Turning the Hourglass: Children's Passage Through Traumas and Past Lives, is a collection of stories written from the child's point of view. It is based on the therapeutic model that Christine has developed which includes Gestalt Therapy with Children and Adolescents and Regression Therapy. Emerging through these true stories of children are poignant words that draw the reader into the child's world. Whether it is childhood trauma of abuse, difficulty with divorce and parenting variations, pre-natal, birth or past-life patterning, the stories unfold with children conquering their problems and developing into the lovely young people that they truly are. Various symptoms and behaviors ranging from issues such as a diagnosis of ADHD to severe anxiety and depression are lifted from the child as these healing stories guide the reader through each journey.

Parents who realize the benefits of alternative therapeutic techniques for their child or are searching for a method that truly works, teachers and therapists will find this book enlightening as they discover a powerful method of working with children. Awareness is raised about children, their plights and their enduring strengths inviting us all to acknowledge those who have such a small voice in our world.

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress. Mental health research has traditionally been dominated by genetic and biomedical explanations that provide only partial explanations. However, process research that utilises qualitative methods has grown in popularity. Situated within this new strand of research, the authors examine and critically assess some of the different contributions that social constructionism has made to the study of mental distress and to how those diagnosed are conceptualized and labeled. This will be an invaluable introduction and source of practical strategies for academics, researchers and students as well as clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, and others working with mental health such as educationalists and social workers.

Research into the beneficial effect of developing compassion has advanced enormously in the last ten years, with the development of inner compassion being an important therapeutic focus and goal. This book explains how Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) a process of developing compassion for the self and others to increase well-being and aid recovery varies from other forms of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Comprising 30 key points this book explores the founding principles of CFT and outlines the detailed aspects of compassion in the CFT approach. Divided into two parts Theory and Compassion Practice this concise book provides a clear guide to the distinctive characteristics of CFT.

Compassion Focused Therapy will be a valuable source for students and professionals in training as well as practising therapists who want to learn more about the distinctive features of CFT.

