Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Future Directions in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Ours is an era of increasing tension, both global and local. And not surprisingly, PTSD is recognized not only in combat veterans and active military personnel, but also disaster and assault survivors across the demographic spectrum. As current events from mass shootings to the debate over trigger...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book provides a timely synthesis and discussion of recent developments in mindfulness research and practice within mental health and addiction domains. The book also discusses other Buddhist-derived interventions – such as loving-kindness meditation and compassion meditation – that are gaining...
HAPPINESS CALLING
A Practical Guide for Saying Yes to Life's Joy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Nature and nurture work together to create who we are – and we have the ability to develop the best life possible with what we’ve been given. In Happiness Calling, Victoria Mitchell helps you identify the roadblocks that hold you back, and ask why they have such power. In doing so you honor their...
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This far-reaching volume analyzes the social, cultural, political, and economic factors contributing to mental health issues and shaping treatment options in the Asian and Pacific world. Multiple lenses examine complex experiences and needs in this vast region, identifying not only cultural issues...
Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Disease in Adolescence
A Guide to Integrative Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Adolescence is typically fraught with problems, even under optimal conditions. And when chronic illness is added to the picture, medical and related social issues can complicate, and even disrupt, the course of development. The first text geared toward the integrated care setting, Behavioral Approaches...
Psychoanalytic Participation
Action, Interaction, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In Psychoanalytic Participation: Action, Interaction, and Integration, Kenneth Frank argues that the gulf between analysis and what he terms "action-oriented" or cognitive-behavioral techniques is anachronistic and has unnecessarily limited the repertoire of analytically oriented clinicians....
The Social Work Psychoanalyst's Casebook
Clinical Voices in Honor of Jean Sanville
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The Social Work Psychoanalyst's Casebook begins with an interview with Dr. Sanville, who reflects on her evolution as a social work analyst, theoretician, writer, teacher, and leader. These reminiscences are followed by accounts of nine analytic treatments, each of which offers an unusual window into...
by Lora H. Tessman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Analyst's Analyst Within is the most illuminating study to date of how psychoanalysts' experiences with their own analysts affect their lives, their loves, and their evolving professional identities. A gifted interviewer with equally gifted interview subjects, Tessman samples different gender...
Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 3
New Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the experience of analysis. Volume 3 of the Relational Psychoanalysis Book Series enlarges this ongoing...
by John R. Crawford, Denis M. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The chapters published in this volume developed from presentations, and their associated discussions at a conference organised by the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, held at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland in September 1987. The goal of the conference was to bring together workers...
by Marta Meana
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Sexual Dysfunction in Women is a concise yet detailed clinical guide to the treatment of sexual difficulties in women. Written with the general psychologist and therapist in mind and being published with a companion volume on Sexual Dysfunction in Men, it takes the novel position that most clinicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science offers a comprehensive global overview on prevention science with the most up-to-date research from around the world. Over 100 scholars from 27 different countries (including Australia, Bhutan, Botswana, India, Israel, Mexico, Singapore, South...
Lesbian Identity and Contemporary Psychotherapy
A Framework for Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another. Rarely have new ideas been linked to the process issues that arise in actual...
The History of Problem Gambling
Temperance, Substance Abuse, Medicine, and Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This book documents the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders. The book uses a combination of literature review and conceptual and linguistic analysis to explore the way ideas about problem gambling gave changed over time. It examines the religious, socio-cultural,...