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1. How Master Therapists Work

   Effecting Change from the First through the Last Session and Beyond

   By Len Sperry, Jon Carlson

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Albert Ellis Revisited

   Edited by Jon Carlson, William Knaus

   Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time, revolutionizing the field through his writings, teachings, research, and supervision for more than half a century. He was a pioneer whose ideas, known as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), formed the basis of what has...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Creating Connection

   A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples

   Edited by Judith V. Jordan, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) posits that people grow through and toward relationship throughout the lifespan. Rather than emphasizing movement toward autonomy and self-sufficiency, it focuses on the power of connection in people’s lives. Culture and power are seen as formative in...

   To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple

   Edited by Katherine M. Helm, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   This exciting new text on counseling African American couples outlines critical components to providing culturally-sensitive treatment. Built around a framework that examines African American couples’ issues as well as the specific contextual factors that can negatively impact their relationships,...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. Helping Beyond the 50-Minute Hour

   Therapists Involved in Meaningful Social Action

   Edited by Jeffrey A. Kottler, Matt Englar-Carlson, Jon Carlson

   "Slacktivism" is a term that has been coined to cynically describe the token efforts that people devote to some cause, without long-term or meaningful impact. We wear colored wristbands, pins, or ribbons proclaiming support for a particular organization. We might post something on social network...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance

   Edited by Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson, Mark T. Nance

   Series: New International Relations

   Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in South East Asia appear to have helped in the...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling

   A Choice Theory and Reality Therapy Approach

   Edited by Patricia A. Robey, Robert E. Wubbolding, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality therapy approaches to couples counseling,...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Alfred Adler Revisited

   Edited by Jon Carlson, Michael P. Maniacci

   Alfred Adler was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy – a physician, psychiatrist, author, and professor who wanted to answer the questions that plagued people during a significant time in history. His original ideas serve as a foundation for most modern theories of counseling and...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. Poisonous Parenting

   Toxic Relationships Between Parents and Their Adult Children

   Edited by Shea M. Dunham, Shannon B. Dermer, Jon Carlson

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of poisonous parents have affect their relationships into adulthood? Like physicians, clinicians do not want to amputate, but they sometimes find it...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Working With Immigrant Families

    A Practical Guide for Counselors

    Edited by Adam Zagelbaum, Jon Carlson

    Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

    Working With Immigrant Families examines the theoretical and practice-based issues that must be considered by counseling professionals when performing family therapy with immigrant clients. It provides practitioners with insights into why immigrant families come to the United States,...

    Published November 14th 2010 by Routledge