Includes advice for working with highly conflicted couple relationships; innovative techniques for working with children, youth, and families; updated practice approaches to grief, loss, trauma, and death; and ideas for understanding gender and the influence of queer informed narrative therapy on identity formation.
Brings the study of cognitive dissonance into the 21st century. Contributors survey discoveries about the role dissonance plays in a variety of information processes, as well as connections between dissonance processes and other motivational processes. Mathematical and action-based models that summarize how dissonance works are also presented.
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.
Offers a conceptual framework for working with men - the Deepening framework - along with practical guidance for conducting group therapy with men. This book helps clinicians find ways to break down the barriers that keep many men from seeking help, and shows them how to explore men's inner psychological workings.
Explores embodied cognition from an experimental psychology perspective. Rebecca-Fincher Kiefer examines a wealth of evidence, including behavioural studies supported by neuroscientific findings, that suggest that our knowledge of the world is grounded in the neural pathways that were used when we initially experienced those concepts.
Volume 1: Sport Psychology Volume 2: Exercise Psychology
Presents new areas of research and links theory with emerging practice to reflect the latest developments in this constantly changing field. The 77 chapters provide extensive coverage of conceptual frameworks and models, empirical findings, and practical interventions.
Describes psychotherapeutic strategies for treating adolescent girls of colour. This book provides clinicians with a framework for offering culturally congruent care from a multicultural, feminist, strengths-based perspective, and helps them to better understand the contextual lives and developmental pathways of adolescent girls of colour.
Using illustrative clips from a demonstration session, Dr Farber discusses ways therapists can recognise client avoidance and dishonesty, understand the factors that inhibit or facilitate honest disclosure, determine when to accept and when to challenge, and learn to work with the clinical consequences of these behaviours.
Examines the nature of lies and concealment in everyday life and in therapy, with a focus on the process by which patients keep secrets and lie to their therapists. The authors discuss common lies told by therapy clients about a wide range of issues including sex, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, trauma, and the progress of therapy.
