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      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine

        Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

        A Treatment Manual for Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, and Separation Anxiety

        by Sigrun Schmidt-Traub

        This title provides a semi-structured guide for an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment of children and adolescents between the ages of 9 and 17 who suffer from panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, or separation anxiety.   It describes each step of the therapy in details, pays special attention to fear management, and enables the children to largely cope with the fears by themselves. The treatment modules can be used in the context of short-term therapy in individual or mixed individual and group setting. The manual allows for the therapy to be adjusted to the individual needs of the child or adolescent and some parts can be used also when working with younger children. Parents are trained to be co-therapists, supporting their children during the confrontational exercises but also insuring that parents do no unknowingly enable their child to maintain the anxiety disorder. All necessary worksheets can be found on the accompanying CD-ROM.   Target Group: child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychiatrists, students and teachers of psychology, pediatricians, psychotherapists, specialists for psychosomatic medicine, school psychologists

      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        December 2016

        Emotion-Focused Therapy

        A Practitioner’s Guide

        by Lars Auszra/ Imke Herrmann/ Leslie S. Greenberg

        This title provides a thorough and practical introduction to Emotions-Focused Therapy (EFT).   Emotions, central point in EFT, help the patient identify his/her priorities and can be a good starting point for change. This title provides therapists with an overview over the principles and strategies that enable them to work with patients’ emotions in a therapeutic setting and use them to facilitate the changing of behavior. Readers will also find this title to be a rich resource of different techniques, such as empty-chair dialogues as well as suggestions on how to handle typical problems in therapy.   Target Group: psychotherapists, specialists for psychiatry and psychotherapy, specialists for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, clinical psychologists, coaches, students and teachers of psychology

      • Self-help & personal development
        September 2015

        Rethink it!

        Practical ways to rid yourself of anger, depression, jealousy and other common problems

        by Cohen, Michael

        Rethink it gives practical advice on tackling destructive thoughts that lead to anger, rejection, shame, jealousy, fear and worry. Words affect the way we feel and act, and negative talk leads to fear, anxiety, depression and a ‘why bother’ attitude.

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        TRUST ME, I'M THE PATIENT

        Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change

        by Philip Harland

        An essential read for anyone who finds themself counseling, coaching, or working with others. Takes you step by step through a process that lends itself to the most profound therapeutic transformation and yet can be used informally at home, at work, or in the queue for the bus. Science psychology, philosophy, and a vibrating peach are all part of the story in this guide to the far-reaching but readily accessible practice of Clean questioning, a knowledge of which will enable you to enter another person’s world almost unnoticed and once there to tread very, very lightly. And what will happen as a result is that the people you facilitate will get to know, change, and heal themselves. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; 'Resolving Problem Patterns: with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor'; and ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependency’. www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        THE POWER OF SIX

        A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge

        by Philip Harland

        What is Emergent Self Knowledge, what are the Powers of Six, and what role do they play in self-development and therapeutic change? In this book by a leading authority in the field, you will learn a great deal that is new about psychology and the step-by-step practicality of change. If you are a coach, consultant, counsellor, health professional, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, teacher or trainer – a facilitator of others – you will learn how to progress your clients more easily and safely. They will work through their traumas without being retraumatized and at the end of the day they will own their own process. They will heal themselves. When conventional commonsense or intelligence fail us, the Power of Six is a means of tapping into the reservoirs of our own wisdom.   Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and leading authority on Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six, having worked closely on its development with the originator of the process, the innovative therapist David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients and ran seminars together in Britain, France and New Zealand.Philip is also the author of a definitive book on Clean Language: ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’ and three short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’, ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency’ and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press.  For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        HOW THE BRAIN FEELS

