Happiness, healing, enhancement: your casebook collection for applying positive psychology in therapy

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.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-29115-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 30/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés