Family Desk Reference to Psychology : Practical, Expert Counseling Advice at Your Fingertips!

This is the first psychology self-help book to cover all of the most important common personal problems and describe how to solve them in very simple, practical terms. It brings psychology's most up-to-date, useful advice and describes things in easy language so anyone can use it as a handbook and benefit. Besides the standard counseling information taught in schools for psychologists, the author has gathered the best guidance from new scholarly books for psychologists on each area of human life problems, recent research studies reported in technical journals and periodicals, and hundreds of new counseling manuals, self-help books, and psychology texts.

National Mental Health Association: “An easy-to-read reference ... enlightened and comprehensive ... very interesting and informative ... terrific understanding, compassion, and clinical knowledge”

National Self-Help Clearinghouse: “a bountiful source of information ... no-nonsense solutions to problems. Use it as a guide to better emotional health.”

American Mental Health Counselors Association: “an enjoyable and easy read ... I would recommend it to consumers, students, clergy, teachers, and volunteers ... particularly telling about the dangerously wide range of actual expertise and effectiveness of treatments”

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy: “Highly recommended ... immensely beneficial ... child rearing is discussed with utmost sensitivity and know-how ... a tribute to the field of psychology ... a balm for those who suffer.”

Science Books & Films: “ an ideal gift for young adults, newlyweds, young parents, or anyone facing change in their life. ... Parental concerns from infancy throughout adolescence are addressed with clarity. ... provides a balanced presentation of controversial and sensitive issues.”

International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, and Psychotherapy: “remarkable ... practical and useful ... designed to be used by the layperson, but a useful guide for the practicing clinician.”

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Author and Counseling Psychologist Chuck Falcon has over 25 years experience working with psychiatric patients and is an Adjunct Faculty member of Delgado Community College in New Orleans. His first book, Happiness and Personal Problems, sold to 3 book clubs (Behavioral Science Book Service, Nurse's Book Club, and Executive Program Book Club), sold Russian translation rights, and led to TV and radio shows across the country, including syndicated networks with hundreds of stations and millions of listeners.

The author worked with an incest abusers group for 5 years and has worked with deaf and deaf-blind clients at the Deaf Action Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, with psychiatric inpatients and outpatients, alcoholics, and veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, with deaf psychiatric inpatients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C., teenage and child psychiatric patients at Sagamore Hills Children's Psychiatric Hospital (now Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital) in Northfield, Ohio, mentally disabled and autistic children at Weaver School in Akron, Ohio, and drug addicts at both the Corner Drugstore in Gainesville, Florida and Akron's House Extending Aid on Drugs in Akron, Ohio.