Change for the Better
Personal development through practical psychotherapy
Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on:
· Trauma and Complex Trauma
· Mindfulness
· Relational mapping
· Group Work.
Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
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1) Need: Trainees on CAT and integrative courses needs to learn about the theory and research behind Cognitive Analytic Therapy
Feature: This training resource simplifies complex psychological theory and research in everyday language.
Benefit: Readers can understand how the theory applies to everyday emotional difficulties and scenarios.
2) Need: Practitioners need their clients to work through their emotional difficulties outside of the therapy room
Feature: the author provides a virtual therapist working practically with the reader through various questionnaires, exercises and diagrams
Benefit: this is a self-help text that can anyone can use on their own at home, or in a shared therapeutic relationship.
3) Need: Trainees need to work on their personal development, alongside their professional development and academic learning
Feature: As above, the exercises, questionnaires and pedagogical features can be worked through to help readers identify their feelings, why they feel that way, who they are, and how to develop
Benefit: this book supports not only academic teaching about CAT, but also trainees personal development
4) Need: Lecturers need up-to-date content that reflects recent developments in CAT research and practice
Feature: new content on Group Work; Trauma; Mindfulness; Relational Mapping
Benefit: Lecturers can feel confident that students are gaining the most current understanding of CAT theory and practices