Therapy/Counselling

Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World In Harmony With Your Values! An enlighting look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace. Guidance is provided on identifying and articulating feelings and needs, expressing anger fully, and exploring the power of empathy in order to speak honestly without creating hostilit... read more

This companion workbook to Nonviolent Communication provides reviews, activities, and brief assignments that complement the liberating principles of utilising nonviolent communication in everyday life. Support for group practice includes guidance for getting started, curriculum and activities for each chapter, and strategies for incorporating into the learning process many of the challenges that commonly arise in group situations. Additionally, teachers can use the material as the basis for developing courses or to augment an exist... read more

A straightforward introduction to transactional analysis in very readable language. Exercises for individual and group use are included in the text.

This book describes what happens in art therapy in a variety of contexts, as practised by particular art therapists. The contributors to this volume all work and live in the same geographical region and have evolved their aims as a group. They cover a wide variety of client groups - acute and long-term psychiatric patients, psycho-geriatric patients, mentally handicapped people with psychiatric problems, children with psychological problems, offenders in the community and homeless people. Their employers include the NHS, an educati... read more

Svagito Liebermeister presents a way of counseling that is rooted in meditation. He examines the core aspects of a spiritual approach to therapy, beyond method and technique, focusing on the essentials of how personal growth and transformation occur. Important insights are offered to those who are interested in combining therapy and meditation, and who want to gain personal clarity and a new vision of how they work with people. This includes an understanding of how the human mind works in general, as well as the relationship dynami... read more

This book will teach you a new way to communicate which gets to the heart of things! By asking Clean Language questions to explore the metaphors which underpin a person's thinking, you can help people to change their lives in a way that intrinsically respects diversity and supports empowerment. Both you and they will gain profound new insights into what makes them tick.The approach was originally used to help clients to resolve deep trauma. It is now being used to get to the truth and to solve complex problems by some of the sharpe... read more

Everyone is affected by feelings of anxiety and panic at some time. Explaining which parts of the brain are affected by anxiety and how these reactions can be controlled, this book provides practical guidance on conquering specific phobias as well as help for general anxiety issues. Detailed advice on available drugs and cognitive therapy exercises enable sufferers to find the therapy that best suits their individual needs.The book includes case studies and self-assessment questionnaires to aid diagnosis.

"Integrated Team Working" describes collaborative multidisciplinary approaches and demonstrates that they can be valuable methods of music therapy intervention.The authors explain the development of the music therapist's role within the multidisciplinary team and discuss the prevalence of collaborative partnerships between UK music therapists and other professionals such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists and other arts therapists. They examine the rationale, purpose and appl... read more

Presenting the non-directive and related points of view in counselling and therapy, this book defines the progress recently made in the development of the techniques and basic philosophy of counselling.

Basic Personal Counselling: a training manual for counsellors is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counseling, written for professional and volunteer counselors, and those who train them. The book is an excellent resource for practical training courses in counselling, social work, psychology, welfare and nursing.

A number of books have explored the ways psychotherapy clients can benefit from learning and practicing mindfulness. This is the first volume to focus specifically on how mindfulness can deepen the therapeutic relationship. Grounded in research, the chapters demonstrate how therapists' own mindfulness practice can help them to listen more attentively and be more fully present. Leading proponents of different treatment approaches - including behavioural, psychodynamic, and family systems perspectives - illustrate a variety of ways t... read more

From the bestselling authors of "Transforming Anger and Transforming Stress" comes the first book to apply scientifically proven techniques for engaging with the heart to promote fast and effective relief from anxiety.

A woman is raped every few minutes; this guide provides an effective framework for victims to heal from the experience.
If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you may be suffering from symptoms of depression, substance abuse, an eating disorder, panic and anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Rape Recovery Handbook provides an effective framework in which you can heal.
Healing begins by establishing a safety plan that includes how to use this book and what to expect from recovery. In this new bo... read more

Discusses the causes and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, tells how to identify situations that trigger attacks, and offers advice on recovering from rape, domestic violence, natural disasters, vehicular accidents, and combat experiences. This groundbreaking work is the first book to guide readers through the healing process of recovering from PTSD one step at a time. Many therapists recommend I Can't Get Over It for their clients.

A comprehensive and supportive self-help guide. “Stop Walking on Eggshells” helps families and friends of individuals with BPD to understand this self-destructive disorder, learn what they can do to cope with the behaviour and take care of themselves. First published 1998.

As funding becomes increasingly tied to outcome requirements, more and more treatment providers are required to quantify patient and program progress. This simple, straightforward guide will help you plan and carry out a treatment outcome study to discover how well patients do in your program. Measuring Treatment Progress helps you effectively present your results in a logical, easy-to-understand waygives you specialized information on unique populations or settingsprovides an overview of significant recent studiesincludes a host o... read more

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It is now almost twenty years since the first edition of "Person-centred Counselling in Action" appeared. In that time, this SAGE bestseller has maintained enormous popularity with trainees and practitioners and has achieved world-wide acclaim. This substantially revised third edition provides an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of person-centred counselling while incorporating exciting new developments in the approach. Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne have preserved the compelling and accessible style of its... read more

Praise for the First Edition: 'Ian Stewart has made the difficult link between theory and practice clear without being patronizing. This is valuable for everyone interested in TA since many concepts can only be fully assimilated when linked to actual examples. Even if you are not in clinical practice, this book would be a useful addition to your library and, for anyone in training or beginning practice, this is required reading' - Group Relations. Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action, Third Edition meets a demand for a c... read more