This book provides a broad overview of the literature, theory, and clinical treatment of attachment deficit. It discusses its application in understanding the etiology of juvenile sexual offending, as well as implications for treatment. Issues addressed include the components of attachment and social connection, attachment and the development of personality, neurology and attachment, the development of social competence, and consideration of whether attachment can be learned.

The Healing Journey offers guided journal entries to help individuals explore their feelings, their personal history, the facets of their personality, their interpersonal relationships, and their goals for the future. This sensitive and creative personal journal will give readers new insight into who they are and what they can be.

This new series of books uses guided journal entries to help readers define and explore life challenges and stages, past behaviors, and goals for the future. These informational and inspirational personal chronicles are designed to be used independently, or with the help of a therapist.

Each Healing Journey:
* Is written by professional therapists, and provides expert guidance on life problems, personal insight, and psychological change.
* Includes dozens of guided journal entries directed toward helping readers get in touch with their feelings, conquer life's...

A source of comfort and expert guidance

Like a knowing and sympathetic companion, this unique journal is designed to help you work through the painful emotions, thoughts, and memories that surface when you have lost someone dear to you. Written by a professional counselor, this book supplies you with important information about grief and the grieving process. But, more importantly, it invokes the healing power of writing to provide you with a means for collecting your thoughts, sorting out your feelings, and taking an active part in your own recovery.

Acclaim for The...

A source of support and expert guidance through a difficult life passage

Like a wise and comforting companion, this unique journal can help you to understand and work through those feelings of anger, fear, confusion, remorse, grief, and hopelessness that come along with the breakup of a marriage. The evocative writing exercises throughout The Healing Journey Through Divorce will provide you with the calm psychological space you need to collect your thoughts, sort out and reflect upon your feelings, and regain your bearings so that you can get on with the business of forging a new...

Valuable guidance on adjusting to and managing this new stage of your life

When you retire, your emotions, lifestyle, and relationships undergo an enormous change. This comforting journal encourages you to examine the impact retirement will have on your life, invoking the healing power of writing to allow you to reflect upon and interpret your feelings.

The Healing Journey Through Retirement is designed to help you look deep within yourself to determine what work has meant to you, explore what you want when you leave the work force, and shape your plans and...

Make the journey from addiction to recovery From a dependence on narcotics, alcohol, or gambling, to food, tobacco, or sex, addiction is a life-draining condition that can seriously damage physical and mental health and destroy relationships. But whatever the cause, whatever the level, it is possible to free yourself from this debilitating disease and regain control of your life. Through recording, exploring, and expressing your thoughts and feelings about your experiences, as well as discovering invaluable recovery information and resources, this guided journal and workbook will help you...