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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal
Why do you practice psychotherapy? In this exciting volume, some of the field’s leading therapists tell true stories which evoke the pleasures, joys, and satisfactions that inspire passion for therapeutic work. Rather than focusing on the stresses and strains of being a clinician, these dramatic, poignant, wise, sometimes humorous and always soulful stories will help you gain (or regain) hope and excitement, and ultimately inspire a recommitment to a profession that, at its heart and soul, is about helping people.
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Is infidelity good for marriage?
Meg Barker, author of Rewriting the Rules, discusses the notion on BBC 1 Sunday Morning Live.
Rewriting the Rules is a friendly guide through the complicated - and oftentimes contradictory - rules of love: the advice that is given about attraction and sex, monogamy and conflict, gender and commitment.
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Family Therapy Review
This unique text uses one common case to demonstrate the applications of a wide range of family therapy models. Readers will find it useful when studying for the national family therapy licensing exam, which requires that exam takers be able to apply these models to case vignettes.
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The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems
Using rich case material and research presented by distinguished authorities in the fields of sex, couple, family, and psychotherapy, this edited book contributes to our efforts to help individuals and couples increase their sexual satisfaction. The authors explore social and cultural backgrounds, the meaning of sexual problems in specific cultural contexts, and the way in which culture presents challenges to traditional psychotherapy.
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Couples in Collusion
When a couple enters therapy, both partners have either explicit or implicit understandings of what can—and, more importantly, cannot—be discussed in therapy. Even when empirically tested assessments are used to help pinpoint areas of concern and conflict, couples may choose to identify only those areas that are relatively safe and do not seriously threaten each partner’s sense of integrity and vulnerability. How is a therapist supposed to proceed when a couple comes in for a tune-up, not realizing that their entire transmission needs to be serviced?
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The Self Under Siege
How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own destiny or are we unconsciously repeating the lives of our parents, living according to their values, ideals, and beliefs? In this thought-provoking book, noted clinical psychologist Robert Firestone and his co-authors explore the struggle that all of us face in striving to retain a sense of ourselves as unique individuals.
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Rewriting the Rules
"We all struggle with relationships but now the rules have changed. We need a new rule book, and this is it." - Dorothy Rowe, Psychologist and Writer
Rewriting the Rules is a friendly guide through the complicated - and oftentimes contradictory - rules of love: the advice that is given about attraction and sex, monogamy and conflict, gender and commitment.
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Free Access to Top Articles from our Counselling & Therapies Collection
Please click on the link above for FREE ACCESS to articles from our wide range of counseling titles related to Marriage & Family Therapy, Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Creative Arts Therapies, Group Work, and more.
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Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy
The editors and contributors of this comprehensive text provide a unique and important contribution to LGBT clinical literature.
Spanning 30 chapters, they discuss the diverse and complex issues involved in LGBT couple and family therapy.
In almost 15 years, this book provides the first in-depth overview of the best practices for therapists and those in training who wish to work effectively with LGBT clients, couples, and families need to know, and is only the second of its kind in the history of the field.
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Social Class and the Helping Professions
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection of social class and the helping professions, including examinations of the role of social class in American culture, classism, social class and mental health, and the American Dream.
It will be a valuable tool for practitioners in a variety of mental health professions, providing a clearer understanding of social class as it relates to themselves and their clients.
The first section contains an introduction to the global, historical, and sociological aspects of class and an in-depth look at urban and rural poverty, the middle class, and the upper class and economic privilege.
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