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Unified Psychotherapy Project
The Process of Psychotherapy: Causation and Chance
Beyond Best Practice: How Mental Health Services Can Be Better
The publishers say : “Written by practitioners for practitioners, this empirically-grounded book offers clinicians of all backgrounds a guide to incorporating feedback and self-development strategies that will dramatically enhance their therapeutic abilities. Building on the foundation of Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT), Beyond…
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Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy and Social Change
Written by Prof. Mick Cooper, this book has just arrived (March 2019). Sage Publications say: “How can therapists integrate theories and practices from across the psychological therapies? This book presents a framework for understanding distress and change that can unite different orientations,…
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Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: The Challenge of the Person-Centred Approach
The publishers say: “This book explores, in depth, the link between modern psychiatric practice and the person-centred approach. It promotes an open dialogue between traditional rivals – counsellors and psychiatrists within the NHS – to assist greater understanding and improve…
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CPCAB Model of Counselling Practice
CPCAB – the UK’s largest awarding body in the field of counselling and psychotherapy – has developed (starting in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s) a model of helping work and counselling practice. It’s a generic model that underpins most of…
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Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual
The publishers say: “For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. And indeed,…
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The Human Elements of Psychotherapy: A Nonmedical Model of Emotional Healing
The publishers say: “The dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. Words like patient, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and modalities reflect this medically oriented view of therapy….
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Leaving It at the Office, Second Edition: A Guide to Psychotherapist Self-Care
The publishers say: “Mental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves. This highly practical guide – now revised and expanded with even more self-care strategies – has helped thousands of busy psychotherapists balance their…
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