Looks at why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending. Offers advice on how to avoid either with a timely conclusion. It includes vivid examples and practical guidelines.
This text outlines an approach to business communication by two Harvard-based educators, trainers and consultants. Kegan and Lahey show us how the way we talk in the workplace can be understood as seven different types of speaking, seven languages that reveal our attitudes and expectations.
Lacan reminds us that psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy. Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of reading, here, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology.
Presents a practical 'how to' guide to relationship skills, showing how readers can improve and, where necessary, repair relationships. Taking a cognitive-behavioural approach to coaching people in relationship skills, this book is useful for those involved in 'life coaching', as well as general counselling and therapy.
This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.
Impact therapy is a creative and interactive approach that respects the different channels by which a client processes information to achieve growth and change. This book describes multisensory methods and tools to integrate therapist-client exchanges on verbal, visual, and kinesthetic levels.
A practical guide to implementing mental health promotion programmes with different population groups across a range of settings. It shows how information from research can be used to inform programme development and best practice. It provides examples of successful international programmes illustrating the process of implementation.
* Mental health promotion in the home for children and parents. * Promoting social and emotional learning in schools. * Addressing stress and promoting mentally healthy workplaces. * Mental health promotion within primary health care.
This work, based on original research and clinical experience, describes the consequences of trauma exposure on emergency responders and the personal, organizational and societal factors that can ameliorate or exacerbate traumatic response.
To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start... Featured on Russell Brand's podcast Under the Skin Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world's most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction.
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still... until now.
In this game-changing book, University of Cambridge Professor Edward Bullmore reveals the breakthrough new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain.
This text is concerned with the psychology of communication. It uses techniques derived primarily from NLP to create state-of-the-art skills which the reader can use to improve any interaction. Chapters cover outcomes, rapport, sensory acuity, meetings and negotiation.
As health and social care organisations respond to the health modernisation agenda, the use of integrated care pathways in mental health is fast growing. This work combines discussion of relevant and developing theory, with accounts of real time developments in practice. It is useful for those who are challenged with developing mental health care.