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 ......
In "Exercise", Dr. Kate F. Hays demonstrates her approach to using exercise as a therapeutic tool. Physical exercise has been linked to mental health as well as physical health and may be used as another therapeutic tool for helping clients with stress, depression, and low self-esteem. In this session, Dr. Hays counsels a young woman on her use of ......
Presented are powerful treatment approaches for problems that are frequently encountered by gay and straight clients alike, together with clear-cut guidance for helping individuals and couples cope with the stresses of sexual minority status.
Solution-focused therapy is an increasingly popular approach, used by practitioners in a wide range of contexts and settings. Illustrating the breadth and depth of contemporary practice, Handbook of Solution-Focused Therapy brings together contributions from leading practitioners in fields such as social work, education and health care to show how ......
`I recommend this book to anyone who lives or works with families, children or teenagers' - Nurturing Potential `This is a valuable book, worth attention in every child and family service. My own agency has ordered a copy!' - Robert Cumming, Nurturing Potential `John Sharry's book is a jewel in the solution-focused literature. It is ......
How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives
Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, ......
This resource aims to shed light on the role personality factors play in the genesis and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Using Theodore Millon's psychology as a framework, the authors provide insight into this challenging disorder.
Here, therapists mine their case histories to present teaching tools for theology-minded practitioners. Written from several theistic traditions and psychological orientations, this casebook examines the therapeutic relationship as it occurs in various forms of faith.
'A timely and exciting volume that pulls together diverse work!I think a handbook like this will help to consolidate interest in narrative perspectives on therapy and encourage more dialogue among different types of practitioners and researchers who might not normally convers. The editors have pulled together a rich group of authors and I ......
