Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Barriers to Loving
A Clinician's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Barriers to Loving is an intriguing exploration of the role of sexual love over the course of life. Beginning with the mental health professions’ avoidance of the topic, Levine proposes a compendium of love’s pathologies by reorganizing what is familiar to clinicians into the barriers that limit...
The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving
Research • Practice • Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks. And despite the critical nature of their job, caregivers...
Overcoming Mood Swings
A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
'This is an excellent self-help book. It is clear, user-friendly, encouraging and non-condescending. I would recommend my patients to read this book.' British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Most people know what it is like to experience high or low spirits. For some individuals, however, emotional...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This new standout volume is the first to describe developmental areas associated with social competence and social communication, as well as provide evidence-based information on effective assessment and intervention for children who have problems with social communication and social interactions....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Interpersonal rejection ranks among the most potent and distressing events that people experience. Romantic rejection, ostracism, stigmatization, job termination, and other kinds of rejections have the power to compromise the quality of people's lives. As a result, people are highly motivated to avoid...
Affect Regulation Training
A Practitioners' Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Emotion Regulation is currently one of the most popular topics in clinical psychology. Numerous studies demonstrate that deficits in emotion regulation skills are likely to help maintain various forms of psychological disorders. Thus, enhancing emotion regulation has become a major target in psychotherapeutic...
Vulnerability to Psychosis
From Neurosciences to Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Early clinical intervention in psychosis is now a major objective of mental health services and the development of specialist intervention services has greatly facilitated research on the early phases of this disorder.
In this book, contributors provide a review of the neurobiological research...
Coping and Complaining
Attachment and the Language of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Good clinical practice is impossible without an understanding of the ways in which patients present their complaints. Patients have their own styles of coping and of expressing their concerns, and without a clear understanding of these the clinician may find successful and swift diagnosis and treatment...
Self-Esteem
The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Summarizing and integrating the major empirical research of the past twenty years, this volume presents a thorough review of the subject, with a special focus on what sets people with low self-esteem apart from others. As the subject is central to the understanding of personality, mental health, and...
A CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT
How to Bridge the Gap Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is expanding rapidly. Many of those who are interested in ACT are trained using a mechanistic cognitive behavioral therapy model (or MCBT). Utilizing both ACT and MCBT together can be difficult, because the approaches make different philosophical...
Posttraumatic Growth
Positive Changes in the Aftermath of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche)
The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recognized since ancient times, but given little attention by contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists, who have tended to focus on the negative consequences...
Trauma and Transformation
Growing in the Aftermath of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1995
That personal growth often occurs in people who have experienced traumatic events is an acknowledged but under-researched phenomenon. This book fills the gap: the authors use a cognitive framework to explore this finding, focusing upon changes in belief systems reported by trauma survivors.
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Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Re-Visioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions...
Landscapes of the Psyche
Sandplay in Jungian Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book is the result of research carried out by Paolo Aite, who for over thirty years has introduced sandplay in adult analysis into Italy. This method is becom¬ing more and more popular among Jungian analysts, both in Italy and abroad, in private as well as in public practice.
But just what is...