Counselling Psychology

This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding towards ourselves and others, and the ways boundaries are set within and around various areas of our lives. It examines how we live these boundaries, how they impact us, and what it takes to live these with deeper satisfaction. This book also addresses shame and rage; the impact of trauma; the power of parental messages, spoken and unspoken; and transgenerational burdens.

Children and families burdened with attachment disruption, emotional distress, or psychological disorders need effective and immediate assistance. They do not have the time to wait for long-term interventions or developmental changes to improve the parent-child relationship. Here, psychologists Elizabeth A. Sylvester and Kat Scherer provide the most effective approach in such situations: interventions that impact the entire family at relational, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral levels.

Challenges the notion that clients with PTSD must revisit, review, and process their memories to recover from trauma. Multiple therapeutic transcripts illuminate key points in trauma treatment, including stabilizing clients who dissociate, identifying and implementing hidden somatic resources, and utilizing good memories and somatic markers. With an authoritative yet personal voice, Rothschild's book is essential listening for anyone working with those who have experienced trauma.

A decade ago, with his breakaway best seller, Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now, he returns with a profound and original look at the condition those medications treat, depression. He asks: If we could eradicate depression so that no human being ever suffered it again, would we?

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief.

Entfessle die transformative Kraft deiner inneren Stimme: Revolutioniere deine Selbstgespräche und erschaffe ein Leben voller Freude, Leichtigkeit und Erfolg. Du möchtest deine negativen Gedanken und Selbstzweifel ein für alle Mal überwinden, dein Selbstbewusstsein stärken und dein volles Potenzial entfalten. Doch oft blockiert dein innerer Kritiker deine Träume. In diesem bahnbrechenden Buch lernst du, wie du durch gezieltes Selbstgespräch dein Mindset auf Erfolg programmierst, negative Glaubenssätze auflöst und deine innere Stimme zu deinem mächtigsten Verbündeten machst.

You're about to discover a logical and proven method on how to overcome grief and deal with loss fast. Millions of people suffer with grief and bereavement and ruin their personal life as well as their careers trying to deal with it the best they can. Most people realize that they are still grieving but don't know how to or are unable to overcome it, simply because that person has been such an important and memorable person in their life.

В книге вы найдете пошаговый план того, как пережить разрыв отношений и в частности развод; рекомендации на первые 3, 10, 40 и 90 дней после расставания; практические советы о том, как проработать свои чувства; чем лучше заняться, чтобы отвлечься; как коммуницировать с детьми в этот период и как сохранить нормальные отношения с бывшим партнером.

¿Eres capaz de superar lo que te frena? ¿Qué te frena en la vida, en el amor y en el trabajo para superarte? Probablemente has sentido que algo en tu vida no está bien o que ni siquiera avanza: tus relaciones, tu trayectoria profesional o tu cambio de hábitos. Pero a pesar de que tu agobiante crítico interno insista en ello, no tienes un problema de motivación. Hay algo más detrás de tus planes de autocuidado, listas de actividades y metas desatendidas, y salir de ahí es más fácil de lo que imaginas.

Sociometrics offers many small, incremental moments of healing that cumulatively help to peel back the layers of the onion, revealing ever deepening and widening aspects of both the self and the self in relation to others. Sociometrics is a therapeutic role-playing practice built upon the foundation of psychodrama and sociometry, the pioneering group-therapy concepts developed by fin-de-siecle Viennese psychiatrist Jacob Levy Moreno.

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the most commonly diagnosed birth abnormality in the US. Little attention, however, has been paid to the psychosocial impacts on these individuals. Liza Morton and Tracy Livecchi are both mental health professionals who have developed a specialty in working with clients who have chronic medical conditions, and they are both themselves living with CHD. While their powerful personal stories are woven into the narrative, the book is focused on providing evidence-based coping and self-care skills for adults living with CHD.

Do you need self-compassion? Learn how to practice self-compassion in recovery, and heal your deepest core wounds. Compassionate Recovery is a childhood trauma and an addiction recovery book. This integrated, universal, and inclusive approach will guide and empower you to recover from any addiction. If you or someone you love suffers from addictions, listen to this audiobook. Healing begins now.

Understand how psychotherapy works, build more resilience, and overcome negative cycle of self-sabotage with this ultimate guide to building brain strength and self-empowerment. Learn how to use cognitive behavioral therapy to reshape your life and stay on the path for a complete change in your outlook and emotional state.

From foraging and hunting for food to (more recently) finding solace and peace in a beautiful vista, humans have long interacted with the natural world. Though a connection to nature runs deep in our DNA, however, people of the modern age are indoors almost 93 percent of the day. With that said, there is a growing evidence suggests that the natural world promotes mental and physical well-being, including stress relief, improved mood, and neurological benefits.

Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysis and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably -- and, often inexplicably -- related to the fountains of creativity, service, and even genius. She poses disturbing questions: How do we depend on order, when chaos is a necessary part of existence?

Según los “altos ideales del amor romántico”, la “vida real en pareja” sólo podrá ser imperfecta. Por eso hay que entender el amor real, es decir, la contradicción entre la atracción y el rechazo, entre lo que damos y pedimos, entre la certeza de estar y la duda, entre la cercanía anhelada y la distancia necesaria.

Raus aus der Panikzone! So erlangst du Resilienz. Ausbildung, Arbeit, Familienleben und Hobbys … All das unter einen Hut zu bringen, kann sehr herausfordernd sein. Hinzu kommen täglich Informationen, auch in den Sozialen Medien, die oft nicht positiv sind. Das alles sind Stressfaktoren, die dein Leben beeinflussen. Schnell kommen Selbstzweifel auf: Bist du stark genug, um alles zu bewältigen? Du fürchtest die Herausforderung und kommst nicht aus deiner Komfortzone heraus. Am Ende nutzt du deine Möglichkeiten zu einem erfüllten Leben nicht.

Приемное родительство — порой тернистый, непростой путь, ведущий к семейному счастью. Честно и открыто рассказанная история материнства Екатерины состоит не только из самых светлых и радостных страниц, но и из мрачных, сложных дней, через которые проходят все приемные родители. Сегодня Екатерина растит двух замечательных детей, рожденных не телом, но сердцем, и готова поделиться с вами своим личным опытом разрешения самых волнительных проблем приемного родительства. • Как подготовиться к появлению малыша и пройти процедуру его усыновления? • Как встретить своего ребенка?

Psychotherapist and author Faith Freed (LMFT) believes that therapy benefits anyone brave and wise enough to begin. In this down-to-earth book, she shares her first-hand knowledge and clinical experience to send you off with confidence. Starting Therapy is an easy-to-listen-to guide for anyone new to therapy or eager to learn more about it. It makes sense that you’d want to know what you’re signing up for before your first session. This book answers your questions before you hit the couch.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Also Human by Caroline Elton, read by Rachel Bavidge. Doctors are the people we turn to when we fall ill. They are the people we trust with our lives and with the lives of those we love. Yet who can doctors turn to at moments of stress or when their own working lives break down?