This book uses actual interviews with children to show readers how to apply a developmental, biopsychosocial framework for understanding the inner lives of children at different ages and stages. It outlines proven techniques for helping infants and children to reveal their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors during the clinical interview.
Shows how psychotherapists can effectively treat depressive disorders. This title includes case examples that illustrate a range of strategies and techniques that enable the therapist to manage numerous problems including anxiety, suicide threats, and the subtle dynamics that characterize doctor-patient relationships.
A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Integrating Play and Imagination in Psychotherapy, Supervision and Training
Creativity can be vital to mental health and well-being. Featuring case accounts from therapeutic journeys that have used creative approaches, Creativity and Cognitive Analytic Therapy explores how both novice and seasoned CAT therapists can engage relationally with their creative selves and in doing so enable a more open and flexible exploration ......
A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or ......
Hypnosis affords clinicians a brief, efficient methodology to address a wide range of psychological conditions and disorders. This volume demonstrates both how hypnotic techniques can supplement science-based clinical interventions and how clinicians can use hypnosis with the assurance of a strong empirical foundation to guide their practice.
Based on the profound expertise of the author - an EMDR therapist, consultant, and trainer who brings 33 years of military experience to his therapeutic work - this is a ""how-to"" manual on the unique treatment needs of active duty and veteran populations and how to help them using EMDR therapy.
Volume 2 of this two-volume handbook of contemporary cognitive behavioral scholarship evaluates the application of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to specific clinical conditions, modalities and settings, and diverse populations.
From pioneering treatment developers, this is the authoritative presentation of recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). This evidence-based approach empowers people given a serious mental health diagnosis such as schizophrenia to build a better life in their chosen community. CT-R provides innovative strategies to help individuals shift from a ......
Provides the tools and techniques to reverse insomnia and improve sleep long-term. This book breaks down the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), the sleep program considered first-line treatment in the clinic, into a step-by-step and reader friendly program that can be easily followed at home.