Therapeutic Journal Writing

An Introduction for Professionals

Kate Thompson

The author of this book guides the reader through developing journal writing to use as a therapeutic tool. The book includes advice on working with individuals, facilitating a therapeutic writing group, proposed clinical applications, practical techniques, useful journal prompts, exercises and case vignettes. more »

2010, Paperback: £17.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-690-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp

Keywords: arts therapies, counselling, creative therapies, creative writing as therapy, creativity, emotions, expressive therapies, families, grief, group psychotherapy, health care, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, occupational therapy, offenders, poetry, psychoanalysis, psychology, relationships, self esteem, self harm, sexual abuse, social care, social work, supervision, trauma

Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork for Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Virginia S. Cowen

Massage techniques are widely and effectively used in treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to address sensory issues, motor problems and touch receptivity. This book is the perfect resource to find a therapy - or combination of therapies - to suit the individual needs of each child. more »

2011, Paperback: £13.99/ $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84819-049-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 208pp

Keywords: alternative therapies, bodywork, children, energy work, health care, massage, occupational therapy, parenting, tuina

The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire

Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health

Edited by John Adlam, Anne Aiyegbusi, Pam Kleinot, Anna Motz and Christopher Scanlon

This groundbreaking book explores the psychodynamics and socio-politics of the forensic therapeutic milieu. Contributors describe the ethical, intellectual and emotional challenges of their work, providing readers with a theoretical and practical understanding of factors that help and hinder the development of effective therapeutic relationships. more »

2012, Paperback: £29.99/ $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-84905-258-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp

Keywords: addiction, anger management, anxiety, bullying, challenging behaviour, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, joint working, mental illness, offenders, probation, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, resilience, risk assessment, substance abuse, suicide, supervision, therapeutic communities, trauma, violence

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing

Writing Myself

Gillie Bolton

Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. more »

1999, Paperback: £17.95/ $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-599-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp

Keywords: creative writing as therapy, health care, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapeutic communities

Therapeutic Presence

Bridging Expression and Form

Edited by Arthur Robbins

In the therapeutic workplace, the interaction between patient and therapist is built upon cognitive, affective and expressive experiences. The contributors to this new book explore this interaction in depth, examining the concept of therapeutic presence, and the therapist's ability to maintain it. more »

1997, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-559-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 275pp

Keyword: interdisciplinary arts therapies

Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders

An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Edited by Anne Aiyegbusi and Jenifer Clarke-Moore

For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, the nurse-patient relationship can be emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders. more »

2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-949-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp

Keywords: forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, nursing, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, therapeutic communities

Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People

An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice

Susan Barton, Rudy Gonzalez and Patrick Tomlinson

This book provides a model of care for traumatized children, based on theory and practice experience pioneered at the Lighthouse Foundation, Australia. The authors explain the impact of trauma on child development, drawing on psychodynamic, attachment and neurobiological trauma theories. more »

2011, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-255-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: attachment, challenging behaviour, child development, child psychology, looked after children, mental health, residential care, social care, social work, teenagers, therapeutic communities, trauma

Therapeutic Voicework

Principles and Practice for the Use of Singing as a Therapy

Paul Newham

Based on Paul Newham's experience as a voice and movement therapist and on his work running the only professional training course in the psychotherapeutic use of singing currently accredited by the RSA, this book explores both the theory and practice behind the use of voice and singing in expressive arts therapy. more »

1997, Paperback: £39.99/ $69.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-361-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 592pp

Keywords: arts therapies, expressive therapies, music therapy, psychotherapy

The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness

Mary Sherrill Durham

Mary Sherrill Durham explores the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasies, and the granting or withholding of forgiveness, as they are manifested to the therapist during treatment. She also examines potential for the therapist/patient relationship to become a re-enactment of an abusive or controlling situation. more »

2000, Paperback: £29.99/ $47.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-815-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp

Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychotherapy

Therapy To Go

Gourmet Fast Food Handouts for Working with Adult Clients

Clare Rosoman

This convenient collection of handouts provides a wide range of ready-made activities for all kinds of therapists working on a professional level with adult clients. The fully-photocopiable activities within this book provide creative approaches to a variety of presenting problems and can be used to complement or expand upon a client's treatment. more »

2008, Paperback: £35.00/ $55.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-642-5, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 288pp

Keywords: adults, counselling, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social work

Therapy To Go

Gourmet Fast Food Handouts for Working with Child, Adolescent and Family Clients

Clare Rosoman

This convenient collection of handouts provides a range of activities for all kinds of therapists working on a professional level with child and adolescent clients and their families. The fully-photocopiable handouts provide creative approaches to a variety of problems, and can be used to complement or expand upon a young client's treatment plan. more »

2008, Paperback: £29.99/ $55.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-643-2, 279.4mm x 216mm / 11in x 8.5in, 264pp

Keywords: adolescence, children, counselling, families, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social work

Thinking About Institutions

Milieux and Madness

R.D. Hinshelwood

In this book R.D. Hinshelwood discusses the interplay between the internal world of individuals and the external world, and how they have arisen from a psychoanalytic understanding of the human unconscious. Documenting how a therapeutic community functions, this text contributes to understanding how people can be influenced by their social setting. more »

2001, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-954-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp

Keywords: mental health, therapeutic communities

Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures

Social, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Edited by Eric Blyth and Ruth Landau

This is a comprehensive guide to the place of third party assisted conception within health care provision, drawing on ethical and religious standpoints as well as political and economic factors. Blyth and Landau have brought together contributors to consider the social, legal and ethical aspects of assisted conception in thirteen countries. more »

2003, Paperback: £23.99/ $38.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-084-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp 2003, Hardback: £55.00/ $99.00
ISBN: 978-1-84310-085-0, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp

Keywords: adoption, fostering, infertility

Thirteen Movements to Stretch the Body and Make it More Supple, and Guiding and Harmonising Energy to Regulate the Breath

Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Foundation Sequences 2

Zhang Guangde

This is the second volume in Professor Zhang Guangde's foundation Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong sequences, and the movements described synchronize breathing and concentration by enhancing the body's flow of blood and energy to achieve higher levels of physical and mental agility. more »

2011, Paperback: £17.99/ $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-84819-071-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 112pp

Keywords: chi kung, Chinese medicine, qigong

Through the Eyes of Aliens

A Book about Autistic People

Jasmine Lee O'Neill

This is a positive description of how it feels to be autistic and how friends, family and professionals can be more sensitive to the needs of autistic people. Lee O'Neill perceives the imagination and keenly-felt sensory world of the autistic person as gifts. She challenges the reader to accept their difference and celebrate their uniqueness. more »

1998, Paperback: £15.99/ $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-85302-710-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp

Keywords: augmentative communication, autism, child psychology, children, occupational therapy, psychology, speech and language therapy

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