Routledge Focus on Mental Health
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Mental Health presents short books on current topics, linking in with cutting-edge research and practice.
A Critical Examination of Irvin D. Yalom’s Single-Session Consultations: It is the Relationship that Heals
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
June 23, 2025
This book explores the single-session work done by Irving Yalom and considers the implications of this work for the current theory and practice of single-session therapy (SST). Due to failing memory and decreasing stamina as he aged, Yalom eventually decided that if he was to continue to offer help...
Being a Crisis Chaplain: Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios
1st Edition
By Sidney Dekker, Lance Mergard
June 23, 2025
Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real‑world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit for navigating the delicate aftermath of crises. ...
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective
1st Edition
By Shirley Zisser
April 14, 2025
The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective. The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the...
Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems: Making the Most of Every Client Session
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
April 11, 2025
Most clients seeking therapy want to be helped with specific emotional problems with which they are struggling, and yet many therapists are reluctant to offer problem-focused therapy. Efficient Therapy for Specific Client Problems presents the case for such an approach and details how it can be ...
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
1st Edition
By Ole Jacob Madsen
January 30, 2025
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to ...
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine: An "Other" Sex
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Schaeffer
December 09, 2024
Psychoanalysis and the Feminine presents Jacqueline Schaeffer's understanding of the feminine as a psychoanalytic concept. Schaeffer considers the difference between the sexes to be the paradigm of all differences, and the basis for the repudiation of the feminine and gender theories, those that ...
Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
1st Edition
By Raul Moncayo
November 29, 2024
Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory. Raul Moncayo ...
A Critical Reconstruction of Evidence-based Practice in Psychology: Evidence and Ethics
1st Edition
By Henrik Berg
October 30, 2024
Evidence-based practice in psychology is the dominant regulatory principle in clinical psychology, defining psychological knowledge and its application. This book provides a critical analysis and a reconstruction of the policy statement focusing on epistemology and ethics. The book shows the ...
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life’s adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.Divided in two parts, this book first provides a thorough, but concise, ...
Single-Session 'One-at-a-Time' Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
Single-Session ‘One-at-a-Time’ Therapy: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Approach details a specific approach to Single-Session Therapy (SST) known as ‘One-At-A-Time’ (OAAT) Therapy and shows how this can be implemented from a Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) perspective. Windy Dryden ...
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Windy Dryden
October 14, 2024
The Relevance of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy for Modern CBT and Psychotherapy explores the contemporary relevance of this treatment for modern psychotherapy, from the point of view of a leading contributor. First founded in 1955 by Albert Ellis, REBT still has much to offer the field. ...
Technology in Mental Health: Foundations of Clinical Use
1st Edition
By Jessica Stone
October 09, 2024
Technology in Mental Health focuses on the responsible integration of technology into therapy in a world affected by COVID. Author Jessica Stone discusses the pandemic’s effects on the mental health field, historical fundamentals, and possible future implications. Chapters also explore legal and ...