Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Psychological Recovery
Beyond Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mental illness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide a framework for clinical work and research in the field of recovery.
• Places the process of recovery within the context of normal human growth and development
• Compares...
by J. Perry Gustafson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this well-illustrated text, the author explores the potential of brief psychotherapy through four paradigmatic modes of the patient's relationship to others: subservience, indecisiveness, control, and fundamental fault. Dr. Gustafson utilizes cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic,...
Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior—long perceived as liabilities—can be important hidden strengths.
What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future as an entrepreneur? What if...
Self-Injury
Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
People who directly injure their bodies are increasingly seeking help from psychotherapists. Coming out of the closet of shame, they are turning to professionals for understanding, compassion, and healing. Because of the potent nature of self-injury and the variety of issues it touches, clinical responses...
by Elizabeth Kande L. Englander
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What impels human beings to harm others -- family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or controlled? Heightened public awareness of, and concern about, what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence -- on a spectrum from domestic abuse to street crime...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
During the past decade, a dramatic increase in research and clinical interest has risen in child abuse and neglect. This recent growth in awareness isdue at leastpartly to thealarmingstatisticsdocumentingthe incidence of child maltreatment. Almost one million children are re ported to be abused...
by Robert J. Wicks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Author of several acclaimed books and expert in the field of secondary stress, psychologist Robert Wicks addresses the experience of the mental health professional and raises awareness of the insidious, almost silent psychological defenses of denial and avoidance in the life of the clinician. A concise...
Handbook of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis
Foundations, Applications, and Professional Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This is the only up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis research and applications in psychology and medicine. Authored by hypnosis experts worldwide, it encompasses state-of-the-art scholarship and techniques for hypnotic treatments along with hypnosis transcripts...
Surviving, Existing, or Living
Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
For professionals working with people who experience severe psychosis, increasing empirical evidence for the benefits of psychotherapy for psychosis has been especially welcome. Given the limitations of medication-only approaches and the need for an expanded perspective, including for those diagnosed...
Second Wave Positive Psychology
Embracing the Dark Side of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Positive psychology is currently equated with theory and research on the positive aspects of life. The reality could not be further from the truth. Positive psychology investigates and researches some of the most difficult and painful experiences. Second Wave Positive Psychology: Embracing the Dark...
Development and Causality
Neo-Piagetian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This book sets forth a new model of development from a causal perspective. As this is an area vital to several disciplines. It has been written at multiple levels and for multiple audiences. It is based on the work of Piaget and Neo-Piagetians, but also covers other major models in development....
Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones
The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological...
by Heinz Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside...
Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder
Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Taken from bizarre cases of real patients, Playing Sick? is the first book to chronicle the devastating impact of phony illnesses--factitious disorders and Munchausen syndrome--on patients and caregivers alike. Based on years of research and clinical practice, Playing Sick? provides the clues that...