Published January, 2007
By Louis G Castonguay and Clara E. Hill
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Insight, or the acquisition of a new understanding, is recognized as an important vehicle of change across a variety of theoretical approaches in psychotherapy. This book integrates what is known about insight, and discusses directions that could help clinicians and researchers better understand this rich and complex process.

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Published January, 2007
By Thomas J. Dishion and Elizabeth A. Stormshak
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Describing the authors' family-centered, ecological approach, this work demonstrates how they examine psychopathology in children and adolescents in the context of the ecology (families, peer groups, communities, and schools) in which they live. It also illustrates how developmentally and culturally relevant interventions are shaped.

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Published January, 2007
By Rodney R. Baker and Wade E. Pickren
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A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.

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Published January, 2007
By Marshall L. Silverstein
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Groups personality disorders into 3 patterns: those that center on combating devitalization, forestalling fragmentation, or seeking alternative pathways to a cohesive self. This book outlines the descriptive psychopathology and presents a self psychological reformulation of how the behavior and symptom patterns represent deficits in self-cohesion.

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Published December, 2006
By Mark L. Savickas
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Demonstrates a narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a ""novel being written,"" and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.

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Published December, 2006
By Peter A. Lichtenberg
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There are many possible contributing factors to depression in this population, as issues of grief, loss, and physical decline are unavoidable aspects of later life. This book demonstrates the author's multimodal approach to treating this common presenting problem in older clients.

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Published December, 2006
By David M. Clark
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Demonstrates a brief therapy for alleviating panic disorder. The author's approach is based on the idea that panic attacks are frequently the result of misinterpreting normal bodily sensations as a sign of an impending physical or mental catastrophe (such as a heart attack or going mad).

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Published November, 2006
By Laura S. Brown
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Published November, 2006
By J. Christopher Muran
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During the course of psychotherapy, therapist and patient engage in an ""intersubjective negotiation"" based on their respective individualities. In this series of essays arranged in eight ""dialogues,"" leading clinicians wrestle with questions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality as they apply to the therapeutic relationship.

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Published November, 2006
By Tamara Goldman Sher
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Describes a session the author had with a couple, helping them understand how the illness or recovery process affects their relationship, and identify resources that will help the couple to cope. This session demonstrates her approach to working with couples in which one or both partner suffers from an illness.

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