MANUAL FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Theory, Principles, and Techniques

This book is a guide for professionals working in the mental health field. Each theory is comprehensively discussed in the book, which consists of sixteen chapters, including traditional and contemporary theories. These theories are Psychoanalytic Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapies, Individual-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Rational-Emotional-Behavioral Therapy (ADBT), Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis (TA), Structural Family Therapy, Bowen Family Therapy, Satir Transformational Systemic. Therapy is listed as Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Feminist Therapy, and Expressive Art Therapy. In order to provide the reader with ease of reading, the topics in the book are handled step by step and presented from a broad perspective. Each chapter began with the theorist's life; It continued with the basic philosophy of the theory, its basic concepts, the aims of therapy, the principles of therapy, the role of the therapist and the client, the stages of therapy and therapy techniques. Immediately after the therapy techniques, case examples are given that both students studying in the field of mental health and field experts can benefit from. We hope that our book, which we hope you will read with pleasure, will contribute to the field...