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        OPD-3 - Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis

        The Manual for Diagnostics and Therapy Planning

        by Arbeitskreis OPD (Hrsg.)

        The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostic (OPD) is a multiaxial psychodynamic diagnostic system that has become a widely accepted standard in psychodynamic diagnosis for clinical and research use. Numerous empirical studies demonstrate the validity of OPD findings. The clear operationalization, supplemented by case examples and working materials, makes essential components of psychodynamic models - illness experience, relational patterns, intrapsychic conflicts, availability about structural functions - reliably ascertainable.

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        Linn’s Light

        Ein Mutmach-Buch für Kinder mit einer Depression

        by Mira Rzany, Leonie Heindel, Lukas Maelger, Alina Senßfelder

        Linn lives in the land of lights. Everyone who lives there carries a light within them that changes color depending on how he/she feels. Lately, Linn’s parents have been arguing a lot and her school grades are going down. Linn goes out less and less, and she spends a lot of time alone in her room. Her inner light is almost always only grey. She can also no longer see all the beautiful colors. With the help of her teacher, her parents, Mr. Fire-Eater and her friend, Linn gradually manages to take off the grey cloak. This means there are once again days when the light shines very brightly within her and she can feel all the colors clearly. This book aims to help children affected by depression understand their current situation. It shows them they are not alone and how they can overcome their depression. The book provides important information on this topic for children, their parents, siblings, and therapists as well as practical tasks and exercises. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12) who suffer fromdepression• parents• relatives• therapists

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        Mio, the Brown Bear

        by Isabell Müller, Hannah Schmiedel, Noah Willmann, Simon Zerth

        “Whenever I see my uncle, he gets really close to me”, Mio the brown bear tells his friend Rami the raven. At Tara’s (Mio’s mom’s) birthday party, he talks to Rami about the bad feeling in his bear belly whenever he sees his uncle Oskar. From Rami, Mio learns to listen to his gut instinct. The next morning, when the bears go fishing together, Oskar touches Mio in a way that he doesn’t want. Mio summons all his courage and fights off his uncle. The book makes children aware of the subject of sexualized violence. It encourages those affected to set boundaries and to talk to people they trust. Moreover, the book provides practical tasks and exercises and offers important information on the topic for parents, relatives and therapists. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12) who haveexperienced sexualized violence• their relatives and acquaintances• therapists

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        Milli and the Sugar Dragons

        by Deborah Spence, Nina Habermann, Nils Kiefer

        Milli and her friend Lotte are looking forward to a school trip to Hohenstein Castle. As Lotte has not been in Milli’s class for long, she does not yet know that Milli has diabetes. Milli explains her condition to her with sugar dragons and insulin knights. But neither of Milli’s parents has time to come on the trip with them and they don’t believe Milli can do it alone. Lotte and Milli think about how they can convince her parents, but all their attempts fail. Then Milli has the idea of inviting her godmother, who agrees to travel with them. This means that the trip is saved and Milli begins the eagerly anticipated adventure. Milli learns that she can do anything, but even knights need help sometimes. Diabetes is not only a physical impairment; it also has an effect on the everyday life and situation of the affected child. Milli’s story illustrates the problems faced by a child with diabetes and how to find a positive way to cope with the condition. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12 years) who sufferfrom diabetes mellitus• parents and relatives• therapists

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        Affirmative Counseling for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients

        by lore m. dickey, Jae A. Puckett

        A how-to guide to affirmative counseling with transgender clients• Presents the best evidence-basedcare• Instructions for strategies to improveinclusivity• Illustrated with case studies• Printable tools for clinical use This volume provides fundamental and evidence-based information on working with transgender and gender diverse people in mental health services. The authors, who are experts in the field, outline the key qualities of affirming mental health services, as well as explore strategies for improving inclusivity and what evidence-based care with trans clients looks like. They also provide insight into current topics, such as working with youth, the harmful and ill-advised approach known as rapid onset gender dysphoria, and whether and how autism is a co-occurring diagnostic concern. Practitioners will find the printable resources provided invaluable for their clinical practice, including sample letters of support for trans clients who are seeking gender affirming medical care. For:• clinical psychologists• psychiatrists• psychotherapists• family practitioners• counselors• students

