The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook

ISBN: 0789023245

Author: Mijares, Sharon G.

Condition: New

Learn to treat a variety of diagnostic disorders through various psychospiritual treatment models!Increasing numbers of people are moving beyond psychological therapy to seek alternative spiritual perspectives to medical and mental health care such as yoga and meditation. The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders provides the latest theoretical perspectives and practical applications by recognized experts in positive and integrative psychotherapy. Leading clinicians examine and re-examine their therapeutic worldviews and attitudes to focus on the right problems to solve-for the whole person.This essential Handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now sweeping the field of psychology, that of locating the whole human being in the center of the therapeutic process. The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders helps you effectively treat the whole person by providing a practical introduction to some of the worldviews and most effective practices like yoga, meditation, and humanological therapy used by psychospiritually oriented therapists. Helpful illustrations of body positions used in yoga and meditation plus photographs, tables, figures, and detailed case studies illustrate the process.The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders will show you: the importance of a therapists worldview for effective therapeutic outcomenew perspectives on alternative treatments for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, Alzheimers disease, and sexual dysfunctionhow yoga and mindfulness meditation can be used in psychotherapythe use and integration of meditation therapies in emergency situationsthe therapeutic integration of other alternative treatments, such as Kundalini yogaeach contributors case studies as illustration of effective treatmentThe Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders is an invaluable resource for those interested in treating patients with a therapeutic process that is effective, adaptable, and wholly transformational.