• Edited by Hardin L.K. Coleman, Christine Yeh

The mission of this forty-eight chapter Handbook is to provide a comprehensive reference source that integrates counseling theory, research and practice into one volume. It is designed to meet the needs of entry-level practitioners from their initial placement in schools through their first three to five years of practice. It will also be of interest to experienced school counselors, counselor educators, school researchers, and counseling representatives within state and local governments.

ISBN: 9780805856224

Published May 15 2008 by Routledge.

A Clinician's Guide to Common Events, Challenges, and Options

• By Vera Maass

Change is inevitable, and each person handles each event differently, some with more difficulty than others. In Lifestyle Changes, psychologist Vera Maass draws on 25 years of practice experience - and a lifetime filled with changes, growth, and challenges - to present a clinician's guide to working with clients who are facing a fundamental change in their lifestyle. Each chapter explores a different event and its potential impacts on the client's current lifestyle, focusing on positive ways to respond and adapt to the situation. Through a mix of case examples, personal vignettes, sample clinician/client dialog, and engaging language, Lifestyle Changes provides an accessible and practical resource for practitioners that maximizes the potential for positive growth out of each experience.

ISBN: 9780415960571

Published May 15 2008 by Routledge.

• By David Olsen

• marriage as spiritual crucible
• acceptance as a key element in spirituality and recovery
• idolatry as something that clocks acceptance
• redemption from old wounds
• repentance as a mental concept
• the complexity of forgiveness in marriage
• the possibility of salvation in marriage

ISBN: 9780789036322

Published May 13 2008 by Routledge.

A Remedial Unblundering

• By Nicholas A. Cummings, William T. O'Donohue

ISBN: 9780415989633

Published April 24 2008 by Routledge.

Evidence-Based and Disorder-Specific Treatment Techniques

• By Stefan G. Hofmann, Michael W. Otto

Social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, is among the most common (and debilitating) of the anxiety disorders, and at any given time it effects somewhere between 3 and 5% of the US population, with similar statistics found in countries around the world. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated to be the most effective form of treatment for social phobia, but research has shown that conventional CBT principles and general interventions fall short of the mark. With this in mind, Drs. Hofmann and Otto have composed an organized treatment approach that includes specifically designed interventions to strengthen the relevant CBT strategies. This volume builds upon empirical research to address the psychopathology and heterogeneity of social phobia, creating a series of specific interventions with numerous case examples.

ISBN: 9780415954020

Published April 24 2008 by Routledge.

Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors

• Edited by Yifrah Kaminer, Oscar G. Burkstein

• etiology of adolescent substance abuse
• assessment
• treatment planning
• psychosocial interventions
• pharmacological interventions
• disruptive behavior disorders
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• depression
• bi-polar mood disorder
• anxiety disorders
• trauma and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• suicidal and self-harm behaviors
• schizophrenia
• eating disorder
• gambling behavior
  

ISBN: 9780789031716

Published April 21 2008 by Routledge.

Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Approaches

• Edited by Thomas P. Gullotta, Gary M. Blau

Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional and unconventional ways that clothe, bathe, and feed its biological and acquired offspring. Influenced by race, ethnicity, income, and education, families relate not only to each other within the unit but to others in the neighborhood, the community, and beyond.

This book is about families and their children. This book is about those times when the family unit experiences distress. This distress may be found in the serious illness of a child or a parent. It may be the result of a reconfiguration of the family as in divorce and remarriage. Or it may involve the harming of a family member sexually or physically. In this volume, the authors explore what family means today, what functions it serves, and those circumstances that can make family life painful. Importantly, the authors provide readers with clearly written information drawn from the most recent scientific investigations suggesting how the topics in this volume might be addressed to either ease that discomfort (treatment) or prevent its occurrence.

ISBN: 9780415965323

Published April 17 2008 by Routledge.

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention

• Edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch

Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.

This powerful critique of current thinking suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, offering a new and more hopeful dimension for prevention and recovery. Divided into three sections, the book includes:

• a theoretical overview
• examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients
• applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention.

Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide will be helpful to psychoanalytic therapists, analysts and mental health professionals wanting to integrate psychoanalytic ideas into their work with self-harmers and the suicidal. This text will also be of use to academics and professionals involved in suicidal prevention.

ISBN: 9780415422567

Published April 04 2008 by Routledge.

A Contextual Approach

• Edited by Peter Appleton

Children’s Anxiety: A Contextual Approach provides an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child anxiety, along with nine vibrant and detailed case studies illustrating the ways in which young people can be helped to deal with serious and complex anxiety problems.

In order to begin to understand complex anxiety within children’s life circumstances Part One of the book provides the reader with a developmental framework for thinking about children’s anxiety. Part Two then presents nine in depth case studies, organised not by the type or nature of anxiety but by the context within which problematic anxiety can occur. Part Three acts a summary of the key points emerging from the clinical case studies.

This book will be essential reading for those working and training in the specialist field of child mental health, as well as community and hospital professionals working with children and young people, including teachers, doctors, social workers and nurses.

ISBN: 9780415412483

Published April 04 2008 by Routledge.

A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

• By Anthony P. Morrison, Julia Renton, Paul French, Richard Bentall

Are you troubled by hearing voices or seeing visions that others do not? Do you believe that other people are trying to harm you or control you? Do you feel that something odd is going on that you can’t explain or that things are happening around you with a special meaning? Do you worry that other people can read your mind or that thoughts are being put in your head?

Think You’re Crazy? Think Again provides an effective step-by-step aid to understanding your problems, making positive changes and promoting recovery. Written by experts in the field, this book will help you to:

• understand how your problems developed and what keeps them going
• use questionnaires and monitoring sheets to identify and track changes in the links between your experiences, how you make sense of these and how you feel and behave
• learn how to change thoughts, feelings and behaviour for the better
• practice skills between sessions using worksheets

Based on clinically proven techniques and filled with examples of how cognitive therapy can help people with distressing psychotic experiences, Think You’re Crazy? Think Again will be a valuable resource for people with psychosis

ISBN: 9781583918364

Published April 03 2008 by Routledge.