Systemische palliative Psychotherapie
Systemische palliative Psychotherapie

Author: Sandra Burgstaller

Publisher: Carl-Auer Verlag

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3849784266

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Die individuelle Auseinandersetzung mit dem Tod ist eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe, der letztendlich niemand entgeht. Wenn nur noch wenig Lebenszeit übrig bleibt, müssen wir uns der Endlichkeit des Lebens stellen. Die systemische palliative Psychotherapie leistet einen bedeutsamen Beitrag zur Begleitung von Menschen mit schweren Erkrankungen im fortgeschrittenen Stadium. Systemische Sichtweisen und Interventionstechniken unterstützen anspruchsvolle Entwicklungsschritte, wenn es darum geht, das Leben abzuschließen. Sandra Burgstaller bietet dafür ein Transitionsmodell an, das Menschen darin anleitet, ihren Selbstwert zu stärken und hingebungsvolle Qualitäten in sich zu kultivieren. Es erleichtert den Umgang mit dem Sterben und ermöglicht eine selbstbestimmte Gestaltung des letzten Lebensabschnitts. Das Buch erläutert die im therapeutischen Prozess nützlichen Theorien, Modelle und Methoden. Es ermutigt professionelle Helferinnen und Helfer, sich gegenüber den Themen des Todes zu öffnen, und inspiriert sie, ihre eigene Haltung zu reflektieren. So wird es möglich, die verbleibende Lebenszeit von Klientinnen und Klienten authentisch und verantwortungsvoll zu begleiten.

Environmental Expressive Therapies
Environmental Expressive Therapies

Author: Alexander Kopytin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1315310430

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Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based" creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in their daily work with patients with various clinical needs. Different forms of creative/expressive practices—such as creative writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music, dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and animal-assisted therapy—are included in order to maximize the spectrum of treatment options. Environmental Expressive Therapies represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.

Paradox and Counterparadox
Paradox and Counterparadox

Author: Mara Selvini Palazzoli

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 1994-08-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1461629918

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Paradox and Counterparadox introduces the English-speaking public to the first results of a research plan drawn up my the Milan Center for Family Studies at the end of 1971 and put into practice at the beginning of 1972. The book reports the therapeutic work carried out by the authors with fifteen families, five with children presenting serious psychotic disturbances, and ten with young adults diagnosed as schizophrenics in acute phase. Though accepting the Bleulerian term schizophrenia, by now in general use, the authors have used it to indicate not the sickness of an individual–as in the traditional medical model–but a peculiar pattern of communication inseparable from the other patterns of communication observable in the natural group (in this case, the family) in which it manifests itself. Starting from the position that modern sciences concerned with communication emphasize the central role of paradox as the source of paralyzing disturbances as well as of creative transformations, the authors demonstrate that it is possible to intervene in a family in schizophrenic transaction by devising original and paradoxical methods in order to release the action-pattern from disturbance to transformation. The counterparadoxes generated in this process, illustrated through a great number of examples, are rigorously analyzed in accordance with the conceptual models provided by general systems theory, by cybernetics, and by the pragmatics of human communication. The reader will recognize, in the cases presented, the stimulating originality and efficacy of this approach, one whose interest exceeds the purely clinical and which offers new points of departure for an ecologic vision of human relationships. A Jason Aronson Book

The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics

Author: Manuel Trachsel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 1168

ISBN-13: 0198817339

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The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics explores a whole range of ethical issues in the heterogenous field of psychotherapy. It will be an essential book for psychotherapists in clinical practice and valuable for those professionals providing mental health services beyond psychology and medicine, including counsellors and social workers.

Systemic Constellations
Systemic Constellations

Author: Damian Janus

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1793627460

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In Systemic Constellations: Theory, Practice, and Applications, Damian Janus examines systemic constellations, a breakthrough method of psychotherapy, coaching, and consulting developed by Bert Hellinger. Janus examines numerous case studies and addresses the broad potential of Hellinger’s approach for improving clients’ mental and physical health as well as for solving various issues of businesses and organizations.

Meaning-centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Meaning-centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Author: William S. Breitbart

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0199837252

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Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients is a highly effective intervention for advanced cancer patients, developed and tested in randomized controlled trials by Breitbart and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. This treatment manual for group therapy provides clinicians in the oncology and palliative care settings a highly effective, brief, structured intervention shown to be effective in helping patients sustain meaning, hope and quality of life.