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        The ABCs of CBASP

        A Guide to the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy for Therapists and Supervisors

        by Mark Berthold-Losleben, Marianne Liebing-Wilson, John S. Swan

        Acquire in-depth insight into using CBASP with a client with chronic depression Follows a client, his therapist, and the supervisor through a course of CBASP Uses first person perspectives and dialog with theoretical sections Provides prompts and structure for sessions Lists exercises to check understanding Includes printable tools for clinical use Help people with chronic depression using this creative dialog-based guide Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) is designed to help patients with chronic depression improve the negative social and personal impacts of this disorder. This volume, written by experienced practitioners of CBASP, creatively explores the principles and practice of CBASP in a new, unusual, and engaging fashion. Interspersed between theoretical chapters, you will find yourself in the therapy room with Maggie (the therapist) and Chris (the patient). Using authentic dialog, you will experience how the different stages of therapy unfold: How, from their first-person perspectives, Christopher and Maggie experience the application of the CBASP model, and how Helen (the supervisor) helps Maggie to understand difficult encounters in therapy. This book helps you prepare for your CBASP sessions by providing essential information and prompts in a clearly arranged manner, as well as exercises to verify your progress and learning goals. This creative and descriptive approach to understanding the hopes, fears, and concerns of patients and therapists engaged in a course of CBASP psychotherapy is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, as well as students wanting to know how to successfully apply CBASP.

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        Bullying and Peer Victimization

        by Amie E. Grills, Melissa Holt, Gerald Reid, Chelsey Bowman

        A concise guide to understanding, assessing, and addressing bullying There has been an explosion of media attention on youth bullying and peer victimization over the last decade, with cyberbullying becoming more prevalent through the use of social media. While any bullying has serious negative physical and mental health effects which can lead the bullied individual to great despair and even suicide, there are also negative outcomes for the bullies themselves. This volume provides clinicians with clear guidance on how to assess and treat this complex behavior. In this evidence-based guide, practitioners learn about bullying, its prevalence, how cyberbullying differs from in-person bullying, what models are available for understanding how bullying occurs, and the best tools and approaches for assessment of these behaviors. The reader is guided through the most effective school-based prevention programs that aim to reduce bullying, and a clinical vignette gives hands-on insight into how a bullying case in a school is managed. Additional resources are provided in an appendix. This book is ideal for educational psychologists, child psychologists, and anyone working with children and adolescents who is committed to helping those being bullied.

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        Suggestion, Empathy and Evidence in Medicine

        Take Opportunities, Recognize Limits

        by Johannes Jörg

        Depending on their personality, their social, cultural, and religious environ­ ment, and the nature of their illness, patients tend to have a wait­and­see mood when they come into contact with a doctor, and usually an anxious mood in the case of emergencies. The situation is often accompanied not only by heightened expectations, but also by increased psychological as well as vegetative suggestibility. Suggestion and autosuggestion can, depending on the degree of psychovegetative infl­ enceability, activate the self­healing powers through psychological and physiological changes. On the one hand, the author vividly describes how the conscious use of empathy and sug­ gestion in the context of medical prac­ tice can promote a close doctor­ patient­relationship and positively inflence the results of therapy. On the other hand, he illustrates the negative side of the latter, namely as an exag­ gerated form of overestimation or abuse.

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        General Pathology – Compact

        by Rudolf Meyer (Ed.)

        This bestseller on general pathology for the caring and healthcare profes­sions explains in clear, concise and compact language how illnesses occur and appear. Explained in a vivid and well­structured way, this compact text book helps with understanding compli­cated connections, so that situations can be assessed correctly, recognized and acted on appropriately in practice.

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        Community and Family Health Care

        Textbook for Ambulatory Care

        by Daniela Händler­Schuster, Helmut Budroni (Eds.)

        Community­based nursing is diverse and complex. This textbook describes the roles of nursing professionals in a practice­oriented manner, taking into account tasks and processes for their further development. The authors clar­ify which concepts support nurses in dealing professionally with existential fears and self­care. They integrate ap­proaches of caring communities, neighborhood­based health coun­seling, and disaster nursing into nurs­ing work; and they describe nursing in­terventions in ambulatory care.

