Counseling Arena

Tackling Depression at Work

A Practical Guide for Employees and Managers

• By Gordon Parker AO, and Kerrie Eyers.

Published November 2010

If you have depression, do you persevere or do you risk telling your manager? If you are a manager, what can you do to support the employee and ensure the job is done? Figures suggest that more than ten per cent of people in the workforce struggle with depression. Both employees and their managers…
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Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents

Theory and Clinical Interventions

• Edited by Sandra Wieland.

Published November 2010

Over the last decade, the literature on therapy addressing trauma in children has expanded considerably, as has the literature on dissociation. Unfortunately, very little of this literature has addressed the issue of dissociation in children. At the same time, therapists working with children and…
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Developmental Coaching

Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives

• Edited by Stephen Palmer, and Sheila Panchal.

Published November 2010

Developmental Coaching explores many of the common transition points we experience throughout life, including teenage transitions, becoming a parent, mid-life and retirement. This coaching book sets these transitions in their social context and reviews them in the light of generational factors.…
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How to Talk to a Borderline

• By Joan Lachkar.

Published November 2010

In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding of BPD by outlining eight different kinds of borderline personality disorders and how each of these…
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Counseling Older Adults

• By John Blando.

Published November 2010

Counseling older adults is not equivalent to counseling the general population, and specialized skills and knowledge, as well as sensitivity to the contexts in which older adults live, are essential in working successfully with this population. This book provides an introduction to gerontological…
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The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams

Family and Other Relationship Systems Perspectives

• By Evelyn Duesbury.

Published November 2010

This book will serve as a guide for practicing counselors and therapists to facilitate work with their clients interpreting their dreams in order to reduce and alleviate stress, with a focus on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she…
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Duped

Lies and Deception in Psychotherapy

• Edited by Jeffrey A Kottler, and Jon Carlson.

Published October 2010

In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room. What do clients lie about, and why? When do therapists mislead or withhold information from their clients?…
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Integrative Therapy

100 Key Points and Techniques

• By Maria Gilbert, and Vanja Orlans.

Published October 2010

Integrative Therapy is a unifying approach that brings together physiological, affective, cognitive, contextual and behavioural systems, creating a multi-dimensional relational framework that can be created anew for each individual case. Integrative Therapy: 100 Key Points & Techniques…
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Grief After Suicide

Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors

• Edited by John R. Jordan, and John L. McIntosh.

Published October 2010

There are over 30,000 suicide deaths each year in the United States alone, and the numbers in other countries suggest that suicide as a cause of death will be around for the foreseeable future. A suicide leaves behind more victims than just the individual, as family, friends,…
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Bringing Systems Thinking to Life

Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory

• Edited by Ona Cohn Bregman, and Charles White.

Published October 2010

In a single volume, Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory presents the extraordinary diversity and breadth of Bowen theory applications that address human functioning in various relationship systems across a broad spectrum of professions,…
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