        Working with Emotion and Cognition

        by Philip Harland

        “Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.”  Euripides Models of facilitation (therapy, counselling, teaching, coaching, health management, etc.) have rarely dealt with the inter-dependency of emotion and cognition. In the 1980s, NLP researchers developed the concept of the structure of emotion. Work in the 1980s on ‘Meta-States’ addressed the modulating of primary emotional states with cognitively-led meta-levels of feeling. Here Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner Philip Harland explores the neuro-linguistic basis of Emotional Intelligence, relating recent work on the structure and relationship of emotion and cognition to innovative therapist David Grove’s work in Clean Language and Therapeutic Metaphor. Philip worked for many years with the late David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients together and ran seminars in Britain, France and New Zealand. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is also the author of ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge; and the two short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’ and ‘Possession and Desire: working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; all published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        POSSESSION AND DESIRE

        Working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency

        by Philip Harland

        Understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency; a 6-part guide for addicts, enablers and therapists“Choosing the temporary discomforts of desire over the permanent discomforts of possession” Part I  VIOLENT PLEASURES ARE RELIEFS OF PAIN  Each one of us is prone to addiction or dependency to a greater or lesser degree. Part I is about understanding why this is so. Part II  SOME ADDICTIONS FEEL PHYSICAL, BUT ALL ADDICTIONS ARE MENTAL  Addiction is a subject for study. Addicting is something we do. Part II follows the bodymind process of becoming addicted as a basis for deciding where we wish to go next. PART III  THE PHYSICIAN’S PROVIDER  How as therapists and facilitators do we position ourselves in relation to addictive clients? How does language affect our beliefs and practices? Part III discusses the difference between intervening and interfering, and between conscious and unconscious outcome forming. It suggests a way to align ourselves with the client’s outcome and to activate change without resorting to supposition, interpretation or suggestion. PART IV  THE LIMIT OF DESIRES  As addicts we give energy to a system that encourages us to play victim and persecutor in turn. Part IV examines the differences between ‘quitting’ and ‘controlling’. The continuum of progression from simple desire to complex need to total possession is explored. PART V  ADDICTIVE CONTRADICTIONS  Part V deconstructs typically addictive double-binds and dualities, including the familiar dilemma of being caught between aversion (‘I must give up X’) and attraction (‘I can’t give up X’). Eight approaches to resolving duality thinking are identified and explained PART VI  AUDITING FOR X  Unscrambles haphazard approaches to client assessment and offers a systematic audit for facilitators of all kinds, including self-helpers, to assess addictions, compulsions, and dependencies and to work successfully with them through language as an alternative to medical means. The audit is arranged in four frames: person, possession, pattern, and preference:  Person: how much of the client is involved, and where?   Possession: what is the nature of the client's attachment?   Pattern: how do the client's life patterns and internal patterns relate?   Preference: what choices does the client have? Most of us can learn to move from addictive state to non-addictive state. Those uncertain about the path to take will find the aids to navigation here useful both theoretically and practically. We may all – addicts and enablers, therapists and clients alike – learn to deal with the occasional discomforts of desire rather than the permanent discomforts of possession. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor, and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six, A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’; and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’. All published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        RESOLVING PROBLEM PATTERNS

        with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor

        by Philip Harland

        How can problem patterns be discerned, decoded and the information within them released? This guide has five parts: ‘What is as Pattern?’ ‘How Can Patterns be Discerned?’ ‘How Can Problem Patterns be Decoded?’ ‘How Can the Information Within be Released?’ and ‘Then What Happens: the Nature of Change’. At a time when psychoactive drugs are being prescribed more widely than at any time in history, it is more important than ever to educate ourselves about the alternatives. The drug-free resolution of problem patterns of behavior, feeling or belief is as important for health professionals to be able to facilitate as it is for their clients and patients to achieve. This guide has a bias towards the talking therapies – and in particular the radical new art of Clean Language – but its precepts and procedures are applicable to any area of human enquiry. New, more productive, patterns of behaviour, feeling and belief emerge through CleanLanguage modelling as the client identifies component parts of their perceptions, develops these in form, space, or time; elucidates key relationships between them; discerns patterns across the relationships and translates these patterns to their everyday lives. As a result it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines the significance of their perceptions. And as the system learns about its own organization, a context for self-generated change is created and it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines what needs to happen for the system to evolve.  Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: a Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Possession and Desire: understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; and ‘How the Brain Feels: working with emotion and cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press, London England. For more on these books see Amazon and www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development

