This work uses homework exercises to introduce trainees to tasks common to all psychotherapies such as developing a working alliance, detecting maladaptive patterns of behaviour, handling resistance and encouraging change. This is the seminar leader's manual for the course.
Underlying numerous psychotherapeutic techniques are principles guiding the evolution of the therapeutic relationship, the identification of maladaptive patterns, and the process of change. These principles form the structure of individual psychotherapy. Dr. Beitman calls these stages engagement, pattern search, change and termination. Each stage ...
Both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy can help people with psychiatric disorders. This book summarises research in combined treatments and discusses the manner in which each can aid the other.
Actual psychotherapeutic practice is predominantly eclectic - therapists mix schools and methods as they seek to address their clients' needs. Yet psychotherapy textbooks are still stuck in clinical pigeonholes and are often more committed to a theoretical position than to helping students learn how to be effective in the therapy hour. Here ...
This book addresses major psychiatric disorders of self-awareness including schizophrenia, alcoholism, Asperger's Disorder, autism, and ADHD. The authors present pragmatic interventions for improving patients' daily functioning and a review of the neuronal circuitry involved with these disorders. Each chapter includes diagnostic manifestations, ...
Instructs beginners in the concepts and processes that define psychotherapy. Trainees discover not only the useful ideas provided by the many schools but also the variations that fit their own personalities.
Most psychiatrists now agree that combining pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy results in the most effective treatment for the majority of mental illnesses. Because treatment decisions are rarely simple, the clinician must choose from an array of modalities, which presents the challenge of finding the best combination of treatments. Intended for ...
'Provides a useful insight into the revolution that has taken place in psychotherapy practice in the United States' - Michael Maltby, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy In an age when psychotherapists are subjected to cost-saving measures which run counter to their wish to optimize care for their clients, this book ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
