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| Personality Adaptations
by Vann Joines, Ian Stewart
Paperback 428 pages
| A practical guide to understanding personality, presenting a research based model of six
personality adaptations. Assess someone’s personality rapidly and accurately. Understand how to work most effectively with each personality type, whatever therapeutic approach you use.
By the authors of TA Today. |
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| Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Bernie Curwen, Peter Ruddell, Stephen Palmer | Based on the theory that emotional
disorders arise out of negatively biased thinking, Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a guide to helping clients to overcome such beliefs and patterns of thought. |
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| An Introduction to Counselling
by John McLeod
Paperback 464 pages
| This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and
practice of counselling and therapy. It covers the core approaches to counselling, and takes a critical approach to issues of professional practice. |
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| An Intimate Loneliness: Supporting Bereaved Parents and Siblings
by Gordon Riches, Pamela Dawson
Paperback 231 pages
| This book will be of value to students on courses in counselling, health care,
psychology, social policy, pastoral care and education. It will appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality. It is also aimed at professionally qualified counselling, health and social service workers, at informed voluntary group members, the clergy, teachers and others involved with pastoral care. |
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| The Depression Workbook : A Guide for Living With Depression and Manic Depression
by Mary Ellen Copeland
Paperback 305 pages | This book is based on the responses of 120 survey participants who share their
insights, experiences, and strategies for living with extreme mood swings. Interactive exercises teach essential coping skills such as building a strong support system, bolstering self-esteem, fighting negative thoughts, finding appropriate professional help, and using relaxation and exercise. |
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| Depression
by Dorothy Rowe
Paperback 272 pages
| Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. However, by
understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it forever. Dorothy Rowe gives us a way of understanding depression, allowing us to take charge of our lives. She shows it is not an illness requiring drugs but a defence we use to hold ourselves together when we feel our lives falling apart. This text contains stories of people who have changed their lives by conquering depression for good. |
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| A Guide to Treatments That Work
by Peter E. Nathan (Editor), Jack M. Gorman (Editor)
Hardcover 624 pages | This reference provides the
results of a high-level task force created by the American Psychological Association - the largest professional society for psychologists in the United States - for the purpose of assessing the efficacy of therapeutic interventions for each of the major clinical disorders. The volume brings together all the outcome data and clinical trials, describing what works, what doesn't and what is not known. Among the disorders discussed are depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders,
substance abuse, and many more. As a reference work which integrates information from both clinical psychology and psychiatry, this work is intended as a desk reference for all practitioners. |
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| Character Styles
by Stephen M Johnson
Hardcover 320 pages
| Presenting an integrated personality theory, this book shows how basic existential and developmental issues underlie the severe pathology of personality disorders, the nagging symptoms of neurosis, and the more functional coping and adaptation of character styles. It details both an external description of these personalities along the continuum of psychic structure and the internal
experience that makes human behaviour understandable and worthy of empathy. |
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| Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship
by Michael Khan
Paperback, 192 pages | This book examines one of the most complex aspects of psychotherapy: the therapist - client relationship. Drawing on his extensive clinical experience and the theories of Freud, Rogers, Gill and Kohut, Kahn shows how classical transference analysis can be combined with contemporary humanistic emphasis on warmth and empathy. The new, streamlined Second Edition features greater discussion of ethics and countertransference. It
is appropriate as a supplement for courses on psychotherapy/counselling theory or practice. |
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| Psychodynamic Approaches to Sexual Problems
by Brian Daines, Angelina Perrett
Paperback, 192 pages | Counsellors and therapists can be hesitant about addressing the sexual problems of their clients from
any perspective and sometimes lack the confidence to tackle the issues as they arise. This text describes a specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. |
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| Couples Sex and Power
by Rudi Dallos, Sally Foreman
Paperback, 240 pages | An examination of power and sexuality in intimate relationships with a specific focus on sexual
difficulties and symptoms. The authors offer an integration of feminist perspectives with detailed illustrations of the dynamics of intimate relationships. Case studies are included. |
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| The Presenting Past
Michael Jacobs
Paperback, 256 pages | A comprehensive introduction to the basic psychodynamic themes of trust and
