Questo autore approfondisce il campo della psicologia, specializzandosi nel trattamento del disturbo da stress post-traumatico, dei disturbi d'ansia e dei disturbi alimentari. Il suo lavoro si concentra su una comprensione più profonda della psiche umana e sulla fornitura di strategie terapeutiche efficaci. Le intuizioni dell'autore sono preziose sia per i professionisti che per coloro che cercano comprensione e aiuto nel campo della salute mentale.
Extends a helping hand to individuals working through the painful experience of being raised with addiction in the family. Using charts, exercises, checklists, and real-life stories of adult children of alcoholics, Dr. Black guides readers in healing from the fear, shame, and chaos of addiction.
Presenting strategies for working with traumatized patients who have multiple co-occurring disorders and life problems, this manual presents an array of cognitive-behavioral strategies for the clinician. It shows how to organize interventions within a systematic yet flexible case formulation.
This book is a guide for individuals affected by eating disorders and their families on how to use exposure therapy to address the eating disorder. Exposure therapy is a treatment approach that involves confronting (rather than avoiding) challenging scenarios that evoke distress. When patients confront these distressing scenarios, although it is difficult for them, they are able to learn that their distress often decreases and they are able to tolerate this distress better than imagined.