Clinicians must provide appropriate and effective services when working with multicultural clients. This offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing your understanding of clients' contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting your healing approach to your clients' needs.
The therapeutic relationship is essential to positive outcomes of psychotherapy. Here the authors argue that therapeutic presence is the fundamental underlying quality of the therapeutic relationship and, hence, effective therapy, and also provide a therapeutic presence theory of relationship based on research and clinical wisdom.
Bringing together different perspectives on close relationships to explore how they develop, function, and interact across a variety of contexts, this book contains theory and empirical research rooted in developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolutionary science, individual differences, and psychophysiology.
Explores social networks in formal and informal organisations, using a combination of approaches from social psychology, I/O psychology, organisation/management science, social learning, and helping skills. A quantum advance over conventional social network analysis, this examines how social networks articulate goals and generate social capital at ......
In Positive and Transpersonal Approaches to Therapy, Roger Walsh works with a young woman who is questioning her religious faith and related conventional views of religion and spirituality. In his deeply empathic approach to therapy, Dr. Walsh explores the client's existential and spiritual anxieties and helps her to recognise them as part of a ......
Play therapy is used to meet a broad range of developmental needs in children from various backgrounds. This is for mental health practitioners working with children aged 5 to 12 to help them learn social skills such as making friends, asking for and offering help, controlling their movements and using appropriate words.
Volume 1: Theories, Constructs, and Critical Issues Volume 2: Individual Differences and Cultural and Contextual Factors Volume 3: Application to Learning and Teaching
The APA Educational Psychology Handbook reflects the broad nature of the field today, with state-of-the-science reviews of the diverse critical theories driving research and practice; in-depth investigation of the range of individual differences and cultural/contextual factors that affect student achievement, motivation, and beliefs; and close ......
In Using Client Feedback in Therapy, Barry L. Duncan illustrates his client-directed, outcome-informed approach to psychotherapy, which enlists the use of client feedback to ensure a positive treatment outcome. In this process, the client's voice is a highly integrated part of how the service is delivered, with feedback about therapeutic benefit ......
