Faculty Books and Book Chapters
This is a select list of works produced by the faculty of the College of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University
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101 interventions in group therapy (Second Edition)
Scott Simon Fehr
This newly revised and expanded second edition of 101 Interventions in Group Therapy offers practitioners exactly what they are looking for: effective interventions in a clear and reader-friendly format. This comprehensive guide provides 101 short chapters by leading practitioners explaining step-by-step exactly what to do to when challenging situations arise in group therapy. Featuring a wide selection of all new interventions with an added focus on working with diverse populations, this comprehensive volume is an invaluable resource for both early career practitioners as well as seasoned group leaders looking to expand their collection of therapeutic tools.
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Infants in couple and family therapy
M. K. Roddy, Emily Georgia Salivar, and Brian D. Doss
This authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties.
A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia:
- Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy
- Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families
- Integrative treatment for infidelity
- Live supervision in couple and family therapy
- Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms
- Split alliance in couple and family therapy
- Transgender couples and families
The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice.
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Multiple Relationships in Forensic Settings
David L. Shapiro and Lenore E. Walker
Psychologists performing forensic evaluations are usually urged to avoid multiple relationships such as that of being both a therapist and a forensic evaluator, on the same case, for several reasons. First, the methodology in each kind of relationship is different. The therapist works within the framework of a treatment alliance, trying to help the patient or client to deal with various difficulties as the client sees them. As such, the therapist depends on the client as the source of information, and, in fact, contacting collateral sources or administering testing to explore level of motivation could interfere with the therapeutic relationship, especially in psychodynamic, humanistic, and other types of treatments. In contrast, a forensic evaluation should be atheoretical, objective, and neutral, and rely on the integration of multiple sources of data, which of course, therapy does not. Even if a therapist is asked by a client or patient to testify on his or her behalf in a court proceeding, in many cases, it may be wisest to avoid doing so, since questions could come up on cross-examination that could significantly interfere with the therapeutic relationship or even be harmful to the client (Eisner, 2010; Reid, 1998). For instance, a question about whether or not there was an assessment for malingering posed to a therapist who is testifying at his or her client’s request would probably not have a definitive answer, since such an assessment may be inconsistent with the supportive nature of therapy. The therapist would need to answer based only on clinical data since there was no objective, scientific test administered to determine malingering. Thus, the therapist cannot really be sure about whether or not the client is exaggerating or even lying. This could wreak havoc with future therapeutic contact.
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Evolutionary psychology: How our biology affects what we think and do
Valerie G. Starratt
This book considers the complexities of human nature from a biological, psychological, and evolutionary standpoint and demonstrates how common modern behaviors can be traced back to early man.
• Introduces evolutionary psychology through a thematic, chapter-based format
• Explores one of the fastest-growing subfields in psychology today and presents contemporary debates that foster critical thinking skills
• Showcases high-interest information through engaging sidebars
• Defines unfamiliar terms and concepts
• Includes a comprehensive bibliography for further study
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Paraphilic Disorders, Female Orgasmic Disorders, and Female Sexual Interest Disorder/Arousal Disorder
Vanessa Teixeira
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field.
Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches, and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples, and related interpersonal relationships.
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Correctional assessment and treatment: Issues and innovations
R. K. Ax, Thomas Fagan, P. R. Magaletta, R. Morgan, D. Nussbaum, and T. White
Featuring thirty articles by experts in the field, this dynamic forensic psychology reader emphasizes the ways that forensic psychologists and other clinicians apply psychological knowledge, concepts, and principles on a day-to-day basis. Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior, edited by Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol, represents cutting-edge research and theory to demonstrate the ways that psychology has contributed to the understanding of criminal behavior and policies of the criminal and civil justice systems. The Fourth Edition addresses key topics in each of five major subareas of the field--police and public safety psychology, legal psychology, the psychology of crime and delinquency, victimology and victim services, and correctional psychology.
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Academic Integrity
Carolyn A. Berger and R. Outzs
Online Counselor Education: A Guide for Students is an all-new guide for online students in counselor education programs. Students in online environments face a number of challenges that could put them at a disadvantage unless they have a resource to help guide them through some of the confusing aspects of an online environment. Such challenges include the lack of understanding surrounding graduate school performance expectations, balancing graduate school and life, the inability to connect with community members and local field agencies, and various other aspects unique to an online environment. This text from Carl J. Sheperis and R.J. Davis will help students through these challenges and act as an invaluable resource.
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Interventions for children and adolescents with Persistent Depressive Disorder
Ralph E. Cash, Sarah A. Valley-Gray, S. Worton, and A. Newman
This comprehensive handbook for evidence-based mental health and learning interventions with children and adolescents is distinguished by its explicit yet concise guidance on implementation in practice. With a compendium of proven strategies for resolving more than 40 of the most pressing and prevalent issues facing young people, the book provides immediate guidance and uniform step-by-step instructions for resolving issues ranging from psychopathological disorders to academic problems. Busy academics, practitioners, and trainees in schools and outpatient clinical settings will find this resource to be an invaluable desktop reference for facilitating well-informed decision-making.
Unlike other volumes that ignore or merely reference the evidence base of various interventions, this book focuses on providing immediate, empirically supported guidance for putting these strategies into direct practice. Issues covered include crisis interventions and response, social and emotional issues, academic/learning issues, psychopathological disorders, neuropsychological disorders, and the behavioral management of childhood health issues. Each chapter follows a consistent format including a brief description of the problem and associated characteristics, etiology and contributing factors, and three evidence-based, step-by-step sets of instructions for implementation. Additionally, each chapter provides several websites offering further information about the topic. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners on each issue covered, this book will be a valuable resource for child clinical and school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and therapists as well as other health and mental health professionals whose primary practice is with children and adolescents.
