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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Psychological research suggests that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), used alone or in combination with medical therapy, is the most effective treatment for depression. Recent finding, though, suggest that CBT for depression may work through different processes than we had previously suspected. The stated goal of therapeutic work in CBT is the challenging and restructuring of irrational thoughts that can lead to feelings of depression. But the results...
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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...
12) Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
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You can spend years in graduate school, internship, and clinical practice. You can learn to skillfully conceptualize cases and structure interventions for your clients. You can have every skill and advantage as a therapist, but if you want to make the most of every session, both you and your client need to show up in the therapy room. Really show up. And this kind of mindful presence can be a lot harder than it sounds.
Mindfulness for Two is a...
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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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Conversaciones sobre psicosomatología contiene los diálogos surgidos, entre sus autores, acerca de los temas desarrollados en un libro anterior (Sí, pero no de esa manera. Los fundamentos de la psicosomatología, de Luis Chiozza). Su contenido gira en torno de un modo de concebir la relación entre psiquis y soma, que surge con claridad de algunas afirmaciones de Freud, cuando, en 1938, en Londres, acercándose al final de su vida, se propone "reunir...
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Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior, it's difficult for psychologists and researchers to determine if intervention has been effective.
From a modern contextual behavioral point of view, the self develops in tandem with the ability to take perspective on one's own and other people's behavior. This collection of...
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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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An Early Career Psychological Counselor illustrates a Breadth of topics including Therapy, Integrated Health Care, Anxiety, Depression, OCD, Disability, Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ issues, Select Topics & Mental Health (Telehealth, Geriatrics, HIV, Homelessness, Crisis, Resilience), & Poetry. The author largely utilizes fictional case examples.
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¿Es la producción de conocimiento un proceso coevolutivo? ¿Tiene algún sentido adaptativo, vital, para nuestras sociedades desarrollar procesos de investigación? ¿La investigación es un juego de lo posible en el que nos inventamos la vida y avanzamos hacia lo improbable, lo impensado, lo no dicho? La investigación como biosfera autoorganizada explora la idea de que producir conocimiento es un fenómeno cercano a la invención de la vida. La...
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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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"Lo que dicen las palabras" se propone dar cuenta de aquello que hacemos con las palabras, pero también de aquello que las palabras hacen con nosotros. El texto pretende poner en tensión usos disímiles de la palabra: en las obras de los trágicos griegos del siglo V a.
C., haciendo hincapié en la Función Mensajero, testigo fiel encargado de narrar los hechos ocurridos lejos de la escena principal, en la obra de Platón, particularmente en el...
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