This book suggests ways to use passages from the Bible as metaphors to help clients overcome various issues. The topics are arranged alphabetically with the topic in bold print. The scripture reference is acknowledged in parentheses. One of the important strategies in using metaphors is to allow the client to interpret it and apply it in the way that she needs, rather than the therapist explaining what the metaphor means to her. Prior to each metaphor, I have made a brief comment on how th...

This book is designed for classes to teach hypnosis and for therapists who want to learn about hypnosis. It includes discussions of all the essential elements of therapeutic hypnosis including building rapport, conscious/unconscious dissociation, creating metaphors, the induction sequence, the use of therapeutic trance phenomena, posthypnotic suggestions and the process of ending the hypnotic session. It also includes exercises to practice these skills and gives examples. Finally, it discu...

Designed for students in counseling programs and for therapists who want to improve their skills in brief counseling. Each chapter discusses a relevant point of brief therapy and gives a counseling example to illustrate the point. The chapters also provide questions for the reader to answer and an exercise to practice a particular skill.

A composite of stories and essays discussing various values; some are religious in nature. Written to my grandchildren to encourage them to consider these values. Could be used as discussion starters for youth or adult groups. Some thoughts are purposefully controversial to stimulate thinking. Religious folks who like to think may find this book especially enjoyable.

Facilitating Therapy Groups is an introductory text designed for students in graduate counseling programs and therapists who are new to facilitating therapy groups. The book covers the essentials of effectively leading groups. It contains chapters describing the pre-group meeting; how I lead the group sessions; how I use logs written by the group members after each session and use homework to benefit the group members; the curative factors that are involved in helping the members of the gr...

The Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder could be described as a compulsive personality with affectation. These individuals express an irritable mood and acid; aggression is often grumpy and whiny. They are often depressed or gloomy and feel a perverse pleasure in spoiling the party at all - even to themselves. These individuals focus on the negative things, they are moody and pessimistic.

Why doesn't our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumat...

The encouragement we crave—when we’re most in needOut of the deepest hurts of the human condition, Randy Alcorn brings into clear focus our most pressing questions about evil and suffering—including those that wrench our souls when we or someone we love is victimized by evil or assaulted by disease.He faces these questions with seasoned sensitivity, skillful insight, and a heart of compassion. He dodges none of the difficulties, and never lapses into platitu...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2 million copies in print! • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book.“Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D.In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling ...

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life?The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, ...

Even if you go to church, it doesn’t mean that you are being exposed (or exposing others) to the gospel explicitly. Sure, most people talk about Jesus, and about being good and avoiding bad, but the gospel message simply isn’t there—at least not in its specificity and its fullness.Inspired by the needs of both the overchurched and the unchurched, and bolstered by the common neglect of the explicit gospel within Christianity, popular pastor Matt Chandler writes this punchy ...

The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book!Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoholics -- Drunk and Proud, Lush and Wino -- and their games, scripts and rackets: Debtor... Kick... Cops and robbers... Plastic Woman... Captain Marvel...Ain't it awful... Schlemiel... Look how hard I've tried... and others.His approach is the single most useful tool for dealing...