Luciano L'Abate

Gerald R. Weeks

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Theory and Practice with Individuals, Couples, and Families

Paradoxical Psychotherapy

Most health professionals would agree that time and funds are in short supply, even under optimal conditions. Patients, too, would admit similar shortfalls, even with optimal motivation. This book offers self-administered and easily administered interventions designed to promote positive health behaviors while requiring little or no outside funding. Editor Luciano L’Abate continues his long tradition of prolific innovations by identifying major changes in today’s health care systems and explaining how targeted, prescriptive promotion/prevention strategies can enhance traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions in key behavioral and relational areas.

Theory, Research, and Practice

Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health

This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis. • A great variety of references, ranging from The New Yorker to The Economist • Exercises within some chapters and at the end of every chapter guide readers towards greater understanding • Five tables provide valuable supplemental information • Bibliographic notes are supplied with every chapter

Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands

The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life: Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands

Perché la capacità di amare e di negoziare, nel contesto delle relazioni interpersonali significative, sono centrali nella nostra vita, ma trascurate dalla letteratura psicologica scientifica? Come mai il dolore è un sentimento fondamentale, ma negletto e rifiutato nella nostra cultura, che non ne ravvede le potenzialità di crescita individuale e di legame relazionale? Come connettere il rigore della ricerca empirica con i grandi temi che attraversano la nostra cultura e che concernono le modalità di fare famiglia? Il testo di Luciano l'Abate tenta di rispondere a questi interrogativi proponendo un modello del Sé innovativo rispetto al panorama degli studi di personalità classici. Coniuga infatti l'istanza individuale con quella interazionista e si pone al crocevia degli studi più recenti di psicologia della famiglia, dell'età evolutiva, di psicopatologia e di psicoterapia. Il quadro che emerge parla di un Sé profondamente radicato nelle relazioni familiari, ricco di potenzialità emotive, costantemente impegnato a definirsi nei contesti vitali, il cui percorso evolutivo può giungere alla mortificazione di sé a favore degli altri (selflessness), alla negazione di sé e degli altri (no self), alla esaltazione di sé a scapito degli altri (selfishness), e, infine, al pieno riconoscimento e potenziamento di sé e degli altri (selfulness). In particolare, tramite il modello Selfhood, mette a fuoco una classificazione della struttura di personalità, della psicopatologia e della criminalità. Ricercatori, studenti, docenti, ma anche coloro che a vario titolo sono interessati allo sviluppo e alla natura degli individui all'interno delle relazioni familiari e sociali, troveranno in questo volume innumerevoli dati, proposte, stimoli e suggestioni. (Editore).

Il sé nelle relazioni familiari. Una classificazione della personalità, della psicopatologia e della criminalità

Laura G. Sweeney

Writing as a medium of professional help and healing in the various interventional tiers of self-help, education, promotion, prevention, and psychotherapy, and rehabilitation has expanded exponentially since the introduction of computers and the Internet in the last generation. This volume does three things. Firstly, it brings together research on different types of writing and distance writing that have been, or need to be, used by mental health professionals. Secondly, it critically evaluates the therapeutic effectiveness of these writing practices, such as automatic writing, programmed writing poetry therapy, diaries, expressive writing and more. And thirdly, in addition to evaluating the effectiveness of various writing practices, the volume will examine how research-based writing approaches will influence the delivery of mental health services now and in the future, including the implications of these approaches.

Research on Writing Approaches in Mental Health

Sherry McHenry

Handbook of Marital Interventions

Hurt feelings are universal and are present in human beings as well as in animals. These feelings are usually avoided by human beings and overlooked by the scientific and professional mental health communities. Yet, if unresolved and not shared with loved ones and professionals, they tend to fester in our bodies and effect our functioning. If not expressed and shared with caring others, anger, sadness and fear are at the bottom of mental illness. Developmentally, each of these feelings respectively gives rise to antisocial acts, depression and severe mental illness. This book suggests that instead of traditional one-on-one, face-to-face, conversation-based interventions, distance writing will allow mental health professionals to assign interactive practice exercises specifically focused on hurt feelings.

Theory, Research, and Applications in Intimate Relationships

Hurt Feelings

Nikolaos Kazantzis

This handbook is the first resource for the practicing clinician that addresses the role of homework – patients’ between-session activities - across major therapeutic paradigms and complex clinical problems. The book opens with a series of practice-orientated chapters on the role of homework in different psychotherapies. A wide range of psychotherapy approaches are covered, each illustrated with clinical examples. The book includes valuable coverage of complex and chronic disorders. Novice and seasoned psychotherapists from all training backgrounds will find useful ideas in this volume.

