Author John Arden has drawn on his years of work in Brain Based Therapy and related it to specific areas of our daily lives. He offers way to improve everything from mood, memory, relationships and sleeping habits. If you want to change your life you need to change your brain. These brain based understandings can also help in your work with others.
Other titles by Dr. Arden include: "Brain-Based Therapy-Adult", "Brain-Based Therapy-Child", "Improving Your Memory for Dummies" and "Heal Your Anxiety Workbook". Dr. Arden is a leader in integrating the new developments in neuroscience with psychotherapy and Director of Training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente for the Northern California Region. Explaining exciting new developments in neuroscience and their applications to daily living, "Rewire Your Brain" will guide you through the process of changing your brain so you can change your life and be free of self-imposed limitations.
A number of books have explored the ways psychotherapy clients can benefit from learning and practicing mindfulness. This is the first volume to focus specifically on how mindfulness can deepen the therapeutic relationship. Grounded in research, chapters demonstrate how therapists' own mindfulness practice can help them to listen more attentively and be more fully present. Leading proponents of different treatment approaches/m-/including behavioural, psychodynamic, and family systems perspectives/m-/illustrate a variety of ways that mindfulness principles can complement standard techniques and improve outcomes by strengthening the connection between therapist and client. Also presented are... More info
Life can be confusing, and it's not always easy to know what to do. But this little book lovingly assures that we are all individuals and that it really is OK to be YOU. More info
This influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others. The model for intervention proposed in this book rests on using the patterns of attributing responsibility for violence to derive an approach that engages men willingly in therapy. The author lives in Adelaide, Australia and is highly acclaimed in both Australia and New Zealand for his... More info
