Counselling Psychology

The essential guide for families navigating the aftermath of sexual abuse in the home. When sexual abuse is discovered within a family, the resulting crisis can seem insurmountable. Parents face impossible choices, professionals offer conflicting advice, and everyone struggles with overwhelming emotions. Into this void steps Dr. Shanti Duncan with Healing Family Wounds, a comprehensive roadmap for families in their darkest hour.

Psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm explore the human ambition for personal change and its possible illusions, with a focus on yoga and meditation. They examine the psychological and biological evidence, from early research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on mindfulness. They also include personal accounts from practitioners, as well as recounting their own experiences of testing the effects of meditation and yoga on incarcerated criminals.

À tous les âges de la vie, nous risquons de sombrer dans les mensonges. Si certains sont bénins, d'autres, plus graves, empoisonnent la vie familiale, conjugale et professionnelle. Or, s'il soulage à court terme, le mensonge se transforme souvent en esclavage. Brouillant le contact avec les émotions, il engendre frustration, amertume et colère. Et pourtant, derrière tout mensonge se cache un appel de détresse, une vérité qui doit être entendue. Heureusement, il est possible de guérir cette blessure fondamentale.

This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families - stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity - and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

All white people understand cultural differences from a platform of relative privilege, affecting their personal and professional interactions. How should they respond when confronted with this knowledge? This introductory book looks at the concept of whiteness and shows how individuals can 'unmask' their own whiteness and take meaningful steps to break down unconscious bias and structural racism.

One of the most significant names in modern psychological and motivational philosophy is French mind theorist Emile Coué. His simple formula of using mantras or affirmations to reprogram your psyche like confidence, enthusiasm, and wellness inspired many self-help giants like Napoleon Hill, Maxwell Maltz, and Anthony Robbins. Thousands around the world swear by Coué’s approach. Even the Beatles used his key mantra—“Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” In this book, you will determine for yourself if his simple approach works.

»Fight, flight or freeze« – diese Reaktionen auf eine Gefahr oder ein traumatisches Ereignis sind inzwischen allgemein bekannt. Die weit verbreitete vierte Reaktion kommt gerade erst ans Licht: »Fawn« – zu deutsch der Bambi-Reflex. Betroffene suchen nach Sicherheit, indem sie sich an die Wünsche, Bedürfnisse und Anforderungen anderer anpassen. Anstatt ihre eigenen Träume zu verfolgen, helfen sie ständig anderen, deren Ziele zu erfüllen. Am schlimmsten: Sie haben immer das Gefühl, selbst schuld zu sein und unfähig, etwas zu ändern.

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.

This book was written for ambitious, driven, and intentional therapists who are ready to outgrow the office, leave behind the outdated model of mental health, and make a bigger impact serving others as they ethically add group coaching. Cheers to getting paid for your knowledge, around the clock, and serving your ideal clients around the globe with your online group coaching program. All while earning back the success, freedom, and security you deserve.

When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes - and most of all, love.

You didn’t choose your anxiety. You didn’t choose your perfectionism, your fear of abandonment, your rage that comes out of nowhere, or the crushing sense that you’re never safe even when everything looks fine. You also didn’t choose the silence around money, the alcoholism that “wasn’t a problem,” the mother who cried in the bathroom, or the father who disappeared for days. You just inherited them. Science now proves what you’ve always felt: trauma isn’t just “something that happened to you.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. **THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him. Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall...

CBT is widely regarded as the gold standard in psychotherapy for treating anxiety and depression. Based on the self-help classic, Thoughts and Feelings, this take-anywhere guide offers distilled CBT skills you can use anytime to challenge the negative thinking that leads to anxiety and depression, balance your emotions, and start engaging in activities that make you feel good about yourself. Most importantly, you'll learn how your thoughts affect your mood, and how changing your thoughts can actually change your life!

Charisma is something that a lot of people don't think about, yet we see it everywhere and often admire it. But how do you gain charisma and more importantly, how do you apply it in your daily life? In Charisma: The Best Tactics to Be More Charismatic, Likable, and to Impress Anyone, you will learn how. Charisma is not about being the loudest or more flamboyant in the room. There is more to it than that. Those that have charisma have more influence, tend to get the better jobs and have better relationships.

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body—it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim’s integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse, and learning & educational difficulties, the most devastating consequence of childhood sexual abuse is shame.

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.

As a life raft for beginners and their supervisors, Where to Start and What to Ask provides all the necessary tools for garnering information from clients. Lukas also offers a framework for thinking about that information and formulating a thorough assessment. This indispensable audiobook helps therapeutic neophytes organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment and navigate even rough clinical waters with competence and assurance.

"يهدف هذا الكتاب إلى تقديم دراسة تمهيدية لممارسة العلاج النفسي. ويتوجه في المقام الأول إلى الأطباء وغيرهم ممن يستعدون لدورة تدريبية للتخصص في الطب النفسي. والغرض منه على أي حال أن يكون ذا فائدة تطبيقية. فالطبيب قليل الخبرة الذي يحس غالبا بالارتباك أمام المريض النفسي المحول إليه للعلاج النفسي لأول مرة قد يتساءل: ترى ماذا أفعل؟ هذا الكتاب يهدف إلى الإجابة على هذا السؤال.

Bridging the theoretical with the practical, Walsh's model offers a tangible framework that can be applied on its own or in tandem with other modalities. Neurodivergent Somatics in Therapy is an intimate and engaging guide to providing accessible, liberatory, whole-person care that will benefit clients of all neurotypes.