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Motivational Interviewing Summary
Motivational Interviewing
Preparing People for Change
by William R. Miller 2002 428 pages
4.26
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Social Work
Counselling
Helping Your Anxious Child Summary
Helping Your Anxious Child
A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents
by Ronald M. Rapee 2008 296 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
ACT Made Simple Summary
ACT Made Simple
An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
by Russ Harris 2009 280 pages
4.41
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Social Work
The Age of Dignity Summary
The Age of Dignity
Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
by Ai-jen Poo 2015 176 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Economics
Social Work
Sociology
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Summary
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
Healing the Social Brain
by Louis Cozolino 2010 480 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Summary
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
by Bruce D. Perry 2007 288 pages
4.58
33k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety Summary
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
by John P. Forsyth 2008 288 pages
4.01
500+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual Summary
The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual
DBT for Self-Help and Individual & Group Treatment Settings, 2nd Edition
by Lane Pederson 2017 278 pages
4.1
100+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
The Mindful Therapist Summary
The Mindful Therapist
A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration
by Daniel J. Siegel 2010 320 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Neuroscience
Trauma Stewardship Summary
Trauma Stewardship
An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky 2009 292 pages
4.31
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog Summary
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
by Bruce D. Perry 2017 448 pages
4.58
33k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
1001 Solution-Focused Questions Summary
1001 Solution-Focused Questions
Handbook for Solution-Focused Interviewing
by Fredrike P. Bannink 2010 272 pages
4.26
100+ ratings
Counselling
Social Work
Psychology
A Secure Base Summary
A Secure Base
by John Bowlby 2005 224 pages
4.24
500+ ratings
Psychology
Parenting
Counselling
Waking the Tiger Summary
Waking the Tiger
Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine 1997 288 pages
4.07
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Summary
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery
Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing
by Babette Rothschild 2010 192 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Summary
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Basics and Beyond
by Judith S. Beck 2020 1088 pages
4.22
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Social Work
The Reality Slap Summary
The Reality Slap
Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts
by Russ Harris 2012 208 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Internal Family Systems Therapy Summary
Internal Family Systems Therapy
by Richard C. Schwartz 2019 550 pages
4.37
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Counselling
A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD Summary
A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD
Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma
by Arielle Schwartz 2020 190 pages
4.22
100+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
On Being a Therapist Summary
On Being a Therapist
by Jeffrey A. Kottler 1986 379 pages
4.04
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
Pause, Rest, Be Summary
Pause, Rest, Be
Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
by Octavia F Raheem 2022 464 pages
4.4
100+ ratings
Self Help
Spirituality
Philosophy
The Four Pivots Summary
The Four Pivots
Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
by Shawn A. Ginwright 2022 243 pages
4.41
500+ ratings
Social Justice
Self Help
Politics
How To Do Motivational Interviewing Summary
How To Do Motivational Interviewing
A guidebook
by Bill Matulich 2012
4.12
100+ ratings
Psychology
Communication
Social Work
Attachment Theory in Practice Summary
Attachment Theory in Practice
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
by Susan M. Johnson 2018 278 pages
4.37
100+ ratings
Psychology
Relationships
Counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Summary
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change
by Steven C. Hayes 1999 304 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
Relational–Cultural Therapy Summary
Relational–Cultural Therapy
by Judith V. Jordan 2017 190 pages
4.41
100+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
Trauma and Recovery Summary
Trauma and Recovery
The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
by Judith Lewis Herman 1997 304 pages
4.39
14k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills Summary
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills
A Practitioner Workbook
by David B. Rosengren 2009 335 pages
4.12
100+ ratings
Psychology
Social Work
Textbooks
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation Summary
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation
Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
by Onno van der Hart 2011 496 pages
4.34
500+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen Summary
How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen
Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood
by Joanna Faber 2021 397 pages
4.38
500+ ratings
Parenting
Self Help
Adult
The Primal Wound Summary
The Primal Wound
Understanding The Adopted Child
by Nancy Verrier 2003 256 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Adoption
Psychology
Parenting
Saving Normal Summary
Saving Normal
An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
by Allen Frances 2013 336 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Psychiatry
The Gift of Therapy Summary
The Gift of Therapy
An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
by Irvin D. Yalom 2003 288 pages
4.32
25k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy Summary
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
by Irvin D. Yalom 2005 688 pages
4.20
9k+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Social Work
The Complex PTSD Workbook Summary
The Complex PTSD Workbook
A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole
by Arielle Schwartz 2017 191 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
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