In Grief and Romantic Relationship Dissolution, Shawn Blue explores the grief and loss associated with divorce and romantic breakups. Using a model of love and attachment theory, Blue sets a foundation for how connection leads to loss when an attachment relationship is ended and analyzes the various consequences of grief as the result of dissolution on the individual. She devotes special attention to the role of technology on romantic relationship development and makes speculations of the grief that is experienced by relationships created online when they end. Finally, she utilizes and applies case material to illustrate the grief process and incorporates the influence of media in the understanding of loss related to the ending of attachment relationships. This book is recommended for scholars in psychology, communication studies, and media studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis Autorenverzeichnis Einleitung Allgemeine psychopathologische Aspekte 'Age at onset' - Ein Hinweis fur das Verstandnis psychopathologischer Phanomene (H. G. Zapotoczky, P. Hofmann) - Einleitung - Major Depression - Schizophrenie - Schizoaffektive Stoerung - Hypochondrischer, Verfolgungs- und Eifersuchtswahn - Bipolare Stoerungen - Dysthymie - Angststoerungen - Zwangsstoerungen - Somatoforme Stoerungen - Essstoerungen - Abhangigkeiten - Zusammenfassende Erlauterungen Denk- und Gefuhlswelt des Schulkindes - kognitive Fahigkeiten, Selbstkonzept und Angst (C. Spiel, U. Sirsch) - Einleitung - Menschliche Entwicklung: Kontinuitat oder Diskontinuitat? - Jean Piagets Strukturmodell der geistigen Entwicklung - Selbstkonzept - Angst im Schulalter - Zur Beziehung zwischen kognitiven Fahigkeiten, Selbstkonzept und Angst - lernspsychologische Implikationen Risikoverhalten und seelische Stoerungen in Pubertat und Adoleszenz (F. Resch) - Zu den Begriffen Pubertat und Adoleszenz - Entwicklungspsychopathologie - Entwicklungsaufgaben der Adoleszenz - Risikoverhaltensweisen der Adoleszenz - Typische Stoerungsbilder des Adoleszenzalters - Entwicklungsschema psychopathologischer Phanomene im Jugendalter Das Netzwerkmodell in der Individualpsychologie aus erkenntnistheoretischer Sicht (G. G. Rovera) - Einleitung - Epistemologie - Entwicklungszyklen des Lebens - Vom Gemeinschaftsgefuhl zur Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der - Gemeinschaft - Transkulturelle Argumente und Wertorientierung - Ansatze zum Lebensstil - Schlussfolgerung Krisen im mittleren Lebensalter: 'Lebensmitte - Wendezeit' (M. Steinbauer) - Soziologisch-historische Aspekte - Soziokulturelle Aspekte - Physiologische Aspekte Die Glorifizierung der Kindheit in der Erinnerung alterer Menschen (A. Fasching) Die spezifischen psychiatrischen Stoerungen im Lichteverschiedener Lebensepochen Psychogene Stoerungen (G. Langs, V. Lupke) - Somatoforme Stoerungen - Angststoerungen - Psychogene Stoerungen - Stoerungen eines Lebensalters? Affektive Stoerungen (H. G. Zapotoczky) Schizophrene und schizophreniforme Stoerungen (H. Fabisch, K. Fabisch, P. K. Fischhof) - Zum Begriff 'Schizophrenie' - Die Schizophrenien im Kindes- und Jugendalter - Die Schizophrenien im fruhen Erwachsenenalter - Die Schizophrenien im mittleren und spateren Erwachsenenalter - Abschliessende Bemerkung Schizoaffektive Stoerungen (P. K. Fischhof, K. Fabisch, H. Fabisch) - Zur Entwicklung des Konzeptes schizoaffektiver Stoerungen - Diagnostische Kriterien schizoaffektiver Stoerungen - Erscheinungsbild schizoaffektiver Stoerungen - Schizoaffektive Stoerungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter - Schizoaffektive Stoerungen im Erwachsenenalter - Schizoaffektive Stoerungen im hoeheren Lebensalter - Abschliessende Bemerkungen Organisch bedingte Stoerungen (P. Fischer) - Einleitung - Begriffsbestimmungen - Hirnlasion + Kompensation = Funktion - Akute organisch bedingte psychiatrische Stoerungen - akute exogene Reaktionstypen - Chronische organische psychiatrische Stoerungen - chronische exogene Reaktionstypen Wahnerkrankungen (I. Oberhummer) - Klinisches Erscheinungsbild - Wahnsyndrome in bezug auf Alter und Lebensabschnitt - Therapiemoeglichkeiten Sexualentwicklung und Sexualpathologie der Lebensabschnitte (N. Kriechbaum) - Pranatale Phase - Geburt und Sauglingszeit - Kleinkinderzeit - Schulkind - Pubertat - Junge Erwachsene - Mittlere Erwachsene - Sexualitat im Klimakterium - Sexualitat im Alter - Schlussbemerkung Abhangigkeiten in unterschiedlichen Lebensphasen (H. Scholz) - Einleitung - Missbrauch und Abhangigkeit in der Kindheit - Abhangigkeiten im mittleren Lebensalter - Abhangigkeitsprozesse im hoeheren Lebensalter -

This much-needed volume examines the process and practice of supervision in family therapy, with special emphasis on systemic practice. Expert trainers and supervisors from diverse disciplines take a systemic tour of the relationships between supervisor, therapist, and client, analyzing the core skills of effective, meaningful supervision-including questioning, listening, and reflecting-and their impact on therapy. These skills and others are applied to supervising therapy with individuals, couples, and families in areas including substance abuse, domestic violence, and research settings. Throughout the book, contributors share self-care strategies, so supervisors can stay engaged and creative, meet the many challenges entailed in their work, and avoid burnout. Among the topics covered: The resonance from personal life in family therapy supervision. Creating a dialogical culture for supervision. The supervisor's power and moments of learning. Supervision and domestic violence: therapy with individuals, couples, and families. Systemic supervision with groups in child protection contexts. When the supervision process falters and breaks down: pathways to repair. The highly practical information in Supervision of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice is adaptable by readers to their particular supervisory or training needs. Novice and veteran mental health, social care, and social work practitioners and psychotherapists, will find it a substantial resource.

