Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Principles and Practice

A method for identifying the psychological and interpersonal self-protective attachment strategies of adults.

An accurate description of the problems associated with personality disorders can lead to psychotherapists providing better treatment for their patients, alleviating some of the difficulties associated with handling such disorders. The authors draw on existing therapeutic approaches and concepts to offer a treatment model for dealing with personality disorders.

Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders clearly discusses the models for different types of personality disorder, along with general treatment principles, focusing on:

• principles for identifying and classifying types of disorder
• theoretical analyses that are characteristic of each type
• practical therapeutic principals that are grounded in the basic theory.

The language is clinician-friendly and the therapeutic model is illustrated with clinical cases and session transcripts making this title essential reading for psychotherapists, personality disorder researchers and cognitive scientists as well as professionals with an interest in personality disorders.

Matching the Integrative Treatment Plan to the Client, Second Edition

"[Barbara Ingram has put] a career into the development of this book and it is wonderful! My students love that it was written with them in mind and they love the statements designed to reduce anxiety and normalize the learning process. This is an excellent book!"—Amy M. Rees-Turyn, PhD Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, Lewis & Clark College

A step-by-step model for individualized case conceptualization

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Clinical Case Formulations provides step-by-step tools and insightful guidance for moving from first contact with a client to the development of an effective, personalized treatment plan. Addressing the essential question every therapist faces—How do I create a treatment plan that is the best match for my client?—this unique resource provides a systematic and thoughtful method for integrating ideas, skills, and techniques from different theoretical approaches. It combines empirical research and clinical experience to create a case formulation that is tailor-made for the client.

This comprehensive resource offers two tools to guide case formulations: a problem-oriented framework, with a list of 28 standards for evaluating its application, and a set of 30 core clinical hypotheses derived from the knowledge bases of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and social work professions.

The new edition includes:

• Hypotheses on Emotional Focus, Trauma, and Metacognitive Perspective

• More detailed attention given to empirically supported therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Discussion on the importance of bringing cultural competence to case formulation tasks with every client

• Skill-building activities throughout the text

A New Standard, NonCognitive Psychotherapy¾advancing mood management by Russell Hoover, Licensed Psychologist, explains both the need for a new approach to psychotherapy as well as its application to a wide range of psychological disorders including panic attacks, compulsive drug use, depression, and stress related disorders. Among its many innovative features NonCognitive Psychotherapy:

· Offers a quick, practical, and effective method of alleviating mood without assailing your values, loyalties, or degree of sensibility.

· Discusses some never-before-revealed features of your mental makeup that control the nature of emotional unrest and that shape the nature of obsessive-compulsive behavior.

· Emphasizes the importance of user-friendliness and non-confrontation in effective therapeutic management and prevention.

· Analyzes the consequences of various modern-day misconceptions regarding psychic unrest¾called therapeutic pretenses, and their effects on those receiving treatment.

· Reveals how to apply NonCognitive Psychotherapy to a variety situations through the use of case study, unedited transcripts of actual sessions, and humorous anecdote.

This book offers a practical, step-by-step guide to the technique of psychodynamic psychotherapy, with instruction on listening, reflecting, and intervening. It will systematically take the reader from evaluation to termination using straightforward language and carefully annotated examples. Written by experienced educators and based on a tried and tested syllabus, this book provides clinically relevant and accessible aspects of theories of treatment processes. The workbook style exercises in this book allow readers to practice what they learn in each section and more “actively” learn as they read the book.

This book will teach you:

• About psychodynamic psychotherapy and some of the ways it is hypothesized to work
• How to evaluate patients for psychodynamic psychotherapy, including assessment of ego function and defenses
• The essentials for beginning the treatment, including fostering the therapeutic alliance, setting the frame, and setting goals
• A systematic way for listening to patients, reflecting on what you've heard, and making choices about how and what to say
• How to apply the Listen/Reflect/Intervene method to the essential elements of psychodynamic technique
• How these techniques are used to address problems with self esteem, relationships with others, characteristic ways of adapting, and other ego functions
• Ways in which technique shifts over time

This book presents complex concepts in a clear way that will be approachable for all readers. It is an invaluable guide for psychiatry residents, psychology students, and social work students, but also offers practicing clinicians in these areas a new way to think about psychodynamic psychotherapy. The practical approach and guided exercises make this an exceptional tool for psychotherapy educators teaching all levels of learners.