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Dr. Rob Burkham and The Therapy Triangle ^{Top Rated}
This site is dedicated to helping therapy clients to understand the triangle of relationships involved in treatment between the therapist, client, and the client's family. It presents basic information to help clients understand the dynamics involved in psychotherapy. Featured on the site is the book, The Therapy Triangle: Empowering You with the Knowledge to Heal, which presents these ideas in depth; it is available for purchase as an ebook on the site. Dr. Burkham is a clinical psychologist with 25 years of experience doing psychotherapy and 20 years of experience supervising other therapists.
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Essentials of Private Practice ^{Top Rated}
Essentials of Private Practice: Streamlining Costs, Procedures, and Policies for Less Stress
Author: Holly A. Hunt, Ph.D.

This book offers mental health professionals a valuable resource in establishing and maintaining their practices. This highly useful information is not typically provided in graduate programs or continuing education courses. Practical suggestions will help practitioners achieve a successful practice by increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Three main strategies are emphasized: lowering overhead expenses, simplifying daily procedures, and implementing efficient client policies. Along with nuts-and bolts information on simplifying insurance paperwork, managing appointments, and handling billing, readers will learn how to keep more income, preserve their time and energy, and minimize stress in their day-to-day practice. These streamlining steps require less investment of resources compared to marketing efforts, and promote financial viability whether working full-time or part-time, seeing insured and/or self-pay clients. W.W. Norton & Co, 2005, $18.95, ISBN 0-393-70448-3.

Learn more about the book at the author's website: http://essentialsofprivatepractice.com/.
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Family Therapy and Mental Health Innovations in Theory and Practice, Edited by Malcolm M. MacFarlane, Haworth Press, 2001
This book explores the application of family therapy approaches to the treatment of a variety of mental health problems. A variety of treatment modalities are used with patients and their families to address these problems, including family psychoeducational approaches, the McMaster Model, cognitive behavioral family therapy, brief therapy, and systemic and narrative approaches. Each chapter of Family Therapy and Mental Health examines the gender and cultural issues that are relevant to the population and model it describes, and includes a case example. In addition, each chapter describes how the model is integrated with psychiatric services and examines the use of medication in each case. This volume presents a variety of family therapy approaches to conditions that include: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, suicide, and addictions. There are also complete chapters describing family therapy approaches to special issues such as: women and mental health, brain injury, and aging The text of Family Therapy and Mental Health: Innovations in Theory and Practice is written with a strong clinical focus and will be helpful and informative for frontline clinicians as well as students in graduate programs. The book's broad range, covering the mental health issues that clinicians typically encounter in the real world, ensures that they will find information they can use today and every day, and wisdom that students can carry with them through their careers.
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Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
Dolnick begins with a useful retread of the case against Freud himself, but his main argument is against a cherished principle of the master's followers. Freud always stuck to the idea that he was treating the psychological problems of the sane, but in the 1950s and 1960s, a much more grandiose idea emerged in psychiatric circles, the notion that "the talking cure" could sponge away madness itself.

One of the problems with this ambitious proposal was its vagueness. "Madness" could mean anything, including such different conditions as schizophrenia, autism, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. As Dolnick shows, analysts of various kinds had just two things in common: a systematic inability to do any good for patients with any of these conditions and a vast blindness, if not outright dishonesty, about that failure.

Like other critics of Freud's legacy, Dolnick is convinced that Freud-inspired analysis is guilty of doing its patients, and their families, great harm--by "explaining," for example, autism in terms of parental neglect. The section in Madness on the Couch on autism is especially good, concluding its discussion of all the things autism isn't (pace the wild and largely evidence-free surmises of therapists) with a balanced discussion of just how big a puzzle it still is.
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Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling ^{Top Rated}
The American Counseling Association announced immediate availability of the book Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling. Guaranteed to become a favorite among practitioners and counselor educators alike, Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling takes a highly effective model to a new level by helping clients identify and harness their existing strengths, resources, and problem-solving skills to promote positive change. Numerous case examples clearly illustrate using this approach throughout the therapeutic process with clients experiencing various problems, including depression, substance abuse, grief, suicidal behavior, trichotillomania, and schizophrenia. Visit the website to read an excerpt from the book.

Reviews

"Solution-focused counseling is the perfect approach for professional counselors. This practical book shows counselors how to base treatment on 'what works' and to de-emphasize problems. Read this book and learn to help your clients in this constructive way." — Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D., Distinguished Professor, Governors State University

"This volume puts it all together: rich theoretical resources, sound guidelines and rationale for effective practice, detailed case material, and a solid encounter with the hard cases. We owe to Jeffrey Guterman our deepest appreciation for a splendid contribution not only to the counseling profession but to the therapeutic community everywhere." — Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D., Professor, Swarthmore College

"Dr. Guterman has crafted a miraculous guide that will not only help counselors to practice more effectively, but may also change the way they see their clients and themselves....Guterman has all but ensured that the future of solution-focused counseling is bright and secure by inspiring counselors of today and tomorrow to encourage miracles, to embrace exceptions, and to help their clients create hopeful lives for themselves and others. — Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Professor, Nova Southeastern University
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Room for Change: Empowering Possibilities for Therapists and Clients
This book presents a well-organized, step-by-step description of how therapy unfolds from first contact to termination. This is an excellent introduction to the process of therapy, written by an eclectic therapist in an appealing manner. Divided into three sections, chapter titles include Languages of Possibility; Contact; Space; Know-How; and Change. For psychologists and counselors or anyone with an interest in the therapy process.
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The Center for Collaborative Psychology and Psychiatry
People who go into therapy frequently report good experiences where the patient feels understood and well-supported by the therapist, who uses his or her therapeutic skills to facilitate a discovery and healing process. But what if your therapy frustrates you? What if your therapist is off base and you don’t seem to be making progress? What happens if you can’t communicate with your therapist? Here are several tips for getting more out of your therapy by learning how to REALLY communicate with your therapist.
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The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy
The first book for mental health care providers and the public to lay out the tools necessary to create a positive mind set and live an affirming way of life. Learn how to separate positive reflections of your past from dark, destructive memories, and to reclaim and recreate the good feelings that went with these experiences. You don't need to be a therapist or be actively involved in this book. Dr. Holstein uses her own life, the stories of her clients and the stories she gathered from other women to weave an incredible fabric of truth around the human potential of all of us, and in particular women.
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