Psychotherapy and Counselling Arena

Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services

"I Am More Than My Label"

• By Joel K. Simon, and Thorana S. Nelson.

Published October 2007

Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient’s personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have a…
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Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Clinical Applications

• Edited by Thorana S Nelson, and Frank N Thomas.

Published October 2007

An invaluable guide to the history, descriptions of practice strategies, and applications of SFBT! The Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a unique, comprehensive guide that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief…
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More Than Miracles

The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

• By Steve de Shazer, and Yvonne Dolan.

Published February 2007

The latest developments in this groundbreaking therapy approach! More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a ground breaking, intellectually provocative book, revealing new advances in the widely used, evidence based Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach…
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Animal-Assisted Brief Therapy

A Solution-Focused Approach

• By Teri Pichot, Marc Coulter and Terri Pichot.

Published January 2007

Learn to use a powerful tool in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy—a petAnimal Assisted Activities/Therapy (AAA/T) is an innovative intervention in which an animal becomes a crucial—and highly effective—part of the treatment process. Pet-Assisted Brief Therapy: A Solution-Focused Approach gives…
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Short-Term Couples Therapy

The Imago Model in Action

• By Wade Luquet.

Published October 2006

For more than a decade, Short-Term Couples Therapy: The Imago Model in Action has been used regularly by therapists interested in this effective and now well-known model of working with couples. Building on the precepts of the Imago Relationship Therapy Model, as introduced in the pioneering work…
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Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster

Revised Edition

• By Diane Sullivan Everstine, and Louis Everstine.

Published August 2006

Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster enables therapists to walk into difficult situations with a thorough understanding of interactional dynamics and a plan of action. With the stressful turbulence of our present culture, more and more clinicians are called upon to…
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Education and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

• By Thorana S Nelson.

Published October 2005

The one-of-a-kind book that provides training exercises illustrating solution-focused brief therapy!As we recognize our own problem behavior in our lives, most of us struggle for ways to change it. Solution-focused brief therapy is the highly effective practice that works by changing concentration…
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Time-Limited Psychotherapy in Practice

• By Gaby Shefler.

Published September 2001

Therapists and counsellors are under increasing pressure to provide effective treatment in a time-limited, demonstrably effective form. Time-Limited Psychotherapy (TLP) has developed in response, and is designed to give clients an intense form of therapy over 12 sessions. This title: * Uses vivid…
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Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client

• By Marlene D De Rios.

Published March 2001

Understand the unique needs, beliefs, and values of your Latino immigrant clients!Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client is a manual for the practicing psychotherapist or student, with tips on the assessment process and suggested interventions that work efficiently. With this book you…
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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons

• By E Mark Stern, and Peter R Breggin.

Published July 1996

At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to…
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