Dr. Suzanne M. Miller demonstrates her approach to counseling women with breast cancer. The goal of her cognitive-social approach is to help women with the many challenges associated with treatment for breast cancer.
Clients who have concerns about weight typically go through a cycle of dieting and bingeing. Dr Kearney-Cooke works with clients to stop this unhealthy pattern by teaching them self-regulatory skills as well as forming realistic weight loss goals. She uses a cognitive-behavioural approach combined with interpersonal therapy.
Explores a different direction in psychoanalytic thought that can enable therapists of any orientation to better understand and help their patients. This book also preserves and extends, the depth of understanding of human experience and psychological conflict that has always been the strength of the psychoanalytic approach.
A Guide for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Counselling Psychologists
The Practitioner's Handbook is an essential guide to professional development in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology . In a friendly and informal style, the handbook addresses the key concerns and questions most frequently raised by newly qualified practitioners, including: " how to avoid complaints and litigation; " how to ......
`I was impressed with the accessibility of the book, offering a guided tour through the history, context and purposes of reminiscence therapy, the range of applications from promoting social and emotional stimulation to reminiscence as psychotherapy. It also provides a brief overview of its theoretical underpinnings... As a book for health professionals interested in reminiscence work, it is a must for the shelf... most importantly it emphasizes the need for adequate training and supervision for those undertaking this type of work... the authors [also] provide a very good working guide to the assessment process' - Aging and Health In this practical and accessible book, leading exponents of reminiscence work describe the purposes and techniques of reminiscence and set out detailed guidelines on how to implement and conduct a wide range of reminiscence activities with different types of client. Highlighting its tremendous diversity and potential - and its special ability to allow people of all ages and abilities to communicate deeply about their lives - the authors separate out the different aims of reminiscence, which include intellectual or social stimulation, allowing people to leave behind them a cultural legacy, or a means of intergenerational communication. They show clearly how each can be directly beneficial either to clients or their carers, or for improving the culture of the arena in which the activity is being carried out.
Many researchers are suspicious of the pronouncements of counselling and psychotherapy practitioners because these are not backed up by resarcg, and likewise practitioners tend to ignore research findings because they consider that they have little relevance to their clinical practice. Aiming to bridge the gap between research and practive in couselling and psychotherapy, this book provides detailed clinical examples of the practical relevance of research. It includes contributions from therapy researchers, each of whom describes his or her research programme and spells put the practical applications for therapy of that programme's practice, and assess their immediate relevance for practitioners. This book calls for th eclose integration of research, skills training and supervised clinical practice on training courses. It should be a useful resource for both trainee and experienced practitioners.
Shows how the author approaches work with clients with chronic diseases such as Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, or lupus. This biopsychosocial approach helps fill in the gaps in medical interventions, which do not look at the broader cultural and psychological effects of a disease on a patient.
Demonstrates the author's interpersonal - relational integrative approach to therapy with male clients. This two-part video shows the author working with two brothers, both of whom fear losing their relationships with their children.
Demonstrates the author's approach to counseling couples who are experiencing relationship difficulties. This work first looks at how partners see themselves and each other and then helps them set realistic goals to improve their communication and intimacy by reducing self-critical thinking.
