READING MATERIALS
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Books
News Papers
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
This book is available through the EMDR Institute and is required reading.
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book–now revised and expanded–has enhanced the clinical repertoires of more than 100,000 readers and has been translated into 10 languages. Originally developed for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this evidence-based approach is now also used to treat adults and children with complex trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, addictive behaviour problems, and other clinical problems. EMDR originator Francine Shapiro reviews the therapy’s theoretical and empirical underpinnings, details the eight phases of treatment, and provides training materials and resources. Vivid vignettes, transcripts, and reproducible forms are included.
EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
By Francine Shapiro https://www.emdr.com/francine-shapiro-ph-d/
Discover the essential guide to Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) from its pioneering creator, Francine Shapiro
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Gain insights into how painful life experiences are physically stored in our brains and how EMDR therapy can bring relief.
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Learn how EMDR techniques can be used to address trauma-related conditions, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other experience-based disorders by exploring clinical case studies.
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Understand why EMDR is hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades.
EMDR is fundamental reading for practicing psychotherapists and anyone interested in understanding trauma, healing processes, and achieving better mental health.
EXPLAINING HUMANS
by Camilla Pang |
WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE, JULY 2020 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human behaviour and the world around us How do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people's motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we learn the social cues that dictate human behaviour? Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science. Through a set of scientific principles, this book examines life's everyday interactions including: - Decisions and the route we take to make them; - Conflict and how we can avoid it; - Relationships and how we establish them; - Etiquette and how we conform to it. Explaining Humans is an original and incisive exploration of human nature and the strangeness of social norms, written from the outside looking in. Camilla's unique perspective of the world, in turn, tells us so much about ourselves - about who we are and why we do it - and is a fascinating guide on how to lead a more connected, happier life.
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
By Babette Rothschild
For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.
It is now thought that people who have been traumatised hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed in the symptomatology of post-traumatic stress disorder-nightmares, flashbacks, startle responses, and dissociative behaviours. In essence, the body of the traumatised individual refuses to be ignored.
While reducing the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridging the gap between talk therapy and body therapy, Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. With an eye to its relevance for clinicians, she consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma. This gives clinicians from all disciplines a foundation for speculating about the origins of their clients' symptoms and incorporating regard for the body into their practice. The somatic techniques are chosen with an eye to making trauma therapy safer while increasing mind-body integration.
Packed with engaging case studies, The Body Remembers integrates body and mind in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. It will appeal to clinicians, researchers, students, and general readers.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room An Integrated Approach (Springer, 2020)
By Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco
“This pioneering guidebook fully integrates the theoretical foundations and practical applications of play therapy and EMDR in order to maximise healing in in children with trauma. By highlighting the work of innovative EMDR therapists and play and expressive art therapists and their pioneering clinical work, the authors provide a fully integrated approach to using EMDR in a play therapy context while being faithful to both play therapy principles and the 8 phases of the EMDR standard protocol.
This book provides in-depth discussions on how leading innovators integrate their modalities—TraumaPlay, sand tray, art therapy, Synergetic Play therapy, Child-centered and Developmental Play Therapy—with EMDR and includes real life examples of assessment, parent and child preparation, developing emotional resources for reprocessing trauma using EMDR in play or expressive therapy, and a comprehensive look at complications of dissociation in trauma processing and how to manage these. Corresponding to the eight EMDR phases are twelve interventions, comprised of a brief rationale, step-by-step directions, materials needed, case examples, and supporting visual materials.
Article: Beckley-Forest, A., & Monaco, A. (Eds.) (2020). EMDR with children in the play therapy room: An integrated approach. Springer Publishing Company.
https://www.springerpub.com/emdr-with-children-in-the-play-therapy-room-9780826175922.html
ISBN: 9780826175922
eBook ISBN: 9780826175939
Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
By Jean Illsley Clarke, and Connie Dawson
As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in this book has helped thousands of readers improve on their parenting practices. Now, substantially revised and expanded, Growing Up Again offers further guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their healthy development--and to our own.
Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson provide the information every adult caring for children should know--about ages and stages of development, ways to nurture our children and ourselves, and tools for personal and family growth. This new edition also addresses the special demands of parenting adopted children and the problem of overindulgence; a recognition and exploration of prenatal life and our final days as unique life stages; new examples of nurturing, structuring, and discounting, as well as concise ways to identify them; help for handling parenting conflicts in blended families, and guidelines on supporting children's spiritual growth.
About the Authors:
Jean Illsley Clarke is a parent educator, teacher trainer, the author of Self-Esteem: A Family Affair, and co-author of the Help! for Parents series. She is a popular international lecturer and workshop presenter on the topics of self-esteem, parenting, family dynamics, and adult children of alcoholics. Clarke resides in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Connie Dawson is a consultant and lecturer who works with adults who work with kids. A former teacher, she trains youth workers to identify and help young people who are at risk. Dawson lives in Evergreen, Colorado.
Neuromaternal: ¿Qué le pasa a mi cerebro durante el embarazo y la maternidad? / Neuromaternal:
What Happens to My Brain during Pregnancy and Motherhood?
By Dra Susana Carmona
"An erudite, rigorous but accessible book. Drawing on her personal experiences and solid scientific credentials, Susana explains the journey that gives life to humanity.”
Nazareth Castellanos
Finally, neuroscience supports what women have always known: motherhood transforms us. Thanks to brain imaging, it is possible to show that pregnancy profoundly changes women’s brains, facilitating their transition into mothers.
Neuromaterna relies on the latest scientific evidence to describe the neurological adaptations that occur during pregnancy and motherhood. The research presented in this book, much of it led by the author herself, explores the biological dimensions of “matrescence,” revealing it to be one of the periods of greatest neuroplasticity in our adult lives. Readers will discover the crucial role played by hormones in these changes, how long their effects last, and their impact on health and the mother-infant bond. They'll also learn if there's any truth to the cognitive deficits cited by many new mothers. In the process, they'll gain new insights into the gender biases in biomedicine and, especially, neuroscience.
Eighty-five percent of women will experience pregnancy at some point in their lives. Advocating for a comprehensive approach to women's health means understanding the many aspects of this transformative experience, including at the level of the brain.
Frames of Mind
By Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner's "Frames of Mind" is a seminal work that introduces the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is not a single entity but rather a collection of distinct types of intellectual competencies. Gardner identifies several intelligences, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic, each representing different ways individuals process information and learn. This theory challenges traditional views of intelligence, emphasising that diverse talents and skills are equally valuable in understanding human capabilities.
Gardner's theory has greatly influenced educational practices, advocating for a differentiated approach to teaching. It encourages educators to recognise and cultivate the strengths of each intelligence in students, allowing for more personalised learning experiences. This approach aims to engage a broader range of students by catering to their unique abilities rather than relying solely on traditional methods that prioritise linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence.
Gardner’s work, nonetheless, has sparked significant interest in exploring how diverse cognitive abilities can contribute to learning and problem-solving in various cultural contexts
Understanding Gardner's frames of mind can provide valuable insights into the complexities of human intelligence and the multifaceted nature of learning in educational environments.
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose
by Martha Beck
We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we've been trying to climb out of.
In Beyond Anxiety, Dr Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an 'anxiety spiral,' a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system - the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the 'creativity spiral,' in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others - and with the world.
The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life - one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.
Cognitive-Behavioural Art Therapy
From Behaviourism to the Third Wave
ByMarcia L. Rosal
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315459257
Cognitive Behavioural Art Therapy explores the intersection of art therapy practices and principles within cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) theories and models. This timely new resource examines CBT theory as it relates to art therapy, and offers an argument for the inclusion of CBT within art therapy-based treatments. An analysis of the historical roots of both CBT and cognitive behavioural art therapy (CBAT) is presented along with current practices and a proposed model of implementation. Also included are case studies to enhance this in-depth exploration of a largely unexamined perspective within the arts therapies.