Product Description: This comprehensive volume represents the first state-of-the-art handbook to appear in the field of process research in over a decade. Updating and expanding upon Kiesler's groundbreaking work (1973), Greenberg and Pinsof present here the most systems for understanding the mechanisms of change in individual, group, and family treatment...read more

Product Description: "This book contains essays on the current uses to which hypnosis is being put by practitioners in every field of health care and it should appeal to people in any profession in which hypnosis might play a part." 9 Sections: Introduction, Experimental and Theoretical Issues, Applications to Relaxation and Anxiety Management, Applications to Psychosomatic Medicine and Dentistry, Applications to Psychological Therapies, Applications to Children, Applications to Occupational Psychology and Sport, Forensic Applications, Legal and Professional Issues 40 Chapters plus an Inde...read more

Virginia Satir (1916 - 1988) was an American author and social worker, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with family reconstruction. She is widely regarded as the "Mother of Family Therapy" Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988. She is also known for creating the Virginia Satir Change Process Model, a psychological model developed through clinical studies. Change management and organizational gurus of the 1990s and 2000s embrace this model to define how change impacts organizations. This book presents the philosophy and skills of Ms. Satir.

Provides clinical guidance for psychotherapists at all levels in the form of brief clinical "wisdoms". The author explores particular moments and interactions in the therapy process, from setting the stage for patient receptivity and forming a therapeutic alliance to curative agents and outcomes.

Product Description: The fundamental principles of direct clinical work with children! Christiane Brems, an experienced psychotherapist and educator, offers a comprehensive integrated approach to psychotherapy with children aged 3 to 12 years. She contends that the combination of psychodynamic and behavioral approaches creates change in children and helps the therapist recognize important features in a child’s life...read more

Product Description: This volume, winner of a major award in the US even before it was published, provides practical guidelines on how to design and organize the optimal course of cost-effective psychological therapy for each patient. It emphasizes the critical issues that the therapist should consider before deciding on which techniques should be applied...read more

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Product Description: Students who are learning the practice of counseling and psychotherapy repeatedly find themselves asking. "What do I do when…?" Often, an immediate intervention that will carry the therapy forward is needed. This book provides students in the early phase of their training with a variety of tactics developed by creative therapists to deal with tactical problems with clients...read more

Product Description: This book presents a well-organized, step-by-step description of how therapy unfolds from first contact to termination. This is an excellent introduction to the process of therapy, written by an eclectic therapist in an appealing manner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Therapeutic Use of Self is a ground-breaking examination of the individual therapist's contribution to process and outcome in counselling. Using many powerful case examples and extensive research findings from the author's own work, this book presents the counsellor's evaluation of their own practice as the main vehicle for the development of insight and awareness in to individual 'therapeutic' characteristics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Therapeutic Use of Self is a ground-breaking examination of the individual therapist's contribution to process and outcome in counselling. Using many powerful case examples and extensive research findings from the author's own work, this book presents the counsellor's evaluation of their own practice as the main vehicle for the development of insight and awareness in to individual 'therapeutic' characteristics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A simple yet powerful approach to resistance from a leader in solution-focused therapy. In this engaging book, O’Hanlon introduces the three main concepts of inclusive therapy: permission, inclusion of opposites, and inclusion of exceptions...read more

Product Description: Understanding Psychotherapy Change: A Practical Guide to Configurational Analysis, Mardi Horowitz provides a simplified discussion of his empirically supported, integrative approach to case formulation. He begins by tracing the roots of this approach and its refinements and providing an overview of the process...read more

Product Description: After more than 40 years of research, a substantial body of evidence has shown psychotherapy to be helpful in ameliorating psychological suffering. This is seldom questioned in professional circles, yet intense debate persists over how, when, and why therapy works...read more

Strong case formulations help clinicians organize complex and contradictory information about their clients. They serve as blueprints guiding treatment; provide a measure of change; facilitate empathy; predict therapeutic crises; and, increasingly, help to justify the time and expense of therapy to third-party payers. This invaluable book is designed to help clinicians at all levels of training master the fine points of case formulation within a wide range of therapeutic approaches. Written in a standard format to facilitate comparison between case formulation methods, each chapter provides a step-by-step guide to implementing the method at hand in everyday clinical work, supported by an illustrative case example. Chapter authors consider the relationship of case formulation to therapeutic technique, review each method's historical and conceptual background, and evaluate its suitability for different types of clients. Also included is information on how one can become better trained in each method, along with summaries of available research.

Product Description: The excitement engendered by psychotherapy has become severely diminished. Serious problems with effectiveness nearly preclude patient gain. A new and more powerful form of therapy is desperately needed. Against the need for a much stronger treatment frame, analystic construction has taken form that offers new levels of patient gain...read more

Product Description: Work Discussionbrings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the descriptions offered here, both by students and by experienced staff, fully demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach, both to training and to a wide variety of work situations...read more

Therapy that effects change must authentically involve you, the therapist. INTERPERSONAL PROCESS IN THERAPY: AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL brings together cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and psychodynamic theories into one cohesive framework, all the while showing you practical ways to alleviate your concerns about making a "mistake". And, this textbook enables you to be who you need to be in a therapeutic situation: yourself. Both scholarly and easy to use, this counseling textbook will be a resource you'll use again and again.