A solution-oriented, collaborative approach to couples therapy.
All couples go through challenging times. Some survive and thrive, others don't. How can we understand and apply this distinction to couples work? This book answers that question and offers important insights into effective couples therapy. The authors cover needed theoretical ground quickly and elegantly, drawing together techniques from solution-focused, narrative and other constructionist therapies. They develop an innovative concept called the 'good story/bad story continuum'. This book will serve as a pragmatic handbook for both experienced and beginning human service workers.
Neuroscience and Social Work Practice offers the latest insights from neuroscience linking them to behaviour and demonstrates the significant social work benefits from social neuroscience that will help in coping with the serious problems that clients can be experiencing. *Key Features * Takes readers on a "tour of the brain" and makes dense scientific material more engaging Provides a framework for how human service professionals can understand and implement neuroscience clinical data with the use of the Transactional Model Uses case vignettes to explain how neuroscience findings have been... More info
An updated revision of Jeffrey Kottler's classic book reveals the new realities and inner experiences of therapeutic practice today. For more than 25 years On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. In this new edition, he explores many of the challenges that therapists face related to increased technology, surprising research, the Internet, advances in theory and technique, as well as stress in the international and global economy, managed care bureaucracy, patients with anxiety and... More info
We live in a world pervaded by the unspoken attitude that we are all basically flawed, broken, incomplete, scarred or sick: we’re labelled as dysfunctional, co-dependent, depressed, you name it. Contrary to popular perception and drug company ad campaigns, fifty years of research shows that positive change does not primarily emerge from examining the disorders, diseases, or dysfunctions—all the stuff that’s wrong with us—that allegedly plague the masses. Dr. Barry Duncan debunks the myth that only a therapist can help you change your life and shows how positive change really... More info