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Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention
Terri A. Erbacher, J. Singer, and Scott Poland
Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention and postvention strategies. The authors include detailed case examples, innovative approaches for professional practice, usable handouts, and internet resources on the best practice approaches to effectively work with youth who are experiencing a suicidal crisis as well as those students, families, school staff, and community members who have suffered the loss of a loved one to suicide. Readers will come away from this book with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, think about suicide prevention from a three-tiered systems approach, how to identify those who might be at risk, and how to support survivors after a traumatic event--all in a practical, user-friendly format geared especially for the needs of school-based professionals.
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Cytoskeletal Electrostatic and Ionic Conduction Effects in the Cell
Douglas E. Friesen and Travis J. A. Craddock
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Legal and Ethical Issues in Substance Use Treatment in Groups
Melanie M. Iarussi, B. A. Lanier, and S. Fucillo
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A Gestalt approach to structured peer feedback in group supervision
William Bradley McKibben and S. P. Hebard
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Use of web-based relationship and marriage education
Emily Georgia Salivar, Larisa N. Cicila, and Brian D. Doss
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education (RME) programs. Readers are introduced to the best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective RME programs to better prepare them to teach clients how to have healthy intimate relationships. Noted contributors from various disciplines examine current programs and best practices, often by the original developers themselves. Readers learn to critically appraise approaches and design and implement effective, evidence-based programs in the future. Examples and discussion questions encourage readers to examine issues and apply what they have learned. The conceptual material in Parts I & II provides critical guidance for practitioners who wish to develop, implement, and evaluate RME programs in various settings.
Chapters in Parts III & IV follow a consistent structure so readers can more easily compare programs-- program overview and history, theoretical foundations, needs assessment and target audience, program goals & objectives, curriculum issues, cultural Implications, evidence based research and evaluation, and additional resources. This book reflects what the editor has learned from teaching relationship development and family life education courses over the past decade and includes the key information that students need to become competent professionals.
Highlights of the book’s coverage include:
- Comprehensive summary of effective evidence-based RME training programs in one volume.
- Prepares readers for professional practice as a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) by highlighting the fundamentals of developing RME programs.
- Describes the challenges associated with RME program evaluation.
The book opens with a historical overview of RME development. It is followed by 20 chapters divided in six parts. The initial four chapters focus on fundamentals of relationship and marriage education --program development, required training, delivery systems, and implementation. The three chapters in Part II consider important conceptual and theoretical frameworks used in RME. Part III considers best practices in inventory based programs while Part IV examines six skills-based programs. The chapters in Parts III and IV consider program overview and history, theoretical foundations, needs assessment and target audience, program goals and objectives, curriculum issues, cultural implications, evidence-based research & evaluation, and additional resources. This content covers four categories of effective programs -- design and content, relevance, delivery and implementation, and assessment and quality assurance. Part V presents evidence-based RME with diverse groups and Part VI reviews future directions.
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in relationship and marriage education, family life education, marriage and relationship counseling/therapy, intimate relationships, relationship development, or home/school/community services taught in human development and family studies, psychology, social work, sociology, religion, and more, this ground-breaking book also serves as a resource for practitioners, therapists, counselors, clergy members, and policy makers interested in evidence based RME programs and those seeking to become Certified Family Life Educators or preparing for a career in RME.
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Risk assessment: Origins, evolution, and implications for practice
David A. Shapiro and Angela M. Noe
This compact reference makes the case for a middle ground between clinical and actuarial methods in predicting future violence, domestic violence, and sexual offending. It critiques widely used measures such as the PCL-R, VRAG, SORAG, and Static-99 in terms of clarity of scoring, need for clinical interpretation, and potential weight in assessing individuals. Appropriate standards of practice are illustrated--and questioned--based on significant legal cases, among them Tarasoff v.Regents of the State of California and Lipari v. Sears, that have long defined the field. This expert coverage helps make sense of the pertinent issues and controversies surrounding risk assessment as it provides readers with invaluable information in these and other key areas:
- The history of violence prediction.
- Commonly used assessment instruments with their strengths and limitations.
- Psychological risk factors, both actual and questionable.
- Clinical lessons learned from instructive court cases, from Tarasoff forward.
- Implications for treatment providers.
- How more specialized risk assessment measures may be developed.
Risk Assessment offers its readers--professionals working with sex offenders as well as those working with the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide and Sex Offender Appraisal Guide--new possibilities for rethinking the assessment strategies of their trade toward predicting and preventing violent criminal incidents.
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Risk assessment: Origins, evolution, and implications for practice
David L. Shapiro and Angela Noe
This compact reference makes the case for a middle ground between clinical and actuarial methods in predicting future violence, domestic violence, and sexual offending. It critiques widely used measures such as the PCL-R, VRAG, SORAG, and Static-99 in terms of clarity of scoring, need for clinical interpretation, and potential weight in assessing individuals. Appropriate standards of practice are illustrated--and questioned--based on significant legal cases, among them Tarasoff v.Regents of the State of California and Lipari v. Sears, that have long defined the field. This expert coverage helps make sense of the pertinent issues and controversies surrounding risk assessment as it provides readers with invaluable information in these and other key areas:
- The history of violence prediction.
- Commonly used assessment instruments with their strengths and limitations.
- Psychological risk factors, both actual and questionable.
- Clinical lessons learned from instructive court cases, from Tarasoff forward.
- Implications for treatment providers.
- How more specialized risk assessment measures may be developed.
Risk Assessment offers its readers--professionals working with sex offenders as well as those working with the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide and Sex Offender Appraisal Guide--new possibilities for rethinking the assessment strategies of their trade toward predicting and preventing violent criminal incidents.
