Forthcoming Psychotherapy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Sustainable Happiness

   The Mind Science of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration

   By Joe Loizzo

   Today’s greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization—depression, trauma, obesity, cancer—are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health

   By Nicholas A Cummings, Janet L Cummings

   Written by father-daughter psychologists Nick and Janet Cummings, this text provides proven patient-responsive interventions by practitioners who together have nearly a century of hands-on practice and innovation between them. Refocused Psychotherapy responds directly to the recent decline of...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Adolescent Counselling Psychology

   Theory, Research and Practice

   Edited by Terry Hanley, Neil Humphrey, Clare Lennie

   Adolescent Counselling Psychology: Theory Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to therapeutic practice with young people. As an edited text, it brings together some of the leading authorities on such work into one digestible volume. The text is divided into three major...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Case Conceptualization

   Mastering this Competency with Ease and Confidence

   By Len Sperry, Jonathan Sperry

   Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series

   This is the type of book instructors, trainees, and clinicians need—a short text that demystifies the case conceptualization process and provides a streamlined method for learning and mastering this competency. It presents an integrative model for conceptualizing cases, dispels common myths about...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. What Made Freud Laugh

   An Attachment Perspective on Laughter

   By Judith Kay Nelson

   In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work studying crying from an attachment perspective, Nelson argues that laughter is based in the attachment...

   To Be Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. Complicated Grief

   Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals

   Edited by Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, Jan van den Bout

   “Stroebe, Schut and van den Bout have succeeded in drawing together leading researchers, clinicians and academics who, between them, provide a comprehensive view of a complex and contentious area of discourse that has important implications for us all.” - Colin Murray Parkes, author of Bereavement:...

   To Be Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Core Competencies in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

   Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist

   By Cory F. Newman

   Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series

   This volume is a concise, convenient, and clearly written book for those who wish to study, master, and teach the core competencies of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Relevant for novice therapists as well as experienced clinicians and supervisors, this text also goes “between the lines” of...

   To Be Published July 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Couples in Collusion

   Short-Term, Assessment-Based Strategies for Helping Couples Disarm Their Defenses

   By Dennis A. Bagarozzi

   Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

   When a couple enters therapy, both partners have either explicit or implicit understandings of what can—and, more importantly, cannot—be discussed in therapy. Even when empirically tested assessments are used to help pinpoint areas of concern and conflict, couples may choose to identify only those...

   To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Self Under Siege

   A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

   By Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett

   How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own destiny or are we unconsciously repeating the lives of our parents, living according to their...

   To Be Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context

    Edited by Roy Moodley, Uwe P. Gielen, Rosa Wu

    Many factors in the world today, such as globalization and a rise in immigration, are increasing the need for mental health practitioners to acquire the ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures. This text will be the most comprehensive volume to address this need to date,...

    To Be Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge