Hubble, Duncan and Miller on What Works in Therapy
For over four decades, the message from psychotherapy outcome research has been getting clearer: the theories and techniques of professional therapy have very little to do with therapeutic success.
Book Reviews, Page 8
Our reviews section focuses on books but also includes a small number of reviews of hardware and software which may be useful for those in private practice.
Medical and Psychiatric Issues for Counsellors
If a counsellor could only buy one book on medical and psychiatric issues as they relate to the practice of counselling, I believe this should be it. Every counsellor and psychotherapist should inform themselves to at least a basic degree about the broader medical and psychiatric issues which may impact upon their clients’ lives and well-being, and this book provides the best start I know for doing exactly that.
Charles Legg: Psychology and the Reflective Counsellor
With an entertaining and thought-provoking style, ‘Psychology and the Reflective Counsellor’ brings basic, straightforward knowledge from current psychology to counselling.
BBEdit 8.0
Among the most powerful text-editing packages available on any software platform, BBEdit 8.0 for the Macintosh fills a specific niche that is under-served by visual XHTML authoring software.
Dreamweaver 8 and Adobe GoLive CS2
Meet the parents of your next web site building environment: the industry’s two leading software packages, Adobe GoLive CS2 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, have recently been brought under one roof by the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe. While probably no one outside Adobe knows for sure what the future may hold for the two product lines, it seems more than likely that the industry’s next top site development package will derive from these two progenitors.
Microsoft Office 2004 Professional (Macintosh)
The latest version of Microsoft’s venerable Office suite for the Macintosh does a better job of delivering elegant functionality than any release since the days of Word 5.1. Is it enough to enable Mac OS X-based practitioners to interoperate seamlessly in a Windows-dominated world? And is the full Office suite necessary for the typical mental health professional in private practice?
Dreamweaver MX 2004
If you want direct involvement in creating your own mental health web site, and you don’t want to work exclusively at the level of XHTML code, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is one of only two serious choices for visual editing and full-featured site management.