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	Understanding Personality Style and Disorder for Pastoral Counseling This book is an excellent resource covering all ten of the Personality Styles and Disorders listed in the DSM-IV-TR. The book lists the clinical description of each Personality Disorder and gives characteristics of personality styles associated with each of the personalities. The book lists trigger points that cause a personality style to move toward disorder. It also gives complete treatment options for treating each of the personality styles when they have moved toward disorder. The book deals extensively with all seven levels of Defense Mechanisms found in the back of the DSM-IV-TR. Characteristics of each of the Defense Mechanisms are defined and methods of dealing with the Defense Mechanisms are also detailed. A Defense Mechanism Checklist is included as an Appendix to the book. Discussion is engaged regarding Personality Cluster Complexes as outlined in the DSM-IV-TR and methods of dealing with those Clusters is engaged. While this book may seem at first to be too technical for the "normal" pastor or lay-counselor, exactly the opposite is true. This is a book that every single individual should own who counsels anyone. It provides a wealth of information for everyone who counsels any individual and will enlighten counselors to potential pitfalls in counseling that the counselor may not have otherwise known. Click here to order Understanding Personality Style and Disorder for Pastoral Counseling directly from Amazon.com. Periodically, Amazon.com offers significant savings on shipping, also.
	Counseling Depression and Anxiety Counseling depression and anxiety are probably two of the most common forms of counseling. In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Robert Tippie lays out proven methods of dealing with both depression and anxiety. In addition, the book contains significant discussion related to brain chemistry and interaction between chemical substances that are often used to "cure" both anxiety and depression. Considerable time is taken to analyze the substances from numerous expert sources. While the pastor or the therapist may not be directly or indirectly involved in the medication of clients, the therapist does indeed need to understand the affects that these substances may be having on their clients since many of the affects can be grossly negative and detrimental to the well-being of the client and to their progress in treatment. This book also contains a significant amount of forms and other documentation that can be photocopied and given to the client for their self-help. This book is designed to help the therapist move a client along the road to recovery very rapidly whether the client is experiencing depression or anxiety. No one who counsels depression or anxiety should be without this informative and educational manual. Date for release of this Manual has not yet been determined. The volume, however, is in the later stages of production and the counselor or therapist should look for its release quite soon.

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