In art making, materials and media are the intermediaries between private ideas, thoughts, and feelings, and their external manifestations in tangible, sensual form. Thus, materials provide the core components of the exchange that occurs between art therapists and clients. This book …

ISBN: 9780415993135

Published Mar 11, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition - put simply, thinking about one’s own thought processes - limiting their abilities to recognize, express and manage naturally occurring painful emotions and routine social problems as well as to fathom the…

ISBN: 9780415484237

Published Mar 10, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to…

ISBN: 9780415476157

Published Mar 09, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

All professional counselors and therapists can identify a number of turning points in their careers – moments, interactions, or processes – that led to key realizations regarding their practice with clients, work with students, or self-understanding. This book is a collection of such turning…

ISBN: 9780415995757

Published Mar 08, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

This book offers a new perspective on the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate with each other in groups. Describing these processes in the context of modern organisational life, it provides practical advice about how to do group and team coaching.…

ISBN: 9780415472289

Published Mar 08, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war’s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events. How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of…

ISBN: 9780415873116

Published Mar 04, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Richard Hycner and Lynne Jacobs assemble an international group of Gestalt theorists and clinicians for an engaging and insightful investigation into the integration of relational approaches within Gestalt therapy. The book is divided thematically into three sections. The first section speculates…

ISBN: 9780415879316

Published Mar 04, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book reviews all of the major models and includes…

ISBN: 9780805859928

Published Mar 03, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

School counseling is a rather specialized field, yet students entering it do not have a single, comprehensive resource to guide them through the process. This text covers all aspects of the practicum and internship experience, from the initial contact with your supervisor to detailed descriptions…

ISBN: 9780415997478

Published Mar 02, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

How is dramatherapy practised? What does research reveal about how dramatherapy offers therapeutic change? This book examines the many ways clients and therapists explore the therapeutic possibilities of drama. Whilst the first volume combined theory, practice and research in the field, this second…

ISBN: 9780415476089

Published Mar 02, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

This text is unique in that it is the first book to recognize that true multicultural ‘competence’ in counseling or therapy must start with a deep understanding and acknowledgement that other people's worldview is as legitimate to them as yours is to you. Until you recognize the worth or…

ISBN: 9780415956864

Published Feb 28, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

ISBN: 9780415871068

Published Feb 28, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques provides focused, practical strategies to help the coach with their work. Each point provides a detailed explanation of the strategy together with potential pitfalls and solutions. Contributors from a range of coaching backgrounds are brought together to…

ISBN: 9780415473347

Published Feb 25, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Shame is a common and pervasive feature of the human response to death and other losses, yet this often goes unrecognized due to a reluctance to acknowledge and confront it. This book intends to expose shame for what it is, allowing clinicians to see that it is the central psychological force…

ISBN: 9780415997485

Published Feb 23, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents, allowing the sufferer to return to normal eating patterns, and their families to return to normal family life. In this book ten families share their experiences of…

ISBN: 9780415581158

Published Feb 23, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Asian American men represent a complex group with distinct psychological and mental health concerns, yet the current counseling literature is lacking in resources for clinicians working with this population. The purpose of this text is to provide practitioners with a comprehensive overview of…

ISBN: 9780415800082

Published Feb 22, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Jay Haley Revisited brings together some of the most influential professionals who introduce, analyze, and put into context some of the most interesting and significant papers Jay Haley produced, both published and unpublished. Jay Haley was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy who…

ISBN: 9780415805339

Published Feb 22, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women’s lives. With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include: the…

ISBN: 9780415558075

Published Feb 21, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically…

ISBN: 9780415485708

Published Feb 18, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Are you getting ready to take the Praxis Exam and looking for a resource to help as you study? In this guide, Williams and Mennuti, two veteran school psychologists who have been involved in the development, testing, and revision of the Praxis Exam, present their PASS model to help you…

ISBN: 9780415993470

Published Feb 17, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Couples Group Psychotherapy: A Clinical Treatment Model, 2nd ed. is an up-to-date model based on more than twenty years of work and research with outpatient couples groups. In the text, therapists will find everything they need to conceptualize and develop a successful practice based on group…

ISBN: 9780415873048

Published Feb 08, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of…

ISBN: 9780415489713

Published Feb 07, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Teaching Child Psychiatrists Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an essential resource for clinical child psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and mental health professionals. Since 2001, psychiatry residency programs have required resident competency in five specific…

ISBN: 9780415991278

Published Jan 31, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors. The book includes a description of the scope of the problem of substance abuse in…

ISBN: 9780789036971

Published Jan 31, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

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 therapy, looks at the world, and sees himself. The author of this book found himself in just such a…

ISBN: 9780415800655

Published Jan 28, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

The "Director" controls Ms. B’s life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being…

ISBN: 9780415995474

Published Jan 28, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Every clinician looks for the most effective interventions to apply in group therapy. 101 Interventions in Group Therapy gives practitioners exactly what they are looking for--effective interventions in a clear, simple, reader-friendly format. This comprehensive yet concise guide provides 101 short…

ISBN: 9780415882170

Published Jan 26, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

"George Graham is contemporary philosophy’s most gifted and humane writer. The Disordered Mind is a wise, deep, and thorough inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the various ‘creaks, cracks, and crevices’ into which it is prone sometimes to wander." Owen Flanagan, Duke University, USA "…

ISBN: 9780415774727

Published Jan 20, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Over the past fifteen years, there has been a great increase in the knowledge of eating disorders in sport and effective means of treatment. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive clinical experience to discuss how to identify, manage, treat, and prevent eating disorders in sport…

ISBN: 9780415998369

Published Jan 19, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health