5 Now available on our shelves! Newly acquired print titles on Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling and Therapy Skills (2011) by David G. Martin This is a practical guide for beginning and experienced counselors. The author unravels the complexities of the therapeutic process without condescension or intimidation, teaching helping professionals how to invest themselves to make clients feel deeply known and accepted. The author also describes and encourages the use of evocative empathy, an active process in which therapists listen to their clients intended message so that they feel understood and gain the ability to be their own problem solver. The book covers different therapy approaches, relationship building, the mind-body connection, ways that therapy can cause damage, the therapeutic alliance, mindfulness and cross-cultural counseling. Engaging with Complexity: Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Education (2011) by Rita Harris These are narratives of courage from the educational “coalface” in a variety of European settings. The reader is engaged by observations of children, some of whom have been subject to unbearable loss and terror. There are no quick fixes here. This is careful work based on psychoanalytical and systemic principles. Through understanding past and present relationships staff and pupils are able to make sense of otherwise futile or destructive obstacles to learning. Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (2013) by Theodore P. Beauchaine and Stephen P. Hinshaw Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Second Edition is the only comprehensive text on childhood and adolescent disorders that addresses genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors within a developmental perspective. The new edition includes more on epigenetics, classification, culture and context and emphasizes how, when, and why disorders emerge among young people and in what ways symptom profiles change at different stages of development. Mental Health Issues & the University Student by Doris Iarovici Dr. Iarovici describes the current college mental health crisis and narrates how college mental health services have evolved along with changes in student populations. She discusses students’ lifestyle problems and psychiatric concerns, using case vignettes to explore a variety of interventions. Included are discussions of substance abuse, relationship difficulties, eating disorders, depression and anxiety, and culture clashes. Problems uniquely addressed in this book include sleep disturbances and perfectionism. An essential component of the volume is a guide to making emergency assessments, from risk classification and hospitalization to public safety and communication within and outside the campus community.
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