Describes the diagnosis and remediation of exceptionalities related to biological, physical, environmental, and cultural factors and discusses the education of the mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, and gifted

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Product Description: This is the first family therapy dictionary that goes beyond the scope of a glossary. The authors have struggled for years with the problem. The literature burgeons, the number of family therapists proliferates, and new practitioners want to know more and more about ideas that govern the field...read more

Product Description: The first up-to-date, comprehensive handbook covering the pactical approaches to social skills training (SST)--a relatively new concept encompassing a broad range of treatment and counseling approaches designed to help people conduct their social lives more effectively...read more

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Product Description: The STILL-Growing field of family therapy has been marked by an extraordinary proliferation of theories and techniques that are often bewildering in their different approaches and their claims of empirical results. Now Systematic Family Therapy is the first book to describe family therapy in terms of well-established psychological principles providing a comprehensive theoretical perspective to guide the practitioner...read more

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Product Description: This second collection of writings covers the main topics that define the newly created specialty of family psychology. Family therapy is limited to a single approach devoted to the treatment of families in trouble; family psychology encompasses the entire range of family functioning, from optimal to pathological...read more

Product Description: This book should be of interest to practitioners, graduate courses in clinical psychology, counselor education and social work.

Product Description: This is a source for those who seek suggestions on how to deal with addictions. It condenses a large body of treatment suggestions into one volume, and provides information on many lesser known addictions such as workaholism, excessive spending and religious fanaticism...read more

Product Description: This volume clarifies the rationale for assessment of marital and family systems, reviews a wide range of assessment instruments and observational procedures, discusses the utility of specific approaches in various clinical situations, and explains how to select appropriate instruments...read more

Product Description: As the study of the family has expanded, the need for an up-to-date volume that brings together and defines major salient words, phrases and concepts has similarly grown. The updated edition of this unique resource provides an expanded yet compact and handy reference for all practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of family psychology and psychotherapy...read more

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The traditional way of evaluating families in order to plan preventive or therapeutic treatment has been to rely solely on interviews. This book demonstrates, however, there are other methods that can help therapists better understand the family to provide effective treatment. The author leads the reader through the process of interviewing, giving test and written exercises, and developing interpretations to produce a report on the family. An extended case study helps to illustrate the methods described.

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Product Description: In his acclaimed book A Theory of Personality Development, Luciano L'Abate introduced a revolutionary theory of personality development and functioning that departed radically from traditional theories. In place of hypothetical traits existing in an empirical vacuum, Dr...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost-effectiveness of current face-to-face (f2f) mental health based on talk, and, offer an alternative in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The field of psychotherapy is beset by a variety of problems including relative ineffectiveness, relatively high cost, and low availability. Hence, a more cost-effective, efficient and mass-producible method is needed that the current talk-based approach lacks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This third collection of writings covers most of the author's published papers in the areas of theory building and testing, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in family psychology, since publication of similar books in 1983 and 1987...read more

The use of workbooks in therapy might represent one of the biggest breakthroughs that has occurred in decades. Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers examines the effectiveness of mental health workbooks designed to address problems ranging from dementia and depression to addiction, spousal abuse, eating disorders, and more. Compiled by Dr. Luciano L’Abate, a leading authority on mental health workbooks, this resource will help clinicians and researchers become aware of the supportive evidence for the use of workbooks. Using Workbooks in Mental Health examines workbooks designed to specifically help: clients affected by dementia or depression abused women gambling addicts women who have substance-abuse addictions incarcerated felons couples preparing for marriage children with school refusal disorder and more! An essential reference for mental health professionals, graduate students, administrators, and researchers, Using Workbooks in Mental Health also explores the role of workbooks in psychological intervention over the past decade. Although workbooks are not yet part of the mainstream of psychological intervention, they are growing in popularity as their many advantages are recognized. They are easy to use by almost any client, they are cost-effective to both therapist and client in terms of money and time, they provide therapists with written assignments to use as homework for individuals, couples, and families, and they can be used in any setting, especially in computer-assisted offline or online interventions. In addition, this book shows how workbooks can be used to administer therapy to previously unreachable clients such as: people who are reluctant to talk to an authoritative figure or a stranger people who cannot afford face-to-face treatments incarcerated offenders who have not been helped by talk therapies Internet users who are searching for help via computer rather than in person