Books Like “Supervision and Clinical Psychology”

The mindfulness & acceptance workbook for anxiety

John P. Forsyth PhD, Georg H. Eifert PhD

2007

The award-winning The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety has introduced countless readers to the concept of mindfulness, and has successfully helped many people manage worry, fear, and panic so they can live a better life. This fully revised and updated third edition of the best-selling and innovative workbook offers readers compelling new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises to help them finally conquer their anxiety.

Exposure Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Johan Rosqvist

2005

Exposure Treatments for Anxiety Disorders is a unique volume, as it draws together the latest research on the rapidly-expanding field of anxiety disorders and illuminates how to correctly apply the proven methodology of behavioral therapy techniques to the variety of situations that face today's mental health professional. That said, cognitive therapy has in the last 10 years gotten increased attention as an alternative to behavior therapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders. But while it is gaining acceptance among practitioners, cognitive therapy has yet to illustrate substantial benefits above those that behavior therapy can already provide. In light of the aforementioned, coupled with the pressure many practitioners feel from managed care paradigms and shrinking healthcare coverage, this book will be a welcome resource allowing for increased clarity of action, accountability, and ultimately, positive client outcome. Each chapter is designed to address pivotal aspects in the assessment, formulation and diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety disorders, to a sufficient depth that the generalist practitioner will be comfortable using this book as a guide when working with the anxiety disordered client.

Depression and aggression in family interaction

German Edition by Otto Kaufmann

1990

Patterson's work explores the intricate relationship between depression and aggressive behaviors within family dynamics. Through detailed observation and analysis, the book outlines how parental depression can contribute to the development and maintenance of aggressive patterns in children. It further investigates how these reciprocal interactions can perpetuate a cycle of distress for all family members. This research offers insights into the mechanisms by which mental health challenges manifest and are managed, or mismanaged, within the family unit.

Mental

Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Giorgio Ganis

2018

How do we define mental illness? What does a diagnosis mean? What should you ask your doctor before you begin treatment? Are there alternatives to medication? What does the research show actually works? Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny combine forces to demystify the world of mental health. Sharing their personal experiences of mental illness and an insider perspective on psychiatry, they unpack the current knowledge about conditions and treatments coveing everything from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia, personality disorders and substance abuse. Whether you have a mental illness or support someone who does, Mental offers clear practical help, empowering you with an arsenal of tips and techniques to help build your resilience.

Drugs, the brain and behavior

John Brick

1999

Explore the brain and discover the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence. The authors, research scientists with years of experience in alcohol and drug studies, provide definitions, historic discoveries about the nervous system, and original, eye-catching illustrations to discuss the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs. You will learn about: • how psychoactive drugs affect cognition, behavior, and emotion • the brain/behavior relationship • the specific effects of major addictive and psychoactive drug groups • new definitions and thinking about abuse and dependence • the medical and forensic consequences of drugs use Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior uses a balance of instruction, illustrations, and tables and formulas that will give you a broad, lasting introduction to this intriguing subject. Whether you're a nurse, chemical dependency counselor, psychologist, or clinician, this book will be a quick reference guide long after the first reading.

Anxiety and Mood Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Rudi Coetzer

2010

While there are many excellent texts addressing cognitive impairment and behavioural difficulties and on rehabilitation associated with traumatic brain injury, few textbooks specifically address the most common emotional problems that can have such an adverse effect on rehabilitation and outcome. Uniquely this book deals exclusively with the identification and psychotherapeutic management of mood and anxiety disorders after traumatic brain injury. Furthermore, a systematic approach to identifying and diagnosing anxiety and mood disorders is followed throughout the text. As well as providing an introduction to anxiety and mood disorders after traumatic brain injury, it provides a psychological perspective on their evolution and management. It is aimed at a range of professionals in training (or those responsible for providing training in psychopathology, neuropsychology and psychotherapy), as well as those who may have an interest in working with the type of patients with anxiety or depression, commonly seen in post-acute brain injury rehabilitation settings. Case studies, summaries and suggested references for further reading are used throughout to facilitate understanding and teaching where relevant.

Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts

Karen Kleiman, Amy Wenzel

2011

This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood, and offers practical answers and advice on how to tackle these. With fresh material focusing on how to overcome barriers to disclosure and stigma, and updated treatment approaches and case descriptions, this revised edition explains exactly what these negative thoughts are, why they come about, and what can be done about them. Chapters offer information on the specific nature of perinatal anxiety and related disorders, along with take-home points and evidence-based strategies for symptom relief that clinicians can use effectively with new parents. Written by two leading clinicians in the perinatal community, in collaboration with two promising leaders in this specialized field, Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts, 2nd edition offers a compassionate approach to breaking the cycle of scary thoughts that is invaluable to new parents and clinicians alike.

Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies

Charles H. Elliott, Laura L. Smith

2002

Practical, proven ways to get fear, worry, and panic under control Think you worry too much? You're not alone?over 40 million Americans suffer from some form of anxiety. Help is here in this friendly guide, which offers sound advice on identifying anxiety triggers through taking self-tests, improving your eating habits, relaxing, and finding support for you and your loved ones. Now with 25% new and revised content, Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, 2nd Edition explores all of the most common triggers for anxiety, recent developments in medications, newly emerging biologically oriented approaches for treating anxiety, and the most up-to-date advancements in psychotherapies. Understand why you?re anxious and pinpoint your triggers Get trusted advice on whether you can overcome anxiety on your own or seek professional help Covers anxiety in teens, young adults, and veterans The practical information in Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, 2nd Edition is your first step toward getting your life back and winning the war against your worries!

A clinical application of Bion's concepts

P. C. Sandler

2009

This work explores the practical integration of Wilfred Bion's psychoanalytic theories into clinical practice, focusing on how concepts such as the container-contained relationship and reverie can illuminate the analytic process. Sandler provides specific examples of interpretation, particularly through dream analysis, demonstrating Bion's framework's utility in understanding unconscious mental functioning. The book offers a detailed examination of how these theoretical constructs can be applied to facilitate therapeutic change for patients.

Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy

Thomas J. Sweeney

2009

Sweeney's text provides a comprehensive overview of Adlerian counseling and psychotherapy, detailing its core principles and practical applications. It emphasizes Alfred Adler's concepts of social interest, teleology, and the individual's striving for significance as foundational to understanding and addressing psychological distress. The book guides practitioners in applying Adlerian techniques to foster client growth through collaborative exploration of life goals and the development of more constructive life-styles.

Expressive Therapies Continuum

Lisa D. Hinz

2009

The Expressive Therapies Continuum provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying various expressive therapies, integrating theoretical foundations with practical clinical applications. Hinz details the continuum's core principles, outlining how different modalities, from visual arts to movement, can be utilized across the spectrum of human experience and mental health concerns. This text offers a structured approach for therapists to conceptualize client needs and select appropriate interventions, emphasizing the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit within the therapeutic process.

A counseling primer

Mary H. Guindon

2010

A Counseling Primer, second edition, introduces students to the profession of counseling, reviews its training curriculum, discusses current professional standards, and presents basic counseling skills. The text is designed to answer students’ most commonly asked questions around the who, what, where, when, why, and how of counseling. Updated and aligned with the eight 2016 CACREP core areas, the second edition includes new chapters by experts from seven entry-level specialty areas, including school counseling, career counseling, and mental health counseling. The book also contains useful features to enhance the learning experience, including case examples, class handouts and activities, a sample syllabus, discussion questions, and more. A variety of online resources including instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, tests, class activities, and student supplements are also available for download. In a comprehensive and accessible format, A Counseling Primer, second edition, provides students with a succinct, up-to-date picture of the counseling profession and the tools they need to make their contribution to the field.

Coaching women to lead

Averil Leimon

2010

This book offers practical strategies and psychological insights for coaching women to excel in leadership roles. It delves into the unique challenges and opportunities women face in their professional development, providing frameworks for mentors and coaches to foster confidence, resilience, and effective decision-making. The authors emphasize building self-awareness and navigating organizational dynamics to unlock women's full leadership potential.

Sustainable happiness

Steve Schermer, John Woods

2012

Today’s greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization—depression, trauma, obesity, cancer—are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to civilized life. The same can be said of the economic challenges posed by the stress-reactive cycles of boom and bust, driven by addictive greed and compulsive panic. As current research opens up new horizons of stress-cessation, empathic intelligence, peak performance, and shared happiness, it has also encountered Asian methods of self-healing and interdependence more effective and teachable than any known in the West. Sustainable Happiness is the first book to make Asia’s most rigorous and complete system of contemplative living, hidden for centuries in Tibet, accessible to help us all on our shared journey towards sustainable well-being, altruism, inspiration and happiness.

New directions in sex therapy

Peggy J. Kleinplatz

2012

"New Directions in Sex Therapy" offers a contemporary exploration of evolving sex therapy practices, moving beyond traditional models to incorporate a broader understanding of sexual well-being. The volume delves into innovative therapeutic approaches and research findings that address the complexities of modern sexual concerns, emphasizing a client-centered and integrative perspective. It provides clinicians with updated frameworks and practical strategies for effectively treating a range of sexual dysfunctions and enhancing sexual health.

The Transparent Brain in Couple and Family Therapy

Suzanne Midori Hanna

2013

This book explores how neurobiological understanding can inform and enhance couple and family therapy. It provides a framework for therapists to integrate concepts like attachment, trauma, and emotional regulation into their practice, offering practical strategies for addressing relational dynamics. The text aims to deepen therapists' insight into the biological underpinnings of distress and connection within families and couples, ultimately leading to more effective interventions.

Complete Works of W. R. Bion

W. R. Bion, Chris Mawson

2014

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers.

Selecting effective treatments

Linda Seligman, Lourie W. Reichenberg

1990

This text offers a systematic framework for clinicians to navigate the complex landscape of mental health treatments. It emphasizes a decision-making process that considers individual client characteristics, symptom presentation, and evidence-based therapeutic options to guide the selection of the most appropriate interventions. The book aims to enhance clinical judgment by providing tools and principles for differentiating between various psychotherapeutic and psychiatric approaches.

