Are you or a loved on experiencing a self destructive lifestyle?Many adults live a defeated, hopeless, self destructive life and the don't know why? They desire to have a more fruitful life, even a "normal" life, but they don't know how to attain it. Many even resort to delf destructive extremes because the lack of resolution and deep healing their heart needs.In this book, Millie McCarty walks people through a very effective, proven process (S.P.R.U.C.E.) that helps people...

Siblings Zola and Aleck are glad their cousin Cliff is with them on their family camping trip. He loves to climb trees, do backflips, and chase Aleck with Jack Rabbit close behind. But one day as Aleck rests in the grass, Zola happily jumps rope, and Jack Rabbit hops nearby, an unwelcome surprise changes everything. When Zola suddenly screams, Aleck, Cliff, and Jack Rabbit see a snake right next to her. As they jump into action, they must find ways to stay calm while still helping her. Thr...

Have you ever faced a major roadblock in your life? Have you questioned whether your "fight or flight" responses would get you through a crisis? This happened to the author, Brenda Abercrombie, when her counseling career ended, and retirement was looming. She felt as if she needed to learn to walk again. Her emotional crutches had served their purpose, but now, she had to learn to walk without crutches on a new path. With God as her divine counselor, she discovered the principles that woul...

Gaslighting is more than manipulation-it's the theft of your reality. It makes you doubt your choices, question your truth, and hand over your power to someone else. But here's the secret: gaslighting only works if you supply the fuel.Shutting Off the Gas to Gaslighting shows you how to stop feeding the cycle and reclaim your voice. With clarity, humor, and compassion, John Wheeler blends his expertise as a therapist with powerful energetic tools ...

Interweaves the perspectives of school counseling educators with those of practitioners in the trenchesThis foundational text for school counselors-in-training is the only book to have chapters coauthored by counselor educators and practicing school counselors. It delivers easily accessible information based on a scholarly foundation of best practice recommendations from the field and research-based, data-driven content, including school counselin...

This authoritative and comprehensive volume explains how to integrate movement, sound, art, play, imagery, drama, and other multisensory practices into psychotherapy. Cathy A. Malchiodi and other leading experts demonstrate ways to combine a wide range of expressive approaches to help clients explore feelings and thoughts that are often difficult to access verbally. Rich case examples illustrate what these modalities look like in action, providing readers with strategies t...

Offers useful strategies for creating rapport between the linear-focused DSM® and the circular causality approach of systems-oriented clinicians.With a focus on clinical applications, this unique textbook for students of diagnosis, family systems, counseling, and other mental health disciplines demonstrates how to use the DSM® to aid assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and intervention from a relational perspective. With detailed de...

Gaslighting is more than manipulation-it's the theft of your reality. It makes you doubt your choices, question your truth, and hand over your power to someone else. But here's the secret: gaslighting only works if you supply the fuel.Shutting Off the Gas to Gaslighting shows you how to stop feeding the cycle and reclaim your voice. With clarity, humor, and compassion, John Wheeler blends his expertise as a therapist with powerful energetic tools to guide you out of confusion and b...

In Trauma Made Simple, trauma expert Dr. Jamie Marich brings her practical style of training to audio, using clinical common sense to wade through theory, research, and hype surrounding trauma. Learn about trauma in a way that is relevant to clinical work, including extensive coverage on PTSD and other diagnoses through a bio-psycho-social-spiritual lens. Make clinically informed decisions based on setting, client preparedness, and other contextual variables. Develop strategies fo...

Providing a complete overview of art therapy, from theory and research to practical applications, this is the definitive handbook in the field. Leading practitioners demonstrate the nuts and bolts of arts-based intervention with children, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range of clinical issues. Rich with illustrative case material, the volume features 110 sample drawings and other artwork. The inclusion of diverse theoretical approaches and practice settings make...

Demonstrating the benefits of creative expression for patients living with acute or chronic illness, this volume provides a complete, practical introduction to medical art therapy. It presents evidence-based strategies for helping people of all ages--from young children to older adults--cope with physical and cognitive symptoms, reduce stress, and improve their quality of life. The book includes detailed case material and 110 illustrations. It describes ways to work with individuals and gr...

"[This book is] heavy in weight and heavy in substance...It may be that you will not read this book from cover to cover, but it is likely that you will jump in and out, and often."--Illness, Crisis, and Loss"[Lisa Lopez Levers's] work delivers an important contribution to enable beginning professionals to be familiarised with the basics of trauma and to provide specialists with her hidden gems of insight. Her decision to cover trauma, in its broadest sense, allows ...