(Not in The Psychotherapy and Counselling Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Psychotherapy and Counselling books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.
Subjects covered by this Arena include: the various areas of Psychotherapy, Counselling Techniques and Intervention, Grief and Trauma Counselling, HIV and AIDS Counselling, Marriage and Family Counselling, Peer Counselling and Peer Helping, Professional Issues and Professional Development, and Self Help Resources.
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Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth’s comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.
It details Landreth’s Child Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world and perspective.
This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect. Professors who have taught a course based on the previous edition will be pleased to find the core message intact, but updated with a significant body of recent research.
The Human Quest for Meaning
The first edition of The Human Quest for Meaning was a major publication on the empirical research of meaning in life and its vital role in well-being, resilience, and psychotherapy.
This new edition continues that quest and seeks to answer the questions, what is the meaning of life? How do we explain what constitutes meaningful relationships, work, and living?
The answers, as the eminent scholars and practitioners who contributed to this text find, are neither simple nor straightforward. While seeking to clarify subjective vs. objective meaning in 21 new and 7 revised chapters, the authors also address the differences in cultural contexts, and identify 8 different sources of meaning, as well as at least 6 different stages in the process of the search for meaning.
Writing to Clients and Referring Professionals about Psychological Assessment Results
This book is the first on the craft of effective writing structured expressly for the psychologist-assessor.
Author J. B. Allyn, a professional writer who specializes in psychology, combines reference book with tutorial.
She blends information on the qualities that create a writer’s unique presence on the page with illustrations of correct English grammar. All of the questions, answers, and illustrations evolved from the concerns of psychologist-assessors, as did the examples, which are grounded in their writing and communication needs. The result creates a guide for report writing that can be used by either practicing professionals or graduate psychology students.
Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
Friendships are undeniably important to an individual’s health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple.
Just as a friend can provide a mirror to the self, another couple can provide a reflecting team that supports or impedes a relationship’s growth.
Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships offers an important framework for helping couples to have conversations about their friendships with other couples and to enrich their own relationships.
Brief Coaching: A Solution Focused Approach
Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there.
The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not central to the session, but instead the coach and the client work towards the client's preferred future.
This practical guide includes summaries and activities for the coach to do with the client and will therefore be a useful tool for both new and experienced coaches, as well as therapists branching into coaching who want to add to their existing skills.
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples
The military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians – particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples – often struggle to address.
These problems are only compounded by misunderstandings and misconceptions about what it means to be part of a specific branch of the military and part of the military as a whole.
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples includes a clear, thorough introduction to military culture and to coupled relationships in the military. But more than that, it provides readers with expert analyses of the special types of issues that come up for military couples and shows clinicians how to address them productively.
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Evaluation of Peer and Prevention Programs
This user-friendly training manual will meet the needs of peer program and prevention program professionals by providing step-by-step instructions for setting-up an evaluation program.
It addresses the essential components of the evaluation process and guides professionals through the planning, development, implementation, and data collection stages. The authors establish a rationale for program evaluation, explaining how it differs from research, and discuss ways to align the vision, mission, and goals of a program. They then describe several approaches to evaluation and methods for successfully collecting and analyzing data. Methods for reporting the results of evaluations are also considered.
An accompanying CD contains evaluation forms, handouts, and other useful materials.
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Family Assessment, 2nd Edition
In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians.
It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most widely used strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue-specific. Techniques and instruments for assessments are summarized concisely in tables and discussed in depth in the chapters, often by the experts who developed the approaches they describe.
Readers will find that the second edition of Family Assessment provides the same comprehensive evaluation and thorough analysis as the first edition but with a fully updated focus that will invigorate the work of researchers, educators, and clinicians.
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New Brochure: Psychotherapy and Counselling 2011
The Routledge Psychotherapy and Counseling catalog 2011 is now available.
This annual catalogue includes new and recent books from subject areas including Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Clinical Problems, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Coaching, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Expressive Therapies, Family Therapy, Grief and Bereavement, Hypnosis, Jungian Psychotherapy, Professional Issues and Resources, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, and Spirituality.
If you would like to receive a free copy of this catalogue please fill in our catalogue request form.