Books by Luciano L'Abate

This book proposes that clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices could reach a scientific level in this digital age, by changing three paradigms that have controlled practice in the past century: (1) one-on-one, (2) personal contacts, (3) through talk.

'Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers' examines the effectiveness of mental health workbooks designed to address problems ranging from dementia and depression to addiction, spousal abuse, eating disorders, and more.

Workbooks are inexpensive, specific, controllable, verifiable, and can be transmitted via the Internet to be used in clinical treatment, prevention, rehabilitation and research, all at a cost saving over talk therapy. The rationale behind workbooks for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families is explained.

This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis.

This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing. Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children.

This book examines Relational Competence Theory - the study of traits that allow people to interact with each other effectively - with emphasis on its applicability to interventions, and examines what is robust and verifiable both in the lab and the clinic.

This book proposes a developmental theory of interpersonal competence that cites the family as the setting within which functional and psychopathological personality patterns are formed and nutured.

Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost-effectiveness of current face-to-face (f2f) mental health based on talk, and, offer an alternative in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches.