In a changing employment climate and with the growth of demand for careers guidance at all stages of life, careers guidance practice has moved from its positivist world view, with the counsellor as expert and client as passive responder, to more holistic ‘constructivist’ approaches. In essence, these approaches view the career as a holistic concept in which work and personal life are inextricably intertwined, and individuals are experts in their own lives, actively constructing their careers. The first to fully explore the constructivist approach, this book: provides a theoretical background to constructivism outlines a range of constructivist approaches to career counselling gives examples of the practical application of constructivism. Essential for anyone involved in career guidance wishing to learn more about this vital new approach, this book combines theory with practicable guidance, and represents a new direction for career counselling.

Product Description: One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic experiences and in situations of crisis, stress or disease when personal well-being is at stake and coping activities and skills are enhanced...read more

Product Description: This book describes cognitive-constructivist therapy with children and adolescents as a creative process, combining various techniques. It presents an integrative view, incorporating cognitive and constructivist orientations in reference to theory and combining clinical psychology with developmental psychology in reference to child therapy...read more

Product Description: Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counselling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counselling seems to be the best practice for career intervention in the global economy of the information era...read more

Product Description: Psychotherapy has undergone major changes in recent years, with a variety of new approaches including cognitive-behavioural therapy joining the more traditional and widespread schools of thought. These new approaches all share the epistemological assumption of constructivism, which states that there are alternative ways of looking at events and that we interpret events according to how we see the world...read more

Constructivist psychotherapy focuses on the meaning that clients attribute to their world, and the way that this shapes their life and contributes to their difficulties. In this book, Robert A. Neimeyer, a leading figure in the field, provides a clear and accessible explanation of the key features of this approach. Constructivist Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features concentrates on the 30 key commitments that distinguish constructivism from other cognitive behavioural perspectives. Divided into two sections – Theory and Practice – this straightforward book is illustrated throughout with case material and recent research findings. Neimeyer provides us with a fresh perspective on familiar material, together with a clear, concise introduction to material that the reader may be less familiar with, making this book a valuable text for professionals in training as well as a source of new ideas for practising therapists of constructivist psychotherapy.

Client anger is a perennial problem for a range of professionals working in clinical settings. Working with Anger presents an alternative strategy to the most common approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), exploring instead how anger can be tackled from a personal constructivist perspective. It provides a conceptual framework and practical advice on the clinical issues of working with anger, including case study examples, service user perspective, a philosophical and developmental underpinning, and suggested ways of preventing anger development. Ways of working with anger are illustrated, including: * Group-based treatments * Individual treatment * Working with adults * Working with children and adolescents * Working with families * Gender and anger * Methods of evaluating anger programmes This practical volume will enable clinicians to set up, run and evaluate their own anger programmes using the constructivist approach. It will therefore be a valuable resource for professionals such as clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurses and social workers.

Product Description: Drawing on the ideas of Michael White and David Epston, this fully revised, extended and updated Second Edition incorporates the progression of their thinking over the past five years and introduces developments initiated by other narrative therapists worldwide...read more

Offers a clear, concise overview of the narrative approach without oversimplifying its theoretical underpinnings and practice. This 2nd edition introduces developments initiated by therapists world-wide and also shows how narrative therapy can be used for post-traumatic reactions, couple conflict, and a sense of personal failure.

Product Description: "Constructive Work with Offenders" offers a challenge to many of the assumptions of criminal justice policy and the dominant approaches to practice. The contributors advocate an emphasis on constructive work with offenders that harnesses their positive strengths and resources, and offers inclusive approaches to effective offender assessment and intervention...read more

There has been increased international interest in the relevance of social theories associated with postmodernism, social constructionism and narrative approaches for social work. The central aim of this book is to demonstrate how such ideas can make a contribution to social work practice. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: An urgent need exists for a guide to innovative mental health education. Despite the hundreds of programs in existence for training students in counseling, human services, social work, and psychology, teachers in such programs have relied on an informal network of information exchange to guide their teaching practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide to innovative mental health education is urgently needed. Despite the hundreds of programs in existence for training students in counseling, human service, social work, and psychology, teachers in such programs have relied on an informal network of information exchange to guide their teaching practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A guide to the use of treatment approaches known as constructive therapies The leading teachers and practitioners in this powerful handbook represent a variety of schools of therapeutic treatments that all share an optimistic view of people as resourceful individuals who construct their own realities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Patients of psychotherapy often have pre-developed, powerful stories about themselves when they come for treatment, and these are usually characterized by bleak self-portrayals, inexorable plots, narrow themes, and demoralizing meanings.

This volume represents an important new direction for the professions involved in the application of psychological science. Its 23 distinguished contributors deconstruct the fundamental assumptions of the psychological professions and offer a constructivist alternative. Cutting across the traditional areas of specialization - the only book in the field to do so - it applies constructivist thinking to the whole broad range of professional counselling activities, including practice, research, supervision and training. Contributors include: M. Harry Daniels, Wendy Drewery, Jay S. Efran, Jerald R. Forester, Don E. Gordon, Linda Terry Guyer, Richard L. Hayes, Chris Lovell, Garrett J. McAuliffe, Gerald Monk, Mary Lee Nelson, Susan Allstetter Neufeldt, Ramona Oppenheim, R. Vance Peavy, Laurie C. Pels, Karen Poulin, Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio, Lonnie Rowell, Brett N. Steenbarger, Carlene Wentworth, William Wentworth, Lyle J. White and John Winslade. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Psychology for Language Teachers examines the field of educational psychology and considers various ways in which a deeper understanding of this discipline can help language teachers. The first part presents an overview of educational psychology, and discusses how different approaches to psychology have influenced language teaching methodology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)