Lpc S: 9 books

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes. This highly practical volume elucidates the defining characteristics of 14 contemporary models, including their history,...

Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy Approach This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models—the strengths-based,...

Psychotherapist, artist, survival instructor, and author Rob Jacoby draws upon all four areas of his life and experience to offer us The Map to Love: How to Navigate the Art of the Heart, a lifegiving perspective on love, fulfillment, healing, and successfully navigating the complex human emotional landscape....

This text provides students of family therapy with a unique opportunity to understand and compare the inner workings of 14 traditional and non-traditional family therapy models. The book demonstrates, through innovative “guiding templates,” how the different therapeutic models are applied in an...

In Red Flag Relationships, author Debra S. Cole, MEd, LPC addresses the issue of warning signs in personal relationships, business relationships, and several other types of relationships in a straightforward manner. Cole offers the ultimate red flags that pose the most threat, as well as a four-step...

The Rules for Anxiety and Depression explores how Rules are created; how they are enforced; how they can get off track; and how we can create and enforce new Rules eliminating the feelings of Anxiety and Depression. Upon reading this book you will be able to create how you see yourself; how you see the world; and how you see yourself in the world.

When "because I'm the parent" meets "you're not the boss of me"... Good news: there are many ways to parent willful children without every­day clashes. Here parents learn how to capitalize on children's strengths and make bad days more manageable. Full of ideas and techniques,...

"[This book is] heavy in weight and heavy in substance...It may be that you will not read this book from cover to cover, but it is likely that you will jump in and out, and often."--Illness, Crisis, and Loss "[Lisa Lopez Levers's] work delivers an important contribution to enable...

Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and techniques, using rich case material to illustrate treatment of a wide range of difficulties. The...