Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
The Pain Didn’t Start Here
Trauma and Violence in the African American Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
A WAKE UP CALL TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
"The Pain Didn’t Start Here: Trauma & Violence in the African-American Community" by Denyse Hicks-Ray, Ph.D., B.C.E.T.S connects the clinical definition of psychological trauma and its affects of violent and maladaptive behaviors presented...
Could it be Adult ADHD?
A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
One out of every 10 adult psychotherapy clients likely has ADHD. Due to high comorbidities with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental disorders, along with considerable behavioral dysfunction, adult ADHD is even more common in clinical populations than the general public. When an...
Managing Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Based on the only evidence-based randomized controlled trial yet undertaken in patients with severe and enduing anorexia nervosa, Managing Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa uses the results of that trial to present a new paradigm for treatment. Moreover, this informative new text assembles the...
Inside Out and Outside In
Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Psychopathology in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Inside Out and Outside In has established itself as a foundational book for mental health practitioners in a variety of disciplines who work with clients in complex social environments. It is unique in its focus on the forces that shape people from within and also from their social worlds, with sensitivity...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The psychiatric view of homosexuality has undergone a fascinating evo lution in recent years. This includes not only the change from viewing homosexuality as a diagnosable illness, as opposed to an alternative life style, but also the development of considerable professional concern for providing...
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology
Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
With this fully revised fourth edition, Dr Stahl returns to the essential roots of what it means to become a neurobiologically empowered psychopharmacologist, expertly guided in the selection and combination of treatments for individual patients in practice. Embracing the unifying themes of 'symptom...
Stahl's Self-Assessment Examination in Psychiatry
Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Dr Stahl's books occupy a central position as core educational resources in the psychopharmacology literature. Building on Dr Stahl's exceptional ability to communicate complex principles and make them easily understandable, this book offers 150 self-assessment questions derived from the Neuroscience...
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Working with the needs of patients with Alzheimer’s disease can be a major challenge for primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and other mental-health professionals. Alzheimer’s wreaks havoc on the patient, and its degenerative nature can create a protracted period of anguish and anxiety for...
Intellectual Disability and Ill Health
A Review of the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
People with intellectual disability often have health needs that go unrecognised and untreated; this may be because of difficulties in communication, diagnostic overshadowing, discrimination or indifference. There is concern that public health measures aimed at reducing the main health killers in...
Biofeedback
Studies in Clinical Efficacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The chapters of this book were prepared as task force reports under the aegis of the Biofeedback Society of America (BSA). The impetus for the present generation of task force reports can be dated back to 1982, when John D. Rugh, as President-Elect of the Society, announced that the updating of the...
Broken Structures
Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.
by Jenny Altschuler
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them. With clarity and compassion, this text explores the difficulties and dilemmas those who are ill and their families face, offering specific guidelines for the professionals who work...
by Robert D. Lyman, Toni L. Hembree-Kigin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Preschool children have been largely neglected in the mental health treatment literature, although research has established that many behavioral and emotional disorders in children result from events occurring during the preschool years or are first manifested during this period. This has occurred...
The Bipolar Spectrum
Diagnosis or Fad?
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum...