Developmentalist''s Guide to Better Mental Health - Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas

A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health offers mental health professionals a practical, philosophical, and playful guide for working relationally and developmentally with dilemmas, muddles, and the emotions that accompany them.

List of contents

Part 1: Dear Reader
1. A Guide to the Guide
2. A Developmentalist's Practice
Part 2: 'Dear Developmentalist'
3. Invitation to Wonder
4. Trapped by Language/Psychology-Speak
5. Family Life
6. On the Job
7. Friendship
8. Grief and Loss
9. Aging, Disability, and Dying
10. 'It's Just Me....'
11. What a World!
12. Search for Method
13. Experiential Feedback (Reverberations)
Part 3: Zooming Out
14. The Social Therapeutic Roots of a Developmentalist's Practice
15. Still Wondering? Learn More.

About the author

Lois Holzman, PhD, is co-founder and director of the East Side Institute, the international center for social therapeutics and performance activism.

Product details

• Authors: Lois Holzman, Lois (East Side Institute for Group and S Holzman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032866246
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286624-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Medical counselling, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services