Psychotherapy and Counseling
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Advances in Social Work Practice with the Military
With the United States’ involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical. In this practical and important...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Case Conceptualization
Mastering this Competency with Ease and Confidence
Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series
This is the type of book instructors, trainees, and clinicians need—a short text that demystifies the case conceptualization process and provides a streamlined method for learning and mastering this competency. It presents an integrative model for conceptualizing cases, dispels common myths about...
Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World
Book and Video Bundle
The bundled set of the Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World textbook and the printed video access card gives the instructor and the student the tools needed to learn and master the content in the book. The text offers comprehensive coverage of key concepts in the field with a&...
Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Contemporary Psychotherapies Streaming Video Access Code
This online streaming video database will provide readers of Contemporary Psychotherapies for a Diverse World with a unique visual teaching and learning tool. Based on the dynamic platform from the Alexander Street Press Counseling & Therapy database, this video package...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Core Competencies in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist
Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series
This volume is a concise, convenient, and clearly written book for those who wish to study, master, and teach the core competencies of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Relevant for novice therapists as well as experienced clinicians and supervisors, this text also goes “between the lines” of...
Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Groups in Practice
A School Counselor's Collection
This practical, user-friendly manual will provide school counselors with the information they need to set up and run twelve different counseling groups. Though the author has test-driven the groups with middle school students, the content is easily adaptable for upper elementary and high school...
Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context
Many factors in the world today, such as globalization and a rise in immigration, are increasing the need for mental health practitioners to acquire the ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. This text will be the most comprehensive volume to address this need to date,...
Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Men, Addiction, and Intimacy
Strengthening Recovery by Fostering the Emotional Development of Boys and Men
Series: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men
In the substance abuse and addiction treatment realm, males outnumber females two to one. While gender-issues are seen as a key element of women’s treatment, the acknowledgement that males are "gendered beings" who have lived lives full of male-specific developmental challenges is often overlooked....
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Mental Health Care in Japan
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental health...
Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health
Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice and innovation between them. Refocused Psychotherapy responds directly to the recent decline of...
Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Rewriting the Rules
An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
We live in a time of great uncertainty about relationships. We search for "The One," but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. The reality of our relationships is not what we expected, and it becomes hard to balance it with all the other things that we want out of life. At...
Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy
100 Key Points and Techniques
Series: 100 Key Points
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers: The history and background to solution focused...
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Solution Focused Coaching in Practice
Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge
Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own...
Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Happiness
The Mind Science of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration
Today’s greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization—depression, trauma, obesity, cancer—are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to...
Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Developing Practitioner
Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists, supervisors, teachers, and researchers, as well as from their own extensive study of the topic,...
Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
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The Self Under Siege
A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
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...
Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal
What's Love Got To Do With It?
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...
Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Trancework
An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, 4th Edition
For three decades, Trancework has been the fundamental textbook for guiding professionals in learning hypnosis. Now in its fourth edition, this classic text continues to be the most comprehensive book for learning the fundamental skills of the field. This edition accommodates new studies and topics...
Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
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What Made Freud Laugh
An Attachment Perspective on Laughter
In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work studying crying from an attachment perspective, Nelson argues that laughter is based in the attachment...
Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge