Alan A. Cavaiola

In Toxic Coworkers, the authors pinpoint a variety of personality traits and disorders, showing how they come about and offering effective strategies for coping with them. They cover the range of familiar types, from hyperactives, histrionics, and sociopaths to narcissists and obsessive-compulsives and provide concrete techniques for surviving them. 12 charts.

How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job

Toxic Coworkers

Neil J. Lavender

Explain how to deal with someone that has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, whether it be at work, at home or some other unavoidable situation.

How to Deal with Perfectionist Coworkers, Controlling Spouses, and Other Incredibly Critical People

Impossible to Please

It can be extremely difficult to maintain a relationship with someone with NPD while keeping one's self-respect intact. This workbook is filled with strategies and exercises designed to teach readers to empower themselves and set firm boundaries with NPD sufferers without irreparably damaging the relationship. Readers learn the different ways narcissism can manifest itself in real-life situations, such as at work and in intimate relationships, and practice identifying NPD behavior. The communication skills, coping skills, and NPD information in this workbook comprise a complete toolkit for navigating narcissistic behavior in every area of life. Because it is virtually impossible to change the behavior of people with NPD, it's important for those who interact with them to arm themselves with skills for communicating and coping with these often frustrating behaviours. This workbook may also be used by psychotherapists seeking to supplement their counselling skills with techniques for dealing with the self-absorbed.

Step-by-step Help for Coping with Narcissists, Egotistical Lovers, Toxic Coworkers, and Others who are Incredibly Self-absorbed

The One-way Relationship Workbook

Joseph E. Colford

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crises. Drawing on over 25 years of relevant experience, authors Alan A. Cavaiola and Joseph E. Colford cover several different types of crises frequently encountered by professionals in medical, school, work, and community settings. Models for effectively managing these crises are presented along with the authors’ own step-by-step approach, the Listen–Assess–Plan–Commit (LAPC) model, giving students the freedom to select a model that best fits their personal style or a given crisis. Future mental health professionals will gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to help their clients manage the crises they will encounter in their day-to-day lives.

A Practical Guide

Crisis Intervention

Margaret Smith

A blend of theory and counseling techniques, this comprehensive text provides readers with an overview of several major counseling theories and their application to substance use disorders and addiction counseling, along with related techniques and interventions. Chapters incorporate cutting edge evidenced-based research on neuroscience, psychological and sociocultural theories explaining the biopsychosocial influences of substance use disorders, and examine how substance use disorder risk factors can be utilized when assessing someone who may have a substance use disorder. The text additionally helps apply theory to practice, offering intervention techniques and using accessible case studies. Throughout the text, highlighted learning opportunities and key terms further help students to practice and apply the theories, interventions and techniques that the book discusses. Mental health professionals, undergraduate and graduate students alike will benefit from this deft mix of prominent theory, innovative research and accessible case studies.

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