volume illuminates how specific personality types play into depression, and how taking personality into account enables psychologists to tailor their interventions to the patient.
Marvin R. Goldfried shows how cognitive-affective behaviour therapy works. In this session, Goldfried works with a 31-year-old woman who is struggling with expressing her feelings and being vulnerable in the most serious relationship she has had since her divorce 8 years ago. This DVD features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual ......
Research and Evidence-based Intervention Strategies
Offers data-based analyses from leaders in violence prevention with a scientific perspective. Here, the contributors examine a range of violence that occurs in our culture, including child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, and suicide. They examine the possibility of connecting the areas in both research and practice.
Working with older couples involves many issues not common in therapy with younger people, including issues surrounding illness, cognitive impairment, and physical decline. This work demonstrates the author's approach to conducting therapy with couples in their later years. It aims to teach couples better ways to cope with the challenges of aging.
