Mental Health category: 18328 books
Recognising Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
A Practical Guide to Adult Diagnosis and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Written by a clinical neuropsychologist, this book is an accessible guide to everything you need to know about Asperger Syndrome, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies and illustrated throughout with over 150 personal quotes, vignettes and anecdotes from clients with AS...
Beyond Trauma
Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a unique regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure--highly focused, directive, and controlled, yet at the same time wholly person-centered, non-interpretive, and non-judgmental. Developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and others, TIR is...
Responding to Family Violence
A Comprehensive, Research-Based Guide for Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The comprehensive theory- and research-based guidelines provided in this text help answer the personal and professional questions therapists have as they provide competent clinical treatment to clients who have experienced family violence. It presents academic, scholarly, and statistical terms in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Now firmly established as the standard text on the subject, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families, 3rd edition incorporates new and updated material on many topics not covered in previous editions, including the use of low intensity treatment methods with families, the use of new technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?
Eating disorders that were once viewed as exclusive to specific class and ethnic boundaries in western culture are now spreading worldwide. This issue is fully discussed in this groundbreaking volume.
Eating Disorders and Cultures in...
Behavioral Interventions in Schools
A Response-to-Intervention Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
This book is a how-to manual for school mental health professionals, educators, and administrators that discusses a series of steps that can be used to proactively manage and prevent many different types of behavioral problems in a positive manner. It incorporates both the high structure and high...
by E. Fuller Torrey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —Choice
E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book examines a range of therapeutic approaches used in prisons and other secure settings and explores the challenges in such work.
The approaches include Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive-Analytic Therapy (CAT), Attachment-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Systemic Psychotherapy....
Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Creating Connection
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the practice of emotionally focused therapy. This second edition addresses the many changes in the field of couples therapy, including updated research results linked to clinical intervention and new information...
by Eric L. Dlugokinksi, Sandra F. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits
A Self-Help Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
What is borderline personality disorder and what can people with borderline problems do to help themselves?
The treatment of personality disorder is a major concern facing current mental health services. Specialist therapies are often not available and many people with these problems drop out of treatment....
Depressive Realism
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive realism is a worldview of human existence that is essentially negative, and which challenges assumptions about the value of life and the institutions claiming...
Personality Disorders in Older Adults
Emerging Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
As the average age of the population rises, mental health professionals have become increasingly aware of the critical importance of personality in mediating successful adaptation in later life. Personality disorders were once thought to "age out," and accordingly to have an inconsequential...
Emphasizing the Interpersonal in Psychotherapy
Families and Groups in the Era of Cost Containment
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
With today's recent mental health care reforms many psychotherapists are being forced to reexamine the relevance of their practices. Economic pressures, managed care, and the discrepancy between what a therapist hopes to accomplish, and what the relative limitations of his or her treatments are, makes...