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In this indictment of the therapy profession, the author exposes the misguided beliefs and shoddy practices used by most psychotherapists. He examines the "pop psych" beliefs and explores the debilitating effects they have on everyone.

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"One of the most searching and thought-provoking discussions about human change processes I have read. The author writes from the perspective of a psychologist, psychotherapist, philosopher, and reseracher, but above all he writes as a perceptive and sensitive human being."--Hans Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.

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Each human heart possesses positive attributes such as altruism, kindness, concern, gratitude, and forgiveness. Human Goodness explores the origins of these traits through the use of clinical vignettes to help mental health professionals see their clients in refreshingly new ways.

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Human Strengths and Resilience fills an important gap in current literature on trauma survivors by explicitly focusing on international work concerning positive psychology and strength-based approaches to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resilience in understudied developing nations like Haiti, Cambodia, India, and Syria.

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The increase in new medical technology and experimental treatments has made the study of medical ethics essential for practitioners on all levels.

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Professionals who are creative users of humor, and whose work with humor is exemplary in nurturing children's cognitive, social, and/or emotional development, illustrate how humor played a key role in the relationships they developed with children.

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Watters provides a guide to the theory and application of Ericksonian hypnosis during pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum period. Healthcare professionals are introduced to the potential of hypnosis as a means of deepening a womans connection with herself and her baby.

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Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions.

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This guide examines injury prevention for the elderly. It provides a survey of 621 references which cover injury prevention in general as well as various accidents and problems, ranging from burns and scalds to hypothermia and hyperthermia.

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This book is designed as a gentle, step-by-step guide for re-parenting the inner child during the first seven stages of life: as an infant, a toddler, a young child, a grade school child, a young teen, a young adolescent, and a young adult. Using a wide range of tools to do this inner work, the reader is led to explore the issues of grief, shame, and loss at each of the seven stages.

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This text presents examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in order to achieve the goal of providing care for those with severe mental illness. Strategies examined include consumer co-operatives, professional-volunteer teamwork and housing-based alternatives.

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Part of a growing trend toward bridging the gap between rival schools of therapy, this book goes beyond other works to envision a mental health professional who, like a family doctor, can serve as a resource for an entire family either individually or together throughout their lives.

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This book, serving as a positive augmentation to prevalent theories of psychotherapy, is ideal for students, scholars, professors, and researchers from any cultural background.

The book begins with a discussion of the converging themes in psychotherapy as presented at the International Conference on Psychotherapy.

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"This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in t"

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Reflecting exciting new trends in psychiatric treatment, the authors present their model of IPT, short-term psychotherapy for treating clinical depression.

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Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery explores the causes and impact of coercion on intimate others. A new approach to therapy is included, along with a coercion climate map to assist with the transformation of coerced individuals.

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This text examines some of the most perplexing problems a client may present to a counsellor and how a philosopher would deal with them. It provides a detailed philosophical discussion as well as illustrative case studies of some of the most important issues encountered in any counselling practice.