Empower self-determination through inclusion, equity, and community collaboration with this invaluable resource on shared decision making. This book is a comprehensive guide to shared decision making (SDM), which is both a treatment philosophy and a well-developed clinical approach that clarifies responsibilities and tasks between patients with ......
A new, updated third edition of this guide to understanding narrative therapy. Narrative therapy is founded on the idea that we are built up from interacting stories that together comprise our sense of who we are. Therefore, the issues that we bring to therapy are not restricted to (or located) within ourselves alone, but are influenced and ......
This third edition offers an updated primer to the theory, history, research, and practice of existential-humanistic (EH) therapy, which merges existential philosophy with humanistic psychotherapy. EH therapy blends the European heritage of self-inquiry, struggle, and responsibility with the American tradition of spontaneity, optimism, and ......
A comprehensively revised edition of this essential guide to brief dynamic therapy, an integrative, culturally-sensitive, time-efficient model of psychotherapy. In this third edition, Hannah Levenson provides the history and theoretical basis of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP). In the years since the earlier editions, new research ......
This book examines the history, theory, practice, and empirical evidence for constructive psychotherapy. Human beings exist within a context that is constructed by our language, worldview, and the stories we tell. Alone and in concert with one another, we construct meaningful understandings of the world. Because the invented nature of our ......
What Works and When in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
This book of theory and practice offers an unprecedented exploration of the nature of emotion and the process by which it changes. Written for mental health providers and psychotherapy researchers, this innovative and unique volume offers an extraordinary synthesis of psychotherapy research, neuroscience, and practical observations to propose a ......
Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, Assessment, and Psychotherapy
A flexible, evidence-based framework that bridges therapeutic approaches to empower clinicians in understanding and treating diverse clients with diverse problems. Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory (CIIT) uses interpersonal principles in a way that is evidence-based, practical, and ecumenical. It does not offer one particular type ......
Updates a classic emotion-focused therapy reference with over 20 years of research and theory. The first edition of this book became the standard reference and training work for a generation of emotion-focused therapy (EFT) therapists. This second edition aims to inspire the next generation of EFT therapists by fully updating the first edition's ......
The question of whether emotion-focused skills is an inborn talent or can be acquired through learning is an intriguing one. On Becoming Emotion Focused attempts to answer that question - whether such attunement is a product of nature (implicit learning) or nurture (explicit learning) while also illustrating, through the unraveling of the author's ......
