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Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook for Practitioners (The Practical Therapist Series)

8 reviews
Howard Kassinove, Raymond Chip Tafrate

Impact Publishers, 2002

This Text is a Must Read!
Anger Management by Howard Kassinove and Raymond Tafrate is by far the most complete and up to date text for therapists. It is a must read resource for all environments, children, adults and families, as well as the workplace. The authors break down anger episodes into understandable segments in order to assess the client's anger intensity and frequency. Then they rebuild with techniques that ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide (Practical Therapist Series)

4 reviews
Albert Ellis, Catharine Maclaren

Impact Publishers, 1998

The Practical Therapist Series
While Dr. Ellis has already published many popular books on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), this book from "The Practical Therapist Series" is targeted to doctors qualified to practice psychotherapy, who have no time to read lengthy popular books. While the audience of this hardcover is health care professionals, I, not being a medic myself, found this work pleasant to read and easy to ...

Parenting After Divorce: A Guide to Resolving Conflicts and Meeting Your Children's Needs (Rebuilding Books) ...

6 reviews
Philip Michael Stahl

Impact Publishers, 2000

The only book parents after divorce need!
As a child custody evaluator and parent educator, I keep a list of books that are helpful to parents in these tough times. I just re-did my list and moved this book to the #1 spot! It is clearly written and dispenses practical, wise advice in a way that is easy to read and digest. A must buy!

The Stress Owner's Manual: Meaning, Balance and Health in Your Life

4 reviews
Ed Boenisch, C. Michele Haney

Impact Publishers, 2003

This Thing Called Stress
Stress is unavoidable if we are alive. Some stress is harmful, and some stress is beneficial. The most important aspect of stress is the way we deal with it. Currently most of us Americans are finding ourselves dealing with all the stress we think we can handle. THE STRESS OWNER'S MANUAL, MEANING, BALANCE & HEALTH IN YOUR LIFE, is a book I worked through a year ago. Lately, I have been giving ...

Calming the Family Storm: Anger Management for Moms, Dads, and All the Kids

5 reviews
Gary D. McKay, Steven A. Maybell

Impact Publishers, 2004

Insights into Anger
Children who are frequently exposed to anger often become adults who use anger to control their partners, their children, their friends, and their workmates. They express this anger on the roads and in the workplace, as well as in their families. Now we have a common sense, extremely readable book that can give direction in helping turn around the lives of people of all ages who want support in ...

"I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand--": A Child's Guide to Grief and Loss

4 reviews
Ed.D. Pat Palmer

Impact Publishers, 1994

Great Book!
When the main character loses several important figures in her life- her pet dies, her father moves away, etc.- she feels the pangs of loss. This is a great book to read to children! So many children have experienced loss- when their parents get divorced, a pet dies, a grandparent dies, or a good friend moves away- but have no way of knowing that what they are feeling is NORMAL. This book ...

Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better : Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions

6 reviews
Albert Ellis

Impact Publishers, 2001

Principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
In this book, Ellis shows the interested reader how Rational Emotive Therapy works, what the underlying philosphy is, and - most importantly - what you can do to get yourself out of emotional difficulties. He emphasizes not only the aspect of feeling better, which many clients can more or less easily do (e.g. by exercising, meditating or distracting oneself from difficult feelings and ...

You Can Beat Depression: A Guide to Prevention & Recovery

5 reviews
John Preston, Dr. John Preston

Impact Publishers, 2001

Maintain a realistic perception of your life and yourself
Clinical psychologist John Preston reveals that clinical depression differs from normal sadness in five distinct ways: depression is more intensely painful, last longer, interferes with normal day-to-day functioning, is destructive, and is often a cluster of symptoms involving problems in social interaction, behavior, thinking, and biological functioning. In You Can Beat Depression: A Guide To ...

Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions

7 reviews
A. Thomas Horvath

Impact Publishers, 2003

Sex, Drugs, Gambling, & Chocolate
Not everyone is a candidate for 12-step programs like Alcohol Anonymous. Clinical psychologist A. Thomas Horvath provides an alternative to 12-step in Sex, Drugs, Gambling, & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions. He says "the purpose of this workbook is to draw together ideas and techniques that have been well studied and used in the field of addiction psychology and to present them ...

Your Child's Divorce: What to Expect...What You Can Do (Rebuilding Books)

8 reviews
Marsha Temlock

Impact Publishers, 2006

Surviving Your Child's Divorce
The author, Marsha Temlock, was inspired to write this book based on personal experience. I read an article in the New York Times ("My Child's Divorce Is My Pain" September 2, 2007, also in Boston Globe) telling her story and felt I had to read this book. As divorce becomes more common and parents live longer, they are more and more involved in the breakup of their children's marriage. This is a ...

Defusing the High-Conflict Divorce: A Treatment Guide for Working with Angry Couples (The Practical Therapist)

2 reviews
Bernard Gaulier, Judith Margerum, ...