Research, Practice, and Prevention

Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy

Four decades of contributions to personality theory and family practice have earned Luciano L’Abate a worldwide reputation for therapeutic insights. Now he expands on his pathbreaking relational theory of personality to apply it to the twenty-first-century family in all its configurations. Personality in Intimate Relationships showcases L’Abate’s trademark elegant style and provocative ideas in his most accessible work to date. Based on Axes I and II of the DSM-IV, the book describes relationships along a readily identifiable continuum ranging from optimal functionality to severe pathology, linking the author’s conceptual framework to specific diagnostic strategies, therapeutic interventions, and prevention programs. L’Abate’s theory not only integrates individual and family theories and seemingly disparate schools of thought, but is also inclusive of nontraditional relationships—grandparent/grandchild dyads, adoptive families, same-sex couples, and others—that are often left out of the family literature. Among the key areas explored in the book: • Selfhood and self-differentiation • Confrontation and sharing of hurt feelings • Negotiating, bargaining, and problem-solving • Dealing with distance and closeness • Intimacy and the ability to love In addition, the reader is referred to complementary online appendices that supply helpful questionnaires, workbooks, and ideas for further applications. Personality in Intimate Relationships offers fresh perspective to all frontline practitioners as well as investigators in this area. It is also ideal for graduate courses in abnormal psychology and personal development.

Socialization and Psychopathology

Personality in Intimate Relationships

T. Mark Harwood

Self-help is big business, but alas not a scienti c business. The estimated 10 billion—that’s with a “b”—spent each year on self-help in the United States is rarely guided by research or monitored by mental health professionals. Instead, marketing and metaphysics triumph. The more outrageous the “miraculous cure” and the “r- olutionary secret,” the better the sales. Of the 3,000 plus self-help books published each year, only a dozen contain controlled research documenting their effectiveness as stand-alone self-help. Of the 20,000 plus psychological and relationship web sites available on the Internet, only a couple hundred meet professional standards for accuracy and balance. Most, in fact, sell a commercial product. Pity the layperson, or for that matter, the practitioner, trying to navigate the self-help morass. We are bombarded with thousands of potential resources and c- tradictory advice. Should we seek wisdom in a self-help book, an online site, a 12-step group, an engaging autobiography, a treatment manual, an inspiring movie, or distance writing? Should we just do it, or just say no? Work toward change or accept what is? Love your inner child or grow out of your Peter Pan? I become confused and discouraged just contemplating the choices.

A Critical Review

Self-Help in Mental Health

This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.

Fun from Infancy to Old Age

Praeger Handbook of Play Across the Life Cycle, The

James C. Hansen

Approaches to Family Therapy

Providing an authoritative review of the influence of the family on individual behavior, this book shows how many individual psychopathologies stem from external rather than internal conditions. Chapters describe a variety of dysfunctional patterns and explore how they lead to different kinds of disorders. Preventive measures and treatment approaches are critically examined.

The Relational Roots of Dysfunctional Behavior

Family Psychopathology

S. Richard Sauber

Basic Concepts and Terms

Family Therapy

Frank P. Deane

Kevin R. Ronan

Homework is a central feature of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), given its educational emphasis. This new text is a comprehensive guide for administering assignments. The first part of the text offers essential introductory material, a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical support for the use of homework, models for practice, and systems for evaluating client compliance and therapist competence in administering assignments. Part two focuses on the role of homework in cognitive therapy, demonstrating successful methods of integration and discussing solutions to common barriers. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all, pre-designed tasks, this book illustrates application of a model with detailed case study and recommendations for adjusting administration methods for particular problems and specific client populations. Over the last nine chapters, homework administration is described within cognitive and behavioral therapy for anxiety and depression, chronic pain, delusions and hallucinations, obsessions and compulsions, marital and sexual problems, personality disorders, children and adolescents, group and family therapy, and older adults. Readers are provided with a full range of knowledge to successfully incorporate individualized homework assignments into their practice to maximize the proven long-term benefits of CBT.

Using Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Laura Sweeney

Brings together research on different types of writing and distance writing that have been, or need to be, used by mental health professionals. This title also critically evaluates the therapeutic effectiveness of these writing practices, such as automatic writing, programmed writing poetry therapy, diaries, expressive writing and more.

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