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Mary Kay Andrews (born July 27, 1954) [1] is the pen name of American writer Kathy Hogan Trocheck, based in Atlanta, Georgia, who has authored a number of best-selling books under the Andrews pen name since 2002. [2] Trocheck graduated from the University of Georgia with a journalism degree in 1976.
He published a book with Gayla Margolin, which launched a social learning model of couples therapy. [4] In this model of therapy, partners learn to be nicer to each other through behavioral exchange (contingency contracts), communicate better and improve their conflict-resolution skills.
Absence of felt interpersonal safety in patients. Chronic mood (e.g., chronic depression) denotes an absence of felt safety as regards (a) the precipitating (original) trauma event(s) or on a less sudden and violent level, (b) maltreating-hurtful significant others who have inflicted psychological insults on the individual through interpersonal rejection, harsh punishment, censure, or ...
Inference-based therapy was developed in the late 1990s for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. [3] [4] Initially, the model was developed mostly for obsessive-compulsive disorder with overt compulsions and for individuals presenting obsessive-compulsive disorder with overvalued ideas (i.e., obsessions with a bizarre content and strongly invested by the individual, such as feeling dirty ...
Robert L. Leahy is a psychologist and author and editor of 29 books dedicated to cognitive behaviour therapy. He is the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York [ 1 ] and Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College .
Although it depicts fictional characters, the film is loosely inspired by the real story of Mary Kay Letourneau, an American teacher who engaged in a sexual relationship with a student in her ...
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based [1] psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders and interpersonal conflicts. [1] Evidence suggests that DBT can be useful in treating mood disorders and suicidal ideation as well as for changing behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use. [2]
The mastery and pleasure technique is a method of cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of depression. [1] Aaron T. Beck described this technique first. The technique is useful when patients are active, but have no pleasure.