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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
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In "Building Resilience," readers are taken on a profound exploration of the intricate psychological impact of divorce on children's self-esteem and self-confidence. Divorce, while common in modern society, can shake the foundation of a child's world, challenging their beliefs about love, stability, and self-worth.
Key topics discussed in this comprehensive volume include:
The Emotional Roller Coaster: An in-depth look at the immediate
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New Directions in the Treatment of PTSD.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you'll find a complete theoretical and practical guide to making this revolutionary new model work in your practice.
After a quick overview of PTSD, the first part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment...
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En los últimos años el contexto del ejercicio de la profesión en salud mental ha cambiado drásticamente. La práctica de la psicoterapia y de la psiquiatría se está volviendo cada vez más estresante. Entre los factores que contribuyen a ello pueden nombrarse el exceso de trabajo administrativo, la falta de pacientes en privado, el mayor riesgo legal, pacientes cada vez más demandantes y la sobreoferta de profesionales. La vocación y las competencias...
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Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents was written from the perspective of a father of children (now adults) with disabilities and who is also a licensed and certified psychologist and counselor. When parents are faced with serious medical problems in their children, they become very gullible to exaggerated claims of cure and unethical providers. The book contains substantial information about behavioral interventions to help mediate the behavioral...
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I am a professor of psychology specializing in abnormal psychology. Additionally, I am a practicing psychotherapist. Over the years, I realized the most frequently asked questions about psychiatric illness focused on anxiety. Specifically, anxiety associated with phobias. Practically everyone is afraid of something or someone. Whether it is spiders, bridges, schools, doctors, etc., most people seem to have one or more fears that impact their lives...
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Though acceptance and mindfulness interventions have proven enormously effective for adults with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues, they have not been fully documented for use with children and adolescents. And yet they are a natural fit for children's therapy-the focus on acceptance and mindfulness builds children's psychological flexibility, and the values component of these methods helps young people learn to set goals...
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Conversaciones sobre psicosomatología contiene los diálogos surgidos, entre sus autores, acerca de los temas desarrollados en un libro anterior (Sí, pero no de esa manera. Los fundamentos de la psicosomatología, de Luis Chiozza). Su contenido gira en torno de un modo de concebir la relación entre psiquis y soma, que surge con claridad de algunas afirmaciones de Freud, cuando, en 1938, en Londres, acercándose al final de su vida, se propone "reunir...
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A Psychiatric Diagnosis Primer: an easy guide to identifying psychiatric illness is the first book of its type written for non-psychiatric medical professionals, therapists, attorneys, employers, teachers, students, parents, etc., to assist them in identifying and taking action relating to problem presentations of mental illness. The book is designed to assist individuals and groups with the quick identification of mental illness. Additionally, the...
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As a life coach, you help people live purposeful lives that are driven by their deepest values. And although your clients may not have diagnosable mental health disorders, it's likely that many of them encounter mental roadblocks such as fear, stress, anxiety, and worry that keep them from reaching their goals and developing their full potential.
Thousands of cognitive behavioral psychologists from around the world rely on a method called acceptance...
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El presente libro explora la construcción de la personalidad, el conjunto dinámico de características personales de un individuo, expresadas a través de su comportamiento concreto en diversos ambientes. Recorre una evolución parcial del constructo, partiendo de los siempre categóricos tipos de personalidad, para luego pasar al enfoque de rasgos o sumatoria de rasgos, hasta llegar a un modelo dimensional de la personalidad.
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Este libro de investigación tiene como objetivo describir los aportes y limitaciones de la hipnosis como técnica coadyuvante en el tratamiento del dolor, a partir de técnicas que pueden ser usadas en servicios de urgencia, en la atención hospitalaria y en la atención primaria. El libro recoge los resultados de investigaciones y experiencias de más de veinte años de práctica, de profesionales que han trabajado en la atención a personas con...
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This collection of transcripts, organized and annotated by Michael P. Twohig and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) founder Steven C. Hayes, guides you through ACT-based therapy processes session-by-session. The transcripts featured in ACT Verbatim present common situations that arise in clinical practice, while the commentary explains how to identify the six target ACT processes and help clients work through them to achieve psychological flexibility.
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A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Eating Disorders with ACT.
At some point in clinical practice, most therapists will encounter a client suffering with an eating disorder, but many are uncertain of how to treat these issues. Because eating disorders are rooted in secrecy and reinforced by our culture's dangerous obsession with thinness, sufferers are likely to experience significant health complications before they receive the help they need. Acceptance...
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Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT (pronounced as a word rather than letters), is an emerging psychotherapeutic technique first developed into a complete system in the book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, and Kelly Wilson.
ACT marks what some call a third wave in behavior therapy. To understand what this means, it helps to know that the first wave refers to traditional behavior therapy, which works to replace...
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Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients is for anyone interested in broadening their perspective on alternative treatment models, particularly the use of traditional methods alongside Western biomedical techniques. Caryl James Bateman critiques the tensions that exist between conventional approaches in psychiatric treatment and highlights how these may interfere with patients' views, especially those patients who...
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Valuing is central to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), yet few therapists truly understand how to engage clients in this complex process. Questions such as What is the purpose of my life? and How do I make decisions? are difficult to answer honestly for ourselves, let alone share with another person. The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy is the mental health practitioner's complete guide to helping clients identify their values and...
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This book offers clinicians a comprehensive, research-derived treatment model for use with adult clients suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The treatment model integrates education, medication, coaching, and cognitive behavioral therapy to go beyond what traditional therapeutic techniques can offer. Written for the busy professional in private practice, it provides everything a therapist or ADHD coach needs to know to...
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When cognitive behavior therapy emerged in the 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behavior principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists. But as the new third-wave behavior therapies begin to address weaknesses in the traditional cognitive behavioral models-principally the modest effectiveness...
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Reel Therapy® DR. SOLOMON'S SECOND BOOK, VOLUME 2, ON THE SUBJECT OF CINEMATHERAPY® Who needs a therapist's couch when you can sit in the comfort of your living room and watch the movies recommended by Dr. Gary Solomon, America's leading cinematherapist. In Reel Therapy, Dr. Solomon-The Movie Doctor®-prescribes specific movies for you to watch in order to help you deal with all of life's emotional problems. From tearjerkers like Brian's Song to...
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