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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
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"Oscar Elvira ha escrito este libro con la pasión y el conocimiento que tiene por el psicoanálisis. A través de sus páginas nos ofrece una acabada historia desde los inicios de la teoría y la clínica psicoanalíticas.
En todas las actividades que emprendió y sigue emprendiendo, se caracteriza por el interés y el compromiso en la concreción de las mismas. Ejemplo de ello es su anterior libro Liderazgo y poder en la institución psicoanalítica...
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Clinicians know that mental health disorders in adolescents may manifest externally as aggressiveness, opposition, or isolation from others. What's less clear is just how to move beyond these conduct and defiance issues to help teenage clients cooperate with treatment so they can build healthy social skills and values.
Mode Deactivation Therapy for Treating Aggression and Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents combines the most effective aspects of...
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Valuing is central to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), yet few therapists truly understand how to engage clients in this complex process. Questions such as What is the purpose of my life? and How do I make decisions? are difficult to answer honestly for ourselves, let alone share with another person. The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy is the mental health practitioner's complete guide to helping clients identify their values and...
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This book offers clinicians a comprehensive, research-derived treatment model for use with adult clients suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The treatment model integrates education, medication, coaching, and cognitive behavioral therapy to go beyond what traditional therapeutic techniques can offer. Written for the busy professional in private practice, it provides everything a therapist or ADHD coach needs to know to...
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Así como la palabra "cardíaca" designa un tipo de enfermedad, y el vocablo "cardiología", en cambio, la ciencia y la técnica que la estudia y que la trata, el término "psicosomatología" alude a la ciencia que se ocupa de la patología médica, de los organismos vivos y de sus interrelaciones, desde una concepción psicosomática que constituye, al mismo tiempo, una manera de concebir el psicoanálisis.
El presente volumen alcanza, en cierto...
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Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients is for anyone interested in broadening their perspective on alternative treatment models, particularly the use of traditional methods alongside Western biomedical techniques. Caryl James Bateman critiques the tensions that exist between conventional approaches in psychiatric treatment and highlights how these may interfere with patients' views, especially those patients who...
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New Directions in the Treatment of PTSD.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you'll find a complete theoretical and practical guide to making this revolutionary new model work in your practice.
After a quick overview of PTSD, the first part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment...
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I am a professor of psychology specializing in abnormal psychology. Additionally, I am a practicing psychotherapist. Over the years, I realized the most frequently asked questions about psychiatric illness focused on anxiety. Specifically, anxiety associated with phobias. Practically everyone is afraid of something or someone. Whether it is spiders, bridges, schools, doctors, etc., most people seem to have one or more fears that impact their lives...
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En los últimos años el contexto del ejercicio de la profesión en salud mental ha cambiado drásticamente. La práctica de la psicoterapia y de la psiquiatría se está volviendo cada vez más estresante. Entre los factores que contribuyen a ello pueden nombrarse el exceso de trabajo administrativo, la falta de pacientes en privado, el mayor riesgo legal, pacientes cada vez más demandantes y la sobreoferta de profesionales. La vocación y las competencias...
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Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents was written from the perspective of a father of children (now adults) with disabilities and who is also a licensed and certified psychologist and counselor. When parents are faced with serious medical problems in their children, they become very gullible to exaggerated claims of cure and unethical providers. The book contains substantial information about behavioral interventions to help mediate the behavioral...
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Based on a new treatment model for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, this manual offers an effective and comprehensive therapy targeting symptoms of PTSD in battered women. Pioneered by Dr. Kubany, this innovative intervention is called cognitive trauma therapy, or CTT. CTT includes modules on trauma history exploration, negative self-talk monitoring, stress management, PTSD education, exposure to trauma reminders, overcoming learned helplessness,...
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Though acceptance and mindfulness interventions have proven enormously effective for adults with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues, they have not been fully documented for use with children and adolescents. And yet they are a natural fit for children's therapy-the focus on acceptance and mindfulness builds children's psychological flexibility, and the values component of these methods helps young people learn to set goals...
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A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Eating Disorders with ACT.
At some point in clinical practice, most therapists will encounter a client suffering with an eating disorder, but many are uncertain of how to treat these issues. Because eating disorders are rooted in secrecy and reinforced by our culture's dangerous obsession with thinness, sufferers are likely to experience significant health complications before they receive the help they need. Acceptance...
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Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT (pronounced as a word rather than letters), is an emerging psychotherapeutic technique first developed into a complete system in the book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, and Kelly Wilson.
ACT marks what some call a third wave in behavior therapy. To understand what this means, it helps to know that the first wave refers to traditional behavior therapy, which works to replace...
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This collection of transcripts, organized and annotated by Michael P. Twohig and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) founder Steven C. Hayes, guides you through ACT-based therapy processes session-by-session. The transcripts featured in ACT Verbatim present common situations that arise in clinical practice, while the commentary explains how to identify the six target ACT processes and help clients work through them to achieve psychological flexibility.
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¿Qué significa ser "como la gente"? ¿Qué tiene que ver eso con la "normalidad"? ¿Cómo se relacionan la enfermedad, el crimen y la maldad? ¿De dónde proviene la culpa? ¿Cómo asumimos una propia falta que afecta a quienes amamos? ¿Cómo nos sentimos cuando nuestros seres queridos nos hieren, con o sin intención?
Estos interrogantes son apenas algunos de los tantos que este libro intenta explorar. Desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica, aunque...
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In many ways, Carl Rogers was a revolutionary. Raised in a strict, conservative home, Rogers eventually developed a theory of psychology that swept away old power structures and put the patient in charge of his own treatment. His work continues to be important for what it teaches us about relationships and human potential, as well as about psychology. Unlike earlier practitioners of psychology, like Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung, Rogers did not elaborate...
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We have a choice in how we look at the events that happen in our lives. We can choose to view the events in our life as a series of failure, employing blame and guilt. This is the Failure Road.
Or, we can look at life as a journey of experiences, and no matter the outcome, there will always be a lesson to learn. And, if we learn even one thing from the experience, we have succeeded! This is the Experience Road. It is a path that embraces success...
20) Real Behavior Change in Primary Care: Improving Patient Outcomes and Increasing Job Satisfaction
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A Toolkit for Creating Lasting Behavior Change in Your Patients. As a primary care provider, you are on the front lines of medical treatment. Oftentimes, you're the first medical professional patients come to when they experience problems with their health. While some of these problems can be resolved by traditional medical treatment, many others are driven by underlying psychological issues and unhealthy lifestyle choices that you may feel powerless...
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