Brief dynamic therapy is a time-efficient treatment in which the therapist maintains a focus on specific client issues, all within a basic psychodynamic framework. This volume focuses largely on time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. It explores this integrative, culturally-sensitive approach, its theory, history, the therapy process, primary change ......
Demonstrates the author's approach to short-term, focused therapy. This treatment is distinguished by its emphasis on finding an issue on which to focus in therapy, a characteristic intrinsic to its brevity (therapy generally runs 12-25 sessions).
This expanded edition includes research on asthma treatments and medications for children and advocates a family approach to promote the well-being of children and controll symptoms of asthma. It also includes information on non-medical treatment, such as relaxation and visualization.
Dr. Suzanne M. Miller demonstrates her approach to counseling women with breast cancer. The goal of her cognitive-social approach is to help women with the many challenges associated with treatment for breast cancer.
The physical and mental health consequences of body image problems, eating disorders, and obesity in children and adolescents can be serious and can extend into adulthood. This book shows that these disorders are preventable and treatable. It demonstrates how body image and eating problems vary across ethnic groups and in boys and girls.
It is clear that body image plays a role in the etiology, development, and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. This work integrates research on body image with empirically supported assessment and intervention guidelines for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
A Science-Based Framework for Behavioral Health Care
Presents a comprehensive biopsychosocial framework for behavioral health care. The author lays out the essential scientific and ethical foundations of the framework and then applies it across the treatment process, from intake through outcome assessment thus providing a critical basis for the integrated health care systems of the 21st century.
Explores the explosion of research on the neuroscience and endocrinology of sexuality and presents findings in the field. From studies of twins to test a genetic basis for sexual orientation to examinations of the roles of the endocrine system and hypothalamus in sexuality, this volume gives a portrait of the state of the art in sexuality ......
Introduces mental health care professionals to the business aspects of running a private practice, including billing, collecting, financial agreements with clients, and ethically balancing business and clinical interests.
