Klinisk psykologi

Eating disorders involve complex psychological processes linked to self-worth that may challenge many mental health and allied practitioners, no matter how experienced. It is a topic little taught in clinical practice, and much of the information on the subject can seem contradictory or even inaccurate. Yet it is vital when working with such a client to have a solid understanding of what helps people improve their relationship with food and feel good about their bodies and themselves.Based on extensive clinical experience and the latest evidence base, this new work from noted eating disorder specialist Dr Vivienne Lewis supports mental health practitioners who may be unsure how best to handle the issue in their daily practice. Throughout the book, clients' voices shine through in numerous brief real-life stories, illustrating the personal and practical impacts of eating disorders and successful recovery. It is relevant for psychologists, counsellors, nurses, youth workers, psychiatrists, doctors, dieticians and trainees and includes sections on:¿ Understanding complex client presentations.¿ Challenging common myths about eating disorders.¿ Structuring therapeutic sessions.¿ Motivating clients to change.¿ The importance of supervision.Clinical psychologist Dr Vivienne Lewis has spent more than 20 years in private practice and academia, specialising in treating people with eating disorders and training other health professionals. Her knowledge, skills and compassion have helped children, young people, and adults face and defeat the destructive mental and physical effects of eating disorders and improve body image. Vivienne knows the professional challenges of working with these clients well but also understands the reward for practitioners is seeing someone who is very unwell go on to live a healthy and fulfilling life.

This book explores the various applications of systemic understanding in practice. Each chapter covers diverse working contexts and existential life dilemmas, tackling subjects such as: systemic work with individuals, single session family therapy, experiences of adult longing, the therapeutic relationship as a form of love, working systemically with experiences of marginalisation, cultural difference and diversity, the integration of recent neuroscience developments with systemic therapy with couples, the role of forgiveness and the spiritual dimension in therapy. Throughout, this book promotes hope by presenting new horizons and providing room for reflection on uncertainty, change, opportunities, inter-connections and differences. Theoretical expansion of these existential issues lies both at the heart of systemic work and on the leading edge of research and theory-practice linking, showing how the integration of research with new developments across the broader fieldsof psychotherapy and counselling can be held within a systemic relational umbrella.

Clients enter therapy grappling with a range of difficulties. They don't speak in diagnostic terms, but instead focus on the everyday problems that confront them. Their struggles may include isolation, loneliness, anxiety, guilt and regret, and problems making decisions in a world that offers seemingly endless choice. In contrast, the cognitive-behavior therapist is trained in the language of conditioning and extinction, avoidance and safety behaviors, behavioral activation and attentional biases. This book explores the ideas of the existentialist philosophers as a bridge between the suffering client and technically trained clinician. The volume is not a rejection of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), but seeks to place CBT in the broader context of the most popular philosophic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Therapists versed in existentialism argue that the individual's starting point is characterized by a sense of disorientation in the face of an apparently meaningless and absurd world. Each individual must become solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and authentically. Each of us must confront the 'Big 5' existential issues of death, isolation, identity, freedom and meaning and find our solutions to these problems. The present volume explores each of these existential themes in turn. Each section opens with a theoretical chapter describing the relevant existential dilemma and its impact on human experience. The second chapter in each section explores its relationship to mental health disorders and psychopathology. The third chapter in each section explores the evidence for treating the existential issue from a CBT framework. This book will be of value to those interested in CBT, philosophy and mental health, and will appeal to psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.

