This work explores the conflicts of running a business that needs to be ethical and responsive to clients' need - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. It provides straightforward advice and guidelines about how the business can be set up, established and maintained successfully. Tax, VAT and accounting are explained, and ......
`The book is well researched and provides a solid overview' - Therapy Today `Dorothy Langley's book offers a valuable overview of dramatherapy in all its applications. It provides evidence of many years' work as a teacher and practitioner. It is both clear and readable, and will serve as a useful introduction to this unique therapeutic ......
Demonstrates a narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a ""novel being written,"" and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.
Reflecting on the implications of changes in our society, including political struggles for gay civil unions, marriage, and adoption rights, this volume focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and explores how to provide them with effective psychotherapy across a range of presenting concerns.
There are many possible contributing factors to depression in this population, as issues of grief, loss, and physical decline are unavoidable aspects of later life. This book demonstrates the author's multimodal approach to treating this common presenting problem in older clients.
Demonstrates a frequently used system of psychotherapy: using a case conceptualization as a guide for choosing which standard cognitive-behavioral interventions to apply, and adopting an active approach to helping clients solve problems. This work covers overcoming fears through the use of exposure exercises and other strategies.
Describes a session the author had with a couple, helping them understand how the illness or recovery process affects their relationship, and identify resources that will help the couple to cope. This session demonstrates her approach to working with couples in which one or both partner suffers from an illness.
A successful termination phase is a critically important component of psychotherapy of any orientation. While this is generally accepted, a host of uncertainties continue to surround this phase of treatment. This title synthesizes and evaluates the clinical, theoretical, and empirical literature on termination.
The appropriate and sensitive use of anatomical dolls is one of the topics explored in this comprehensive introduction to the process of interviewing child sexual abuse victims. Co-creator of the dolls, Marcia Morgan, takes readers through an interview from beginning to end. She provides guidelines on how to create an environment intended both to minimize a child's trauma and to enhance the amount, quality and validity of information obtained. She examines problems practitioners might encounter with young children and provides material on pre-interview preparation, training exercises and a listing of audio-visual resources.
