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 ......
Divorce is stressful for partners, children, and other family members, causing problematic thoughts and behaviours. It is not uncommon for one or both partners to come into therapy seeking help. Dr. Jay Lebow's approach requires first generating a comprehensive picture of what is occurring in the entire family and only then developing a plan for ......
Dr Pratyusha Tummala-Narra demonstrates her approach to psychotherapy that involves an integration of contemporary psychoanalytic theory, multicultural psychology, and feminist psychology.Her theoretical understanding of clients' presenting issues is based on the idea that individual development is shaped by interpersonal, sociocultural, and ......
Interpersonal reconstructive therapy incorporates aspects of biological and psychoanalytic attachment theories into a case formulation model that explains symptoms in relation to client views of safety and threat. In this program, Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin works with a 19-year-old single woman with severe anxiety who was hospitalized after ......
Research on juries once served as a pillar of psychological scholarship, but publication of such research has slowed considerably in recent years. In an attempt to reinvigorate scholarship on this important topic, this volume summarizes what is known about the psychology of juries and makes a strong call to arms for more research.
Argues that emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is uniquely capable of targeting the maladaptive emotional schemes that underlie generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and helping clients maintain lasting, positive change. In this practical guide, Jeanne Watson and Leslie Greenberg teach mental health practitioners how to employ EFT methods in their work ......
Integrating Mindfulness Into Psychology and the Helping Professions
In this new edition, authors Shapiro and Carlson draw from Eastern wisdom and practices as well as Western psychological theory and science to explore why mindful awareness is integral to the therapeutic healing process and to show clinicians how to connect with this deeper awareness.
From cognitive-behavioral, to existential, phenomenological, schema, and humanistic therapies, the ideas of Alfred Adler are at the heart of many contemporary approaches to psychotherapy. In this book, Jon Carlson and Matt Englar-Carlson explore the theory, history, research, and practice of a person-centred approach to psychotherapy that was far ......
How instructors address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) identities is critical for the education of all learners, whether or not the primary subject matter is sexual orientation and/or gender diversity. This book is a theoretical and practical guide for individuals who teach and train about LGBTQ psychology ......