This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat. The core feature of the model-the perception of growing, rapidly approaching threat-is traced to humans' evolutionary past, and this dysfunctional perception is described as it affects cognitive processing, executive functioning, emotions, physiology, and behavior. The LVM framework allows for more subtle understanding of mechanisms of and risk factors for the range of anxiety disorders as well as for more elusive subclinical forms of anxiety, worry, and fear. In addition, the authors ably demonstrate how the LVM can inform and refine cognitive-behavioral and other approaches to conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of these often disabling conditions. This important volume: * Introduces the Looming Vulnerability Model in its evolutionary, developmental, cognitive, and ecological contexts. * Unites diverse theoretical strands regarding anxiety, fear, and worry including work on wildlife behavior, experimental cognition and perception, neuroimaging, and emotion. * Defines the looming cognitive style as a core aspect of vulnerability. * Describes the measurement of the looming cognitive style, Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire, and measures of looming vulnerability for specific disorders. * Details diverse clinical applications of the LVM across the anxiety disorders. Spotlighting phenomena particularly relevant to current times, Looming Vulnerability, brings a wealth of important new ideas to researchers studying anxiety disorders and practitioners seeking more avenues for treating anxiety in their patients.

What, from a psychoanalytic point of view, constitute the facts of life ? What are the stories that our professional mentors tell us about the psychological equivalents of the birds and the bees ? How useful are these stories, and in what ways do they help those of us who work with couples understand and change the sexual difficulties that they present us with? Do these stories, indeed, have anything to say about sex, or might they, like the inventions of embarrassed parents, deflect our attention away from what we really need to know in relating to the sexual lives of our patients?This book explores sexuality in the contexts of couple relationships and psychotherapy. It presents a range of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic perspectives from which problematic sexual experience that is, sexual experience that has troubled couples sufficiently for them to seek outside help might be understood and worked with. Rooted in clinical practice the book assembles a rich diversity of approaches that will interest anyone wanting to learn more about the affective dimensions of sexual experience and seeking to apply this in their work with couples. The contributors are all closely associated with the Tavistock Centre of Couple Relationships, either as staff, neighbouring colleagues at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics, or through its professional association, the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists."

Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications offers evidence-based guidance and extensive insight into the science behind compassion focused therapy. The first section of the book explores the evolution and physiological infrastructures of caring, and how compassion arises when humans use their complex cognitive competencies to address suffering deliberately and intentionally. With this framework and basis, the next sections of the book explore CFT applied to groups, specific interventions such as chair work, the importance of applying the principles of the therapy to oneself, the CFT therapeutic relationship, and a chapter offering a systematic review of the evidence for CFT. The third section offers a series of multi-authored chapters on interventions for a range of different mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and many others. Being the first major clinical book on compassion focused therapy, with leading international researchers and clinicians addressing central problems, this landmark publication will appeal to psychotherapists from a variety of schools as well as being a vital resource for compassion focused therapists.

This theory-to-practice guide offers mental health practitioners a powerful narrative-based approach to working with clients in clinical practice. It opens with a primer on contemporary narrative theory and offers a robust framework based on the art and techniques of listening for deeper, more meaningful understanding and intervention. Chapters expand on these foundational concepts by applying them to a diverse range of populations and issues, among them race and ethnicity, human sexuality, immigration, and the experience of trauma, grief, and loss. The author's engaging voice, thoughtful pedagogical style, and extensive use of examples and exercises also work together to inform the reader's own narrative of growth and self-knowledge. Included in the coverage:* Encountering the self, encountering the other: narratives of race and ethnicity.* Surviving together: individual and communal narratives in the wake of tragedy.* Spiritual stories: exploring ultimate meaning in social work practice.* Sexual stories: narratives of sexual identity, gender, and sexual development.* Leaving home, finding home: narrative practice with immigrant populations.* Moving on: narrative perspectives on grief and loss. Narrative Theory in Clinical Social Work Practice is geared toward students as well as seasoned social workers, and professionals and practitioners in related clinical fields interested in informing their work with a narrative approach.

