Tag: counselling

Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Wallace BC
Pages: 390p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: RL, (5 Mar. 2019)
eISBN-13: 978-1442268593

The second edition of Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work integrates cutting edge research with evidence-based addiction treatments to create a unified and effective treatment model for mental health professionals and those in training. Because the largest and fastest growing segment of the community-based addiction treatment population includes those who are mandated, Barbara C. Wallace provides insightful best practices for tailoring addiction treatment to diverse and challenging clients, including those who may have a history of trauma or mental disorders, different levels of motivation, and a high risk of relapse. Applicable in a variety of treatment settings in both urban and rural communities, this text weaves together new research and vivid case studies into a concise and practical resource. This book is ideal for practitioners and students of public health, criminal justice, and social welfare services.

Group Leadership Skills: Interpersonal Process in Group Counseling and Therapy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Chen M and Rybak CJ
Pages: 491p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 26 Oct. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1506349305

Group Leadership Skills provides a road map and a practical toolkit for users to lead all types of groups effectively. Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, authors Mei-whei Chen and Christopher Rybak give readers numerous skills, techniques, insights, and case illustrations demonstrating how to tap into the heart of group therapy: the interpersonal processes. The text covers group processes from beginning to end, including setting up a group, running the first session, facilitating the opening and closing of each session, working with tension and conflict, and using advanced skills and intervention techniques to facilitate member change. The Second Edition expands on group leadership skills to include methods of running mandate groups, semi-structured groups, basic level unstructured groups, and advanced level here-and-now focused groups, as well as using psychodrama techniques to heal unresolved grief and loss.

Handbook of Obstetric Medicine, 6th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Nelson-Piercy C
Pages: 362
Format: Epub
Publisher: CRC Press,
eISBN-13: 978-0367346126

Medical professionals are often involved in the management of the pregnant patient without necessarily being experts on all the complications surrounding pregnancy. The Handbook of Obstetric Medicine addresses the most common and serious medical conditions encountered in pregnancy, including heart disease, thromboembolism, diabetes, skin problems, gastrointestinal disease, neurological problems, hormonal diseases, hypertension and pre-eclampsia, and more. For each condition, the handbook includes a description of incidence, clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis, the effect of pregnancy, and management of the condition. The book also includes a detailed section focusing on the differential diagnosis of common symptoms including hypertension, chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, headaches, dizziness, abdominal pain, and more.

The symptoms and differential diagnoses are presented in an easy-to-read tabular format and include a description of important clinical features and potential areas of investigation. For those clinicians understandably reluctant to prescribe drugs during pregnancy, a useful appendix includes a section on prescribing in pregnancy and a list of contra-indicated drugs. In addition, to assist in the interpretation of laboratory tests, a second appendix lists normal laboratory values in pregnancy, broken down by trimester. Pre –pregnancy counselling and postnatal follow up are vital in the holistic management of women with medical problems and this includes appropriate contraceptive advice. A third appendix has therefore been added as a ready reference for clinicians not familiar with effective contraception.

The new edition remains a pragmatic and easy-to-use design by including tables, bullets, and “Points to remember” boxes for ease of reference. It is an essential on-the-spot guide for obstetricians, physicians, general practitioners, and midwives in both practice and training.

Counseling Across the Lifespan: Prevention and Treatment, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Juntunen CL andSchwartz JP
Pages: 743p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781483389141

This practical book helps readers provide effective mental, emotional, and behavioral health services to clients across the continuum of care, from health promotion through long-term treatment and remediation. Anchoring each chapter within a life stage—from childhood through older adulthood—the text identifies the nature and origin of various psychological issues and emphasizes the importance of anticipating and responding early to concerns that arise for large portions of the population. The Second Edition features new chapters and expanded coverage of important topics, such as sociocultural contextual factors and interprofessional health perspectives.

Counseling Across Cultures, 7th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Pedersen PB, Draguns JG, Lonner WJ, Trimble JE and Scharrón-del Río MR
Pages: 787p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Sage, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781452217529

Artiiculates the positive contributions that can be made by incorporating multicultural awareness in the training of skilled counsellors”. The Fourth Edition of Counseling across Cultures is an excellent source of information and remains a classic in its field.

Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Anthea Hendry And Joy Hasler. Pages: 258 Size: 1.17 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 21 March, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781784502423

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.

Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative book describes models for working with children in foster care, kinship care or adoption. Covering how to assess needs and contextual considerations for working with children and families, this book presents a range of creative therapeutic approaches spanning art psychotherapy, music therapy and dance therapy. It emphasizes the necessity of working with caregivers and other significant adults, as well as the child, to facilitate recovery. The theoretical foundations of attachment, developmental psychology and neurobiology are embedded in each chapter showing how they underpin each of the recommended creative therapies.

This book will be suitable for professionals directly employing creative approaches in their practice, such as arts therapists and play therapists, as well as those working with children who are interested in creative alternate approaches, such as psychologists, counsellors, therapists

Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Michael Barkham, Else Guthrie, Gillian E. Hardy, Frank Margison.
Pages: 209 Format: PDF Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 10 November, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781473994324

This book presents for the first time, a practical manual for psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. Drawing on forty years of research, teaching and practice, its expert authors guide you through the conversational model`s theory, skills and implications for practice. Part I sets out the model`s underlying theory and outlines the evidence for its efficacy with client groups. Part II guides you through clinical skills of the model, from foundational to advanced. Part III offers practical guidance on implementing the approach within a range of settings, and for developing effective practice through reflection and supervision.