Beyond Talk Therapy


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A comprehensive guide to the growing area of expressive techniques in therapy. Many clients and practitioners are searching for therapeutic techniques that go beyond traditional talk therapy to tap into the healing potentials found within the body, creative expression, and the spirit. These techniques include areas such as art, dance, yoga, music, drama, theatre and ritual.







No Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents


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Weaving practical, hands-on ideas with theory and research about child development, child treatment, and the therapeutic relationship, this book describes an innovative approach to treatment of children and adolescents who won't or can't respond to traditional, conversation-based therapy. For these children, therapists need an entirely new clinical language, one that doesn't depend on words. Within an interpersonal and developmental framework, Straus spells out the deceptively simple goals of no-talk therapy: someone to be close to, and something to be proud of. Through empathy and respect, games, activities, community involvement, a circle of adults, and little pleasures, this approach begins to provide these anxious, sullen, enraged, and confused kids with the self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness to develop a voice of their own.




Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy


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Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous for—pragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and build on their strengths. Yet when applied in a "one-size-fits-all" manner, these techniques may produce disappointing results and leave clinicians wondering where they have gone wrong. This volume adds a vital dimension to the SFT literature, providing a rich theoretical framework to facilitate nonformulaic clinical decision making. The focus is on how attention to emotional issues, traditionally not emphasized in brief, strengths-based interventions, can help "unstick" difficult situations and pave the way to successful solutions.




No Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents


Book Description

An innovative approach to treatment of young clients who won't or can't respond to conversation-based therapy. Weaving practical, hands-on ideas with theory and research about child development, child treatment, and the therapeutic relationship, this book describes an innovative approach to treatment of children and adolescents who won’t or can’t respond to traditional, conversation-based therapy. Within an interpersonal and developmental framework, Martha Straus spells out the deceptively simple goals of no-talk therapy: someone to be close to, and something to be proud of. As Straus demonstrates in her case examples, no-talk children fit many diagnostic pictures. Many start out hesitant about the whole enterprise of therapy, and a few remain intractably detached despite the therapist’s best efforts to engage them. For some, the interpersonal requirements of problem-talk or play therapy are well beyond their developmental level. Others may have an abundance of talking and playing skills and be determined not to use them. Most have had lives that are unspeakably hard. Ironically, traditional therapy, with its most fundamental purpose of helping children feel better, is painfully uncomfortable for no-talk children and adolescents. For these children, therapists need an entirely new clinical language, one that doesn’t depend on words.Through empathy and respect, games, activities, community involvement, a circle of adults, and little pleasures, this approach emphasizes individual connection, competence, and creativity. Going beyond other methods, no-talk therapy begins to provide these anxious, sullen, enraged, and confused kids with the self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness to develop a voice of their own. Straus opens for readers a huge grab bag of gimmicks, gadgets, and games, from which to draw resources appropriate to every no-talk occasion. Most of all, she offers herself as an engaged, creative, fallible, caring therapist who hears the pain—and the strengths—in the silence.




Moving Beyond Trauma: The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality


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Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them. But, most of all, it's because trauma doesn't just reside inside your mind--much more importantly, it locks itself in other parts of your body. When left unresolved, that trauma continues to live there, impacting your life, your relationships, your sense of safety, and your ability to experience joy in very real ways. In Moving Beyond Trauma, Ilene Smith will introduce you to Somatic Experiencing, a body-based therapy capable of healing the damage done to your nervous system by trauma. She breaks down the ways in which trauma impacts your nervous system and walks you through a program designed to process trauma in a non-threatening way. You will discover a healing lifestyle marked by a deeper connection with yourself, those around you, and with everything you do.




Rethink Your Shrink


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A must-read for anyone seeking emotional well-being in our precarious world. -Jack Canfield, NY Times Bestselling Series Chicken Soup For The SoulA modern self-help book with the tools to show you how to heal yourself naturally. Have you spent years in therapy, on meds, or both but not much has changed? Or maybe they just haven't been enough. . . If this is you, it may be time to Rethink Your Shrink. In this upbeat and out-of-the-box self-help guide, clinical psychologist Dr. Sam Von Reiche brings you TEN of the best proven treatments and strategies beyond talk therapy and meds to heal depression, anxiety, insomnia, food addiction, improve ADD and ADHD and so much more. Chock-full of inspiring stories, including Dr. Sam's own rocky road from struggle to straight-up happiness, Rethink Your Shrink is a mental health guidebook to finding peace in pandemic times and the years ahead. Rethink Your Shrink will give you all the tools you need to achieve optimal mental health for life and be your best self: -Effective and proven treatments you've likely never heard of -Simple self-healing strategies to change your life without professional help -Learn if your physical health is the culprit behind your depression and anxiety and what to do about it Dr. Sam Von Reiche is a clinical psychologist, media expert and founder of the Center for Transformation, a holistic psychotherapy center in Ridgewood, NJ. A Magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Sam is known for her innovative and inspiring approach to therapy and her charismatic style. She has been featured on NBC, Fox-5 and Huffpost Live and has written numerous articles for magazines and other publications. You can find out more about Dr. Sam and the Center for Transformation at www.drsamvonreiche.com or call them at 201-556-8210. nstead of a lifelong prescription of side effect-ridden psychiatric medications and endless talk therapy, Dr. Sam offers real solutions to have you feeling like your best self. I love how instead of giving us a dry list of facts on the subject, Dr. Sam knows how to truly connect with her readers on a personal level, and uses her authentic and witty style, along with her personal story, to keep you engaged. - Dr. Isabella Wentz, Pharm D., NY Times #1 Bestseller Hashimoto's ProtocolDr. Sam Von Reiche is like Copernicus, suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe. To get humankind out of thinking in the old earth-centered way took hundreds of years. To get yourself out of thinking in the old mind-body way takes only reading her extraordinary self-help guide.- Richard Shames, MD. Author, Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health




Beyond Empathy


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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




Beyond Empathy


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Written by leaders in the field of relational integrative psychotherapy, this book offers trainees and experienced therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to maintain genuine relationships and, thus, better psychological health. This classic edition includes a new preface by Richard G. Erskine that reflects on changes in the field since the book’s first publication. Drawing from Rogers' client-centered therapy, Berne's transactional analysis, Perls' Gestalt therapy, Kohut's self-psychology, and the work of British object-relations theorists, this book accessibly introduces the authors’ Keyhole theory while using real life interchanges between therapists and clients to illustrate key concepts. The second part of the book details the application of this method in therapy work and provides transcripts from seven therapy sessions. These include examples of relational psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic regression, working with a parental introject, couple psychotherapy, as well as detailed explanations of the therapeutic methods. An undoubtable classic, the book’s conversational style makes the theory and methods of a relationally based integrative psychotherapy come alive. This versatile approach to therapy promises to be effective across a wide range of therapeutic situations, making this a valuable book for both students and practicing clinicians throughout the spectrum of mental healthcare providers.




Beyond Technique in Solution-focused Therapy


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This book adds a dimension to the solution-focused therapy literature, providing a framework to facilitate nonformulaic clinical decision making. Focus is on how emotional issues can help pave the way to successful solutions. Case material is also used showing not only what a clinician does at particular moments in therapy but why.