Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination11 reviews JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, ... The Guilford Press, 1998 Book review + Very satisfied + An Essential Read! + Foundations of Family Therapy + Good Resource Tool!             Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice (3rd Edition)3 reviews Patricia Stevens, Robert L. Smith Prentice Hall, 2004 Substance abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice + a pretty good substance abuse textbook + Excellent resource! The book is well written. It provides the reader with an easy reading experience while still providing the necessary information about substance abuse. I definately recommend it for anyone who is looking to learn more about substance abuse.             Uppers, Downers, All Arounders, Fifth Edition27 reviews Darryl Inaba, William E. Cohen, ... CNS Publications, 2003 excellent + So much to read, so little time... + Great book, great seller + review             Connect: 12 Vital Ties That Open Your Heart, Lengthen Your Life, and Deepen Your Soul13 reviews Edward M. Hallowell Pocket, 2001 treasure + Connect by Edward M Hallowell + "Connect" it does! + You must read this!             Clinical Interviewing2 reviews John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan Wiley, 2002 User friendly. One textbook you're liable to keep. + Clinical Counseling Interviewing textbooks are notoriously dry and mechanical. I can count using the fingers of one hand the number of books I have read on the subject that are worth their weight in cotton candy. This work by the Sommers-Flanagan duo represents an excellent addition to the instructional literature on ...             The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down215 reviews Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 Eye Opening + thought provoking + The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down + Great read and hard to put down!             Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide3 reviews Kenneth S. Pope, Melba J. T. Vasquez Jossey-Bass, 2007 Not All Ethics Texts are Created Equal + Books in Amazon. Com are reasonable. I do really recommend friends to go to Amazon.com. The prize is not that much expensive. + Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Pratical Guide I thought I read every ethics text throughout my close to ten years in higher education. Obviously, this one was left out. This is an excellent text, easily readable, engaging, practical, and down to earth. I look forward to picking it up and continuing on each day. This text should be used in ...             Becoming a Therapist: What Do I Say, and Why?11 reviews Suzanne Bender, Edward Messner The Guilford Press, 2003 I wish I had this book when I was in psychiatric training! + Excellent book for those initial questions + GREAT gift for a new therapist. + Liked it! + What you wish you'd asked about             Search For The Real Self : Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age12 reviews James F. Masterson Free Press, 1990 the best book I've read on psychiatry + The Real Deal + An excellent treatise on borderline and narcissistic personality disorders Masterson is extremely insightful about two common, and until recently considered untreatable, personality disorders: borderline spectrum and narcissism. He helps the reader to understand the etiology of these disorders and how both involve the creation of a false self. What I liked most about this ...             Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications, and Issues3 reviews Robert M. Kaplan, Dennis P. Saccuzzo Wadsworth Publishing, 2004 Psychological testing, principles, applications and issues I have read many books in the psychology field, and I thought this book did an excellent job of presenting clear and concise information on psychological testing. The book focused on the various testing techniques that are used in the psychology field. It raised important issues around how to ...             Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications (4th Edition)2 reviews William Crain Prentice Hall, 1999 Good overview on learning theorists This is an excellent book to get a taste of learning theoriests, a good beginners book. Crain covers the most important learning theorists, Chomsky, Kolhberg, Montessori, Freud, to name a few. However this book is not completely objective, Crain's opions slip in from time to time. I suggest ...             Nuts and Bolts of Helping Jeffrey A. Kottler Allyn & Bacon, 1999 Designed as a resource and operating manual for students in human service professions, Nuts and Bolts of Helping provides an overview of the theory, process, and skills of counseling methods. Today's mental health and human service programs require service helpers to make a difference in a short period of time often in a few sessions or less. This brief yet comprehensive book prepares ...             On Being a Therapist (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)8 reviews Jeffrey A. Kottler Jossey-Bass, 2003 Real, Honest, Reflective and Life Changing + a pleasant read + Great Book! + Highly Recommended!!!! + On Being a Therapist             The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]280 reviews Julia Cameron Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002 A must read for anyone interested in being more creative, just being creative or living life to the fullest + The Artist's Way + This book is the best friend you can ever have + brilliant! a great guide book             Theory and Design in Counseling and Psychotherapy1 review Susan X. Day Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004 Very readable This is a refreshing change: a textbook that's readable, even entertaining at times. The author doesn't write in smarter-than-you "scholarese" & leave you to translate to plain English, but instead writes as if speaking to an intelligent person who doesn't happen to be familiar with the field. I ...             Handbook Of Clinical Psychopharmacology For Therapists, Fourth Edition20 reviews John D. Preston, John H. O'Neal, ... New Harbinger Publications, 2004 Excellent clinical resource + Great Text! + Psych meds + Handbook worth having + Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology             Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship7 reviews Michael Kahn Holt Paperbacks, 1997 An essential for the budding therapist + Good Book + A fine book. And for another insightful and fascinating book by a brilliant psychiatrist: + A Must on Transference + Superb             Our Sexuality (with CD-ROM, InfoTrac Workbook, and InfoTrac )17 reviews Robert L. Crooks, Karla Baur Wadsworth Publishing, 2004 Satisfied Customer + Text Book + Our Sexuality + textbook + Great and Interesting Read             The Heart & Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy5 reviews American Psychological Association (APA), 1999 Challenge your thinking about doing therapy + You must own this book + Scientific , useful, and readable + Not one that will you'll skip over and leave "un-read."             Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could: Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright4 reviews Michael M. Piechowski Yunasa Books, 2006 Teacher and Parent of the Gifted Praises this Book + Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could: Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright + Favorable review This book gives you a true perspective of what it is like to be highly and profoundly gifted. Being gifted is not what you produce, but something you are, like being dyslexic. Mellow Out examines how the five intensities the gifted have affect their whole lives. The anecdotes and real-life ...