Here's a video excerpt from this book's chapter on surprising clues from your client's appearance .
Exploring Your Unplanned Pregnancy : Single Motherhood, Adoption, and Abortion Questions and Resources
Search: A Guide for College and Life
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Misconceptions about people with high-functioning autism are discussed in this video. Find an updated discussion in Understanding Baffling Psychotherapy Clients.
If you are searching
--for the right mind-set and skills to succeed in your studies and relationships
--for inspiration and strategies to sustain your confidence and reduce stress
--for advance warning about the things and people that might sandbag you and how to avoid them.
then you have found the right book.
Watch this video taken from SEARCH to find out if your date is a keeper.
If you cannot afford to buy this, email me at jeffduffeymd@gmail.com and I will email you a PDF. It is crucial for you to read this book. I don't want cost to stand in your way.
There is risk in any decision-making process, but a decision about your pregnancy requires you to face some difficult consequences. Each decision has varying degrees of social disapproval associated with it. Each is essentially irreversible at some point. You will have to live with your decision for the rest of your life, so make it your own decision. By thinking about it thoroughly, you will be able to say to yourself that you gave every possibility a fair hearing. Read this book to help.
BOOK OVERVIEW :
Chapter One of Exploring Your Unplanned Pregnancy helps you prepare for the decision-making process. Topics include--· This is your decision--· Reaching out to others--· Avoiding overload--· Finding reassurance-· Accepting your feelings--· Handling self-destructive feelings-- Understanding the decision making process. Chapters Two, Three, and Four pose basic questions for you to consider concerning each of the pregnancy decisions- single motherhood, adoption, and abortion. Chapters Five, Six, and Seven provide numerous resources concerning single motherhood, adoption, and abortion, respectively. An appendix follows the concluding chapter. It offers you supplemental chapters of helpful information. For example, if you are considering being a single mother, then you will find the chapter on assessing your partner and the supplemental chapter on single motherhood crucial. If you are considering adoption or abortion, then the added information in those supplemental chapters will prove useful.
Look very closely in the white area to see the tiny sun. Find out the explanation in chapter 37.
Some psychotherapy clients leave even experienced clinicians feeling stuck--confused by what's happening, uncertain how to proceed, and frustrated that familiar approaches aren't helping.
If you've ever found yourself wondering, "What is really going on here?" or "Why isn't this working?", you're not alone.
Understanding Baffling Psychotherapy Clients is a practical guide for therapists
In Understanding Baffling Psychotherapy Clients, psychiatrist Dr. Jeff Duffey draws on fifty years of clinical practice to illuminate the patterns and dynamics behind the most perplexing therapeutic situations-- and how to respond to them more effectively.
Through vivid case studies, practical insights, and honest reflections on both missteps and breakthroughs, this book offers:
-Clear ways to make sense of confusing or difficult patients and the countertransference
-Practical guidance for recognizing treatment resistance and hidden emotional dynamics
-Strategies for understanding complex histories and impasses in psychotherapy
-Approaches to working with dissociation, autism, and profound suffering
-Reflections on the deeper relational and even spiritual dimensions of therapy and counseling
Rather than presenting abstract theory, this book distills decades of real-world experience into insights you can carry directly into your clinical work.
Whether you're an early-career therapist or a seasoned mental health clinician, you'll find perspectives that deepen your understanding--and help you feel more grounded, effective, and confident when psychotherapy becomes confusing or stalled with difficult patients that you are counseling. A resource to return to over time, this book offers the reassurance of guidance from a seasoned fellow traveler who has faced these same challenges--and learned to navigate them.