Full Description
This book offers a holistic, integrative, resource oriented, and preventive perspective on psychotherapy, psychiatry, and psychology. There is great urgency in developing resources and potential in our patients, not only in freeing them from their disorders. Pandemics, wars, international terrorism, climate catastrophes, escalating nationalism in numerous countries, economic crises, a pervasive distrust of governments, institutions, and even fellow citizens, along with a surge in addictive behavior towards social media, just to name a few major factors, have contributed to a notable increase in mental disorders, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, suicidality, loneliness, and depression.
The fully revised and expanded second edition brings together 76 authors from 19 countries and 5 continents, who collectively share their experiences in the clinical application of positive mental health across more than 55 chapters. Twenty-two new chapters have been added, addressing emerging topics and contemporary issues. These include insights into practicing psychotherapy in Ukraine and Ethiopia, countries deeply affected by wars; multiple chapters dedicated to trauma; the Chinese perspective on navigating the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects; understanding the LGBTQ+ community; the experience of online therapy since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic; and exploration of disorders such as autism, chronic pain, death and grieving, and suicide. All authors are practicing psychotherapists in their respective countries, providing firsthand accounts from their daily experiences. Additionally, all 34 chapters from the first edition have been thoroughly updated to ensure the content remains current and relevant. It remains the only international textbook which brings together positive psychiatry, positive psychotherapy, and positive psychology.
Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology: Clinical Applications for Positive Mental Health will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. It may be used in educating a new generation of mental health professionals in these tenets that are expanding the reach of psychology, the practice of psychotherapy, and the scope of psychiatry.
Contents
Part 1: Basic Concepts, Background, and History.- 1. Positive Psychiatry: An Introduction.- 2. Positive Psychotherapy: An Introduction.- 3. Positive Psychology: An Introduction.- Part 2: Staying Positive Through Life.- 4. Positive Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.- 5. Positive Psychiatry in Midlife.- 6. Professional well-being.- 7. Successful Aging.- 8. Life Balance with Positive Psychotherapy.- 9. Death and grieving with Positive Psychotherapy.- Part 3: Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders.- 10. Positive interventions in Depression.- 11. Positive interventions in Anxiety disorders.- 12. Positive interventions in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders.- 13. Positive Psychotherapy and Eating Disorders.- 14. Positive Psychotherapy in PTSD and post traumatic growth.- 15. Positive Psychosomatics.- 16. Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy .- 17. Positive psychotherapy and Autism Spectrum Disorders.- 18. Chronic Pain the need for simultaneous bio-psycho-social diagnostics with the help of positive psychotherapy.- 19. Positive communication in the therapeutic-medical relationship.- Part 4: Special Settings and Populations.- 20. Minorities and Culture: Positive Psychiatry and Psychology Perspectives.- 21. Positive Psychotherapy in different Cultures.- 22. Positive Sports Psychiatry.- 23. Positive Family and Marital Therapy.- 24. Positive Pedagogy and Counselling.- 25. Positive Group Psychotherapy.- 26. Positive Psychotherapy in organizational and leadership coaching.- 27. Psychotherapeutic work with men.- 28. Positive Psychotherapy in Virtual and Remote Settings (Online therapy).- 29. Suicide Intervention from the perspective of positive psychiatry and positive psychotherapy.- 30. Features of the therapeutic relationship in Positive Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.- 31. Trauma counseling and crisis interventions based on Positive Psychotherapy.- 32. Sexual counselling and sexual education using methods of Positive Psychotherapy.- Part 5: Theoretical Foundations and Training.- 33. Theoretical Foundations and Roots of Positive Psychotherapy.- 34. The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy.- 35. Conflict Model of Positive Psychotherapy.- 36. Using stories, anecdotes, and humor in Positive Psychotherapy.- 37. Supervision in Positive Psychotherapy.- 38. Spirituality and Religion in positive psychology and positive psychiatry.- 39. Positive Psychotherapy as an Existentialism.- 40. The Development of Positive Psychotherapy in Dialogue with Other Psychotherapeutic Methods.- 41. The search: A Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy.- 42. Positive Interpretation as a Tool in Psychotherapy.- Part 6: Emerging Topics and Contemporary Issue.- 43. Humor in Positive Psychotherapy and Psychiatry.- 44. Climate crisis and mental health.- 45. Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic with positive psychotherapy.- 46. Understanding LGBTQ+ people's needs in therapy from a Positive Psychotherapy perspective.- 47. Pathways to Trauma Healing Using Positive Psychotherapy: Experience with Severely Traumatized Adult War Survivors.- 48. The challenge of mental health professionals being a refugee and working with refugees - Tools and Approaches of Positive Psychotherapy to work with refugees.- 49. Psychotherapy during war: working with soldiers and separated families.- 50. Positive psychotherapy and dealing with sexual violence, rape, and trauma.- 51. Transgenerational trauma with Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy.- 52. Positive psychotherapy in promoting resilience and hardiness.- 53. Facilitating immigrant adaptation through positive psychotherapy.- 54. Positive Psychotherapy approach for patients with Personality disorders.- 55. Supervision in Academic Settings: Applying the Balance Model of Positive Psychotherapy.
