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Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Jan 2010, Pages: 360
Praise for Happiness, Healing, Enhancement
'Filled with good strategies based in research, compelling case material, and most importantly, practical advice, this book belongs in the library of everyone interested in what it means to live well. It provides not only ample food for thought, but for action.'
—Christopher Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Drawing together some of the worlds best researchers, writers and practitioners in applied positive psychotherapy, this casebook collection translates solid science into sound and clear clinical interventions. Based on real case examples, each chapter provides practical therapeutic guidelines, experience, and examples. Clinically-relevant, evidence-based, and replicable, it showcases therapeutic applications that are brief, effective, empowering, and joyful. Readers will get to step inside the thinking, planning, and processing of skilled practitioners as they decide on, structure, and offer a range of positive psychology interventions. It clearly explains what, why, and how the contributing practitioners did what they did, step-by-step. The book is organized into three partshappiness, healing, and enhancementthat represent the three core processes and outcomes in the application of positive psychology. The book is further divided into sections that cover nine therapeutic objectives that include orienting to happiness, instilling hope, utilizing resources, moving beyond depression, building mindfulness and acceptance, and transcending trauma and pain. Novel therapeutic approaches such as ecotherapy, neuroscience, and play therapy are covered as well as fields, including optimal functioning, hope, altruism, goal setting, and strengths.
Reviews:
'If you are a therapist, a coach—or if you want to help yourself and others flourish—then this book is a must-read. It is an important theoretical and practical contribution to the field of positive psychology—and, in fact, to the field of psychology as a whole.'
—Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier and The Pursuit of Perfect
A practical guide to applying the principles of positive psychology in your mental health practice
Edited by internationally recognized psychologist, author, and therapist trainer George Burns, Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection for Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy provides thought-provoking yet realistic and practical contributions from practitioners of positive psychology from around the world who share how they have translated solid, positive psychology research into sound clinical practice.
Organized to make searching for a particular diagnostic category or therapeutic outcome fast and easy, this guide features:
Contributions from some of the world's foremost positive psychology clinicians, researchers, and teachers, including P. Alex Linley, Betty Alice Erickson, Robert Weis, Antonella Delle Fave, Richard G. Tedeschi, Robert Biswas-Diener, Michael D. Yapko, and Bill O'Hanlon
Examples and strategies including a 'Putting It into Practice' feature that illustrates how readers can immediately apply the therapeutic applications covered in each chapter
Building on the proven benefits of the positive psychology movement, Happiness, Healing, Enhancement will teach you new skills that will strengthen your practice of therapy and equip your clients with the pathways to overcome challenging problems and live a full, satisfying life.
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