Resources and Books for Therapists

Resources

If you're a psychotherapist or a newbie therapist you're going to enjoy this rich, resourceful site. It has loads of training material for any therapist sincerely interested in improving their craft:

Ken Pope's Resource Pages - for information on ethics, forensics and the challenges of being a therapist. Sign up for the listserv and stay ahead of important changes in the field.

Guide for Therapists in Helping Clients Come Off Medications

Books

I hope you also enjoy these selected books. They capture many of the ideas that are illustrated on the site.

The Allan Schore books are perfect for a study group. In fact, his content is so dense and rich you'll want to be discussing and collaborating with others about his ideas.

Dr. Suzanne LaCombe

Books on Counseling and Spirituality

Mind Body Books

Books for Canadian Therapists

Check these books out by neurologist Robert Scaer. To learn more about Dr. Scaer's ideas visit: The Freeze Response and why symptoms persist long after the trauma.

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What others have said about this book.

"The Great Psychotherapy Debate does not break new ground; instead it plows it like it has never been plowed before. With scrupulous care and unquestioned fairness, Bruce Wampold has assumed the mantle of foremost proponent of the 'general factors' explanation for psychotherapy efficacy. This work will reverberate far beyond the narrow confines of the seminar room. It touches the most important policy questions that will be faced by the clinical uses of psychology in the next decade." --Gene V Glass Arizona State University

"I believe this book is destined to become a classic in the psychotherapy literature because it offers a logical theory to explain decades of perplexing empirical findings on psychotherapy outcomes. The book is revolutionary. It challenges the long-held belief that psychotherapy can best be understood from a medical model and presents a radical new approach to understanding why psychotherapy works. Like a good detective novel, the author presents the problem, offers competing hypotheses, then goes about meticulously fitting existing empirical evidence into the competing hypotheses. By the time the reader gets to the end, the evidence is overwhelmingly in support of the author's contextual model." --Martin Ritchie University of Toledo "

This is a fascinating book that is well-reasoned, thoroughly documented, and clearly written. The logic of the author's presentation is persuasive without being adversarial. The thesis is one that will challenge many in the psychological establishment. I will most certainly adopt this book for use in my own graduate training program in counseling psychology and I will recommend it to others. I think the book is suitable for use in both introductory and advanced courses in psychology and counseling theory. --James Lichtenberg University of Kansas

"I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that it is the best scientific analysis of psychotherapy ever written. It is certain to have a sensational impact on the psychological community, and in particular, those scientists who are concerned with teasing out the mechanisms of therapeutic change." --Charles Claiborn Claiborn, Arizona State University.