Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
by Jack Drescher
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Do the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient? Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatizing? In Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man...
New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy
Relational Ground, Authentic Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Gestalt therapists often work with groups. Group therapists from a variety of theoretical orientations frequently incorporate insights and methodology from gestalt therapy. New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy: Relational Ground, Authentic Self was written with particular attention to both gestalt...
The Value of Shame
Exploring a Health Resource in Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame. It examines shame...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This volume provides comprehensive international coverage of neuropsychological rehabilitation. It contains scientific discussions of dynamic brain changes (genetics, structure, physiology and hormones) plasticity of the central nervous system, functional reorganization and brain repair in response...
Cancer Caregiving in the United States
Research, Practice, Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Despite advances in detection and treatment, cancer remains a source of pain and distress to patients and of complex challenges to the loved ones caring for them. The trend toward shorter hospital stays in particular has increased the physical, psychological, and financial burden on caregivers, often...
Clinical Trials of Antidepressants
How Changing the Model Can Uncover New, More Effective Molecules
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This brief guide takes current clinical trial protocols to task and replaces them with a contemporary framework for improving next-generation antidepressants and their underlying science. Innovative models are based on a nuanced, neurologically-informed understanding of drug mechanisms and the component...
Doing More With Less
Using Long-Term Skills in Short-Term Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Confronting the challenge to provide sound clinical treatment in brief therapy, this timely book will enrich the practices of all psychotherapists. Designed and arranged according to the DSM-IV diagnostic categories, each chapter addresses the short-term treatment of a specific condition or patient...
Dynamic Risk Factors
What role should they play in the explanation, assessment and rehabilitation of offenders?
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Dynamic risk factors are the children of risk prediction. They were identified to help practitioners assess risk of recidivism and to set treatment targets likely to reduce reoffending. This resulted in the development of intervention programs designed to modify the characteristics of individuals...
Errant Selves
A Casebook of Misbehavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of behavior disorders. The contributors to this volume explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and addiction...
by Kenneth M. Heilman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Many parts of the athlete’s body are important for performance, such as strong muscles and bones; healthy lungs and heart; and several sensory systems, including the vision, touch, and joint position senses, and the vestibular system for balance. However, the critical element for athletic performance...
Emotional influences on personality assessment
How anxiety related stimuli might affect the self-reported Big
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Diploma Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Diagnostics, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Psychologie - Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II), language: English, abstract: To examine state influences on personality assessments 112 female subjects received...
Cyberpsychology and the Brain
The Interaction of Neuroscience and Affective Computing
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Cyberpsychology is a relatively new discipline that is growing at an alarming rate. While a number of cyberpsychology-related journals and books have emerged, none directly address the neuroscience behind it. This book proposes a framework for integrating neuroscience and cyberpsychology for the study...
Law and the Unconscious
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience?
How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act reasonably and of their own free will, yet some still commit crimes with a high likelihood...
by Jill Savege Scharff
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In this landmark work on object relations, Dr. Jill Savage Scharff addresses the psychological processes of projective and introjective identification and countertransference. She carefully traces the debates about projective identification_the neurotic versus psychotic arguments and the intrapsychic...