Solution-Focused Therapy, Second Edition is a popular introduction to the theory, practice and skills of an approach which is increasingly used by a variety of professionals including counsellors, psychologists, mental health workers, and social workers. Its popularity lies in the fact that it is both time-limited and cost-effective, which are key considerations for many practitioners nowadays.
For this, the Second Edition, the book has been fully revised and updated and now includes new sections on solution-focused supervision and running a solution-focused reflecting team. Most chapters include brief practice points for counsellors.
This book will be of great interest to trainees of solution-focused therapy, as well as practitioners who work in a range of contexts where the emphasis is on providing effective brief interventions.
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
The most unusual book about therapy ever written? Some of the most bizarre and likeable characters you will ever encounter, treated by some of the world's best therapists, some of whom are a bit bizarre themselves, but eminently likable. No matter what your problems, you will feel more normal after reading these amazing case stories More info
Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It A strategy-filled handbook to understand, manage depression, modelled after its best-selling counterpart on anxiety. Why is depression one of the most pervasive of all mental health complaints? What makes the lethargy, mental rumination, loss of concentration, unassuageable negativity, and feelings of inadequacy so stubbornly resistant to treatment and so hard to shake off? What can be done to alleviate your symptoms and move in the direction of full recovery? In order to answer these questions, Margaret Wehrenberg explains,... More info
