Individual Psychotherapy Books
Integrating Social Cognition into Therapeutic Practice: Beneath and Beyond the Process of Therapy
This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice. Building on the micro-skills framework for training, the author adds... (more)
Cognitive Remediation for Successful Employment and Psychiatric Recovery: The Thinking Skills for Work Program
From leading developers of psychosocial treatments for people with severe mental illnesses, this manual presents a research-based program proven to help participants acquire and sustain meaningful... (more)
Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities
Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities is the first practice-based book for therapists that presents queer theory and narrative therapy as... (more)
Getting Old: A Positive and Practical Approach
Getting Old offers concise advice and practical suggestions for all readers interested in or worried about ageing, either in themselves or in someone they care about. With a focus on a positive view... (more)
Transforming Themes: Creative Perspectives on Therapeutic Interaction
Transforming Themes challenges the dominant view of psychotherapy as a structured, reductionist process. Instead, it views psychotherapy as an alive, unrehearsed interaction that embraces healing... (more)
A Contemporary Approach to Clinical Supervision: The Supervisee Perspective
The most critical and influential relationship affecting one's growth as a mental health professional is the relationship between the clinician and the supervisor. Good supervisors breed good... (more)
Sexual Grounding Therapy: Context, Theory and Practice
This important book explores the history of sexuality and the breadth of support available to people experiencing sex and relationship challenges, presenting a model of psychosexual therapy that's... (more)
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Our ego, and its accompanying sense of self-doubt, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it... (more)
Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians
Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.
This comprehensive guide is deeply rooted in the science of... (more)
On Becoming a Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist
Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy is much more than a series of skills and techniques, but rather a vital human activity. It starts with the inner being of the therapist, that is, his or her... (more)
Finding Our Way Home: Women's Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School
Finding Our Way Home: Women’s Accounts of Being Sent to Boarding School shares the personal stories of sixteen women, all of whom were sent away to board at an early age. Their accounts delve into... (more)
Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World: Combating Stigma and Barriers to Healthcare
Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World systematically examines the manifold contributions to the burdens of living with mental illness in a developing and globalised world. It explores the... (more)
Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills That Improve Client Outcomes
What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal... (more)
Single Session Thinking and Practice in Global, Cultural, and Familial Contexts: Expanding Applications
Single Session Thinking and Practice teaches readers how to implement single session approaches by encouraging practitioners and clients to collaborate in making the most of every encounter. Single... (more)
Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With Older Adults
This book covers the essentials of psychotherapeutic work with older adults, discussing how contemporary psychodynamic thought can be applied clinically to engage the older patient in... (more)
The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice: Stretching the World for New Opportunities and Progress
The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by 'stretching the world' of their clients.
The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which... (more)
Empowering Mindfulness for Women
Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively... (more)
Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions--and Balance Uncertainty with Hope
This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which... (more)
Psychotherapy Under the Influence of Georges Bataille: From Social Theory to Clinical Practice
This fascinating book applies social theorist Georges Bataille's revolutionary thinking to psychotherapy, offering clinicians a new and valuable context for practicing therapy.
In adding... (more)
A Mental Health Provider's Guide to Telehealth: Providing Outpatient Videoconferencing Services
This book works as a guide to videoconferencing practice for psychological providers through a broad, simplified, and practical overview of pertinent factors. It is a consolidation of research... (more)
Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour: Suicide-focused Intervention Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals
Helping People Overcome Suicidal Thoughts, Urges and Behaviour draws together practical and effective approaches to help individuals at risk of suicide.
The book provides a framework and... (more)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical... (more)
Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings: Evidence-Based Recommendations from Practitioner-led Research
Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings draws on empirical studies of real-world settings to demonstrate contemporary practice-based evidence, providing effective strategies for... (more)
Creating The World We Want To Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future
This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and... (more)
The Therapist Within: Applying Reflective Psychotherapy to Help Alleviate Suffering
The Therapist Within introduces an original, systematic approach for understanding and treating suffering clients through reflective processes, providing readers with the essential tools needed to... (more)
Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy: Exploring Theory, Frame and Practice
Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy: Exploring Theory, Frame and Practice elegantly and skilfully weaves together relevant literature, clinical reflections, compelling case material and... (more)
Men's Accounts of Boarding School: Sent Away
Men's Accounts of Boarding School is a collection of writings by men about their childhood experiences of being sent away to boarding school.
In these narratives, the men discuss their feelings... (more)
Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Mockingbird
Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy presents an in-depth understanding of the role of privilege, and of the unconscious experience of privilege and difference... (more)
DBT Metaphors and Stories: Understanding the Skills that Make Life Worth Living
DBT Metaphors and Stories gives therapists and DBT skills trainers the skills they need to make effective use of dialectical behavior therapy and to help clients more deeply understand complex... (more)
The Anti-Anxiety Program: A Workbook of Proven Strategies to Overcome Worry, Panic, and Phobias
A lifeline for anxiety sufferers, this expertly crafted workbook has been revised and updated to be even more user-friendly. (more)