Warning Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous To Your Mental Health

Author : William Glasser, M.D.
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062032011
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health written by William Glasser, M.D. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved. William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the last few years. Millions of patients are now routinely being given prescriptions for a wide range of drugs including Ritalin, Prosac, Zoloft and related drugs which can be harmful to the brain. A previous generation of patients would have had a course of psychotherapy without brain–damaging chemicals. Glasser explains the wide implications of this radical change in treatment and what can be done to counter it.

Author : Patricia A. Robey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136794220
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling written by Patricia A. Robey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling explores the most difficult issues that people in the helping professions face when treating couples and provides concrete solutions for addressing them effectively. Using the revolutionary choice theory and reality therapy approaches to couples counseling, the book shows clinicians how to combine a relationship-based approach with the pragmatism of cognitive-behavior therapies. Both experienced and beginning clinicians will find Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling ideal for helping clients focus on the here and now, not the past, and for creating treatment plans that meet clients' individual needs while also addressing the needs of their partners.

Author : Rogers H. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135423555
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destructive Trends in Mental Health written by Rogers H. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes as its inspiration the assumption that the atmosphere of intellectual openness, scientific inquiry, aspiration towards diversity, and freedom from political pressure that once flourished in the American Psychological Association has been eclipsed by an "ultra-liberal agenda," in which voices of dissent, controversial points of view, and minority groups are intimidated, ridiculed and censored. Chapters written by established and revered practitioners explore these important issues within the contexts of social change, the ways in which mental health services providers view themselves and their products, and various economic factors that have affected healthcare cost structure and delivery. In short, this book is intended to help consumers, practitioners, and policy makers to become better educated about a variety of recent issues and trends that have significantly changed the mental health fields.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1871891701
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critiquing the Psychiatric Model written by Eric Maisel and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is profoundly important. So is exploring alternatives. The Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series presents solicited chapters from international experts on a wide variety of underexplored subjects. This is a series for mental health researchers, teachers, and practitioners, for parents and interested lay readers, and for anyone trying to make sense of anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties. Critiquing the Psychiatric Model sets out to present a clear picture of the current “mental disorder paradigm,” one that claims an ability to “diagnose and treat mental disorders” and that provides “medication” as its primary treatment. Critiquing the Psychiatric Model traces the history of the psychiatric model and its “diagnostic manual” and identifies its flaws and problem areas by presenting more than twenty solicited chapters from experts worldwide.

Author : William Glasser
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1938908333
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Charge of Your Life written by William Glasser and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game changer for anyone ready to become the captain of their own ship. Dr. Phil McGraw, host of the nationally syndicated series Dr. Phil Take Charge of Your Life urges readers to stop blaming and start accepting responsibility for choices. Jeannine Chartier Hanscom, ForeWord Reviews Are you seeking a happier and more satisfying life? In Take Charge of Your Life, author Dr. William Glasser explains choice theorya science of human behavior and principles for regaining and maintaining a life you controland how it can help you find personal freedom from relationship-destroying external control. Take Charge of Your Life, a revision of his 1984 book Control Theory, explains choice theory using personalized examples and illustrative stories that allow you to learn how to improve your relationships and take charge of your actions. Topics include marital and relationship problems, parenthood, addictions, pain management, and psychosomatic disorders. For each situation, Dr. Glasser ties behavior to the pictures people create in their minds of what they want. He explains how the pictures got there and how people can choose new behaviors to get what they really want. In Take Charge of Your Life, Glasser offers a real model of empowerment. He shows how you can become a part of the equation that adds happiness and connection to the world in which you live now and to the world of future generations.

Author : Raymond S. Nickerson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1136676341
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Rationality written by Raymond S. Nickerson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be rational to reason well and effectively? How does rationality, broadly conceived, relate to the knowledge one acquires, the beliefs one forms, the explanations one constructs or appropriates, the judgments and decisions one makes, the values one adopts? What is the character of human reasoning and, in particular, does it t

