Examines the transformation of selflessness into the Caretaker Personality Syndrome, and how it is not always better to give than receive, that being good can go bad, and that the disease to please... (more)
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... (more)
What is Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy? Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) encourages direct focus on emotional problems, encouraging understanding of the thoughts, beliefs and behaviour... (more)
"The Aphasia Therapy Files" represent a practical resource for people who work with individuals with aphasia, either as therapists or as researchers. An overview of issues associated with current... (more)
When early memories are examined, the results can be personally meaningful to the individual and relevant to the presenting problem and to the therapy. This book recommends strategies for using early... (more)
"Research and Psychotherapy" is a valuable resource for beginner and seasoned clinicians alike. The book will serve as an excellent text for graduate level courses in psychology, especially suitable... (more)
This book discusses and describes psychotherapy supervision for qualified psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Practitioners, as well as trainees, benefit from supervision to maintain... (more)
This innovative book provides therapists with a practical guide for treating patients from other cultures. Basing her material on extensive clinical work with patients from many ethnic backgrounds,... (more)
This workbook helps clients become active participants as they explore the nature of specific phobias, including definitions, prevalence, and causes of phobias. Do you have an excessive and... (more)
Using both clinical data and a variety of case studies, this book argues for a diagnostic classification, Anger Regulation and Expression Disorder, that helps bring about clinical improvements and... (more)
Specific phobia is the most commonly occurring anxiety disorder with approximately 12.5 per cent of the general population reporting at least one specific phobia during their lives. People may fear... (more)
This book is a user-friendly guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically-tested and effective approach to treating depression. It is intended for persons affected by depression who are... (more)
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At a time when healthcare organisations are increasingly emphasising the need for evidence-based interventions, this comprehensive and timely handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the current... (more)
A timely guide to treating depression in older adults. The first book in the new Wiley Series on Geropsychology, "Psychotherapy for Depression in Older Adults" is a practical resource created by a... (more)
A guide to achieving deeper self-awareness through an understanding of one's desires draws on Buddhist parables to counsel readers on overcoming self-defeating habits, the perceptions of others, and... (more)
Presents the lives of eight individuals whose experiences illuminate a variety of dilemmas and anxieties that most of us encounter at different points of our lives. According to Spinelli (psychology,... (more)
During the last decade, as public awareness of the role of therapy has increased, so too has criticism of specific approaches to therapeutic practice. In this book, Dr Spinelli examines the... (more)
"Psychotherapy and Counselling for Depression: Third Edition", is an introduction to the subject of depression and the counselling strategies used to help people who are suffering from this most... (more)
This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of... (more)
For many therapists it is clear that no one approach can offer everything they and their clients need. However, by combining elements from different models, a more flexible and potentially more... (more)
By exploring different perspectives on religion and spirituality, this book provides therapists with the grounding they need to introduce spiritually-centred counseling into their practice. It... (more)
Considering how much experience there now is in providing supervisor training in the UK, relatively little has been written about it. This book aims to create a lively and readable resource that will... (more)
The trauma of refugee status is particularly corrosive. It does the usual harm of devastating our own self-image and sense of permanence in the world, but it does more. It is a dislocation from our... (more)
How do current findings from the neurosciences inform best practices in psychotherapy? How can one change neural structures by psychological means? What are the neural mechanisms of therapeutic... (more)
Human mental capacities and processes are the raw materials with which psychotherapists work. Thus what cognitive scientists have discovered in recent decades is potentially tremendous value for... (more)
"Half in Love With Death" presents a new way for therapists to manage chronically suicidal patients, an incredibly challenging task for clinicians and one where an insufficient amount of literature... (more)
Traditionally, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have eschewed a direct focus on symptoms, viewing it as superficial turning away from underlying psychopathology. But this assumption is an... (more)
Good Goodbyes highlights the crucial importance of how the end of therapy is structured and experienced. Bad endings can destroy good therapies. Good endings can consolidate the work accomplished,... (more)