The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental DisordersLearn 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 Clinician's 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 Clinician's 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 Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders will show you:
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Contents
Approaching Extraordinary Experiences | 17 |
Adjustment Disorder | 33 |
Psychospiritual | 51 |
Psychospiritual Perspectives | 57 |
to the Larger Self | 75 |
Archetypal Themes of Abuse | 81 |
Somatic Awakening | 89 |
Eating Disorders As Messengers of the Soul | 97 |
Traditional Diagnosis | 208 |
An Integrative Approach | 214 |
Conclusion | 227 |
Spiritual and Transpersonal Approaches | 233 |
Differential Diagnosis | 239 |
Recovery As a Spiritual Journey | 248 |
Sufi Ways | 259 |
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Utilizing the Language of Metaphor Within | 103 |
Treatment Approaches with Humanology | 122 |
Conclusion | 142 |
How Many Souls Are in This Body? | 148 |
Memories of Satanic Ritual Abuse | 154 |
Conclusion | 160 |
Humanological Therapy | 167 |
Using Humanology with Narcissistic Personality Disorder | 175 |
Conclusion | 181 |
Assessment and Treatment of Conduct | 183 |
The Case for Spiritual Intervention | 190 |
Spiritual Techniques in the Treatment of Conduct Disorder | 196 |
Development and Utilization of Spiritual | 202 |
Mindful Awareness and SelfDirected | 281 |
The Practice of Mindfulness in Daily Life | 288 |
Long and ShortTerm Effects of Mindfulness Practice | 295 |
Celebrating | 301 |
Beware of False Gods | 307 |
Conclusion | 315 |
Plaques or Tangles? | 321 |
The Phenomenon of Centers Supporting | 339 |
The Nature of Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy | 347 |
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