Because of the complexity of their lives, adolescents have difficulty describing their feelings and identifying source of stressors. This book describes their behavioral difficulties, family conflicts, and academic problems. It helps them find ways to reduce the tension with their parents and addresses some of the problems they have at school.
The author demonstrates how multidimensional assessment--within a strong therapeutic alliance--can be a guide to treating clients as multifaceted individuals rather than simply treating symptoms or diagnoses.
Discusses and illustrates the behavioral approach to treating clients with gambling problems. This work includes handouts and homework emphasizing self-monitoring and motivation to change. It highlights the adaptability of this approach for a variety of individuals with gambling problems.
Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relati
Introducing the Couple Power Therapy model, in which partners co-create a unified vision for their relationship, the authors use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture ""the couple as entity."" With exercises and illustrative case studies, this is a helpful resource for ......
Dermot O'Reilly is the Principal Social Worker at Lucena Clinic (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), County Wicklow, Ireland. He has 20 years' experience of working with families of children and adolescents who present with a broad range of behavioural and emotional problems, and has trained as a family therapist.
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this widely adopted text and professional reference reflects significant recent changes in the landscape of family therapy research.
Dr Thomas A. Parham demonstrates an African-centered, culturally based approach that can augment any therapy with African American clients. Dr Parham's approach honors spirituality, interconnectedness, and self-knowledge, and is aimed at treating the client holistically - that is, without dividing a client's issues into affective, cognitive, and ......
Dr Jean Lau Chin demonstrates an approach that addresses issues of culture and cultural competence within the therapeutic session, in essence acknowledging the client's culture as a "third person" in the therapy room. In this session, Dr Chin works with a 40-year-old woman who immigrated to the United States from Vietnam who is dealing with issues ......
In Client-Directed Outcome-Focused Psychotherapy, Dr. Scott D. Miller presents a meta-approach to talk therapy that is designed to help tailor the treatment to fit the client's particular therapeutic goals. Technique is deemphasized in favor of developing a strong therapeutic alliance and using the client's experience of the treatment as a guide ......
