Demonstrates an approach to working with families that have teenage children exhibiting behaviour issues and associated emotional disruptions. Dr. Alexander's approach involves working to increase family motivation to change by disrupting negative attributions they may have about themselves and other family members and replacing these with more ......
In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Debbie Joffe Ellis demonstrates this influential and impactful approach to psychotherapy. Originated by Albert Ellis, rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is based on the seemingly simple idea that it is not external events that make people happy or unhappy, but rather their internal thoughts about the ......
Provides psychologists with a brief yet thorough overview of the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), with clinical modifications for the US (ICD-10-CM). Readers will gain an understanding of the history and rationale behind this system of diagnosis, and will learn how to integrate the coding system and its nuances ......
Psychological testing is most valuable when it makes a meaningful difference in a person's treatment. This groundbreaking book offers a person- and treatment-centred approach to psychological testing, as opposed to the more common test-centred approach. The result is a clinically nuanced and robust approach to inference making and data synthesis.
Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) are conditions that, while not meeting diagnostic criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), share many similar symptoms. This book reviews the latest research on OCD and OCSDs and provides evidence-based guidance for assessment and treatment.
In this video, Dr. Linda R. Mona demonstrates disability affirmative therapy (DAT), a framework for psychotherapy with people with physical disabilities. DAT is a metatheoretical perspective that provides a disability-positive context where specific treatment interventions can be effectively applied. The DAT model focuses on empowerment and ......
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is designed to target and change unhealthy emotional processes that underlie the problems people bring to therapy with the goal of co-constructing new, healthier emotional processes. After unfolding client presenting problems and developing an understanding of the client's emotional processing style, emotion-focused ......
This bestselling, comprehensive assessment guide has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in the rapidly maturing field of clinical neuropsychology. This third edition expertly leads neuropsychologists and trainees through the complicated process of assessing, diagnosing.
This book teaches clinicians how to conduct a Marriage Checkup--a short, two-session, assessment and feedback relationship health check designed to help couples foster intimacy and confront their problems on an annual basis.
