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Displaying items by tag: Challenging Clients & Treatment Populations
Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and others with chronic problems often leave their therapists feeling paralyzed and ineffective--no matter how hard you huff and they puff, you can't blow the problem down...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Adolescents rarely come to therapy of their own choice and often don't care to talk about their problems with adults...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Secrets can be like ghosts haunting a family, a veiled threat that can't quite be seen or confronted...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
In this unusual Reading Course, six noted clinicians examine the question of what happens when a client challenges the therapist's core assumptions about change and forces him or her to step out of their personal and professional comfort zone...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
In America, almost everybody has peculiar eating habits, and almost everybody exhibits some little or not-so-little food excesses and fetishes...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
Aging triggers identity issues as powerful as those of adolescence, at a time when we're also coping with critical life-cycle changes, such as our children leaving home, our parents getting ill or dying, physical and financial worries, and retirement...
CE Credits: 3 • Price: $39
As therapists, we often see middle-aged clients who feel a restless sense of regret that they’ve never really followed their dreams or fully lived their lives and our job is to help them explore unlived possibilities within themselves...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
There aren’t many issues that strain the fabric of marriage or family life as much as the chronic or terminal illness of an elderly parent or spouse...
CE Credits: 2 • Price: $29
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