Individual Psychotherapy Books
Terminating Therapy: A Professional Guide to Ending on a Positive Note
The first book of its kind to provide an in-depth and practical approach to termination of therapy, "Terminating Therapy" guides mental health professionals through the practical, ethical, legal, and... (more)
The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner: Second Edition
This second edition is fully revised and updated. These time-saving resources now provide progress notes language consistent with the latest in evidence-based treatment as required by many... (more)
Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking For Helping Professionals and Their Clients
Inappropriate comments and bullying behaviours plague the lives of many adults, crushing their self-confidence and driving them to seek professional help. Random rudeness from strangers and cruel... (more)
Empowering Dialogues within: A Workbook for Helping Professionals and Their Clients
Psychotherapy continually seeks briefer and deeper ways of healing disorders of the mind. At the same time professional associations are reluctant to endorse methods that are not well researched or... (more)
Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy
In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, psychologists, counselors, and other mental health professionals face a unique challenge: how does one practice... (more)
Prayer in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Exploring a Hidden Meaningful Dimension
Prayer is at the centre of most spirituality and prayer is important to many people's psychological well-being. Peter Madsen Gubi argues that philosophically, all counselling can be regarded as... (more)
Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference
Provides in-depth accounts of the everyday practice of postmodern collaborative therapy, vibrantly illustrating how dialogic conversation can transform lives, relationships, and entire communities.... (more)
What is Mental Disorder?: An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values
The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Facts
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that affects nearly 2% of the general population, predominantly women. Symptoms of BPD include impulsivity, mood swings, unstable... (more)
The Resilient Clinician
Author of several acclaimed books and expert in the field of secondary stress, psychologist Robert Wicks addresses the experience of the mental health professional and raises awareness of the... (more)
A Therapist's Guide to Understanding Common Medical Problems: Addressing a Client's Mental and Physical Health
Examining a variety of frequent medical conditions - diabetes, heart failure, cancer, obesity, and more - this handbook gives clinicians a better understanding of how physical health issues play out... (more)
How to Use Herbs, Nutrients and Yoga in Mental Health Care
Leaders in the field of complementary medicine present a comprehensive yet compact guide to herbs, nutrients, and yoga as adjuncts to mental health therapy. (more)
Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
Linking the science of interpersonal neurobiology to the art of therapy, this book translates advances in neuroscience into clinical applications for the practitioner. It argues for scientifically... (more)
The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What
Relationships between women are often freighted with a rocky mix of emotions leading to anguish and confusion in the playground, in the home and in the boardroom. A woman's experience negotiating her... (more)
Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives
Self-harm often arises at moments of despair, or intensity and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. "Managing Self Harm" explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and... (more)
Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: Training and Practice
The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated. With... (more)
Research in Psychotherapy
A comprehensive synthesis and assessment of the psychotherapeutic research literature for the use of both researchers and those in clinical practice, this book is designed as a general reference... (more)
Process Experiential Psychotherapy: An Emotion-focused Approach: DVD
In this DVD presentation Dr Leslie S. Greenberg demonstrates this deeply empathic, emotion-focused approach to treatment. In process experiential psychotherapy, the therapist works to guide the... (more)
Penina Uliuli: Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health for Pacific Peoples
This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. (more)
The Analytic Situation: How Patient and Therapist Communicate
Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and... (more)
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications
This is a unique, comprehensive guide that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations... (more)
Passionate Supervision
Practitioners working in the helping professions realise the importance of supervision as a space for: reflection; compassionate inquiry; and continuing professional development. This book presents... (more)
A Curious Calling: Unconscious Motivations for Practising Psychotherapy: Second Edition
"What brings you here?" is the standard question posed to patients at the outset of their therapeutic journey. In "A Curious Calling", this question is posed to therapists themselves. Applicants to... (more)
Practicing Counseling and Psychotherapy: Insights from Trainees, Supervisors, and Clients
This book provides an insiders view and understanding of the process of psychotherapy from the perspectives of actual psychotherapy trainees, their clients, and their supervisors. The authors offer a... (more)
Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy: A Postmodern Perspective
Presented as an effective model for facilitating neurological change through the therapeutic relationship, this book challenges therapists to incorporate a psychodynamic approach within their work.In... (more)
The Integral Intake: A Guide to Comprehensive Idiographic Assessment in Integral Psychotherapy
Using formal assessment instruments in counseling and psychotherapy is an efficient and systematic way to obtain information about clients and to subsequently tailor a counseling approach most likely... (more)
Divorced, Without Children: Solution Focused Therapy with Women at Midlife
This book explores the experience, meaning, and impact of divorce at mid-life for women without children, and provides insights into the unique stressors and issues confronting these individuals so... (more)
Chronic Pain
Although there are now proven behavioral and psychological methods of dealing with and alleviating chronic pain, methods that can supplement or replace drug treatments, these are not always applied... (more)
Social Anxiety Disorder
This book is aimed at practitioners who practice in a broad range of settings, from specialty clinics to general practice, as well as students. Existing books tend to focus on the psychopathology of... (more)