Amy Wenzel

Pamela A. Hays

Keith S. Dobson

Three master therapists give therapists a rich understanding of the methods, approaches, and ideas that drive modern CBT, and illustrate these principles with hypothetical client cases.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies

This book presents a four-step process for overcoming negative thinking and building well-being. Each chapter demonstrates how taking small, manageable steps adds up, over time, to real and permanent change.

Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life

Creating Well-Being

Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Pamela A. Hays’ Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper’s Toolkit provides both students and professionals in health care and social service with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with their clients and with the community at large. The book provides practical, hands-on strategies for connecting with people across differences related to ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, and class. Since cross-cultural relationships add a level of difficulty to all the usual relationship challenges, this book will be applicable for almost every relationship you may encounter.

The Helper's Toolkit

Connecting Across Cultures

In an increasingly diverse society, psychotherapists must be able to work effectively with a wide variety of clients, each of whom has been shaped by a different mix of cultural and social influences. Pamela Hays' popular bestseller invites readers to move beyond a one-dimensional view of identity to a nuanced understanding of the factors that enable therapist and client to interact productively. Her ""ADDRESSING"" framework encompasses Age and generational influences Developmental or other Disability Religion and spirituality Ethnic and racial identity Socioeconomic status Sexual orientation Indigenous heritage National origin Gender The book discusses cultural considerations as therapists typically encounter them, that is, during the chronological flow of clinical work. The author's integrated approach, grounded in the research literature, considers the complexities of real-life clinical practice. In this new edition, readers will find up-to-date information on the DSM-5, ICD-10, and upcoming ICD-11, as well as new sections on working with people in poverty, children, and transgender people; trauma-informed care; and the applications of mindfulness. The practical suggestions and tools in this book apply to assessment, testing, diagnosis, and psychotherapy and are illustrated with a rich variety of case examples. Each chapter ends with a Key Ideas summary and a Practice Exercise that can be used in education and supervision.

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