Don't be so hard on yourself – use compassion focused therapy as your guide It's often said that we're our own worst critics—and it's true. Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies offers straightforward and practical advice that helps you view yourself through a more sympathetic lens. This motivating text covers the key principles of compassion focused therapy, which guide you in caring for your wellbeing, becoming sensitive to your needs, recognising when you are distressed, and extending warmth...
In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention, along with step-by-step principles that tell the therapist how best to create an environment to help patients.
The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood,...
Reflecting the latest advancements in the field and complete <em>DSM–5 </em>criteria, Robert Weis’ I<strong>ntroduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology</strong> by Robert Weis provides students with a comprehensive and practical introduction to child psychopathology. The book uses a developmental psychopathology approach to explore the emergence of disorders over time, describe the risks and protective factors that influence developmental...
Reduce paperwork and increase efficiency with this indispensable companion to the Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Sixth Edition The newly revised sixth edition of The Adult Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner , delivers complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem described in the Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Sixth Edition . These prewritten progress notes can easily be adapted to fit a particular client...
Neuropsychology has become a very important aspect for neurologists in clinical practice as well as in research. Being a specialized field in psychology, its long history is based on different historical developments in brain science and clinical neurology. In this volume, we want to show how present concepts of neuropsychology originated and were established by outlining the most important developments since the end of the 19th century. The articles of this book that cover topics such as...
In this fourth volume of the popular series 'Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists' we once again delve into the minds of writers, painters, and poets in order to gain better insight on how neurological and psychiatric diseases can influence creativity. The issue of schizophrenia, the interaction between psychological instability and drug abuse, and the intricate association between organic wounds and shell-shock disorders are illustrated with the examples of Franz Kafka, Raymond...
• A guide to the purpose and meaning of psychotherapy that normalises and demystifies a useful but misunderstood practice. • Challenges the misconception of ‘innate’ qualities and explores the role of psychotherapy in correcting our learnt behaviour. • Identifies four key areas of ourselves in greatest need of repair and work: – Self-Love – Candour – Communication – Trust • Debunks myths and addresses traditional causes of suspicion surrounding therapy,...
Sie haben die Schule geschwänzt, sind ohne Führerschein gefahren, haben geklaut, sich geprügelt oder etwas kaputt gemacht. Dafür sitzen sie nun für ein bis vier Wochen hinter Gittern. Die Zeit im Jugendarrest soll kurz und hart sein. Und sie soll abschrecken, einen Schock auslösen – und so verhindern, dass die Jugendlichen wieder straffällig werden. Wieso sind ausgerechnet diese Jugendlichen im Gefängnis gelandet? Wie geht es ihnen dort? Wie wirkt sich der Arrestaufenthalt auf ihre Psyche...
Haben Sie das Gefühl, dass in Ihrem Leben etwas nicht stimmt – Sie wissen aber nicht genau, was das sein könnte? Fühlen Sie sich ziellos, oder sind Sie auf der Suche nach einer neuen Richtung für Ihr Leben, nach Erkenntnissen über sich selbst? Dann ist dieses Buch genau der richtige Begleiter für Sie! Katrin Thomas, erfahrene Systemische Familientherapeutin, lädt Sie ein zu einer Entdeckungsreise in Ihr eigenes Ich. Die von der Autorin eigens für die selbstständige Anwendung aufbereiteten...