"Everyone expects me to have goals for the future. I'm just struggling to survive each day." - Client with BPD Such is the struggle of persons with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) who are plagued by chronic urges to harm themselves, overwhelming emotions, impulsivity, and problematic relationships. For these individuals every day, and sometimes, every moment, can be a struggle to get through. The tasks of daily life which most people seem to handle with minimal discomfort, leave the Borderline client feeling confused, overwhelmed, and inadequate. Further, chronic urges to mutilate or kill themselves place them at high risk of hospitalization or even death. Borderline Personality Disorder: Struggling, Understanding, Succeeding is an easy to understand must read for clinicians of all backgrounds. The title not only describes the process of recovering, but also the process care providers must go through to live with and treat BPD. The struggling client with BPD must learn to understand her behavior in order to change it. Likewise, the struggling clinician must learn to understand the Borderline client before they will be able to provide successful interventions. Struggling, Understanding, Succeeding describes the struggles facing clients with Borderline Personality Disorder as well as the professionals and loved ones caring for them. Dr. Warner argues that by understanding these individual’s behaviors and changing our negative ways of thinking about them, we can become more satisfied and successful in our work. In down to earth language with practical examples, this book provides an overview of the current knowledge base regarding Borderline Personality Disorder and an introduction to the concepts of Dialectic Behavioral Therapy. Concrete strategies are described for assessing and intervening with clients who self injure along with a list of "Things to Try Instead of Hurting Yourself." If you don’t have hours to pour over research articles and textbooks, this book will summarize them for you and translate them into real world strategies.

Borderline Personality Disorder: Struggling, Understanding, Succeeding

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Colleen E. Warner Psy.D.

Mental Health

Premier Publishing & Media

Collaborative Healing contains pages of successful approaches to working with survivors of sexual abuse. This comprehensive text is full of strategies, interventions, and useful techniques written specifically for those who work with sexual abuse survivors on a regular basis clinician, but is helpful to anyone in the helping professions. You will be able to utilize these hands-on techniques and quickly and easily implement them into work. The authors have included case examples from and these observations will offer new strategies to add to your professional "tool kit" of interventions. If you are looking for a text that offers easy to follow, practical approaches to working with survivors of sexual abuse, then this resource will be a welcome addition to your library.

Collaborative Healing: A Shorter Therapy Approach for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Mark Hirschfeld LCSW-C BCD

Jill B. Cody MA

Do you have clients who are in the cycle of dieting and self-sabotage? Have you been stuck helping a client with body image and/or disordered eating? Do you need tools, worksheets and handouts to assist you with clients with disordered eating? This workbook is a must have for every clinician. Jenny Craig, LCSW, BCD has put together a must read for professionals working with clients who struggle with body image or disordered eating. This book contains over one hundred ideas, strategies, techniques, assessments and interventions in the form of informative handouts, insightful case studies and easy-to-use worksheets available for immediate use. This treasure chest of worksheets and strategies is useful for all age levels and stages of disordered eating. The number of clients experiencing problems associated with obesity, eating disorders and body image is continuing to grow, and all mental health professionals need effective tools now more than ever.

Weighing Your Options: A Guided Workbook For Body Image and Disordered Eating

Jennifer Craig LCSW BCD

Diets & Weight Loss

With the tremendous growth in helpful medications in psychiatry, we have come to expect, with the full support of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, that a pill alone is necessary and sufficient to handle complex psychiatric problems. This has sometimes had the inadvertent effect of fostering a kind of dependency on the part of psychiatric patients, a separation of the person afflicted with a mental disease from the treatment of the disease. Over reliance on the medical model can diminish the human part and responsibility for recovery and even lessen the depth and longevity of that recovery.This is a book about the part of mental health treatment of severly disabled people with mental illness that is not the province of prescribing physicians. It is about the part of treatment that focuses on the effects of mental illness on patients and their families and on their social network. It is about therapy. It is about getting in, the process of entering the world of our clients while maintaining our professional objectivity.

Why Should I Trust You?

James R. Reynolds CRC NCC

In this book, clinician and educator Terry Fralich offers a practical approach to understanding mindfulness and integrating it into your life. Cultivating lasting happiness can be through of as developing the awareness and skills to minimize suffering and maximize positive states so that our overall well-being, or happiness, is more stable. This can be a reality for you - whatever your life circumstances are at the moment. The "seven steps to mindfulness" explored extensively in the book will provide you with an integrated approach to creating the lasting happiness you deserve. With the insights, case examples, exercises, meditations and practice guides clearly presented by the author, you will have the opportunity to weave the seven steps into a beautiful tapestry that supports living in a more mindful, creative and joyful way.

Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide To Mindfulness

Terry Fralich LCPC

Clinicians face many challenges in working with today's youth. Anxiety, worry, fear, depression, mutilating and self-defeating behaviors affect many children and adolescents. Actual clinical practice has shown that Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills can be adapted to provide efficacious treatment for these problems in young people. This book is designed to offer Linehan's DBT theoretical orientation and specific worksheets that can be used in a variety of clinical settings in a hands-on manner. This practical approach has something to offer for all types of mental health workers.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Children & Adolescents

Connie Callahan Ph.D. LPCC LMFT

This guidebook is meant for men and women with addictive histories who feel ready to discover ways to create satisfying, non-using lives. Appropriate for in-patient and out-patient settings or aftercare and sober living programs, it offers genuine encouragement and a practical "step by step" method for you to sort through your damaged feelings and mixed-up thoughts to discover your TRUE YOU...your real, healthy self that existed before you used. It will serve as the anchor for your authentic life of sobriety. This guidebook deals candidly with the common doubts and frequent negative thoughts persons in early sobriety experience while re-defining and re-building their lives after addiction. Discover new and productive ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. This guidebook is your companion manual and "map" for charting an exciting inner journey to lifelong, joyful, relapse-free recovery. For the Therapist and Counselor: Utilize the material in this book as: * The basis of a multi-week aftercare course, with built-in homework assignments. * The foundation of a lengthier curriculum for clients and family members in extended care and residential programs. * A modular, "non-linear" approach to regular group therapy. * Individualized counseling ideas intended to rebuild a client's life.

The Roadmap to Lifelong Recovery

John Howard Prin LADC

Alternative Medicine

Depression in Children &amp; Adolescents provides clinicians with challenges due to the various facets of the course depression runs and the different manifestations it takes with youth. This book examines incidence rates, diagnostic and statistical categories, best practice guidelines, and practical treatment interventions for depressive disorders relating to children and adolescents. It is designed to offer specific interventions and practical worksheets that can be used in a variety of clinical settings in a hands-on manner, and will provide presenting symptoms of depression in youth and interventions to help reduce or eliminate these symptoms. There are interventions for different ages and most symptoms of depression in young people. This is the book that will have a profound difference in the lives of children, adolescents, and their parents.

Treatment of Depression in Children & Adolescents

Compassion Fatigue is secondary traumatic stress and is pervasive among professional and family caregivers. It is physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual exhaustion that can result from absorbing and internalizing the pain and suffering of the people you care for. It can also be triggered from constant exposure to the sounds and images of suffering or trauma, or the threats of war and terrorism. Transform Compassion Fatigue: How to Use Movement and Breath to Change Your Life is your guide to specific, real-life solutions to address Compassion Fatigue. The first half of the book addresses how secondary trauma is absorbed and internalized into the body and mind, leaving you exhausted, burned out and depressed. The second half of the book introduces, explains and illustrates the practice of FlowMotion(TM). Based on Qigong, an ancient Chinese martial art used to harmonize breath, energy and movement, FlowMotion(TM) provides real and immediate relief from the exhaustion of compassion fatigue so that you feel better now.

Transform Compassion Fatigue: How to Use Movement & Breath to Change Your Life

Karl LaRowe MA LCSW

Now in its second edition, You Can Think Like A Psychiatrist was written for anyone interested in increasing their understanding of mental health disorders and their treatment. With over twenty years of experience treating patients and educating other doctors, author Leslie Lundt, M.D., has been able to translate the latest scientific knowledge into practical concepts and usable information. Dr. Lundt knows that the best outcomes result when patients communicate effectively with their doctor so that both patient and doctor can make more informed decisions. You - or someone you care about - may already be seeing a physician for help in dealing with problems arising from feelings and emotions or may just be considering the options. This book can help you each step of the way. Important points you will learn: * Basic concepts about how the brain works * Ways that drugs interact with the brain's chemistry * How some commonly used drugs work to help specific mental disorders * Other options, including non-drug treatments, that are available Inside you will find the key perspectives involved in the medical treatment of the human mind. You will not find another book like this.

You Can Think Like A Psychiatrist: Understanding Psychiatric Medicines

Medical Books

Leslie Lundt M.D.

Medicine

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