Group work is a common and valuable resource used in many areas: from therapy, education and training, to businesses and commercial organisations. With a focus on the role of group facilitators, she lays out a model of group work based in systemic and narrative techniques generating optimal conditions for groups to achieve success.

The cult-classic novel that made Carrie Fisher a bestselling author before The Princess Diarist - brilliant, bold, hilarious.

How to build strong relationships at work.

Provides an overview of the field of trauma that includes a history of the field, theoretical perspectives and methods that provide a paradigm for stage appropriate, culture-based therapy which can be integrated into existing therapeutic orientations. This book also includes individual approaches in trauma intervention.

Offers those working in mental health settings a practical guide to writing great care plans. Featuring chapters on care planning in primary care, community care and acute care, this title highlights the challenges of care planning, evidence available in each area, the knowledge needed by practitioner and the skills needed to work with clients.

This sixth edition of Richard Nelson-Jones' bestselling book is a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author's three-stage model of counselling is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act.

A Practical Guide to a broad and extremely vital psychological speciality.

Breaking away from neurotypical ideals of happiness, this book offers simple techniques and exercises to help adults on the spectrum combat negative thoughts and improve their mental health. Practical and engaging, it tackles communication skills, self-awareness, workplace coping strategies and more, with a refreshing positive psychology approach.

A practical guide for health and social care professionals on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, enabling more informed and effective practice.

Ground-breaking new self-help book based on mindfulness from one of the world's leading mindfulness authorities.

A guide to professional development in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology that addresses the key concerns and questions most frequently raised by newly qualified practitioners, including: how to avoid complaints and litigation; how to write client reports; and, how to interpret medical and psychiatric assessments.

Over 90 percent of people with mental health problems take medication. Nurses now have the authority to prescribe this medication should they so wish. However, all nurses have a duty of care to administer medication safely. This book discusses prescribing decisions in schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and insomnia.

The first of its kind, this authoritative and comprehensive book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention. Compiled by 35 experts including a foreword from Student Minds CEO, Rosie Tressler OBE, the book offers pragmatic insight into an issue of increasing concern within HE settings.

Designed especially for students and mental health professionals in the early stages of their careers, this primer is a practical guide to psychotherapy.

Volume 2 of the famous long course, complete and unabridged. Covers stream of thought, time perception, memory, and experimental methods. Total in set: 94 figures.

Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a colorful world of ecological possibility. By way of color, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen guides readers through a reflection of an essentially complex and disordered universe and demonstrates the spectrum as an unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives.

Structured around the BACP Core Curriculum, this book covers everything from the requirements of the BACP Ethical Framework to broader perspectives on good professional practice.

[There has been an] extraordinary shift in how we understand andtreat psychosis, none more so than in the arena of EarlyIntervention (EI) bringing with it new hope for young people withemerging psychosis and their families.

Developed in partnership with Certitude - an influential charity providing support for people with mental health problems or learning disabilities - this book will answer all of the commonly asked questions and provide mental health students with clear explanations and guidance on recovery.

An account, both harrowing and amusing, of the author's dependence on Prozac, prescribed for her after a series of suicide attempts and breakdowns. She describes her experiences and her determination to get herself off medication.

This quick but comprehensive look-up guide will help mental health clinicians locate the answers to many common and urgent questions.

In this examination of the legacy of Foulkes, the theoretical foundations of group psychotherapy are applied to a range of groups, including family therapy, institutional dynamics and educational therapy. Contributors include distinguished group analysts, such as Pines and De Mar, and junior analysts selected for their original thinking.