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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
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Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients is for anyone interested in broadening their perspective on alternative treatment models, particularly the use of traditional methods alongside Western biomedical techniques. Caryl James Bateman critiques the tensions that exist between conventional approaches in psychiatric treatment and highlights how these may interfere with patients' views, especially those patients who...
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Clinicians know that mental health disorders in adolescents may manifest externally as aggressiveness, opposition, or isolation from others. What's less clear is just how to move beyond these conduct and defiance issues to help teenage clients cooperate with treatment so they can build healthy social skills and values.
Mode Deactivation Therapy for Treating Aggression and Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents combines the most effective aspects of...
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New Directions in the Treatment of PTSD.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you'll find a complete theoretical and practical guide to making this revolutionary new model work in your practice.
After a quick overview of PTSD, the first part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment...
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This book offers clinicians a comprehensive, research-derived treatment model for use with adult clients suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The treatment model integrates education, medication, coaching, and cognitive behavioral therapy to go beyond what traditional therapeutic techniques can offer. Written for the busy professional in private practice, it provides everything a therapist or ADHD coach needs to know to...
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Valuing is central to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), yet few therapists truly understand how to engage clients in this complex process. Questions such as What is the purpose of my life? and How do I make decisions? are difficult to answer honestly for ourselves, let alone share with another person. The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy is the mental health practitioner's complete guide to helping clients identify their values and...
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"Oscar Elvira ha escrito este libro con la pasión y el conocimiento que tiene por el psicoanálisis. A través de sus páginas nos ofrece una acabada historia desde los inicios de la teoría y la clínica psicoanalíticas.
En todas las actividades que emprendió y sigue emprendiendo, se caracteriza por el interés y el compromiso en la concreción de las mismas. Ejemplo de ello es su anterior libro Liderazgo y poder en la institución psicoanalítica...
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Así como la palabra "cardíaca" designa un tipo de enfermedad, y el vocablo "cardiología", en cambio, la ciencia y la técnica que la estudia y que la trata, el término "psicosomatología" alude a la ciencia que se ocupa de la patología médica, de los organismos vivos y de sus interrelaciones, desde una concepción psicosomática que constituye, al mismo tiempo, una manera de concebir el psicoanálisis.
El presente volumen alcanza, en cierto...
9) The Practice of Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy: An Innovative Model for Facilitating Mental Wellness
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The Practice of Animal Assisted Psychotherapy: An Innovative Modality for Facilitating Mental Wellness is about how specially trained therapy dogs assist a human therapist to work with clients' mental health issues. The book's main purpose is to provide the clinical applications for animal-assisted psychotherapy (AAP). The book can be used by novices or seasoned therapists to help them understand the power of AAP and how it can be used in clinical...
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Get the Summary of Brian L. Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian L. Weiss is a narrative that follows the psychiatric treatment of Catherine, a woman suffering from severe anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. Dr. Weiss, a traditionally trained psychiatrist, initially attempts to treat Catherine using conventional psychotherapy methods, exploring...
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The Motion Picture Prescription: watch this movie and call me in the morning® THE FIRST BOOK WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF 'CINEMATHERAPY'®, USING MOVIES AS THERAPY. From time to time we are left dazed and confused, clueless about how to be triumphant when confronted with the challenging moments of our lives. Enter Dr. Gary Solomon, aka The Movie Doctor®. His book is the first of its kind with a listing of healing stories from the movies. We can see...
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This book is aimed at a fairly educated reader who is committed to living as a citizen in a democracy as well as any individuals concerned that psychiatry controlled by Big Pharma is or has hurt their lives more than it has helped. The book is composed of six chapters, including an "introduction," "Philosophical Issues," "The Politics of Human Relationships," "Mental Illnesses," "Mental Health," "Education," and "Psychotherapy."
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Actually, suicidal persons dont want to die, they just want to stop living the way they have been up to now. People who suffer intensely and think about taking their life are experiencing a severe depression and high degree of hopelessness and confusion which darken and limit their vision of life. It is a perspective that only allows them to see death as the solution to heal the suffering their existence has become. Joseluis Canales (Dado) reveals...
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En los últimos años el contexto del ejercicio de la profesión en salud mental ha cambiado drásticamente. La práctica de la psicoterapia y de la psiquiatría se está volviendo cada vez más estresante. Entre los factores que contribuyen a ello pueden nombrarse el exceso de trabajo administrativo, la falta de pacientes en privado, el mayor riesgo legal, pacientes cada vez más demandantes y la sobreoferta de profesionales. La vocación y las competencias...
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I am a professor of psychology specializing in abnormal psychology. Additionally, I am a practicing psychotherapist. Over the years, I realized the most frequently asked questions about psychiatric illness focused on anxiety. Specifically, anxiety associated with phobias. Practically everyone is afraid of something or someone. Whether it is spiders, bridges, schools, doctors, etc., most people seem to have one or more fears that impact their lives...
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El libro presenta un trabajo riguroso en el que se detalla la experiencia de un dispositivo de atención psicosocial único en nuestro país y los efectos de las intervenciones en la población atendida. A través de la exposición de casos clínicos, logra presentar los efectos subjetivos de las intervenciones, el acogimiento de la palabra y demanda de los usuarios del servicio y la orientación que tiene cada una de ellas, sostenida éticamente...
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As a mental health professional, it can be difficult to help anxious clients face their fears and anxieties. Exposure therapy is widely appreciated as one of the most effective therapeutic treatments for anxiety spectrum disorders; however, it is often underutilized due to problems that present themselves during treatment, such as client unwillingness or hesitancy, or a lack of understanding on the professional's part regarding targeted applications....
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Summary of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen | Includes Analysis Preview: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility...
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We have a choice in how we look at the events that happen in our lives. We can choose to view the events in our life as a series of failure, employing blame and guilt. This is the Failure Road.
Or, we can look at life as a journey of experiences, and no matter the outcome, there will always be a lesson to learn. And, if we learn even one thing from the experience, we have succeeded! This is the Experience Road. It is a path that embraces success...
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