Building the Therapeutic Sanctuary presents a guide for both the beginning and advanced therapist interested in creating the best healing environment for their patients. Divided into three parts, the book describes how to create a place of refuge that encourages a safe, comfortable and healing relationship and presents a highly useful theory of the stages of change in the therapeutic process--an important contribution to contemporary thinking about spirituality, psychology and family systems theory. The book shows how psychotherapy based on sound theological principles advances the healing potential in the relationship between therapist and patient.

Building the Therapeutic Sanctuary presents a guide for both the beginning and advanced therapist interested in creating the best healing environment for their patients. Divided into three parts, the book describes how to create a place of refuge that encourages a safe, comfortable and healing relationship and presents a highly useful theory of the stages of change in the therapeutic process--an important contribution to contemporary thinking about spirituality, psychology and family systems theory. The book shows how psychotherapy based on sound theological principles advances the healing potential in the relationship between therapist and patient.

Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents “This should be on the bookshelf of everyone treating anxious and depressed children and adolescents. A cornucopia of theory and clinical good sense alike. I will be making sure that my trainees read it cover to cover.” Dr Samantha Cartwright-Hatton, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Sussex This is the first book to offer an explicitly competencies-based approach to the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents. Within it, an outstanding and influential set of experts in the field describe a comprehensive model of therapist competencies required for empirically supported cognitive behavioral treatment. They explore each of these competencies in great detail, and highlight effective ways of training them. As a result, the book not only supports the training, development, and assessment of competent clinicians who are implementing CBT, it is also invaluable for clinicians who wish to gain an understanding of the competencies they need to acquire or improve, and offers guidelines for how to achieve these, providing a benchmark against which they can assess themselves. Evidence-Based CBT for Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents works to improve the quality of therapists working in this area, and, as a result, the quality of treatment that many young people receive.

Building the Therapeutic Sanctuary presents a guide for both the beginning and advanced therapist interested in creating the best healing environment for their patients. Divided into three parts, the book describes how to create a place of refuge that encourages a safe, comfortable and healing relationship and presents a highly useful theory of the stages of change in the therapeutic process--an important contribution to contemporary thinking about spirituality, psychology and family systems theory. The book shows how psychotherapy based on sound theological principles advances the healing potential in the relationship between therapist and patient.

Clinical Applications of the Therapeutic Powers of Play provides a way to link abstract theory with practice-based knowledge and vice versa, navigating the complexities of clinical reasoning associated with age-sensitive, and most often non-verbal psychotherapies. The book invites readers into the world of child psychotherapy and into the play therapy room. It equips them to explore, discover and identify the therapeutic powers of play in action, within traditional and nature-based therapeutic environments. Using embodiment-projective-role, it navigates the developmental stages linking play and the achievement of physical, emotional, and social identity. With captivating stories of hope and repair, the book deconstructs the therapy process to better understand how play facilitates communication, fosters emotional wellness, increases personal strengths, and enhances social relationships. This comprehensive text will help the therapist navigate through the world of child and adolescent psychotherapy and explain the therapeutic powers of play through relevant clinical case studies.