Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is profoundly indebted to Carl Jung, who among others, discovered the mappings of soul psychology.

Barriers to Loving is an intriguing exploration of the role of sexual love over the course of life.

Aimed primarily at clinicians who are required to find ways to interrupt patterns of destructive behaviour in couples and families, this text provides a compilation of multi-disciplinary techniques and flexible strategies to accomplish 14 major therapeutic tasks.

Social work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.

Suddenly, in the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power.

The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination.

A guide for clinicians from all disciplines to help conceptualize and control stress in clients in a clinical setting.

The "e;Need for Theory"e; speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology.

Traditional approaches to social skill development may often be ineffective for those in most need of them - those who are neuro-diverse (for example, on the Autism Spectrum, with dyspraxia, or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), those who have experienced trauma, those with an intellectual disability, and those who present with Complex Communication Needs.

Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago the term did not exist.

How would you handle these situations?

What are the roles, functions, and identities of pastoral counselors today?

In this book, the author describes his psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients and the logic that underlies their often-delusional constructions.

Children and families are in increasing need of mental health services that are more effective and less costly.

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents' contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the evolutionary roots of these behaviors, as well as policies and programs that represent best practices for addressing these issues in schools and communities.

Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy provides an advanced and in-depth exploration of the issues and challenges relating to the training, theory and practice of Child-Centred Play Therapy.

In this book, Hanna Kende uses her wealth of experience to explain how psychodrama can allow psychotherapists to fundamentally change their relationships with children presenting with psychosocial, mental, or behavioral problems.

This handbook examines current mental health research, challenges in patient care, and advances in clinical psychiatry with the aim of improving approaches toward the screening of at-risk individuals, facilitating access to care, and supervising rehabilitation.

This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of "e;Karst River"e; that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life.

Reader's comments:`Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since.

The Sower and the Seed explores the origins of consciousness from a mytho-psychological angle.

Concrete directions for programming and reasons for developing and refining such programs.

In today's schools, it is imperative that school-based mental health professionals be adequately trained in the knowledge and impact of pediatric health disorders on children's academic, social, and emotional progress and performance.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) allows people with acquired brain injury to develop psychological flexibility, in order to lead a vital life, despite all the difficult thoughts, feelings and brain injury symptoms that are present.

This book brings together academics, practitioners and experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and push its parameters.

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis.

Is psychoanalysis knowledge?

Even in one session a therapist can make a difference.

Working with Challenging Youth, Second Edition is a practical, reader-friendly guide through the pitfalls and problems that arise when working with at-risk youth.

The Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools offers the most current and comprehensive insights into how positive psychology principles provide a framework for young people to become active agents in their own learning.

Our present and our past are manifestly intertwined.

"e;Political correctness"e; involves much more than a restriction of speech.

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.

What is it like to be an artist?

Supervision assures the quality of professional practice through careful monitoring; it heals wounds through wholesome listening and support and offers a unique and free space to develop that which we all want to progress: our personal relationships.

Observation is an essential skill for all who work as carers and educators of children.

Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and collaborative relationships to elicit change within the context of trauma and violence.

Advocating for an increased emphasis on evidence-based practice, this book describes and analyses a wide range of available Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment measures.

In this book, David P.

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory.

This timely volume fills a long-standing gap in the professional literature by providing an overview of contemporary assessment and rehabilitation of alcohol and chemical dependent substance abusers.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook.

Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass violence.

Winner of the 2020 Gradiva AwardThe Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues is written from the unique perspective of a Western-trained Asian psychoanalyst and applies principles of Eastern philosophy to understand the psychoanalytic relationship, psychoanalytic processes, and their uses-and limitations-for alleviating human suffering.

The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms examines the affective experience of psychic isolation as an important and painful element of adolescent development.

The author proceed to regard stepfamilies as different-not better or worse-than the nuclear family for successful therapy.

How can therapists integrate theories and practices from across the psychological therapies?

What is the root cause of ethical failure?

Freud's collection of antiquities-his "e;old and dirty gods"e;-stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion.