This text has answers to real questions asked by parents and teen girls. Readers should find the questions and answers to be like having a personal confidant or private therapist who they can ask anything and everything they have ever wanted to know about being a teenager or being a parent.
This book offers a scientific investigation into the impostor phenomenon, a concept that has long been misunderstood in popular culture. Much of the conventional wisdom about the impostor phenomenon is driven by intuitive, common-sense based recommendations about how to cope with and conquer impostor feelings. Unfortunately, much of this ......
This volume asks how and why highly acculturated youth may fare worse academically and developmentally than their less assimilated peers, and under what circumstances this pattern is disrupted.
Advice and Insights for Building a Successful Career
Consulting is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. This volume offers basic guidance on the fundamentals of consulting with essays by leaders in the field. It guides readers through a career continuum, beginning with learning about potential employers to creating and maintaining a business and watching it grow and thrive.
Despite its avowed shift away from behaviouristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency.
The dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. David Elkins argues that while the medical model remains widely accepted, science shows it to be inappropriate. A wealth of evidence suggests that healing occurs through human connection and ......
Presents a demonstration and discussion of Dr. David N. Elkins's approach to helping clients overcome unresolved issues. In this approach, the therapeutic work focuses on employing the human factors of psychotherapy to facilitate change. Such human elements include fostering a firm therapeutic alliance and de-emphasizing modalities that are ......
This book will expand the thinking of forensic psychologists, legal professionals, and mental health practitioners who work with the law or serve as expert witnesses in court.
The editors of this second edition have created a new and enriched volume that presents the most recent research on what works in therapeutic practice, a thorough analysis of this research, and practical guidance on how a therapist can truly "deliver what works in therapy."
