In Exercise, Dr. Kate F. Hays demonstrates her approach to using exercise as a therapeutic tool. Physical exercise has been linked to mental health as well as physical health and may be used as another therapeutic tool for helping clients with stress, depression, and low self-esteem. In this session, Dr. Hays counsels a young woman on her use ......
An authoritative introduction to behavior therapy as well as a comprehensive resource for those with a firm background in this area. This book clearly and methodically introduces the behavioral perspective to readers new to cognitive-behavioral therapy, while also applying a fresh lens for connecting theory, research, and practice for more ......
Includes new chapters on screening and diagnosis of ASD, discrete trials training, pivotal response training, verbal behaviour interventions, and structured teaching approaches. Contributors also describe interventions for using cognitive behavior therapy with children and families to treat a variety of symptoms and behaviours.
Advancing the Explanation of Its Nature, Cause, and Treatment
Presents contemporary theories and research regarding the behavioral processes that underlie major mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and alcohol/drug disorders. This book offers a counterpoint to theories which are not based on studies of behavior.
Although contemporary behavioral therapy has its origins in Skinner's theory of operant conditioning, its form does not ignore cognition, but instead views thoughts as another form of behavior that can be conditioned and thus changed. This book demonstrates the approach of behavioral therapy.
Late life is a time when loss becomes more frequent. This volume presents a critical review of the literature and dominant theories in the field of bereavement and examines how protective and problematic developmental processes affect the experience of bereavement in late life.
Addressing the critical intersection between mental health and the legal system, this book presents a competency-based approach to clinical practice with justice-involved couples and families.
Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Therapeutic Effectiveness
Deliberate practice is a systematic approach for improving psychotherapy outcomes one clinician at a time. This step-by-step guide to deliberate practice demonstrates how to collect and use client outcome data to create an individualized professional development plan to improve the quality of your service.
This is a view of teenage girls. It reviews and assesses research on girls from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds, searching or commonalties and differences.
