Describes how therapists can combine multicultural theory with their own lived experience to meaningfully engage clients in issues of culture. The authors of this book recommend that mental health practitioners focus not on what they have learned in previous clinical or educational settings, but on what they don't know about the client who sits across from them.

In this second edition of his guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers.

This essential primer on rational emotive behaviour therapy, amply illustrated with case examples featuring diverse clients, is perfect for graduate students studying theories of therapy and counselling, as well as for seasoned practitioners interested in understanding how this approach has evolved and how it might be used in their practice.

Demonstrates a frequently used system of psychotherapy: using a case conceptualization as a guide for choosing which standard cognitive-behavioral interventions to apply, and adopting an active approach to helping clients solve problems. This work covers overcoming fears through the use of exposure exercises and other strategies.

Following a police shooting, two families - one White and one Black - discuss the event, its aftermath, and what they can do to help.

Provides in-depth coverage of APA's 2017 Multicultural Guidelines, teaching students and professionals how to apply them in clinical practice, education, research, and consultation. The authors expand the scope of the original document to create an even more thorough and easy-to-read advice for developing cultural competence.

Articulates a clear four-phase framework for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating multilevel community health promotion interventions that target individual, physical, and social environments. Each phase is described in thorough detail and accompanied by in-depth examples.

In transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy (EFT-T) therapists target deep core emotional vulnerability that underlie depression, anxiety and related disorders. The book presents the theoretical underpinnings of EFT-T, and offers a clinical guide that describes specific techniques to use with emotionally overwhelmed or restricted clients.