Author : Leon Lojk
Publisher : Alpha Book Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Therapy: Theory & Practice written by Leon Lojk and published by Alpha Book Publisher. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides Scientific Argument of Reality Therapy, written by Leon Lojk, reality therapy has never actually been presented in a broader theoretical context. In addition to deepening understanding of total behaviour or understanding of the organism as an operationally closed, self-regulating system, understanding of personality, the relationship between the individual and their environment, understanding the concept of relationships in light of choice theory, the beliefs about human behaviour that underlie our actions and understanding mental health, Theory and the Practice of Reality Therapy by Leon and Boba Lojk presents reality therapy in relation to other psychotherapeutic approaches through some similarities and differences between them. Group reality therapy was presented in a similar way. With regard to the reality therapy theory of practice, so far, only structured (procedural) reality therapy has been available in the literature. Glasser called it the old reality therapy and advocated therapy using choice theory, which he called the new reality therapy. This is the authentic approach of the therapist, who himself lives in accordance with choice theory beliefs, which requires profound changes in the understanding of human behaviour. Until now, it has not been possible to find a description in the literature of how the process of new reality therapy flows, except for the author’s practical presentation of working with clients. These pages present for the first time the new reality therapy theory of practice through formulation, the relationship between therapist and client, and the theory of change in reality therapy. How reality therapy looks in practice is evident from practical examples of working with clients. The offered reading is certainly welcome to participants in reality therapy training and to reality therapists, practitioners and those who want to learn more about this approach.

Author : J. Scott Young
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506305644
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinical Mental Health Counseling written by J. Scott Young and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referencing the 2016 CACREP standards, Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Elements of Effective Practice combines solid foundational information with practical application for a realistic introduction to work in community mental health settings. Top experts in the field cover emerging models for clinical interventions as they explore cutting-edge approaches to CMH counseling. With case studies integrated throughout, students will be well prepared to move into practicum and internship courses as well as field-based settings. "An instant classic. Young and Cashwell have assembled a stellar group of counselor education authors and produced an outstanding, comprehensive, and easy-to-read text that clearly articulates and elevates the discipline of clinical mental health counseling. This book covers everything a CMHC needs to hit the ground running in clinical practice!" —Bradley T. Erford, Loyola University Maryland, Past President of the American Counseling Association

Author : Howard Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317787005
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapy's Best written by Howard Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful interviews with a Who’s Who of the world’s foremost therapists Therapy’s Best is a lively and entertaining collection of one-on-one interviews with some of the top therapists and counselors in the world. Educator and psychotherapist Dr. Howard G. Rosenthal talks with twenty of therapy’s legends, including Albert Ellis, arguably the greatest clinical psychologist and therapist of our time; assertiveness training pioneer Robert Alberti; experiential psychotherapist Al Mahrer; and William Glasser, the father of reality therapy and choice theory. Each interview reveals insights into the therapists’ personal lives, their observations on counseling, and the helping profession in general, and their thoughts on what really works when dealing with clients in need. The interviews found in Therapy’s Best uncover treatment strategies that are often missing from traditional textbooks, journal articles, courses, and seminars related to assertiveness training, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), marriage and family counseling, transactional analysis, psychoanalysis, suicide prevention, voice therapy, experiential psychotherapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). Conversations with the “best and brightest” (including two recipients of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychotherapy’s “Living Legends” award) reveal why these therapists are such effective helpers, what makes their theories so popular, and most important, what makes them tick. This unique book lets you “rub elbows” with these consummate professionals and learn more about their theories, ideas, and experiences. Therapy’s Best includes interviews with: Dr. Albert Ellis—creator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and APA Division of Psychotherapy “Living Legend” Dr. Edwin Schneidman—the foremost expert on suicide prevention, suicidology, and thanatology Richard Nelson Bolles—author of What Color Is Your Parachute? Dr. Dorothy and Dr. Ray Bevcar—husband and wife therapists who write textbooks on marriage counseling Dr. Al Mahrer—father of experiential psychotherapy and APA Division of Psychotherapy “Living Legend” Les Greenberg—father of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) Muriel James—co-author of Born to Win and many more! Therapy’s Best is a must read for professionals who practice counseling and psychotherapy, students preparing to do likewise, and anyone else with an interest in therapy—and the people with provide it.

Author : Laura Ellsworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135913307
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing to Heal written by Laura Ellsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this vulnerable population. Choosing to Heal breaks new ground as the first resource to use Reality Therapy and Choice Therapy in focusing on the treatment of sexually abused children. Mental health professionals are provided with numerous techniques and strategies to utilize during the treatment process. Parents, caretakers, teachers and anyone helping children heal from sexual abuse can obtain an understanding of the process in simple and understandable language. Choosing to Heal is a must-have resource for anyone helping a child heal from sexual abuse.