Das Buch vermittelt praxisbezogen die grundlegenden Prinzipien, Methoden und den Ablauf der erfolgreichen Mediation. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bewahrte Kommunikations- und Gesprachstechniken, Beginn und Durchfuhrung der Mediation, der Mediationsvertrag und die Abschlussvereinbarung sowie ein historischer Abriss. UEbersichten veranschaulichen die Struktur des Gesprachs im Mediationsverfahren; zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele, Checklisten und Formulierungshilfen erleichtern die Umsetzung. Die klare und ubersichtliche Darstellung ermoeglicht das schnelle und gezielte Nachschlagen zentraler theoretischer und praktischer Aspekte der Mediation. Ein auf die Phasen der Mediation bezogenes Sachverzeichnis ermoeglicht das Nachschlagen von Techniken und Checklisten, die zum jeweiligen Verfahrenszeitpunkt hilfreich sind. Das Buch richtet sich an Mediatoren in der Ausbildung ebenso wie an erfahrene Praktiker. Die 2. Auflage enthalt die relevanten Erganzungen des Mediationsgesetzes durch die ZMediatAusbV und Hinweise zur (Selbst-) Zertifizierung. Ein zusatzliches Kapitel widmet sich u.a. der Konfliktklarung in interkulturellen Kontexten und der Mediation bei Beteiligungsprozessen bei Veranderungen im Unternehmen. Auch die Herausforderungen des "internen Mediators" sowie der Mediation in geschlossenen Systemen wie etwa auf (Kreuzfahrt-) Schiffen oder Justizvollzugsanstalten werden berucksichtigt. Das Buch endet mit einem Ausblick auf Mediation im Kontext der Digitalisierung

In Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at Nabokov's use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and biology, characters that either imitate Freud or Nabokov in behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada. As Kwon notes, the transfiguration of biological mimicry and memory into an artistic form involves numerous components, including resemblance with a difference, contingency, the double, riddles, games, play, theatricality, transgression, metamorphosis, and combinational concoction. Nabokov, as a mimic, functions as a poet who is also a scientist, while his model, Freud, operates as a scientist who is also a poet. Both writers were gifted humorists, regarding art as a formidable vehicle for the repudiation of all forms of totality. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, literary studies, film studies, and philosophy.

Winner of the 2013 AASECT Professional Book Award! New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives focuses on cutting-edge, therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies. With each passing year, the treatment of sexual problems seems to emphasize more medical and pharmacological interventions. There is correspondingly less interest in the experiences of the individuals or couples involved. This book expands the definition of our field. Part I highlights the major problems and criticisms facing sex therapy and furnishes a rationale for new directions. Included in this new edition are critiques of "sexual addiction" nomenclature, the neglect of the ethical dimension in sex therapy, and there is a call to expand our vision of what sex therapy can attain. Part II demonstrates new approaches to dealing with traditional sex therapy concerns, including lack of desire and erectile dysfunction as well as innovative goals, such as integrating sexual medicine with sex therapy, using client feedback to customize therapy for the particular individual/couple's best interests, promoting relationship growth in working with transgender clients, and transcending sexual function/dysfunction to optimize erotic intimacy in long-term couples. This 2nd edition of New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives is replete with helpful new clinical illustrations across the spectrum of theoretical orientations (e.g., systemic, narrative, Experiential, CBT) to demonstrate these approaches in action. This book is intended for anyone who deals with sexual issues and concerns in therapy-clinicians of every kind, novices and advanced practitioners-rather than only those who define themselves as sex therapists.

Caring for the mental health of children and their families is complex and challenging-and meaningful. For Christian clinicians who work with childhood disorders, however, few resources exist to address such treatment from a research-based Christian integration perspective. Treatment of Childhood Disorders fills this gap by combining biblical and theological understanding with current psychological literature on empirically supported treatments for children. Sarah E. Hall and Kelly S. Flanagan present an integrated approach based in developmental psychopathology, which offers a dynamic, multifaceted framework from which to understand the processes that affect children's development. In this unique textbook, Hall and Flanagan consider a variety of disorders commonly diagnosed in children and adolescents, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder. After discussing prevalence, risk and causal factors, patterns throughout development, and assessment, they focus on evidence-based practices that have been found to be effective in treating the disorders. Each chapter also features ideas for Christian integration in treatment and an extended case study that brings the content to life. Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.

Expanding on the critical contributions of previous editions, this updated and comprehensive resource covers the latest diagnostic criteria of insomnia. The book is thematically divided into two parts. The first section consists of chapters on nomenclature, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, complications and prognosis and treatment both pharmacological and behavioral. The second features chapters on insomnia in special populations, including ones on children and adolescents, cancer sufferers and survivors, in pregnancy, in menopausal women and in patients with neurological disorders and those with psychiatric illnesses. This third edition fills an important niche in the medical literature by addressing insomnia in its multiple forms, summarizes the findings published in different medical journals, and presents these to the practicing health care provider in an easily accessible format.