        Feel Good Now

        Achieve Permanent Happiness and Positive Emotions—Be More Successful In Life

        by Diana Polska

        Anyone can achieve and mantain a high level of happiness, positive emotions, intelligence, confidence, and sociability which ultimately leads to a better life.  Learn to achieve permanent solutions to depression, anxiety, phobias, traumas, learning disabilities, as well as personality, and mental disorders. Based on solid scientific research, you will discover natural therapies that work.

      • Psychotherapy
        February 2013

        A CBT Approach to Mental Health Problems in Psychosis

        by Emma Williams

        This book draws together advances in the understanding, assessment and treatment of stress, negative symptoms, social anxiety, OCD, PTSD and mood disturbance in people with a diagnosis of psychosis, providing a practical guide for clinicians. CBT for psychosis draws on the principles and interventions developed for anxiety and depression and adapts these to treat psychotic symptoms. CBT for schizophrenia is now widely accepted as an effective treatment in the reduction of psychotic symptoms. A review of findings led the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to recommend offering CBT to all people with schizophrenia. Content includes: The role of stress in psychosis Negative symptoms – emotional, motivational and behavioural deficits Social anxiety disorder Obsessional compulsive disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Mood disturbance in psychosis Client handouts.

      • Therapy & therapeutics
        November 2016

        Graphic Lives - Essential Support Guide

        by Jo Browning Wroe, Carol Holliday

        Graphic Lives is a series of highly engaging graphic novels for young people who may need counselling and psychotherapy. Each book introduces the difficulties faced by a teenage character and follows them as they travel on their therapeutic journey with a skilled and creative therapist. The key aims of these books are: to demystify counselling and psychotherapy so that it is more appealing and accessible to young people; to destigmatise emotional and mental health problems so that young people are better able to accept help; to encourage young people to embark upon their own healing journeys, equipped with the sense that there is a way forward. The essential support guide, designed to be used alongside the Graphic Lives novels, provides therapists and counsellors with a range of support resources, linked to the stories and the issues covered. For each graphic novel, this guide offers: clear and concise coverage of risk factors and warning signs relating to the issue covered in the story; detailed exploration of each therapeutic session in the story so that you can devise you own sessions that link to the therapy in the story; an up-to-date summary of research around the issue covered in the book along with professional guidance on working with that issue to help you achieve the best possible outcomes for the young people you work with.

      • Clinical psychology
        November 2015

        On the Frontline with Voices

        A Grassroots Handbook for Voice-hearers, Carers and Clinicians

        by Keith Butler

        This is a jargon-free, user-friendly resource for voice-hearers and their carers, as well as the clinicians and groups who support them both. It offers a new and practical way of looking at voice-hearing as well as a host of practical strategies to assist in recovery. The resource is built around three core sections. Each of the sections speaks directly to voice-hearers, clinicians and carers, in turn. The style and content addresses each group's individual needs in terms appropriate to them and schools them in how to deal with voices from their particular perspective. The core aim is to provide these three groups with practical techniques they can use on a daily basis.On the Frontline with Voices offers a proactive, practical and client-centred framework that is designed to reduce anxiety and increase the likelihood of learning new ways to deal with voices. Highly Commended in Health and Social Care in the 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards

