Routledge Focus on Mental Health
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Mental Health presents short books on current topics, linking in with cutting-edge research and practice.
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems: Making the Most of Every Client Session
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
April 11, 2025
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy. Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems presents the case for such an approach and details how it can be ...
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
1st Edition
By Ole Jacob Madsen
January 30, 2025
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to ...
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine: An "Other" Sex
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Schaeffer
December 09, 2024
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine presents Jacqueline Schaeffer's understanding of the feminine as a psychoanalytic concept. Schaeffer considers the difference between the sexes to be the paradigm of all differences, and the basis for the repudiation of the feminine and gender theories, those that ...
Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
November 29, 2024
Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory. Raul Moncayo ...
Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout
1st Edition
Edited
By Pauline Davies, Cynthia M. Stonnington
November 11, 2024
Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout explores 26 compelling narratives from practicing doctors and medical students as they share their personal and professional encounters in their own words. This volume seeks to expand the conversations around burnout and mental...
A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology: Evidence and Ethics
1st Edition
By Henrik Berg
October 30, 2024
Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics. The book shows the ...
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life’s adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.Divided in two parts, this book first provides a thorough, but concise, ...
Single-Session 'One-at-a-Time' Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Single-Session ‘One-at-a-Time’ Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach details a specific approach to Single-Session Therapy (SST) known as ‘One-At-A-Time’ (OAAT) Therapy and shows how this can be implemented from a Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) perspective. Windy Dryden ...
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy explores the contemporary relevance of this treatment for modern psychotherapy, from the point of view of a leading contributor. First founded in 1955 by Albert Ellis, REBT still has much to offer the field. ...
Technology in Mental Health: Foundations of Clinical Use
1st Edition
By Jessica Stone
October 09, 2024
Technology in Mental Health focuses on the responsible integration of technology into therapy in a world affected by COVID. Author Jessica Stone discusses the pandemic’s effects on the mental health field, historical fundamentals, and possible future implications. Chapters also explore legal and ...
Transference in Institutional Work with Psychosis and Autism: The Transferential Constellation
1st Edition
By Pierre Delion
October 09, 2024
Transference in Institutional Work with Psychosis and Autism presents Pierre Delion’s extensive experience in psychiatric institutions, focusing on the concept of the transferential constellation. Delion first discusses the pioneering work of François Tosquelles at the Saint Alban psychiatric ...
Analytic Listening in Clinical Dialogue: Basic Assumptions
1st Edition
By Dieter Bürgin, Angelika Staehle, Kerstin Westhoff, Anna Wyler von Ballmoos
August 26, 2024
Analytic Listening in Clinical Dialogue focuses on the work of four leading clinicians as they assess how their unconscious basic assumptions impact their clinical work. Using the case study of a seven-year-old boy, the authors evaluate a videotaped psychoanalytic first interview and exchange their...