Shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories also guide systematic case formulation.
Dr. Raine Weiner demonstrates her approach to working with adolescent clients who present with eating disorders. Eating disorders, which include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, are common among teenagers, especially among girls. In this session, Dr. Weiner works with a girl who is experiencing obsessive thoughts, recurrent anxiety, and ......
Demonstrates relational psychotherapy, in which the therapeutic task is to work collaboratively to understand what is going on between the therapist and client and to look for the relational meaning in everything that arises in therapy, from responses to interventions to client-therapist interaction.
Generalized anxiety disorder involves consistent feelings of anxiety and excessive worry and tension. This book uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, focusing on thoughts and actions that might contribute to the anxiety and on helping clients see any negative bias they may have in interpreting information.
Demonstrates an approach to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same-sex attracted clients. This book sees a therapeutic task as determining whether and, if so, how sexuality impacts a client's self-perception, identity, relationships, career options, and life choices.
Heart disease is the leading cause of the death in the United States, and those who experience cardiac events suffer a range of psychological sequelae. This book provides an orientation to this specialization and, drawing on a variety of therapy models, describes empirically-supported intervention strategies.
A companion volume to volume seven in the Mu lticultural Aspects of Counseling series, this book is desig ned to provide counsellors with the basic knowledge required for multicultural counselling. '
Provides clinicians and students with an overview of the key issues involved in measuring client change within clinical practice. This book reviews the history, conceptual foundations, and status of trait- and state-based assessment models and approaches, exploring their strengths and limitations for measuring change across therapy sessions.
"Research reports do not usually make for riveting reading, so I had expected this book to be rather dry. However, nothing could be further from the truth as Mick Cooper has managed to create a text that is interesting and informative as well as engaging...certainly deserves a place on every counsellor and psychotherapist's bookshelf" Therapy Today, March 2009 "Hard to put down...a superb job in drawing together such a wide body of information and synthesizing it in a manner that regular 'Joes' like me can understand." Bill Matthews, Trainer and Therapist "A great contribution to the literature." Colin Lago "A great resource for therapists and a tremendous achievement to have pullled all this often complex information together in such an accessible way." Joe Armstrong, Lecturer in Counselling, University of Abertay "A remarkable summary of findings and their implications for practice as we enter the 21st century." Prof Michael J. Lambert, Brigham Young University "A fantastic accomplishment. Mick Cooper brings together a vast amount of material in a relevant and interesting way." Prof John McLeod, Professor of Counselling, University of Abertay Dundee 'The publication of this book couldn't be more timely! Mick Cooper has a wonderful ability to write about complex things in a clear accessible way" Laurie Clark, CEO of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Are some therapies more effective than others? How important is the relationship? Which clients do best in therapy? Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy answers these questions and many more, providing trainees, practitioners and researchers with a comprehensive introduction to the latest findings in the field. The book sets out in a jargon-free way the evidence for the effectiveness of therapy and the factors associated with positive therapeutic outcomes. It gives suggestions for further reading, definitions of key terms and questions for discussion, making this an ideal text for use in training. The book is also designed for practitioners who increasingly need to justify their therapeutic work on empirical grounds. Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy gives them the knowledge and confidence to do just that. More than that, it makes research findings accessible and provides information on how to practice counselling and psychotherapy in an effective way. Watch Mick Cooper talking about this book on YouTube: To view the Part 1 - Click Here To view the Part 2 - Click Here To view the Part 3 - Click Here