Impact Publishers, 2006

How to prevail if your job is to be the cooler head
Couples who divorce and stay angry at each other, making ongoing demands and endless accusations, creating volatile situations around issues like child custody, and refusing to be reasonable no matter how much professional guidance they get are a drain on legal and therapeutic resources. They're a major pain for counselors and court personnel, whose efforts are wasted when the feuding exes behave ...

Is That All There Is?: Balancing Expectation and Disappointment in Your Life

2 reviews
David Brandt

Impact Publishers, 1988

Is That All There Is?
Is your life one disappointment after another, even when get what you thought you wanted? If so, Dr. David Brandt's latest book, Is That All There Is? Balancing Expectation & Disappointment in Your Life, is for you. Dr. Brandt, a psychologist, has studied disappointment for more than 20 years. He lectures nationally and appears frequently on radio and television. His goal is to "unwrap the ...

Getting Apart Together: The Couple's Guide to a Fair Divorce or Separation (Rebuilding Books)

1 review
Martin A. Kranitz

Impact Publishers, 2000

Practical, experienced, and authoritative advice
Martin Kranitz is the Director of the National Center for Mediation Education, and the National Institute for Conflict Resolution. In Getting Apart Together: The Couple's Guide To A Fair Divorce Or Separation, Kranitz offers practical, experienced, and authoritative advice and guidance drawing upon his many years as an expert divorce mediator. Kranitz provides the reader with a wealth of ...

The Divorce Helpbook for Teens (Rebuilding Books)

2 reviews
Cynthia MacGregor

Impact Publishers, 2004

Parents' Divorce Is Not the Teens' Mess!
Teen angst compounded by the turmoil of divorcing parents is not a subject for the fainthearted to tackle. But MacGregor's engaging style quickly establishes empathy with this challenging group, offering genuine warmth and reliable advice along with sensitivity to her readers' many vulnerabilities. Her objective is not to function as a single-handed self-help guru; throughout the book she reminds ...

How You Feel Is Up to You: The Power of Emotional Choice

2 reviews
Gary D. McKay, Don Dinkmeyer

Impact Publishers, 1994

An effective, highly recommended book.
Dr. Gary McKay and Dr. Don Dinkmeyer are practicing psychologists who have co-authored several books. How You Feel Is Up To You: The Power Of Emotional Choice is their latest offering, in which they teach readers how to gain control of their feelings. They say their book "is designed to help you gain control over your strong unpleasant emotions--guilt, anger, depression, stress, ...

Loving Choices: An Experience in Growing Relationships, Revised Second Edition (Rebuilding Books)

3 reviews
Bruce Fisher, Nina Hart

Impact Publishers, 2000

such a wonderful book!
Out of all of the books which talk about different relationship issues, this is the only one that I have found which helps people to realize their contributions to all relationships in their lives, whether they be marital relationships or friendships or even business relationships. There are tools for communicating very well with yourself and others, so that one truly has a feeling for ...

Caregiver's Reprieve: A Guide to Emotional Survival When You're Caring for Someone You Love (The Working ...

2 reviews
Avrene L. Brandt

Impact Publishers, 1997

Best I've read
This book is an excellent resource for anyone facing the challenges of caring for a loved one who needs long term support. The book contains cases which describe the experiences of several prototype situations and the emotions that those involved deal with on a day to day basis. This book highlights the fact that caregiving is a difficult task and that the emotions caregivers feel are common ...

Crazy Love: Dealing with Your Partner's Problem Personality

2 reviews
W. Brad Johnson, Kelly Murray

Impact Publishers, 2007

Clear, helpful, and compassionate counsel
CRAZY LOVE: DEALING WITH YOUR PARTNER'S PROBLEM PERSONALITY offers an examination of personality disorders and their impact on intimate relationships, our attraction to these types, and how to live with them or know when it's best to make a graceful exit. Drs. Johnson and Murray translate the diagnostic categories into ordinary language with detailed examples of specific behaviors. Schizoid is ...

Integrative Brief Therapy: Cognitive, Psychodynamic, Humanistic & Neurobehavioral Approaches (Practical ...

2 reviews
John Preston

Impact Publishers, 2006

Exceptionally clear description of the process of psychother
Integrative Brief Therapy gives a lucid description of theory underlying several popular approaches to psychotherapy (focusing primarily on cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic models) and then guides the reader from diagnosis to specific treatments. This book takes complex concepts and discusses them in concrete and practical ways that help the reader conceptualize decision-making in ...

Divorce Handbook for California: How to Dissolve Your Marriage Without Disaster (Rebuilding Books)

3 reviews
Judge James W. Stewart

Impact Publishers, 2002

A Leading Judge's Insights into California Divorce
As presiding judge of Silicon Valley's Santa Clara County Family Court, Judge Stewart has made decisions regarding the dissolution of literally thousands of California marriages. He knows what he is talking about, and in this fascinating account he provides the strategies to enable people to come though the process with as little damage to themselves, their children, their spouses, and their ...

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