Individual Psychotherapy Books
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health: A Handbook for Practitioners
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings. It... (more)
Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Supervision is essential for counsellors and psychotherapists, but it can create emotional pressures and practical dilemmas. This book offers a sympathetic introduction to supervision that helps the... (more)
Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering
After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical... (more)
Culture and the Therapeutic Process: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject, the ambiguity remains of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it should be... (more)
Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works
Written specifically for the office-based psychotherapist, this practical guide describes how to detect, assess, diagnose, and treat clients presenting with a range of alcohol and drug problems.... (more)
Being Human: Reflections on Mental Distress in Society
An array of critical voices from across various disciplines in the humanities- including philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, history and literature - are brought to bear upon the subject of mental... (more)
IDM Supervision: An Integrated Developmental Model for Supervising Counselors and Therapists
This book is an updated and expanded presentation of the widely used Integrated Developmental Model of Supervision (IDM). In contrast to other volumes on clinical supervision, Stoltenberg and McNeill... (more)
Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach
This book looks at the groundbreaking work of the London based Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, a training centre recognised worldwide by professionals in the field. It brings together Chiron... (more)
Anger, Rage and Relationship: An Empathic Approach to Anger Management
Presents a radically new way to understand and work with anger and rage issues. Taking a relational approach to anger and rage, the book presents a positive view of human nature, supported by recent... (more)
What Works with Children, Adolescents and Adults? A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Provides an up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy and psychological interventions with children, adolescents, adults, people in later life, and people with intellectual... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations
The purpose of this book is to reintroduce psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical and immediate in their... (more)
Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States: To Transform the Unbearable
This book serves two purposes. First, it provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This is the clinical approach of "analytic contact", a... (more)
Psychotherapy of Severe and Mild Depression
This work on depression offers information and conclusions drawn from case studies. The authors challenge biological reductionism in the mental health industry, but do not deny the contribution of... (more)
Constructing Stories, Telling Tales: A Guide to Formulation in Applied Psychology
Formulation remains one of the most important activities that those using psychological approaches undertake as part of their work. Arguably, however, formulation is an activity that remains poorly... (more)
Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
'Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Given this focus, it might be assumed that psychoanalysis and its... (more)
Relating to Clients: The Therapeutic Relationship for Complementary Therapists
Complementary therapists are seldom trained in the 'people skills' necessary for working with their clients. This practical guide explores the key elements of the psychotherapeutic relationship for... (more)
Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy: Toward an Improved Understanding of Effective Psychotherapy
Comprehensively describes the key constructs and key skills involved in the craft of psychotherapy. The chosen constructs contained in this handbook were selected because of their important roles in... (more)
Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Introducing a range of methodologies which are used internationally in studying the outcomes and processes of therapy, the author describes different research designs and illustrates them through... (more)
Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Facts Are Friendly
Are some therapies more effective than others? How important is the relationship? Which clients do best in therapy? This book answers these questions and many more, providing trainees, practitioners... (more)
Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia: Evidence-based Practice
For the increasing number of people diagnosed with dementia each year, treatment in the early stages can make a significant difference to their quality of life. This book provides examples of... (more)
Casebook for Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
Supervision plays a central role in the clinical training of mental health professionals. This title describes supervision as process - the process of becoming competent, the process of... (more)
Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy
Using the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis, this book sheds light on what happens in psychotherapeutic sessions and how therapists can
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
Therapy cannot fulfill its purpose until the clients can make it work outside the therapy room in relation to the concerns, people, and places of their everyday lives. Research on therapy has largely... (more)
Handbook of Self-Help Therapies
This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches. "The Handbook of Self-Help Therapies" summarizes... (more)
A User's Guide to Therapy: What to Expect and How You Can Benefit
For clients who want to know how to get the most out of a therapeutic relationship, this book explains what therapy is (and isnt), how therapy works (what makes change happen) and elaborates on... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence, and Neglect in Childhood
This book presents a coherent and readable narrative review of current views on the effects and role of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of children and adults who have experienced... (more)
Inclusive Cultural Empathy: Making Relationships Central in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Shows readers how to reach beyond the comfort zone of an individualistic perspective and increase competence in a relationship-centered context. This book helps readers learn how to help clients... (more)
Becoming Dragon: Restoring Passion, Excellence, and Purpose in Your Therapeutic Work
Do you feel burnt out? Have you lost some of your enthusiasm for work? Are you becoming increasingly frustrated with clients, co-workers, yourself? Are you interested in being extraordinary instead... (more)
Brief Person-Centred Therapies
Brief Person-Centred Therapies explores the increasing demand for brief therapy - particularly in the public sector - and how the person-centred approach fits in to this changing world of counselling... (more)
The Therapeutic Relationship: Themes and Perspectives
The importance of the therapeutic relationship is explored within key modalities of psychotherapy: person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, gestalt, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural... (more)