How to warm up to the clients that stop you cold.
"Entertaining, lively and incredibly resourceful, this book is highly recommended and applicable to clinicians who already have a mindfulness based practice and want to enhance it or for those like me, who have always been curious and want to know how to begin."
"Abblett’s book provides an in-depth look at how we can deescalate things when clients get under our skin. . . . [His] style is entertaining and engaging, and he fills the book with real-life cases and other personal experiences. His willingness to share his own struggles – and missteps – with clients creates a safe space for us as readers. . . . Through the text’s examples I was able to see my own mistakes and consider how things could have gone differently."
"[O]rganized in such a way that every chapter teaches the clinician a lesson. . . . This book has the potential to be a powerful tool for clinicians to connect with their clients, both challenging and not, on a level they never have before by teaching the clinician how to set limits while still keeping a compassionate and constructive relationship."
"Written in a disarmingly genuine, humorous, and self-disclosing style,
The Heat of the Moment in Treatment explores the barriers to effective communication that clinicians carry and how we can carry them in a lighter way. It is packed full of practical and highly revealing self-exploratory exercises, case examples, and easy-to-follow clinical guidelines for working with difficult clients in difficult situations. This book should be required reading in every graduate program for mental health and addiction training. Destined to become a classic!"
Mitch Abblett is a licensed psychologist, clinical administrator, supervisor, and trainer. He is the clinical director of a Harvard University-affiliated therapeutic day school serving children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.