The Co-Regulation Revolution, from master somatic psychotherapist and author Beth Dennison, is both co-regulation theory and applied psychology (simple practices to use right away). It is the latest work in her life-long study of shame, healthy relationships, embodiment, and clinical trauma work.In therapy and in life, we can rewire our nervous systems for mutual regulation (co-regulation). This is essential for authentic, embodied relating, healing PTSD, effective collaboration, and building our capacity for social justice.With The Co-Regulation Revolution and Body Up Co-Regulation, Beth gives practitioners clear maps and concrete tools to: ¿ Heal from shame and developmental trauma with safe, appropriate, embodied connection.¿ Build greater capacity for co-regulation and resilience at the nervous system level. ¿ Replace compulsive competition for status on the ladder of white supremacy culture with healthy, peer relationships. ¿ Prevent burnout - because co-regulation is only co-regulation when it is good for both people. Body Up Co-Regulation (BCR) draws from interpersonal neurobiology, Somatic Experiencing, trauma healing, Bodynamics, peer counseling, and yoga. The practices are therapeutic, diagnostic, and regulatory. What could be a better therapeutic outcome than teaching clients to have relationships that nourish both people? How much more will you thrive in your practice when your client relationships are good for you, too?Interpersonal neurobiology and polyvagal theory have brought profound insights into psychology and psychotherapy regarding how essential our relationships are, including our own somatic body/mind relationship. As therapists, social workers, leaders, and teachers - we are positioned to help people build healthy, collaborative relationships that support social justice work and help heal attachment issues and complex PTSD. Clinical practitioners who train in Body Up Co-regulation find the work to be: "simple and powerful," "brilliant and uplifting," "invaluable for authentic communication," "safe and non-judgmental," and "incredibly helpful in a variety of real-life situations."Reading this book can orient you to a whole new way of relating and doing therapy. Practicing the exercises will change your patterns of relating. Training in BCR is a deep dive into the subtle and potent world of working nervous system to nervous system.In BCR practice, one person leads, and one mirrors, in a simple 1-2-minute exercise. They speak about their experience and then switch roles. This cultivates our capacity for peer relating and embodiment in relational space. It sounds simple, yet the layers of somatic learning and mutual regulation pave the way for a Co-Regulation Revolution - a cumulative, profound change in how we live and relate, together.

"e;Being in control of your mental health and understanding your own mental health wellbeing just makes everything in life better - it's that simple."e; From the heart and soul of Adam Shaw, who battled OCD for decades, and the expert insight of his psychologist, Lauren Callaghan, comes the definitive recovery guide for OCD, anxiety, and related depression. This unique self-help book brings you advice and recovery tools from the separate perspectives of a leading psychologist and her patient, and gives an insight into mental health recovery and CBT techniques that you can really relate to.This second edition contains a bonus chapter on how Adam has used this approach to maintain his recovery and wellness several years on.

Supporting anxious kids means empowering anxious parents. Clinical psychologist Dr. Steve O'Brien knows firsthand how challenging, even overpowering, it can be when a child presents with anxiety. So often, their struggles send a ripple effect that disrupts the entire family system. In The Essential Guide to Treating Child and Adolescent Anxiety, clinicians will find an integrative, whole-family approach for treating the most common anxiety-related issues in childhood, including school fears, social anxiety, excessive worry, separation anxiety, and more. Drawing from cognitive behavioral, family systems, and client-centered therapies, this book provides over 75 handouts, worksheets, scripts, and tips to help you navigate the most common treatment obstacles so you can empower anxious children and their parents to live healthier, happier lives. You'll learn how to: - Navigate the initial session and build rapport with parents - Provide child-friendly psychoeducation on anxiety - Assist families in developing healthier habits to decrease household stress - Provide intensive parent consultation - Break the anxiety-reassurance-repeat cycle - Use the 3 R's (recognize, relax, redirect) of anxiety management - Reframe how parents and teachers think about "misbehavior" - And more!

In the DBT, CBT, and Play Therapy Toolbox, you'll find over 200 ready-to-use worksheets and activities designed to help kids and adolescents build social-emotional skills, develop greater insight, and process their struggles in a playful yet therapeutic manner. Drawing from the best of DBT, CBT, and play therapy, it includes step-by-step instructions and variation options based on age and developmental level, allowing you to flexibly and creatively address the often unpredictable challenges that kids face today. Whether you're a therapist, teacher, social worker, school counselor, or parent, this all-in-one resource will allow you to navigate a range of issues, from the common to the not-so-common, including: - Anxiety and worry - Uncomfortable thoughts and feelings - Loss, trauma, and grief - Anger, impulsivity, and self-harm - Lack of motivation, disorganization, and distractibility - Questions about sexuality, body image, and consent - Low self-esteem - Difficult life transitions, family dynamics, and divorce - Boundaries and healthy relationships - Technology and social media - Injustice and inequality - And more!

