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 ......
Connecting Early Buddhism to Mindfulness and Western Psychotherapy
A rich resource enabling therapists to bring Buddhist philosophy to modern psychotherapy. Mindfulness-based interventions have become popular mental health treatments in recent years, but these interventions are typically applied by practitioners who lack knowledge of the interventions' Buddhist origins. The historical, religious, and ......
Volume 1: Developmental Science and Developmental Origins of Risk and Resilience in Childhood and Adolescence Volume 2: Pediatric Psychology and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics: Clinical Applicati
This vital two-volume handbook summarizes current and emerging research and clinical evidence to provide a working knowledge of the contributions of pediatric psychology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and developmental science, and promote the integration of these disciplines to improve child and adolescent health and well-being. In a ......
Cultural Humility offers a practical approach for meaningfully engaging cultural identities in therapy, to promote connection and growth in work with clients from a variety of backgrounds. The authors provide a therapeutic framework that integrates and contextualizes clinical training with the cultural issues and dynamics that arise in therapy. ......
How Acknowledging, Understanding, and Regulating Your Feelings Can Improve Your Mental Health
A practical, engaging resource that offers a clearer understanding of the science of emotion and a helpful path forward in regulating your emotions. Rates of anxiety and depression are high and continue to rise. Substance use and associated overdose deaths constitute a public health emergency, and many people suffer consequences from exposure ......
This volume provides a focused review of clinical psychology in communities of color from the twin perspectives of diagnosis and assessment, and treatment and interventions. Despite the increasing demand for psychotherapy among communities of color, the field of clinical psychology has not been able to adequately address the need for services ......
Now in its second edition, Therapeutic Change with Difficult Clients describes a common factors model for understanding and activating the process of change with challenging clients.
