Designed as a manual for training and teaching, this book shows how group psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy practitioners combine knowledge of the interpersonal factors that underlie each patient's symptoms, with a sound understanding of group process theory and stages of group development, to effect real and lasting change.
Emotional pain experienced by a client, whether it is loneliness, sadness, shame and fear, for example, are responses to an injury that prevents or violates the fulfillment of the basic human need to be loved, feel safe, and be acknowledged.
Provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others' work. Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that describes and analyses one's personal experience in various contexts to understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.
Describes the nuts and bolts of play therapy and provides fifteen of the most popular materials and activities practitioners can use with children today. Some are classics in the field, including sand, block, and role play, while some are relatively new approaches, such as electric game play and virtual reality play.
Offers a no-nonsense, step-by-step approach to qualitative research in psychology and related fields, presenting principles for using a generic approach to descriptive-interpretive qualitative research. The authors offer an overarching framework of best research practices common to a wide range of approaches.
An in-depth practical guide for mental health practitioners working across diverse theoretical orientations to provide mental health services tailored to the needs of refugees. Chapters outline research-supported psychological interventions that can be used in a culturally sensitive manner.
This book provides detailed guidance on assessing and accommodating patient preferences for the psychotherapist, the therapeutic approach, and treatment activities. Blending empirical research and clinical expertise into easy-to-read advice, Drs. John Norcross and Mick Cooper offer multiple strategies for routinely assessing preferences as ......
Describes consensual qualitative research, an inductive method characterized by open-ended interview questions, small samples, a reliance on words over numbers, the importance of context, an integration of multiple viewpoints (for example, the consensus of the research team and auditors), and a high emphasis on rigour and replicability.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyses language at both the micro and macro levels. Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts.
