by Virginia S. Burlingame (1995)
This practical and readable text addresses counselors and caregivers who work with the large and ever-growing elder population. Drawing on years of clinical and teaching experience, the author walks the "gerocounselor" through the various steps that are essential to elder and family counseling. Using an interactive and eclectic approach, Dr. Burlingame illustrates helpful methods for meeting the needs of the elderly. Descriptive case studies and illustrations are included and discussion questions follow major points in each chapter. Counselors, counseling educators, nurses, and social service providers who work with the elderly, as well as students, will find this volume extremely useful.
Nina Shandler
Mothers of adolescent girls speak out on the challenges, frustrations, and concerns of dealing with teenagers, discussing such topics as love and sex, friends, drugs and alcohol, and changes in their daughters' and their own lives.
Robert J. Meyers, Jane Ellen Smith
This book is the first complete guide to implementing the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), an empirically based, highly effective cognitive-behavioral program for treating alcohol problems. CRA acknowledges the powerful role of environmental contingencies in encouraging or discouraging drinking, and attempts to rearrange these contingencies so that a non-drinking lifestyle is more rewarding than a drinking one. Unique in its breadth, the approach utilizes social, recreational, familial, and vocational strategies to aid clients in the recovery process. This authoritative manual is a hands-on guide to applying these therapeutic procedures. . The authors present a step-by-step guide to each component of the treatment plan, many of which have been shown to be effective forms of treatment in themselves. Topics include behavioral skills training, social and recreational counseling, marital therapy, motivational enhancement, job counseling, and relapse prevention. Each chapter provides detailed instructions for conducting a procedure, describes what difficulties to expect, and presents strategies for overcoming them. Sample dialogues between clients and therapists, annotated by the authors, further illuminate the treatment process. The book concludes with a chapter that both addresses the common mistakes made when implementing CRA, and emphasizes the flexibility and benefits of this total treatment plan. This book is an invaluable resource for a wide range of practitioners including psychologists, psychiatrists, substance abuse counselors, and social workers.
Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius
Using a holistic approach, this new guidebook is geared toward mental health professionals working with women who have been victims of sexual abuse, and the survivors themselves. It provides background necessary for understanding child abuse, and presents a four-stage theoretical model for therapeutic intervention. Information is given that will enable the therapist to accurately diagnose the occurrence of childhood sexual abuse and conceptualize the effects of family, stage of development, and spirituality on the victim. Ego splitting is examined in detail. Also included are comprehensive case studies on the topic. In addition, this book serves as a bridge between the popular and professional literature on treatment of sexual abuse survivors. By using fairy tales and mainstream literature - including Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, and current pop works such as Stephen King's It - the authors show how numerous metaphors for abuse are presented in our everyday life. Woven throughout the volume is a historical and sociocultural perspective of the treatment of women and children - and how society has ignored such abuse. Coupled with the four-step process, this supplies the practitioner with a comprehensive overview, numerous invaluable treatment techniques, and an opportunity to gain an empathic understanding of the victim's life and experiences. Essential reading for professionals and students of counseling, psychology, social work, and other helping professions, the format also makes it highly accessible to lay-persons - both clients and other concerned individuals.
Elizabeth Fishel
Through interviews and questionnaires with more than 150 women, the author explores the depth and breadth of sisterhood, sibling rivalry, devotion, ambivalence, birth order, and patterns of family roles.