Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
by William H. Moorcroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
An updated edition of Moorcroft’s 2003 volume, this new work reflects recent scientific advances in the area of sleep and disorders. As in the previous book, Understanding Sleep and Dreaming, this new edition serves as a compact overview for now sleep experts, covering physiological sleep mechanisms,...
Psychological Injuries
Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological...
Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
The tyranny of desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myth,...
Advances in REBT
Theory, Practice, Research, Measurement, Prevention and Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This authoritative volume commemorates six decades of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy by assembling its current state of theory, practice, and research. Bedrock chapters on defining features, assessment and measurement, and empirical findings place REBT squarely in the cognitive-behavioral landscape,...
Schizophrenia
The Final Frontier - A Festschrift for Robin M. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Schizophrenia is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Robin M. Murray has made to the field of psychiatry over the past 35 years, with a particular focus on the advances that have been made to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia.
International contributors have been...
Continuity and Change in Art
The Development of Modes of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The representation of the form of objects and of space in painting, from paleolithic through contemporary time, has become increasingly integrated, complex, and abstract. Based on a synthesis of concepts drawn from the theories of Piaget and Freud, this book demonstrates that modes of representation...
Culture and Psychopathology
A Guide To Clinical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Since the first edition of Culture and Psychopathology was published, a growing national and international interest in how culture impacts mental disorders and how psychopathology is influenced by culture has become a rising field of focus. In this extensive revision, chapters have been updated with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The effective treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN) remains a significant challenge. This has prompted new research into ways of engaging and keeping patients in treatment and ultimately achieving better outcomes, not only on a symptomatic level but also in broader aspects of life. In this book Kate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This handbook incisively explores challenges and opportunities that exist in efforts aimed at addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Drawing on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences it charts the emergence of Global Mental Health as...
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions and Their Delivery
Leveraging Cutting-Edge Science to Improve the World's Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Millions of children, adolescents, and adults worldwide experience significant mental health problems, for which they receive no treatment whatsoever. Despite decades of world-class, innovative treatment research, growing governmental and public attention to mental health issues, and decreasing stigma...
by Robert W. Buckingham, Peggy A. Howard Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book can enhance everyone's understanding of how women experience loss and grief, and how they transition to resolution. It is an invaluable resource to women and everyone who supports them—spouses, partners, and family members as well as community and government.
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Cross-Cultural Responsiveness & Systemic Therapy
Personal & Clinical Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This progressive volume takes a nuanced approach to understanding systemic therapies with diverse client populations, leading to culturally responsive therapy. Synthesizing diverse streams of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, chapters focus on cutting-edge issues in couple and family therapy...
The Dysregulated Adult
Integrated Treatment Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
People experiencing disorders in regulation are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm life style. They are impulsive, easily frustrated, and as a result make decisions that lead to an overwrought state-or who...
Medical Family Therapy
Advanced Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“High praise to Hodgson, Lamson, Mendenhall, and Crane and in creating a seminal work for systemic researchers, educators, supervisors, policy makers and financial experts in health care. The comprehensiveness and innovation explored by every author reflects an in depth understanding that reveals...