Individual Psychotherapy Books
Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who are the Majority of Clients
In Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, Dr Elaine Aron redefines the term highly sensitive. She dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between being sensitive and other... (more)
Treating Personality Disorder: Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment... (more)
Therapy with Young Men: 16-24 Year Olds in Treatment
Young adult men in their late teens and early twenties are statistically the least happy of any group of males surveyed. What's more, scholarly research tells us that adolescent boys and young men... (more)
Supervising the Reflective Practitioner: An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice
Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides... (more)
Stress, Coping, and Development
Examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. (more)
Mental Health and Later Life: Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third... (more)
Contextual Anger Regulation Therapy for the Treatment of Clinical Anger: A Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Approach
Intended to fill a gap in the existing counseling literature, this text describes the integrative and innovate approach developed by the authors for use in the treatment of clinical anger, Anger... (more)
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery
Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and Recovery includes a unique mosaic of theoretical and practical clinical information, rich case studies, research findings, and a wealth of evidence-based practice... (more)
The Impossibility of Knowing: Dilemmas of a Psychotherapist
This is a book that assembles and integrates Jackie Gerrard's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part I focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and... (more)
George Kelly: The Psychology of Personal Constructs
This book Explores Kelly's belief that our thoughts, actions and emotions lies in our idiosyncratic interpretations of things. It provides a highly readable and accessible account of one of the... (more)
Jay Haley Revisited
Jay Haley Revisited brings together some of the influential professionals in the field of therapy to introduce, analyze, and put into context some of the significant papers Jay Haley produced, both... (more)
Voices from the Field: Defining Moments in Counselor and Therapist Development
All professional counselors can identify a number of key turning points in their careers: moments, interactions, and processes that crystallized key realizations for them regarding their practice... (more)
Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship
Helping therapists navigate the complexities of emotional interactions with clients, this book provides practical clinical guidelines. Master clinician Karen J. Maroda adds an important dimension to... (more)
The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life
Many therapists have likely worked with a client who has caused the therapist to confront his most cherished beliefs, or has changed the therapist in ways that forever altered the way he performs... (more)
Zen and Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberation
A new take on the interplay of emotional and spiritual development.
Insight, attentiveness, and transformative experience are central in both Buddhism and psychotherapy. An intimate dialogue that... (more)
Therapy with Older Clients: Key Strategies for Success
Basic strategies and tips for doing effective therapy with elderly clients.
What is it like to be 106 years old? What are the mental health needs of someone this old, and for that matter, all... (more)
Kundalini Yoga: Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders: Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Development Disorders
Kundalini yoga is the ancient parent science of all other forms of yoga and meditation, and a clinically proven therapeutic modality that can have significant healing effects for a wide range of... (more)
Complete Mental Health: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Complete Mental Health is a handy desk reference for the clinician, and an illuminating overview of common mental health problems for anyone.
John Ingram Walker takes the reader through causes,... (more)
The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness
Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.
In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, Why is there... (more)
Clinical Pearls of Wisdom: 21 Leading Therapists Offer Their Key Insights
Pre-eminent psychotherapy clinicians offer advice on a variety of topics. This book collects the 'best of the best' in terms of leading therapists who are offering highlights from their years of... (more)
Changing Minds in Therapy: Emotion, Attachment, Trauma, and Neurobiology
There is an increasing clinical focus on how recent advances in research on neuroscience, attachment and trauma can be applied to treating patients with a history of early neglect and relational... (more)
Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are nasty, brutish, and short, why have we... (more)
Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care
Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.
In this book... (more)
Understanding Repeated Self-Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Informative and insightful, this book explores the nature of self-injury and the experience of those who injure themselves. Covering psychological and physical aspects, the text draws on research,... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Supervision: Widening the Horizon of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Supervision is an essential part of counselling and psychotherapy practice. It is increasingly recognised as a tool for ensuring high professional standards. In an era of regulation and tightening... (more)
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health
This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... (more)
Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing
Explores how nurses can enhance their skills, and improve their practice so that risk is assessed and managed safely and effectively. This book also explores issues including context and definitions... (more)
Spirituality in Clinical Practice: Theory and Practice of Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Psychotherapists are increasingly expected to incorporate the spiritual as well as the psychological dimension in their professional work. Therapists also are increasingly required to utilize... (more)
Counselling and Therapy Techniques: Theory and Practice
This is the first book on counselling skills to look in detail at the practical interventions and tools used to establish the therapeutic relationship. Step-by-step, the text teaches the reader... (more)
Integration in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Now in its second edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working. As well as examining contemporary integrative... (more)