1st Edition
Handbook of Self-Help Therapies
This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches. The Handbook of Self-Help Therapies summarizes the current state of our knowledge about what works and what does not, disorder by disorder and modality by modality. Among the covered topics are: self-regulation theory; anxiety disorders; depression; childhood disorders; eating disorders; sexual dysfunctions; insomnia; problem drinking; smoking cessation; dieting and weight loss. Comprehensive in its scope, this systematic, objective assessment of self-help treatments will be invaluable for practitioners, researchers and students in counseling psychology, psychiatry and social work, health psychology, and behavioral medicine.
Biography
Patti Lou Watkins, George A. Clum
"The volume comprehensively covers the definition, ethics, theoretical underpinnings, research modalities, and efficiacy of self-help therapies, as well as the politics of the self-help movement. In addition to the comprehensive content coverage, the format of the book sets it apart from many handbooks in the mental health field....As a moderately knowledgeable reader of the self-help literature, I found this text generally to be of superior quality."
-Patricia L. Wolleat, in PsycCRITIQUES, October 22, 2008, Vol. 53, Release 43, Article 8
"With the increasing need to practise from an evidence base, the Handbook of Self-Help Therapies could be an important resource both for recommending materials to clients and deciding how and when to work with self-help."
-Sarah Hovington, in Healthcare Counselling and Pyschotherapy Journal, January 2009