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        Transcultural and Transcategorial Competence

        by Dagmar Domenig

        This textbook offers a foundational practical handbook on handling multiplicity, difference and diversity for healthcare professions. The first part deals with the social dynamics of pluralistic societies as well as economic flexibility, demographic change, and trends in mobility, migration and civil rights. The second part discusses “transitory categories”, using the example of disappearing terms such as “foreign cultures”, “second generation”, “religion” and “disability”. The third part focusses on “exclusion” through stigma, misanthropy and non-recognition as well as on basic and human rights. The meaning of transcategorical competence at different ages, different living environments and fields of practice is described in the fourth part, in articles on female circumcision, traumatization, migrant children and ageing. The fifth part is dedicated to healthcare provision, with a particular focus on women and men with experience of migration, on people with cognitive impairment and mental disorders and experience of migration. In the sixth part, various communication aspects in dealing with variation and difference are discussed.

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        A Process-Based Approach to CBT

        by Michael Svitak, Stefan G. Hofmann

        This book offers valuable suggestions for psychotherapeuticprofessionals who want to make therapy with their clientsmore individual and effective.The first part of the book provides an informed and practicalintroduction to the theoretical foundations of the process-basedapproach. The authors explain how interactions of individualand transdiagnostic processes form a stable networkthat causes psychological distress in those affected andshow how such network states can be overcome. The secondpart shows how the process-basedapproach can be implementedin practice. Among other things, the diagnosis of relevantprocesses, the creation of an individual process-basednetworkmodel, and the selection of appropriate evidence-based interventions are addressed. Case studies illustratethe therapeutic procedure.

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        The ME/CFS Handbook

        Patient-centred Care and Interprofessional Recommendations for Action

        by Lotte Habermann-Horstmeier

        This comprehensive handbook offers medical profession-als and caregivers a clear, research-based understanding of ME/CFS and how to ensure patient-centered care. Cov-ering diagnosis, symptom management, and interdiscipli-nary approaches, it also gives voice to patient experiences and highlights supportive care strategies. • Evidence-based care for ME/CFS patients • Guidance on diagnosis, comorbidities, and treatment • Interdisciplinary support and patient perspectives

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        Just because I can´t fly

        A Story About Bullying and Finding Your Own Strengths

        by Nathalie Aoun, Seline Kwasny, Liv Trine Sallander

        When Pablo the penguin is mocked for not fl ying, he feels small – until a new friend helps him discover his unique strengths. This heartfelt story gently addresses bullying and self-worth, offering children tools to build conf dence and resilience through practical exercises and emotional support. • Story-based support for bullying situations • Encourages self-worth and inner strength • Includes exercises for children and caregivers

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        Moths in the Mind

        A Way out of Anorexia

        by Hanah Zacher

        “Negative thoughts swarm like moths in my mind.” Linn’sstory shows how anorexia can silently take hold – long beforeit’s recognized. This powerful graphic novel exploresbody image, belonging, and self-worth with raw honesty.An expert section by psychologist Guy Bodenmann offersaccessible guidance on eating disorders. • Poignant graphic novel on anorexia’s slow onset• Honest insights into self-doubt and identity• Expert info on eating disorders included

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        How Does a Relationship Work?

        63 Answers to Questions About Love and Partnership

        by Ursina Donatsch

        From dating dilemmas to long-term love, this Q&A-styleguide offers clear, practical answers to real relationshipquestions. Grounded in therapy and daily life, it helps readersnavigate common challenges, strengthen connection,and build lasting relational skills – one insightful questionat a time. • Real-life answers from a seasoned couples therapist• Practical tools for every phase of a relationship• Easy to dip into – no cover-to-cover reading required

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        Optimizing CBT for PTSD

        by Lily Brown

        M aximize CBT with survivors of trauma. Helping clients heal from trauma – this evidence-based guide shows how to apply CBT effectively for PTSD. With step-by-step in-structions for key techniques like exposure and cognitive processing, it also addresses broader support needs and therapist self-care to ensure sustainable, compassionate practice. • CBT strategies for PTSD with clear guidance • Tools for trauma recovery and clinical challenges • Includes resources for clients and therapists alike

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        Movies, Miniseries and Multiculturalism

        Using Films and Television to Understand Culture and Social Justice

        by Lillian Comas-Diaz / Rehman Abdulrehman / Danny Wedding

        A powerful guide to understanding cultural identity and bias – through f lm and TV. This practical book uses com-pelling scenes to raise awareness for racism, patriarchy, and social justice while helping readers refl ect on their own perspectives. With relatable examples and thoughtful prompts, it offers accessible insights into multicultural living and the emotional impact of media narratives. • Uses movies and shows to teach cultural awareness • Practical tools for refl ection and growth • Tackles identity, bias, and belonging

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