Richard Holloway

Ian Harrison

Bruce A. Stevens

Brice Avery

'Churches and How to Survive Them' takes as its starting point the hypothesis that most people have a problem with the Church.

Churches and how to Survive Them

The Storied Self introduces new insights from narrative gerontology into the spiritual care of the aged. We are multistoried with the challenge of authoring a deep story from our hidden story, lazy story, trauma story, messy story, body story, problem story and dark story.

A Narrative Approach to the Spiritual Care of the Aged

The Storied Self

Eckhard Roediger

Robert Brockman

Schema therapy is a highly effective treatment for a number of mental health issues, including difficult-to-treat personality disorders. In this groundbreaking book, three internationally recognized psychologists present a step-by-step guide outlining the most up-to-date innovations in schema therapy (ST). This important book offers a clear and practical road map for putting the schema mode model into practice, improving clients' interpersonal functioning, and integrates the latest advances in contextual behavioral psychology.

An Integrative Approach to Personality Disorder, Emotional Dysregulation and Interpersonal Functioning

Schema Therapy

Chiara Di Francesco

Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

"Represents the first practitioner guide to detail effective Schema Therapy techniques in couple and relationship therapy"--

A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships

Schema Therapy with Couples

In this groundbreaking book, three internationally recognized psychologists present a step-by-step guide outlining the most up-to-date innovations in schema therapy (ST). This important book offers a clear and practical road map for putting the schema mode model into practice, improving clients' interpersonal functioning, and integrates the latest advances in contextual behavioral psychology. ST is a powerful, integrative treatment model that combines aspects of cognitive, behavioral, and psychodynamic therapies. It has proven highly effective in treating a number of mental health issues, including difficult-to-treat personality disorders. ST’s main premise is that mental health issues arise as a result of unmet emotional needs in childhood, leading to the development of early maladaptive schemas (EMS). But, more and more, ST has shifted away from EMS to focus on schema content—that is, changing the way clients relate to their experiences and to others. This book incorporates the latest findings in contextual behavioral science with a focus on clients’ coping styles—or schema modes—and improving interpersonal functioning. The book includes exercises from compassion-focused therapies, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and even functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) to help your clients become more aware of their own unhealthy coping patterns and behaviors. You’ll also discover a range of emotion-focused and experiential techniques to use in therapy with your client.

An Integrative Approach to Personality Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation, and Interpersonal Functioning

Contextual Schema Therapy

Schema Therapy (ST) was developed to treat patients with complex disorders, especially personality disorders, with a powerful new set of interventions. Personality disorders, as well as more general problems stemming from early experience and addressed by schema therapy, are a key factor in many disturbed relationships, and as a result ST is now increasingly used for couples work. By dealing effectively with the past, ST offers a unique way to approach and address present difficulties in relationships, Couples who understand their individual patterns of thinking and behavior tend to find that their relationships make much more sense. Breaking Negative Relationship Patterns is a readable, practical resource containing a wealth of self-help exercises that schema therapists can recommend or give to their patients. It is the ideal resource for couples undergoing schema therapy, ­and can also serve as an accessible self-help guide for those experiencing relationship difficulties. The authors offer a complete ST-based model for understanding complex personal problems, along with couple-specific adaptations of core ST interventions such as limited reparenting, imagery re-scripting and behavioral pattern breaking.

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