Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
The Darker Side of Family Communication
The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.
Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars...
The Case of the Disappearing Cancer
And Other Stories of Illness and Healing, Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Everyone has experienced some suffering in their life, often through illness, and, of course, everyone wants to heal. This is a book about healing based on Louis Heyse-Moore's forty years of experience as a doctor, counsellor and a Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist. The author believes healing is...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their...
Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychiatry
Nature, Nurture, Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychiatry: Nature, Nurture, Neuroscience begins with the basic aspects of gene–environment studies, such as basic genetics, principles of animals modeling, and the basic processes of how environmental factors affect brain and behavior, with part two describing the...
September 11
Trauma and Human Bonds
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Drawing on research from a variety of domains - clinical studies of trauma, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal psychobiology, epidemiology, and social policy - September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds addresses especially the fundamental relationship of human bonds to trauma and underscores...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the 1980s, those of us who were involved in forensic psychiatry have seen an increase in the interest in our subspecialty. This increased interest has been from psychiatrists, lawyers, judges, and correctional officials as well. As a part of this demand for our services, there has also been...
Iphelia
Awakening the Gift of Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Iphelia is a graphic novel for the inner children of grown men and women. It is the story of a girl born with a special gift of sensitivity, told through 90 pages of visually stunning images that animate the feeling-level of experience through color, texture, shape and motion, making it perfect for...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This practice-enhancing volume assembles the latest innovative thinking on working with clients who have both mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders. Diagnosis is a central focus of the coverage, untangling the often-knotty considerations surrounding dual diagnosis and the complex issues...
Forensic Interviews Regarding Child Sexual Abuse
A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This wide-ranging volume combines the current findings and frontline knowledge working practitioners need to know about forensic interviewing of children in sexual abuse cases. Coverage begins with the basics: legal and ethical principles, interview planning and procedure, psychometric and cultural...
by Thomas H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Explains the patient's identification in treatment with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences.
"This book is a clear, constructive, and instructive treatment of an important observation. It is also an example of clinical sophistication of the very highest order."
–Jeffrey...
by Blaise Aguirre
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Although mindfulness and meditation have been practiced for millennia, modern neurobiologists and psychologists are only just beginning to understand their full potential for improving physical and emotional well-being. Part of Greenwood's Q&A Health Guides series, Mindfulness and Meditation:...
Uncoupling Convention
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by drawing on two cultural movements of the twentieth century: psychoanalysis and the gay/lesbian civil rights...
Divorced Fathers and Their Families
Legal, Economic, and Emotional Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
This book focuses on the experience of father's lives after a divorce, and how mental health professionals can help them create a healthy transition. Through the use of case examples critical issues are highlighted and discussed with supportive empirical findings and clinical insights. Traditionally,...
Creating Bodies
Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery.
Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and transformation...