Dieses Sachbuch widmet sich der Frage, welchen Sinn Religiosität heute noch hat und wo Psychologen Warnschilder aufstellen. Religionen haben heutzutage ein janusköpfiges Gesicht: Einerseits sind sie für viele Menschen seelische Unterstützung und Hilfe (nicht nur) in Krisensituationen ¿ andererseits geschehen in ihrem Namen Selbstmordattentate und unter ihrem Deckmantel blüht(e) der sexuelle Missbrauch an Kindern. Religionen haben weltweit ihre Unschuld verloren. Aber was sind eigentlich Religionen? Wie sind sie entstanden? Wie haben sie sich im Laufe der Zeit verändert? Was sind die positiven Seiten der Religionen ¿ was die problematischen? Wo helfen sie und wo schaden sie? Wodurch unterscheiden sie sich ¿ und was ist ihnen gemeinsam? Aus dem Inhalt: Religionen: Welterklärungs- und Sinnsysteme, die sich (fast) immer für das einzig wahre, ewige und endgültige Erklärungssystem halten. ¿ Sie strukturieren diffus-subjektive innere Wahrheiten und unstrukturierte Situationen und versuchen Unbegreifliches begreifbar zu machen. ¿ Urvertrauen, Symbole, rituelle Handlungsweisen. ¿ Was sind spirituelle Erleuchtungserfahrungen? ¿ Ursprung aller Religionen ist die Angst, die Leere, das Sinnlose, der Tod. ¿ Religionen sind gute Führer in dunkler Nacht ¿ tagsüber sollte man sich besser auf die eigenen Augen verlassen. Über den Autor: Werner Gross, Dipl.-Psych., Psychotherapeut, Supervisor und Coach.

Dieses essential veranschaulicht Psychotherapeuten und Beratern die Bedeutung von Spiritualität für die Stärkung der persönlichen Resilienz. Wir leben in einer oftmals kräftezehrenden und schnelllebigen Zeit. Das 21. Jahrhundert begann mit einer Reihe Krisen von globalem Ausmaß: den Terroranschlägen von 9/11, der Finanzkrise, dem Klimawandel, der Coronapandemie und dem Ukrainekrieg. Viele Medien sind heute wahre Künstler in der Beschreibung misslingenden Lebens. Wer sich ständig mit negativen Nachrichten beschäftigt, läuft Gefahr, sein inneres seelisches Gleichgewicht zu verlieren. Er droht in eine von Trübsinn und Resignation geprägte Stimmung zu geraten. Der erfahrene Altenseelsorger und Logotherapeut Gerhard Sprakties zeigt auf, wie uns eine tiefe spirituelle Verankerung helfen kann, mit diesen Herausforderungen in konstruktiver Weise umzugehen.

The book presents a comprehensive and well-organized overview of the family-centered care approaches for child disability, and provides multi-professional contributions from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and rehabilitation science. The volume is divided into three main sections, that highlights the theoretical basis, research evidence, and clinical implications of the family-centered approach to child care. Active engagement of parents in the therapeutic and rehabilitative journey of their children with disability is key to the success of early interventions and their long-term benefits. Research and clinical experiences in healthcare services around the world suggest that early supportive programs may promote children¿s development at its best, with both clinical benefits and economic advantages for the healthcare system. This volume will appeal to a wide readership, from clinicians and researchers in child disability and rehabilitation, to students and professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and rehabilitation science.

This book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging fellow citizens in addressing broad-based health and social problems.

Now in a fourth edition, a comprehensive pocket-sized guide for the clinical assessment of neuropsychological and related syndromes and disorders.

This book invites readers to join a transtheoretical dialogue between the three authors about a holistic approach to treating personality disorders.

Recent advances in pharmacology and brain stimulation have led to the development of novel treatments for psychiatric disorders. These new advances have led to the development of a new subspecialty, Interventional Psychiatry. Interventional Psychiatry: Road to Novel Therapeutics reviews all specialized treatments including device-based interventions such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS). This book discusses the procedure-based pharmacologic interventions including ketamine infusion therapy and psychedelic therapies. Internationally contributed, this book outlines the state of the field, as well as implications for training and the role of the interventional psychiatrist in treatment teams.

"Trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, and mourning are all parts of the human experience, and Josh Fletcher's mission in life is to normalize the need to find a trusted professional with whom you can discuss all of life's scariest aspects. Through the lens of four of his patients--you'll share in their self-discovery and recovery as they untangle themselves from an all-too-familiar web of emotions. In between sessions, Fletcher struggles to balance his own well-being with that of his patients as details from his sometimes messy but always heartfelt personal life reveal that therapists aren't immune to getting tripped up by the same hurdles as the rest of us"--

¿Der Pathomechanismus von Long-/Post-Covid ist noch nicht endgültig geklärt, in ihrer Wirksamkeit ausreichend erprobte bzw. kurative Therapien stehen bisher nicht zur Verfügung.Die Differentialdiagnose zu psychischen Erkrankungen ist aufgrund der unspezifischen Symptomatik sowie des hohen Anteils psychischer Komorbiditäten oft schwierig. Psychiatrische und therapeutische Expertise sollte deshalb als Bestandteil der Diagnostik und des symptomatischen, interdisziplinären Behandlungskonzept bedacht werden. In diesem essential werden Diagnosekriterien, Möglichkeiten zur psychiatrischen Differentialdiagnostik sowie Ansatzpunkte zur psychotherapeutischen Behandlung bei Long-/Post-Covid dargestellt.

