Individual Psychotherapy Books
A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments
For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive... (more)
Behavioral Activation for Depression: A Clinician's Guide
From leading experts with a decade of experience in research and clinical practice in behavioral activation (BA), this book provides empirically tested tools for helping clients overcome depression... (more)
Being and Relating in Psychotherapy: Ontology and Therapeutic Practice
Clients who seek therapy often feel they are struggling with their whole being: their emotional, physical, relational and social selves. Understanding this is crucial to developing a successful... (more)
Falling Through the Cracks: Psychodynamic Practice with Vulnerable and Oppressed Populations
Psychodynamic theory and practice are often misunderstood as appropriate only for the worried well or for those whose problems are minimal or routine. Nothing could be further from the truth. This... (more)
High Quality Psychotherapy Research: From Conception to Piloting to National Trials
Although psychotherapy research shares many of the same methodological issues that pharmacology trials do, psychotherapy research poses unique challenges, including the difficulty (if not near... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: An Evidence-based Guide for Generalist Mental Health Professionals
Over the past two decades considerable progress has been made in developing specialist psychosocial treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet the majority of people with BPD receive... (more)
On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett
On Minding and Being Minded explores links between depictions of lived experience written by Samuel Beckett and the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy pioneered in the writings of W.R. Bion.... (more)
Rationality and Pluralism: The Selected Works of Windy Dryden
Leading psychologist, lecturer, and author Windy Dryden has compiled his most valuable writings on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy from the last thirty five years. This collection reveals the... (more)
Hope in Counselling and Psychotherapy
It has long been understood that engendering 'hope' is at the heart of the very aims and motivations of counselling, but until now, little attempt has been made to actually explain how and why it may... (more)
An Introduction to Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Introducing the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the first... (more)
Integrating 12 Steps and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery
This book is intended to helpastudents and clients integrate 12-step treatment with psychotherapy. The book is the first to do so in a systematic fashion. It covers issues of pre-treatment and then... (more)
Intersectionality, Sexuality and Psychological Therapies: Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Diversity
This book explores the diversity in lesbian, gay, and bisexual lives, with the aim of opening up therapists' understanding of this diversity so that they can work in an ethical, supportive and... (more)
Person-centered Diagnosis and Treatment in Mental Health: A Model for Empowering Clients
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a... (more)
Relational-Centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and Experience
As an accessible introduction to setting up and conducting research, this book is the long-awaited answer to increasing competencies for psychotherapists and counsellors in clinical practice. (more)
Handbook of Mental Health Nursing
A concise and user-friendly guide, Handbook of Mental Health Nursing will help you to learn the essential skills required for practice. This practical handbook is informed by an interdisciplinary... (more)
Changing Self-Destructive Habits: Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families
For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse - five crippling, self-destructive behaviors - are given a common... (more)
Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality: Third Edition
A complete, thorough, and pragmatic guide to clinical assessment, this authoritative book meets a key need for both students and practitioners. The authors describe how to construct a moving picture... (more)
Progressive Counting Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment
Clinicians recognize trauma and loss as a prominent source of clients' problems. Progressive counting (PC) is a significant advance in trauma treatment because it is about as efficient, effective,... (more)
Elements of the Helping Process: A Guide for Clinicians: Third Edition
Elements of the Helping Process: A Guide for Clinicians takes a humanistic approach to guiding clinicians, emphasizing that professional practice involves a deliberate, conscious, and disciplined use... (more)
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique: Second Edition
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique is a revised edition of the popular technical guide to the conduct of psychodynamic psychotherapy written by Sarah Fels Usher, published in 1993.... (more)
Overcoming Masculine Depression: The Pain Behind the Mask: Second Edition
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men's behaviors. This unique book does not portray men... (more)
Mind Stimulation Therapy (MST): Cognitive Interventions for Persons with Schizophrenia and Other Clinical Populations
This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation... (more)
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference for the psychology and psychiatry student, intern, or resident, early career psychologist... (more)
The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn't Work
Across the world anxiety, stress and depression are on the increase, a trend which looks set to continue as austerity measures bite. The official response tells people that unhappiness is just a... (more)
Understanding Addiction as Self Medication: Finding Hope Behind the Pain
Addictive behaviors beg for an informed explanation to guide patients, families, students, and clinicians through the maddening and often incomprehensible nature of the addictions. Too often... (more)
Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life
This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The “frustration” of the title is... (more)
Managing Difficult Endings in Psychotherapy: It's Time
This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well. It sets out how the psychological... (more)
Psychotherapy 2.0: Where Psychotherapy and Technology Meet
The digital age is both exciting and challenging for psychotherapy, opening the door to clients groups previously not able to access psychological help, whilst also providing the challenges caused by... (more)
The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools
The book is targeted at all practitioners in the helping and enabling professions working with children and young people, and is essential reading for anyone undertaking training where elements of... (more)
The Psyche in the Modern World: Psychotherapy and Society
The Psyche in the Modern World sets out to open consulting room doors and bring the concept of the Psyche, and its main advocate, the psychotherapy discipline, into public space and into the realm of... (more)