dependency, authority and autonomy, and co-operation, this text makes a break from developmental stages, preferring to show the real issues that concern people are present at every point in life. It includes a number of illustrative case studies and this revised edition of the text includes a new chapter on the way the major themes appear at different points in the process of counselling and therapy. |
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| Surviving Secrets
Moira Walker
Hardcover, 224 pages | In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the subject of abuse in childhood. Less
attention has been paid to what happens to the vast number of women and men who have reached adulthood with this experience haunting them. Moira Walker overviews the experience and its implications, dealing with physical, sexual and psychological abuse. An essential part of the content is based on interviews with survivors of child abuse, voicing their views on the effects of the experience and the effectiveness of the help offered. At the same time "Surviving Secrets" seeks to
understand the context in which abuse takes place, the society which itself contains and sustains abuse at various levels. It is an account of the experience and effects of childhood abuse and a handbook for those in the caring professions, in voluntary organizations and elsewhere who are helping survivors of abuse. |
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| A Bright Red Scream
by Marilee Strong
Paperback, 252 pages | An investigation of why so many people deliberately hurt themselves and what can be done to
help them. The illness "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, and continues to be practised mainly by middle-class women who start in their teens and self-harm throughout their lives. Most cutters are women who have been emotionally, sexually or physically abused as children, but Marilee Strong's research shows that self-mutilation also appears in other groups. There are powerful first-person stories, in which cutters describe their
ritualistic methods and somewhat addictive cravings for seeing their own blood. Though research is in its infancy, therapists say there are now promising treatments - from medication to intensive psychotherapy - for the millions of "cutters". Strong reveals what the afflicted and those close to them can do to start a process of healing. |
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| Counselling in Independent Practice
Gabrielle Syme
Paperback, 160 pages | This text demonstrates and reflects the care and responsibility that must be taken by anyone
considering counselling in independent practice. It is based upon the experience of a practitioner. For anyone contemplating setting up in private or independent practice as a counsellor or psychotherapist, it should offer a useful model. It explores in depth the practical, ethical and personal issues that should be considered before taking such a major step. Concluding with a critique of private and independent practice, the book aims to make a contribution to the current debate about the
difference between minimum standards set by Codes of Ethics and Practice for counsellors and what is good practice. |
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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
Colin Murray Parkes, Pittu Laungani, Bill Young
| The work describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions; explains their psychological and historical context; shows how customs change on contact with the West; and considers the implications for the future. Indispensable for doctors, nurses, social workers and others involved in the care of the dying and bereaved. |
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| Race, Culture and Counselling
Colin Lago, Joyce M. Thompson
Paperback, 192 pages | Race.
Culture and Counselling seeks to explore some of the major dimensions and subtleties underlying the issues of race and culture and how these might impact upon counselling-psychotherapeutic relationships. It contributes to the literature that urges awareness, understanding and acceptance between people of different cultural, racial and linguistic origins. |
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| The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing With the Pain of Exploring Trauma
by Stuart D. Perlman
Hardcover, 272 pages | This text offers support and a framework for therapists treating traumatized patients. It conceptualizes
and illustrates the establishment of safety and validation to set the stage for the interlocking dramas of the patient's trusting and opening up and the therapist's empathic immersion. |
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| The Reflective Practitioner
by Donald A Schon
Paperback, 384 pages | Schon shows how professionals such as teachers, architects, and psychotherapists can constructively
analyze their practice. His perspective is based on insights from the philosophy of science and recent social thought, and illuminates the weakness of "technical rationality" while proposing well-founded alternatives. Extensive case studies are included. |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision)
by American Psychiatric Association
Paperback, 943 pages | Since 1992, there have been many advances in knowledge of psychiatric illnesses. The
DSM-IV-TR spans the bridge between DSM-IV and DSM-V, to ensure that the most relevant new information since the DSM-IV literature review in 1992 was incorporated and to enhance the educational value. Specifically, new information on associated features, including associated laboratory and physical findings, has been added for many of the disorders. Sections on prevalence, gender/age/culture, course and familial pattern have also been revised to reflect research findings. More comprehensive
differential diagnoses have been incorporated for many of the disorders. |
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| Anxiety | Eating Disorders | Eric Berne | Psychotherapy | Freud | Counselling | TA | Psychology |
See also: Theory Books | Counselling in Action Series | Beyond Empathy |
