Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatil
Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, this book shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.
"I yelled at the kids again--and feel so ashamed." "I barely have time to shower, let alone exercise; no wonder I'm so out of shape." "I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be." Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps parents let go of ......
Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting each stage of therapy, from the first sessions to ......
A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients)
Right now, an estimated 4-5% of people are engaged in consensually non-monogamous relationships, while 20% of people explore consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives. Yet there is still next-to-no guidance for therapists seeking to work with this marginalized population.
Engaging, practical, and infused with clinical wisdom, this widely used text and practitioner guide helps therapists working with families to hit the ground running. The revised and updated fourth edition brings fresh insights into the issues families bring to therapy and the therapist's moment-to-moment decision making. Rather than advocating one ......
Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attach
This state-of-the-art clinicians guide describes Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences.
Provides the reader with principles to inform evaluation, formulation, and treatment in their work with parents. The book offers clinical examples followed by clinical formulations offering illustrations of the application of one approach to diverse clinical challenges.
Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy to Repair Trauma and Promote Attach
This state-of-the-art clinician's guide describes Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), a treatment for pregnant women and their partners whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by traumatic stress and adverse life experiences. An application to pregnancy of the widely disseminated, evidence-based Child-Parent Psychotherapy, P-CPP ......