      • Psychology
        May 2012

        The Key to a Loving & Lasting Relationship

        by Dr. Sonja H. Snyman

        What makes some couples achieve happy long-lasting relationships, while others, try and try but do not?  The human quest for a successful long-term relationship has produced a plethora of hypotheses, psychological theories and a lot of popular advice about how to improve relationships.  This book is about how to forge a successful, lasting relationship by accepting and practising the good-enough paradigm. Psychologists, counsellors and individuals are offered a new way of understanding and looking at relationships.  A new perspective shows how to leave old hurts behind, how to understand destructive behaviour patters and how to gain new insights into whether one is trapped in the blame game or in sabotaging behaviour.  One will learn that no relationship has a fairy-tale ending.  One will also come to realise that by accepting a relationship as being "good-enough", it will be one of the most liberating and empowering shifts that one will ever make.

      • Biography & True Stories
        February 2006

        Jessica: The autobiography of an infant

        by Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D.

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      • Psychotherapy
        March 2021

        A Healing Relationship

        Commentary on Therapeutic Dialogues

        by Erskine, Richard G.

        A Healing Relationship is about a relationally focused psychotherapy, how the author works, and why. The first couple of chapters provide a brief orientation to relationally focused aspects of an integrative psychotherapy. The heart of the book are the transaction-by-transaction examples of what actually occurred in the psychotherapeutic dialogue. It is composed of three verbatim transcripts along with annotations about what the author was thinking and feeling when he engaged in psychotherapy with each client. Many of the annotated comments as well as the actual therapeutic dialogue will describe some elements of the process of relationally focused psychotherapy and the reasoning behind his therapeutic comments, silences, and challenge. This book is intended to elicit a dialogue between the reader and the psychotherapist / author and is written as though a personal letter. Psychotherapy is such an interpersonal encounter — an intimate meeting of two souls. No two psychotherapists will ever do the same therapy, even with the same client, even if they use the same theory and methods. It is important to appreciate how each think about theories, the concepts that underlie the methods chosen, how each assess the therapeutic setting, and express personal temperament. Richard G. Erskine has taken an important step in communication about the practice of psychotherapy. Not only with this excellent book but also with video footage of the three therapy sessions, which will be made accessible to purchasers of the book. The overarching aim is to stimulate important conversations between colleagues; to both agree and disagree, to influence each other, to grow professionally, and to share knowledge.

      • Psychotherapy
        July 2021

        Transforming Themes

        Creative Perspectives on Therapeutic Interaction

        by Leslie, Paul J.

        Effective therapy results from moving clients into more flexible, empowering themes. These changes occur as a result of the dynamic interaction between therapist and client, which embraces improvisation, creativity, and novelty, rather than adherence to specific theories or techniques. Using historical and modern research and colourful case studies, this work will help professionals understand how to easily adapt and apply creative and resourceful therapy interventions, no matter what therapeutic orientation they endorse. This book will enable therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and social workers to gain access to creative, effective methods which help their clients heal while increasing effectiveness and enjoyment in clinical work.

      • Psychotherapy
        June 2021

        Sexual Addiction

        Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Art of Supervision

        by Volkan, Vamik D.

        Vamık D. Volkan recounts the story of Judy, a woman attempting to solve her early life deprivations through non-chemical addiction. He provides an understanding of the psychology behind such an addiction and also illustrates pertinent therapeutic concepts and issues which arose in Judy’s case. These include built-in transference, twinning, interpretation, dreams, hoarding, acting out, and therapeutic play. By paying attention to such things, it is possible to gain a greater understanding of the internal worlds of patients with preoedipal deprivations, conflicts, and fixations. For this case, Dr Volkan undertook the role of supervisor to an analyst in training. The topics of the psychoanalytic supervisor–supervisee relationship and the supervisor’s emotional reactions toward the patient, whom the supervisor never meets, are rather ignored in the psychoanalytic literature. This book gives an open and frank overview of the relationship, reporting not only what was said but also what lay behind the words. Written in Dr Volkan’s characteristically accessible style, this book will be enjoyed equally by those under supervision as those providing it, and provides an excellent overview of work with addiction.

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