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry

Lucy Johnstone

1989

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical account of the day-to-day practice of psychiatry. Using real-life examples and her own experience as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Johnstone argues that the traditional way of treating mental illness can often exacerbate people's original difficulties leaving them powerless, disabled and distressed. In this completely revised and updated second edition, she draws on a range of evidence to present a very different understanding of psychiatric breakdown than that found in standard medical textbooks. Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a challenging but ultimately inspiring read for all who are involved in mental health - whether as professionals, students, service users, relatives or interested lay people.

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

2018

Ahora en Netflix en un docu-serie de cuatro partes llamado "How to Change Your Mind" en donde abre el camino a la historia y los usos de los psicodélicos, incluidos el LSD, la psilocibina, la terapia MDMA y la mescalina. Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New York Times. En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018 Una brillante y valiente investigación de Michael Pollan, autor de cinco best sellersde The New York Times, sobre la revolución médica y científica en torno a las drogas psicodélicas, y la fascinante historia de sus propias experiencias psicodélicas que le cambiaron la vida. Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso investigar por qué el LSD y la psilocibina (el componente activo de las setas alucinógenas) proporcionan un enorme alivio a personas que padecen condiciones de difícil tratamiento como el trastorno por estrés postraumático, la depresión o la adicción, no tenía la intención de escribir lo que es sin lugar a dudas su libro más personal. Pero al descubrir cómo estas notables sustancias mejoran la vida no solo de pacientes con problemas de salud mental sino también de personas que simplemente se enfrentan a los altibajos de la vida cotidiana, decidió explorar la cartografía de la mente tanto en primera como en tercera persona. Así comenzó una singular aventura que lo llevaría a la experimentación de la conciencia alterada, a la profunda inmersión en la neurociencia más pionera y al contacto con una prodigiosa comunidad subterránea de expertos psicodélicos. En esta ejemplar investigación periodística, Pollan revisa archivos históricos y documentos científicos para separar la verdad de los mitos, la propaganda y el pánico moral alrededor de estas drogas que se ha ido acumulando desde los años sesenta, cuando un puñado de personajes rebeldes catalizaron una poderosa corriente hacia lo que entonces era un prometedor campo de investigación. Sugerente, polémico y deslumbrante, una mezcla única de ciencia, memoria, historia y medici

Cognitive Behavioural Coaching

Michael Neenan, Windy Dryden

2018

This text explores the practical application of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles within a coaching framework, distinguishing it from therapeutic interventions. It details how coaches can utilize CBT techniques to help clients identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, fostering personal growth and goal achievement. The authors provide a structured approach to coaching, offering tools and strategies for addressing issues related to mental well-being, happiness, and success.

Dynamics at Boardroom Level

Leslie Brissett, Mannie Sher, Tazi Lorraine Smith (Editor) & 0 more

2019

How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in 1947. Today, as then, the corporate world is undergoing increasing pressure to demonstrate a sustainable, generative and meaningful impact on society and employees whilst delivering improved services and products. These tensions and others are explored in this important new book, Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants. In this book, the reader gets a useful framework of theory and practice that broadens vision and deepens thinking about what is happening in boardrooms. The book opens the door to the reader to a new world of board dynamics, edited by those who really understand the deeper workings of the complex human system and its work at board level. This edited volume brings together the insights and contemporary case studies from participants on the Tavistock Institute Dynamics @ Board Level programme that draws on the thinking of Tavistock scholars and practitioners and their work on the dynamics of task, role, authority and power. Edited by programme co-directors Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Leslie Brissett and their fellow Tavistock Associate Tazi Lorraine Smith, and with contributions from senior leadership practitioners and board evaluators from the government, international consultancy firms, FTSE 100 and global UN institutions, this book speaks directly to issues of our time. It represents essential reading for leaders of organizations and businesses, as well as leadership coaches and mental health professionals.

The Freedom of Life

American Psychological Association

1905

Annie Payson Call's "The Freedom of Life" offers a practical philosophy for achieving inner peace and mental well-being by emphasizing the power of conscious thought and disciplined will. The book guides readers toward self-mastery, asserting that true freedom lies not in external circumstances but in cultivating a serene and resilient inner life through consistent self-effort and a positive outlook. Call's enduring insights provide a framework for navigating life's challenges with greater equanimity and purpose, fostering personal growth and sustained happiness.

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

1948

In the sweltering summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood, a bright but increasingly disillusioned young woman from Massachusetts, grapples with the suffocating expectations placed upon women of her era as she interns at a prestigious New York fashion magazine. As her experiences in the city expose the superficiality and limitations of her prescribed future, Esther's mental health deteriorates, leading to a profound psychological crisis that forces her to confront societal pressures and her own identity. This semi-autobiographical novel offers a stark portrayal of a woman's descent into mental illness, exploring themes of ambition, societal roles, and the struggle for self-definition within a patriarchal American landscape.