New APA ebooks now available in your library’s e-collection cover topics ranging from:
- how academic institutions can better support LGBTQ+ students,
- clinical guidance to integrate spirituality and religion into psychotherapy,
- and a guide to help students and trainees rehearse fundamental child and adolescent psychotherapy skills.
Recently Released APA Books® E-Collections Titles
Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy: Engaging the Sacred in Clinical Practice
Edited by: Steven J. Sandage and Brad D. Strawn
E-Collections Edition: Full, Clinical
Although once marginalized in the field of psychotherapy, spirituality and religion have now become established ethical considerations in clinical research and practice.
Drawing from diverse spiritual and religious backgrounds, this book offers clinical guidance for addressing a vast variety of traditions and complex diversity considerations in psychotherapy.
This text uses strategies and in-depth case descriptions to serve as a guide for therapists and clinical professionals to effectively integrate spirituality and religion into clinical practice.
Affirming LGBTQ+ Students in Higher Education
Edited by: David P. Rivera, Roberto L. Abreu, and Kirsten A. Gonzalez
E-Collections Edition: Full, Academic
This book will guide institutions of higher learning in making practical and effective changes at many levels to better support LGBTQ+ students and, ultimately, improving the campus climate for all.
For college students with marginalized gender identities and sexual orientations, simply getting through a day of study—not to mention work, exercise, and social life—can be taxing in the extreme, due to the additional weight of minority stress.
However, there are many steps higher education leaders can take, both to boost students’ resilience and to dismantle the very structures that create minority stress. These steps may involve changes to facilities, student health and resource centers, housing, administrative policy, faculty training, curriculum, and other areas.
This book presents research-based needs assessment frameworks and best practices for integrating a broad array of institutional changes to improve LGBTQ+ students’ higher education experience. Chapters describe student populations with multiple intersecting identities: transgender students, students of color, students with disabilities, student athletes, international students, and first-generation college students. The authors also address issues unique to different settings, including community colleges, religious institutions, and historically Black colleges and universities.
Deliberate Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
By: Jordan Bate, Tracy A. Prout, Tony Rousmaniere, and Alexandre Vaz
E-Collections Edition: Full, Clinical
Deliberate practice exercises help students and trainees rehearse fundamental child and adolescent psychotherapy skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
Each book in the Essentials of Deliberate Practice series contains customized exercises consisting of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The trainee playing the therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to a series of client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—that reflect common problems and concerns encountered by practitioners who work with children and adolescents.
The first 12 exercises each focus on a single skill, such as observing and elaborating on play, exploring identity through a multicultural orientation, and addressing difficult issues like safety concerns and sex. These are followed by two comprehensive exercises—an annotated transcript and free-form mock therapy sessions—in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines and forms to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
