Motivation has received increasing attention across counseling approaches, presumably
because clients' motivation is key for treatment effectiveness. The authors define motivation …

REVIEWS personality disorders tend to view themselves as incompetent; antisocial people
feel vulnerable; people with borderline personalities feel powerless and devalued while …

A popular undergraduate textbook on psychology attempts to stimulate the interest of
potential students with the following statement (Coon, 1992: 1). You are a universe, a …

One of the most important developments in psychosocial approaches to emotional problems
has been the success of cognitive therapy for depression. Evidence for the powerful efficacy …

This volume takes a multi-level approach to understanding and treating personality disorder,
identifying core symptoms and problems that many patients share and providing a …

Schema Therapy (ST) proposes that early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) are at the core of
personality pathology and psychological distress, in particular personality disorder and …

Interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is expanding rapidly. Many of those
who are interested in ACT are trained using a mechanistic cognitive behavioral therapy …

Abstract orient the reader to the family of therapies sharing basic constructivist
commitments/begin by sketching some of the distinguishing features and foundations of …

This book addresses one of the most enduring debates within psychology, namely, the
conflicting claims of those who adopt an individual, cognitivist perspective and those who …

This investigation attempted to examine the cognitive schemas of five distinct clusters that
emerged from a cluster analysis of the personality disorder scales of the Millon Clinical …