Provides an in-depth and engaging overview of community psychology, including its theoretical underpinnings and methods for conducting research and promoting change within communities. This book aims to get students, including nonpsychology majors, excited about the field and being agents of social change.
The integrative framework in this book synthesizes common factors research into a comprehensive set of guidelines for improving clinical practice and training. The five common factors reviewed are the therapeutic relationship, motivation, insight, self-efficacy, and corrective experiencing.
Demonstrates an approach to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same-sex attracted clients. This book sees a therapeutic task as determining whether and, if so, how sexuality impacts a client's self-perception, identity, relationships, career options, and life choices.
A Guide to Psychological and Pharmacological Interventions
An exploration of the best way to integrate pharmaceuticals and pyschotherapy in the treatment of mental disorders. Different disorders are addressed in separate chapters in relation to combined treatments. A practical volume for both experienced and non-experienced pyschologists.
Practical Insights from the Science of Teaching and Learning
Everything matters when it comes to teaching and learning. Most of these influences are outside the college instructor's control. Other issues, however are controllable. This book examines the many choices professors make about their teaching, beginning with their initial planning of the course and its basic content through to the final decisions ......
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy With Donald Meichenbaum is a demonstration of arguably the most frequently used therapeutic approach by one of its cofounders. Dr. Donald Meichenbaum uses cognitive-behavioral therapy with a constructive-narrative perspective in which he looks at the stories clients tell about themselves and considers ways that the ......
In this DVD, Cory F. Newman demonstrates an approach to supervision that creates a safe, professionally supportive environment for a supervisee to acquire, practice, and master cognitive behavioural therapy methods, and become more confident as a practitioner.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a system of treatment involving a focus on thinking and its influence on both behavior and feelings, is one of the dominant approaches to psychotherapy. This illustrates multiple aspects of the CBT system of psychotherapy, including the setting conditions, parameters around the techniques, and the techniques ......
Exposure-based cognitive-behavioural therapy is the treatment of choice for specific phobias. A phobia, or an extreme fear of a specific situation or object that results in severe distress or highly avoidant behaviour around those objects or situations, can interfere with day-to-day functioning. Using cognitive restructuring strategies with ......
