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Psychotherapy and Counselling News:
Routledge launches Mental Health podcast
Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.
In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues, an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.
Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.
You can listen to the interview without subscribing to the podcast by simply going to the Breaking Up Blues mini-site.
If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast and have iTunes or other Podcast software installed then use one of the links below:
"The Drugs Don't Work"
The Guardian and the BBC are highlighting a major review that has concluded that Prozac and similar anti-depressants may have little clinical benefit for all except the most severely depressed patients.
The study examined all available data on the drugs, comparing the effects on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill.
The clinical psychologist and writer Dorothy Rowe has, for many years, argued that the drugs don’t always work. In her bestselling book, Depression: The way out of your prison, she explains how depression is a consequence of how we create meaning in the world. It is not an illness or a mental disorder, but a defence against pain and fear.
read the full report Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits here
Call for Papers - 'Therapeutic Work with Children'
The British Journal of Guidance and Counselling has issued a call for papers for a symposium on 'Therapeutic Work with Children'.
They would welcome original contributions in this area and those contributions could be in many forms. For example: single case studies, overviews of methods of working, quantitative or qualitative research carried out by practitioners or academics.
The deadline for submissions is 30th September 2008.
download the Call For Papers (PDF file) for more information
Dr. Bob Leahy at Routledge
December 12, 2007 - Routledge was pleased to welcome Dr. Bob Leahy, Director of The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, to our New York offices as part of our Brown Bag Seminar lunch series.
Dr. Leahy, author of a bestselling trade book, The Worry Cure and most recently The Therapeutic Relationship in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, spoke to a packed room of 50 publishing professionals on "Turning Failure into Opportunity."
Using a mix of anecdotes and examples from clinical experiences, and invoking literary references from Aristotle to Shakespeare, Leahy delivered an insightful and motivating talk that left the audience, as Paul Dukes, Publisher of Psychology Press, commented in his closing remarks, "excited to go out and fall flat on my face."
Handbook of Coaching Psychology
The Handbook of Coaching Psychology provides a clear perspective on this emerging area of professional practice.
The book begins with a mixture of personal and factual narratives on the historical and current context of coaching and coaching psychology.
Stephen Palmer, Alison Whybrow and leading coaching psychologists and coaches outline recent developments in the profession, providing the reader with straightforward insights into the application of eleven different psychological approaches to coaching practice...
find out more about the Handbook of Coaching Psychology / order online
Free introduction to Special Issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling
The introduction to the current special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling is free to access until 17th December 2007.
Guest editors Rachel Tribe and Andrew Keefe present this special issue entitled Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
Read the free Introduction to the special issue now
New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders
We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.
From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).
And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.
Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.
Pressure Proofing
In Pressure Proofing, Dr. Klarreich tackles the many people problems in the workplace and anywhere else for that matter.
He shows how to identify the thoughts that bring on unhealthy reactions, and how to turn those thoughts around by debunking.
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Klarreich then shows us, using quizzes, case histories, and practical programs, how these reactions can be conquered so that we can regain our health, productivity, and personal effectiveness.
Pressure Proofing provides an inspiring, empowering, and engaging approach to addressing these issues.
find out more about Pressure Proofing / order online
Resilient Therapy
Working with Children and Families
Whilst much has been written about the identification of resilience in children and their families, comparatively little has been written about what practitioners can do to support those children and families who need the most pressing help.
Resilient Therapy explores a new therapeutic methodology designed to help children and young people find ways to keep positive when living amidst persistent disadvantage.
Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, the authors illustrate how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations...
find out more about Resilient Therapy / order online
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Be kind to yourself and cure your eating disorder
The April 18th copy of The Times newspaper carries an article about Paul Gilbert, author of Compassion.
The article focuses on Paul's pioneering therapeutic technique of Compassionate Mind Training (CMT), which teaches participants to develop strategies to treat themselves in a compassionate way.
CMT was developed by Paul Gilbert, a psychologist at the Mental Health Research Unit at Kingsway Hospital in Derby in the mid 1990s, not as a replacement for other psychological interventions but as a way of enhancing those treatments.
The full article/interview is available on The Times' website.
more information about Compassion / order online
The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, like most other areas of health care, is a synthesis of scientific technique and artistic expression.
The practice, like any other, is grounded in a series of standardized principles, theories, and techniques.
Individual practitioners define themselves within the field by using these basic tools to achieve their therapeutic goals in novel ways, applying these rudimentary skills and guiding principles to each situation.
However, a toolbox full of treatment approaches, no matter how comprehensive, is not enough to effectively reach your patients. Effective work can only be accomplished through a synthesis of the fundamental scientific methods and the creative application of these techniques, approaches, and strategies.
The Art and Science of Psychotherapy offers invaluable insight into the creative side of psychotherapy. The book addresses the fundamental split between researchers and scholars who use scientific methods to develop disorder-specific treatment techniques and those more clinically inclined therapists who emphasize the individual, interpersonal aspects of the therapeutic process.
With contributions from leading therapists, the editors have compiled a practical handbook for clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals.
A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health
The Recognition and Management of Psychological Issues
by Andrew Buckley and Carole Buckley
It is vital that coaches have the ability to recognise mental health problems in their clients, enabling them to make an informed decision about whether coaching is appropriate.
A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health provides an indispensable introduction to the assessment of psychological issues in the context of coaching.
Divided into three sections, the book covers all the legal, ethical and practical considerations. Section One, Working on the Boundary, starts by exploring the distinction between normal and abnormal behaviour.
In section Two, What's Being Said, the authors introduce fictional case studies, which cover a range of possible mental health issues from mild depression and anxiety, through to psychoses and potentially life threatening problems.
Section three, Categories of Mental Illness, guides the reader through the definition and management of the more common mental health problems.
This accessible and jargon-free guide to identifying mental illness will prove invaluable for coaches and other related professionals, whatever their level of experience.
more information about A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health / order online
The Routledge Mental Health Psychotherapy and Counseling catalog 2007 is now available.
Lifestyle Changes
Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation
