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Holistic Treatment in Mental Health: A Handbook of Practitioners' Perspectives
The first of its kind, this guidebook provides an overview of clinical holistic interventions for mental-health practitioners. Submissions from 21 contributors, including Dr. Serlin, examine the validity of different methods and provide information on credentialed training and licensure requirements necessary for legal and ethical practice. Co-edited by Cheryl L. Fracasso, Stanley Krippner and Harris L. Friedman with a foreword by Kirwan Rockefeller. Read Dr. Serlin's chapter Read review Order online from McFarland Books, Amazon, or Book Depository 
Integrated Care for the Traumatized
"... a must-have for clinicians and researchers involved in trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, and post traumatic growth." New models of Whole Person integrated care for the traumatized. Co-edited by Ilene Serlin, Stanley Krippner and Kirwan Rockefeller with a foreword by Charles Figley. Read chapter Read reviews: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 (in Turkish) Order online 
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing
Contains a chapter, Dance/Movement Therapy and Breast Cancer Care, by Ilene Serlin, Nancy Goldov, and Erika Hansen. Read chapter Read review 
Whole Person Healthcare: The Arts and Health
The third volume of this well-respected series. Now available in paperback. More info 
Compassion Fatigue and Regeneration: Whole Person Psychology Tool Kits
Caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue are becoming major challenges among healthcare professionals. More info 
Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, Second Edition
The second edition of this landmark book features 13 new chapters and 23 new contributors as well as thoroughly updated original chapters. It includes two chapters co-authored by Dr. Serlin and Dr. Eleanor Criswell: • "Humanistic Psychology and Women" Read chapter • "Humanistic Psychology, Mind/Body Medicine, and Whole Person Healthcare" Read chapter 
Kinesthetic Imagining
In B.E. Thompson & R.A. Neimeyer (Eds.), Grief and the expressive arts: Practices for creating meaning. New York: Routledge. Dr. Serlin's chapter in this newly released book features the poignant story of an Israeli woman who endured war-related losses and challenging personal experiences. Read chapter 
Expressive and Creative Arts Therapies
In Harris L. Friedman & Glenn Hartclius (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Read chapter 
Whole Person Healthcare
"...a glimpse into the future of healing. It is a magnificent effort, bringing together authorities who have made landmark contributions in fashioning a form of healthcare that honors all we are—body, mind, spirit." More info Peer review 2nd peer review 
The History of Existential-Humanistic and Existential-Integrative Therapy
In Emmy van Deurzen (Ed. in Chief), The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2019 Read chapter 
KinAesthetic Imagining: A TED-style talk given by Dr. Serlin to the Society for Humanistic Psychology at San Francisco State University on March 19, 2016 Watch now 
Humanistic Psychology for the 21st Century and Beyond — an online introductory course on Humanistic Psychology
co-developed by Ilene Serlin, PhD and Sage de Beixedon Breslin, PhD.
4 CE credits. More info For a full description and to enroll, visit zurinstitute.com. 
Dr. Serlin talks about her work with trauma with Seda Guney, Dance and Movement Psychotherapist of the Turkish art therapy association, Sanat Psikoterapileri Derneği.
(Note that the website is in Turkish but the interview is in English.)
View video What Sustains Me 
Simona Aronow and Ilene Serlin discuss how spiritual practice and the practice of movement and body mindfulness can go hand in hand. Listen online Psychotherapy and the Arts newsletter 
Dr. Serlin co-edits this quarterly newsletter for the community of humanistic psychologists interested in psychotherapy and the arts.
Welcome from the editors Read an article Embodiment in Existential/Humanistic Psychology in China In this article in the Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter, Dr. Serlin describes the Art of Embodiment therapeutic process and how she offered it at a workshop in China – and then went on to set a two-year training program there. Read article Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dance Movement Therapy 
Dr. Serlin's article about her Dance Movement Therapy training in Amman in the APA Trauma Psychology journal.
Read article Psychology Today blog Dr. Serlin hosts a blog at Psychology Today online. 
A few articles: • The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump — Should mental health professionals get involved with diagnosing the president? • Lead by Listening — How humility, openness and listening is better than a sense of knowing • Word Matters — Cultivating kindness in an age of rage • The Power of Dance to Work with Trauma — Some events are too terrible for words • Dancing Away Dementia — New research shows that dancing reduces incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's |
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