Talks about how to conduct Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with persons 65 years of age and older. This work reviews late life depression's presentation, health consequences, prevalence, interpersonal dynamics, clinical assessment, and treatment. It is useful for mental health professionals working with older adults.
What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes - and how do they see others' interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Ten very ......
Now in a Third Edition, Bob G Knight's best-selling book continues to offer students and professionals a thorough overview of psychotherapy with older adults. Using the contextual, cohort-based, maturity, specific challenge (CCMSC) model, it draws upon findings from scientific gerontology and life-span developmental psychology to describe how ......
This text aims to provide a clear, accessible study of the contributions and influence of Aaron Beck, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA, and part of the cognitive revolution in psychotherapy. The author reviews the influences on which Beck drew during a time of great change, and rebuts the criticisms his work has attracted It is suitable for professional and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers.
Demonstrates the author's approach to working with clients who are experiencing conflicts or distress because of mixed-race identity. This multiculturally sensitive approach seeks to strengthen or find a client's own voice and validate the client's experiences and ways of belonging in the world.
Demonstrates the author's approach to working with clients who are in the position of caretaker for their aging parents. Therapy with these clients is challenging, as it involves the family system, parental relationships, changing power dynamics between parents and children, and coping with cognitive and physical decline in loved ones.
Children with conduct disorders are often incapable of understanding their own behavior, making this therapy very difficult. By using games and stories, this work allows young clients to self-disclose through metaphoric stories and within the boundaries of game play.
Psychodrama is a unique and entertaining beginner's guide to this active form of group psychotherapy, in which individual life situations, fears, inhibitions and emotions are explored on stage in a safe, non-judgemental and stimulating environment.The authors, professional psychodramatists Zoran Djuric and Jasna Veljkovic, explain in user-friendly ......
Demonstrates the author's use of a form of therapy, which centers on the experience of strong emotion. In this therapy, clients are directed to relive experiences in which they felt strong emotion and to truly be present with those emotions, so as to develop greater emotional openness and resilience in the face of future challenges.