Change in Emotion and Mental Health provides conceptual, experimental, and methodological advances concerning the multiple roles of "change" in affective sciences, and also in developmental psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy, by adopting a focus on emotion and mental health. The volume is organized in three parts: 1) Fundamental mechanisms of change in emotion, 2) Developmental changes, and 3) Changes in psychotherapy. Each part includes five chapters on five functional domains: 1. Emotion awareness and understanding 2. Appraisal and reappraisal 3. Emotion regulation 4. Emotion memories 5. Emotion competencies and transformation

The book provides a comprehensive review of mental health in refugees by discussing its multiple dimensions, and analyzing epidemiology, etiology, and culturally adapted assessment and treatment. Key topics include why certain refugees cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, and the biological, psychological, and social processes underlying posttraumatic stress disorder, common mental disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders.The text examines topics such as complexities of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery for refugees. Furthermore, the roles of culture, social support, and mental health workers in the process of overcoming mental health problems in refugees are discussed. Together, the chapters provide an in-depth examination of the current understood causes, and impacts of mental health problems and treatment of refugees to inform future work in the field. The book gives its readers a solid basis for understanding mental health problems of refugees and sets out to present practitioners with a state-of-the-art summary of all the latest developments and practical guidance. Furthermore, this book provides the practitioner with instructions on how culturally adapted treatments can be used not only with adults, but also with children and young people to help the practitioner to prepare for working with this difficult client group. Drawing from a range of different fields of study, this text will appeal to readers across psychological, mental health, medical, and academic disciplines.

In DAS ANGELMAN-SYNDROM BESSER VERSTEHEN - Band 2 - ERWACHSENENELABEN MIT DEM ANGELMAN-SYNDROM geht die Autorin u.a. auf folgende Fragen ein: Wie entwickeln sich bei Menschen mit Angelman-Syndrom im Verlauf des Lebens Motorik, Kommunikation oder auch Epilepsie? Welche speziellen Überlegungen bezüglich der Medikation oder auch bei den Laborparametern sind von Bedeutung? Das Verhalten und das Lebensumfeld wie z.B. Familie, Tagesförderstätte oder auch Wohnheim sind ebenfalls wichtige Themen in diesem Buch.Der Autorin ist es ein großes Anliegen, das Wissen um das Angelman-Syndrom bekannter zu machen. Denn da dies Syndrom so selten ist (Häufigkeit von 1:20000 Geburten), hat kaum jemand außerhalb der betroffenen Familie Erfahrung mit diesem Thema. Dies vorliegende Buch baut auf dem Buch DAS ANGELMAN-SYNDROM BESSER VERSTEHEN / HANDBUCH FÜR ELTERN UND ANDERE FACHLEUTE auf und führt die hierin beschriebenen grundlegenden Details speziell für Erwachsene mit Angelman-Syndrom weiter aus. Wissenswerte Details aus Studien, die beruflichen und privaten Erfahrungen der Autorin, Berichte der Familien, viele Details aus allen Bereichen aus von den Familien zurückgesandten Fragebögen geben ein umfassendes Bild vom Erwachsenenleben mit Angelman-Syndrom, auch wenn nach wie vor noch nicht alle offenstehenden Fragen geklärt werden konnten.

Volunteering in Global Mental Health provides much-needed information, practical guidance and inspiration for mental health professionals embarking on global volunteering across different cultures. It provides the background theory and key principles to know when thinking about volunteering, so that volunteering can be done ethically, respectfully and collaboratively. The book then leads on to chapters that outline the practical aspects of preparation and implementation of a project, with key tips on avoiding common pitfalls. This section is followed by personal and inspiring lived field examples of volunteer and hosts' experiences of recent projects in locations such as Somaliland, Sudan, Kashmir and more. These bring to life the mutual benefits and learning potential of global volunteering. The book will help potential volunteers to understand the process, challenges and benefits of working with colleagues around the world, and inspire readers to undertake mental health volunteering globally.