Due to the changing nature of mental health care, social workers, counsellors, and other mental health professionals are increasingly treating patients with challenging and chronic psychiatric problems. Explaining how to use solution-oriented therapy to work with the severely mentally ill, this text uses case examples to illustrate how therapists can apply this approach to patients with severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other serious mental illnesses. It also features extensive case examples illustrating the solution-oriented approach in action.

Therapists with some existing knowledge of hypnosis can now begin applying their skills in working with athletes. This book contains a wide-range of advanced hypnotic interventions that allow the therapeutic techniques to be adopted and used with athletes.