Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
by Richard S. Hallam
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Individual Case Formulation presents formulation as a process that can be taught systematically to trainee therapists. The book begins by discussing assorted theories of case formulation, and critiques their ability to be applied in real world situations. The individual case formulation approach is...
Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual violence....
Coping Effectively With Spinal Cord Injuries
A Group Program Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
For individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury, it is a struggle to know how to assess and cope with such a life-changing event. The coping strategies that a person employs can have an enormous impact on their mental well-being and long-term health. Approach focused coping, in which the individual...
Coping Effectively With Spinal Cord Injuries
A Group Program, Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
For individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury, it is a struggle to know how to assess and cope with such a life-changing event. The coping strategies that a person employs can have an enormous impact on their mental well-being and long-term health. Approach focused coping, in which the individual...
Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace
Model, Process, and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. Such illness can have serious consequences -- job loss, lawsuits, workplace violence—yet the effects of mental health issues on job functioning are rarely covered in clinical training. In addition,...
Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Filled with vivid clinical vignettes and step-by-step descriptions, this book demonstrates the nuts and bolts of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT is expressly designed for--and shown to be effective with--clients with serious, multiple problems and a history of treatment failure. The book provides...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Second Edition
The Process and Practice of Mindful Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the definitive statement of ACT--from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques--written...
A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities
Eight Domains and Three Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in some cases for the first time. This book provides the background information and understanding required...
Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations
From theory to therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book draws on clinical research findings from the last three decades to offer a review of current psychological theories and therapeutic approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations, addressing key methodological issues that need to be considered in evaluating interventions.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
This volume presents, in an integrated framework, contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal behavior in psychological regulation, adaptation, and psychopathology, and includes both empirical and theoretical research that is central to our understanding of the reciprocal influences between...
Multicultural Neurorehabilitation
Clinical Principals for Rehabilitation Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Designing rehabilitation programs for patients who have suffered brain injury or disease is one of the core functions of clinical neuropsychologists. Ironically, the more that neuropsychologists have learned about the functional anatomy of the brain, the more they have realized how important the variable...
Binge-Eating Disorder
Clinical Foundations and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This innovative scientific reference and clinical tool is virtually two books in one. Part I thoroughly yet succinctly reviews the literature on binge-eating disorder, covering diagnosis and epidemiology, clinical features and course, links to obesity, medical risks, and current treatment data. Part...
by Carlos M. Grilo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Eating disorders, which are classified as psychiatric problems, and obesity, which is classified as a general medical condition, reflect a diverse and perplexing array...
Human Goodness
Origins, Manifestations, and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Human Goodness: Origins, Manifestations, and Clinical Implications focuses on the positive attributes that exist in each human heart. In this volume eight distinguished clinicians elucidate the notion of human goodness and devote their attention to subjects including altruism, kindness, concern, gratitude,...