Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
The Electroconvulsive Therapy Workbook
Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) remains one of the most effective forms of neurostimulation for severe mental illness. Sound scientific research underpins contemporary practice challenging the complex history and stigma that surround this treatment.
The Electroconvulsive Therapy Workbook integrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Comprised of papers and commentaries from the Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression held in Toronto, Canada, this volume reflects the Earlscourt Child and Family Centre's commitment to linking clinical practice to identifiable research-based interventions which are known to be effective in...
Sexual Offenders
Personal Construct Theory and Deviant Sexual Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Is there an alternative way of treating sexual offenders beyond traditional psychiatry?
Sexual Offenders explores and develops personal construct theory in terms of forensic and social psychology, and examines the possibilities for sexual offender assessment and therapy.
Rather than...
by Joe Kort
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients.
A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than “gay friendly.” Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This book presents the current clinical evidence on the efficacy of herbal and nutritional treatments for anxiety that is experienced in association with psychiatric disorders, and explains how health professionals can apply this knowledge to the benefit of patients presenting with a wide range of...
Feeling Good by Doing Good
A Guide to Authentic Self-Esteem and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Recent years have seen a surprising shift concerning the concept of self-esteem, with some researchers attacking the notion of self-esteem as being of little value or too difficult to study. Educators emphasized self-esteem's importance in schools to the extent that sometimes it became more important...
Self Change
Social Psychological and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Self Change: Social Psychological and Clinical Perspectives examines cognitive and motivational factors affecting the intention to seek change, processes involved in the initiation and maintenance of change, the role of social networks as facilitators or inhibitors of change, and measurement and assessment...
Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy
Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This path-breaking volume introduces Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy for clinical work with troubled couples. Practice-focused and engaging, it integrates real-world knowledge of the intersections of gender, culture, power, and identity in relationships with empirical findings on the neurobiology...
The Transformed Self
The Psychology of Religious Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book is about the dramatic experience of religious conver sion. The phenomenon of religious conversion lies at the crossroad of several disciplines. As the title of this book indicates, my own interest in religious conversion is not sociological, historical, nor anthropolog ical. My primary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Social skills are at the core of mental health, so much so that deficits in this area are a criterion of clinical disorders, across both the developmental spectrum and the DSM. The Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills gives clinicians and researchers an authoritative...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
We live in a society in which messages associating physical attractiveness with success and happiness are pervasive. There is an epidemic of appearance concerns amongst teenagers and adults in westernised countries and body image dissatisfaction is now considered normative. Large numbers of people...
The Borderline Psychotic Child
A Selective Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Borderline Psychotic Child reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the USA and the UK, bringing the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. Using a range of clinical case studies, the book attempts to harmonise US and UK views...
by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The symptoms vary but usually include waiting until the last minute, setting appointments too late, filing taxes at midnight on April 15th, driving the car into the ground before changing the oil and getting used to the mess in the house because cleaning can wait until tomorrow. Are there dishes still...
The Inside Story
Self-evaluations Reflecting Basic Rorschach Types
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This unusual book was written to provide a glimpse into the inner "Rorschach" world of individuals -- psychology students in training -- representing the basic Rorschach subtypes. The Rorschach records of these graduate students in clinical psychology are presented along with their own interpretations...