Individual Psychotherapy Books
Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
‘"Vital signs" are, of course, the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess the gravity of a patient’s predicament. This anthology focuses not so much on... (more)
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Brings together contributions from leading proponents of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities, which offer key information on the nature and prevalence of psychological... (more)
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners
This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena. Chapters are written by leading researchers and the editors... (more)
A Practical Guide for the Humanistic Psychotherapist
'This book is not just a practical handbook; it is also the fruit of two exceptional people's experience: Serge and Anne Ginger. It reflects their long international experience in several methods... (more)
Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis: 10th Edition
This book helps readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies including psychoanalytic, psycho dynamic, existential, person-centered, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral,... (more)
Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy
When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to... (more)
How to Incorporate Wellness Coaching into Your Therapeutic Practice: A Handbook for Therapists and Counsellors
Wellness coaching is an emerging and vibrant area of healthcare. It takes healing beyond the curing of symptoms and empowers clients to take their health back into their own hands. This book provides... (more)
Group and Individual Work with Older People: A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes
Being active is fundamental to a person's sense of physical and mental wellbeing, and the need to engage in purposeful and meaningful activity does not diminish with age. However, common effects of... (more)
Client Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Person-centred Practice
This is the first book to focus on commonly occurring client issues and explore how to work with them from a person-centred perspective. Extensive case studies translate person-centred theory into... (more)
Legal Issues Across Counselling and Psychotherapy Settings: A Guide for Practice
This book provides practical examples and applications of the law as it applies to therapists in the many different contexts of their work. Helping practitioners move between different practice... (more)
The Pocket Guide to Therapy: A 'How To' of the Core Models
Trainees in all mental health professions need basic knowledge of the key therapeutic approaches in counselling and psychotherapy. The Pocket Guide to Therapy is therefore the essential companion,... (more)
Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy
Focuses on common problems such as anxiety and depression, exploring how different therapeutic approaches understand and work with them. Counselling and psychotherapy are considered within the wider... (more)
Money Talks: in Therapy, Society, and Life
Sometimes referred to as "the last taboo," money has remained something of a secret within psychoanalysis. Ironically, while it is an ingredient in almost every encounter between analyst and patient,... (more)
Treating ADHD and Comorbid Disorders: Psychosocial and Psychopharmacological Interventions
Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently experience co-occurring problems with aggression, mood swings, tics, anxiety, or depression. Organized around... (more)
Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When: Second Edition
A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some... (more)
Masters of Narrative and Collaborative Therapies: The Voices of Andersen, Anderson and White
Tom Andersen, Harlene Anderson, and Michael White have shaped the landscapes of dialogical, collaborative, and narrative therapies. All three share a common curiosity for meaning making as a... (more)
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
This groundbreaking book explains the "whats" and "how-tos" of metacognitive therapy (MCT), an innovative form of cognitive-behavioral therapy with a growing empirical evidence base. MCT developer... (more)
Alfred Adler Revisited
Alfred Adler was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy - a physician, psychiatrist, author, and professor who wanted to answer the questions that plagued people during a significant... (more)
Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Extended Second Edition
The first edition of Implausible Professions, published in 1997, foretold many of the core issues around therapy 'professionalisation' that have come to dominate the field in recent years as the... (more)
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder)
This book provides all of the information a practitioner needs in order to begin work with clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Drawing on experiences from her own practice and... (more)
Healing Intelligence: The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light
Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emotional wounds. Psychotherapy and counselling, when... (more)
The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works and When it Doesn't
Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and the... (more)
The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence... (more)
Forgiving, Forgetting, and Moving On: Living a Less-Conflicted Life
How do we come to relative peace when we have behaved badly, or how do we come to grips with the misbehaviors of those around us? Forgiving oneself or others may not always be fitting, and forgetting... (more)
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is... (more)
Essentials of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This practical, easy-to-use book introduces the theory and practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a key contextual third wave CBT approach. The book takes the reader through the... (more)
Tales from the Therapy Room: Shrink-wrapped
These ten fictional short stories give students of counselling and psychotherapy a unique insight into what actually goes on in therapy. Exploring aspects of the client-therapist relationship, the... (more)
Developing Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills and Practice
This book offers a helping hand to trainees wishing to make the transition to the next level in their counselling and psychotherapy training. With wide-ranging content closely aligned to actual... (more)
The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy: The Legacy of Epictetus
This book brings together the papers written by the authors over the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational Emotive... (more)
Being a Therapist: A Practitioner's Handbook
Our contemporary world is one in which ‘the customer is always right’, and therapists, like many other professionals, are increasingly beset by rules and regulations that undermine their authority... (more)