Individual Psychotherapy Books
DBT Principles in Action: Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics
The key to flexible, skillful decision making in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) lies in understanding the connections between moment-to-moment clinical strategies and core principles. This lucid... (more)
The Healing Virtues: Character Ethics in Psychotherapy
The Healing Virtues explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics - with an emphasis on the patient's role within a healing process. It considers how the common ground between the... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice provides a balance of engaging and in-depth stories and case studies from the inside of therapy. Representing the key practice modality sections... (more)
Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy
Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy integrates cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic methods of trauma treatment into a psychotherapeutic context. Rather than... (more)
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy provides an essential introduction to and overview of the main models of psychotherapy and counselling. With a new preface from Windy Dryden, this... (more)
Adventure Tales: A Framework for Therapeutic Story Creation by and for Children
Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers' or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a... (more)
Improving Concentration: A Professional Resource for Assessing and Improving Concentration and Performance
Improving Concentration has been designed to help individuals improve their concentration skills. It is aimed primarily at those taking on a training role in relation to the individual concerned.... (more)
Masterstress: A Professional Resource for Assessing and Managing Stress
This is a comprehensive professional resource for assessing stress and delivering stress management interventions. This is an extensive resource for health practitioners to: select the most... (more)
The Practical Pain Management Handbook: The Essential Evidence-Based Guide
The successful management of chronic pain remains an elusive goal. As more complex diagnostic and intervention procedures become available, patients and clinicians alike have ever-greater... (more)
The Solution Focused Way: Incorporating Solution Focused Therapy Tools and Techniques into Your Everyday Work
This is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to incorporating solution focused techniques into everyday practice. Solution focused therapy helps clients to identify how their lives would be without... (more)
Introducing Emotional Freedom Techniques
This title offers simple and effective techniques for emotional health and wellbeing. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an energy therapy that is rapidly gaining recognition as a simple, yet very... (more)
The Mental Health Handbook: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach
This is an extremely comprehensive resource of photocopiable handouts to aid therapeutic intervention. It is sensibly organised for quick access in one convenient package. Now updated, the third... (more)
Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
The idea of using nature to improve mental and emotional wellbeing has existed for many years, in many forms. However, growing levels of interest in holistic, reciprocal relationships with nature... (more)
Practitioner Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Power of Examples
This evocative and thought-provoking book calls for an overhaul of how counselling and psychotherapy research is framed and conducted. Packed full of first-hand examples from a wealth of different... (more)
The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice: Engaging with Oppression in Practice and Supervision
Racism exists in today's society in many different forms and, for a huge number of people, is a fact of everyday life. Inspired and informed by the author's own research, this uniquely engaging book... (more)
Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Treatment Manual
The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of meaning in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by... (more)
Introduction to Psychological Theories and Psychotherapy
This is an introductory text on psychological theories and psychotherapy that approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective. Written for psychiatry residents, but of notable relevance to... (more)
Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults
Due to improvements in health and healthcare, the elderly population is expanding rapidly within the developed world. However, more and more elderly people require some form of psychological support... (more)
Medical Psychotherapy
Medical Psychotherapy draws together succinct descriptions of the major models of psychotherapy, written by specialists who offer an accessible, theoretical, and evidence based depiction of each... (more)
Cognitive-Experiential Theory
In this volume, Epstein presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory, that is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is... (more)
Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life
Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and... (more)
On Becoming a Better Therapist: Evidence-Based Practice One Client at a Time
How can therapists become better at doing what they love, avoid burnout, and prevent client dropout? Respected therapist, trainer, and researcher Barry Duncan asserts that getting better at this... (more)
How to Deal with OCD: A 5-Step, CBT-Based Plan for Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder, is a common and difficult condition characterised by intrusive thoughts which produce worry and the compulsive desire to carry out repetitive behaviours aimed... (more)
The Handbook of Forensic Psychopathology and Treatment
The Handbook of Forensic Psychopathology and Treatment explores the relationship between psychopathology and criminal behaviour in juveniles and adults. It provides a detailed explanation of the... (more)
Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy
The best therapists embody the changes they attempt to facilitate in their patients. In other words, they practice what they preach and are an authentic and engaged, as well as highly skilled,... (more)
Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy
In recent years, there has been a drive to develop briefer and more focal psychodynamic interventions, with the hope of satisfying the ever-increasing need for mental health support. This book... (more)
When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy: Creative Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Relationships
Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from... (more)
Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual: Third Edition
Sandtray Therapy is an essential book for professionals and students interested in incorporating this unique modality into work with clients of all ages. The third edition includes information on... (more)
An Integrated Approach to Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide
Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy is an integrated, trauma-informed, contemporary, dynamic way of working with a range of mental health difficulties. Flexible though structured,... (more)
The Therapeutic Imagination: Using Literature to Deepen Psychodynamic Understanding and Enhance Empathy
Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while... (more)