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Member Books and Articles

Books

The Couple Is Telling You What You Need To Know:

Couple-Directed Therapy In A Multicultural Context

  1. Toby Bobes and Norman S. Bobes
    Norton Psychotherapy Books
    List Price: $27.50
    Available at: kolsen@www.norton.com
Book Description:

In our increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that therapists expand their cultural competencies if they are to work effectively with today's cross-cultural couples. This book provides readers with a framework for grappling with the complexities of their own cultural identities as they expand their cultural competencies in working with others.

Drawing the Line: Art Therapy with the Difficult Client

  1. Lisa B. Moschini John Wiley & Sons, December 2004
    List Price: $49.95
    ISBN: 0-471-68773-1
Book Description:

Drawing the Line presents art therapy techniques for difficult clients where the typical therapist-client interaction can often be distant, demanding, and frustrating.  Offering practical and theoretical information from a wide variety of treatment populations and diagnostic categories Drawing the Line shows you how to engage your clients utilizing non-verbal techniques. Additionally, it incorporates individual, group, and family therapy case studies, the text is filled with examples and over 150 illustrations taken from the author's sixteen years of experience working with hundreds of clients as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master's degree in Clinical Art Therapy.

Available in major bookstores, online, or directly through the publisher. For more information or to order the book, please visit www.drawing-the-line.net

Online Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Expanding Your Practice"

Kathleene Derrig-Palumbo, PhD

Book Description:

Psychotherapy is being transformed by the Internet and wireless communications systems. While therapists often respond to this trend with anxiety, Online Therapy sessions are in increasing demand because of its flexible scheduling, ease of access, and convenience for an increasingly Web-savvy population. Derrig-Palumbo helps therapists overcome their anxiety by providing a real how-to guide for bringing a private practice into the digital age. Therapists are introduced to the new digital clinic, instructed in the new therapeutic and business practices they need to adopt, and shown how the skills fundamental to traditional face-to-face therapy are translated when interacting with clients via new media."

Foreword by Albert Ellis, Ph.D. "Online Therapy… is an excellent pioneering book that tells you all you want to learn about it - and more! By all means go read it."

Articles

What Does It Mean to Be Relational? A Framework for Assessment and Practice:
Carmen Knudson-Martin

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Article Description:

The authors begin with a question regarding how to better draw upon relational thinking in making case assessments and treatment plans.

Reichian-Myofascial Release Therapy for Deeper Emotional and Physical Healing:
Peter M. Bernstein, PhD, DAPA, MFT, CMT

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Article Description:

This article appeared in the Townsend Letter and introduces the new modality combining Reichian psychotherapy and myofascial release physical therapy.

Fatherhood is Being Redefined: Sarah Stuchell and Ruth Houston Barrett

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Article Description:

Recent studies show that social concepts regarding fatherhood are evolving from simply "breadwinners" to more involved nurturers and caretakers.

Developing Co-occurring Disorders Programs
For At-Risk Adolescent Populations: William Joiner, M.S., MFTI, C.C.D.C.

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What I did on my Summer Vacation: Claudia Crawford, MFT

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Article Description:

AAMFT-CA member Claudia Crawford was in Cancun when hurricane Wilma hit and unexpectedly extended her "vacation".

The Brazen Head: Jerry Dowdall, MA-MFT

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Article Description:

The dreadful experience of psychosis is terrifying to not only the mentally ill and the family but also a therapist. Yet despite the demons and darkness, there is hope-spiritual hope, for those who suffer the most.

Mothers Who Work: Ruth Houston Barrett and Sarah Catherine Stuchell

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Article Description:

Current research is discovering that women’s working is not harming the family, and in fact there are benefits to women’s working, for themselves, for their marriages, and for their children.  The following organizes and summarizes some of this recent research, as well as some classic research, that helps us to understand how this is so.