Community Series in Mental Illness, Culture, and Society: Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic, volume VIII
Community Series in Mental Illness, Culture, and Society: Dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic, volume VIII

Author: Mohammadreza Shalbafan

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-06-21

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 2832550568

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The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted many areas of our lives, including mental health. Lockdown and physical distancing measures have been one major effective intervention to counter the spread of the virus and reduce the impact of the disease. However, they have negatively impacted mental well-being and behaviors, either triggering the onset of new psychiatric symptoms and diseases or amplifying pre-existing ones. The pandemic and lockdown measures have also been associated with reduced access to treatment and facilities all over the world, further worsening mental health outcomes. The impact on mental health, although universal, varied between nations. Cultural and societal variables, including norms, values, religion, and stigma have played an important role in shaping COVID-19-related mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, grief, psychosis, and addiction. These sociocultural factors have also molded how mental health interventions are tailored and provided. Highlighting the intertwining relationship between the pandemic, mental health, and sociocultural factors are essential to managing emerging mental health symptoms adequately.

Dignity Therapy
Dignity Therapy

Author: Harvey Max Chochinov

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-04

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0195176219

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Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Dignity therapy, a psychological intervention developed by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and his internationally lauded research group, has been designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as they grapple with the reality of life drawing to a close. In the first book to lay out the blueprint for this unique and meaningful intervention, Chochinov addresses one of the most important dimensions of being human. Being alive means being vulnerable and mortal; he argues that dignity therapy offers a way to preserve meaning and hope for patients approaching death. With history and foundations of dignity in care, and step by step guidance for readers interested in implementing the program, this volume illuminates how dignity therapy can change end-of-life experience for those about to die - and for those who will grieve their passing.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully
Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully

Author: Gary Rodin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190236442

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Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully provides valuable insight into the experience of patients and families living with advanced cancer and describes a novel psychotherapeutic approach to help them live meaningfully, while also facing the threat of mortality. Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully, also known by the acronym CALM, is a brief supportive-expressive intervention that can be delivered by a wide range of trained healthcare providers as part of cancer care or early palliative care. The authors provide an overview of the clinical experience and research that led to the development of CALM, a clear description of the intervention, and a manualized guide to aid in its delivery. Situated in the context of early palliative care, this text is destined to be become essential reading for healthcare professionals engaged in providing psychological support to patients and their families who face the practical and profound problems of advanced disease.

PTSD in Children and Adolescents
PTSD in Children and Adolescents

Author: Spencer Eth

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2008-08-13

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1585627933

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PTSD is a recently named psychiatric condition that unknown before the publication of DSM-III in 1980. The creation of this diagnosis was intensely controversial, and there continued to be considerable reluctance to apply the term to children. The 1985 landmark volume, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children, edited by Spencer Eth and Robert Pynoos, helped establish the validity of this condition during childhood. Now Spencer Eth has edited PTSD in Children and Adolescents, a work that brings the field of childhood trauma in to the new century by offering fresh insights on five major topic areas in child and adolescent PTSD: Techniques for comprehensive evaluation -- details recently developed diagnostic instruments and rating scales that measure the variety and severity of traumatic symptoms in children and adolescents. Forensic aspects of traumatized children -- surveys legally pertinent issues, including abuse, reliability of traumatic memories, and credibility of child victims. Juvenile offenders and incarcerated youth -- examines the role of trauma in the lives of juvenile offenders, noting that the victimization of delinquents must be specifically addressed in order for an integrated approach to treatment to achieve effective rehabilitation. Biological treatment strategies -- systematically reviews the important role of medications for PTSD in clinical practice, including such topics as biological dysregulation, target symptoms, and the inclusion of drugs into the biopsychosocial treatment plan. The relationship between exposure to trauma in childhood and the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood -- presents current research on the long-term prognosis of traumatized children and adolescents by analyzing the association between early traumatic exposure, biological substrates, and subsequent symptomatic morbidity. Mental health practitioners and trainees, as well as attorneys, pediatricians, and school personnel, will find this thoroughly annotated volume an invaluable roadmap in their journey toward understanding PTSD and discovering more effective treatments for traumatized children and adolescents. With its eclectic perspective and interdisciplinary format, this exceptional reference will also enhance courses in developmental psychology, social work, and education.