Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice
A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements. Overcoming Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Epigenetics in Psychiatry covers all major areas of psychiatry in which extensive epigenetic research has been performed, fully encompassing a diverse and maturing field, including drug addiction, bipolar disorder, epidemiology, cognitive disorders, and the uses of putative epigenetic-based psychotropic...
Justice Perverted
Sex Offense Law, Psychology, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Over the past quarter century Congress, state legislatures and the courts have radically reshaped America's laws dealing with sex offenders in an effort to reduce the prevalence of sex offenses. Most convicted sex offenders must now register with the authorities, who then make information about them...
Interpersonal Boundaries
Variations and Violations
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness. In Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and Violations Salman Akhtar and the other contributors demonstrate how boundaries, by delineating and containing...
Ethics and Research with Children
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
In this edited volume, a diverse group of scholars present and discuss challenging cases in the field of pediatric research ethics. After years of debate and controversy, fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric research persist: Is it ever permissible to use a child as a means to an...
Couple Therapy for Depression
A clinician's guide to integrative practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Depression is second after heart disease as the most damaging health condition in the world. The NHS has devoted huge resources to training thousands of psychological therapists to work in 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' services specifically to treat depression in adults and couple...
ADHD
A Guide to Understanding Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Changes Over Time in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Drawing on over forty years of clinical and research experience, Paul Wender and new coauthor David A. Tomb have created a classic, definitive model for identifying and treating children and adults who have Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder...
Why Don't I Feel Good Enough?
Using Attachment Theory to Find a Solution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
*Why Don’t I Feel Good Enough? Using Attachment Theory to Find a Solution *offers a guide to how early emotional bonds affect our adult relationships and how psychological theory can help us to find the origin and solution to a number of life’s problems.
Bringing a wealth of...
Freud and Modern Psychology
The Emotional Basis of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Freud's discovery of an emotional basis for mental illness led him to pursue the emotional basis of human behavior in general. This pursuit led him to undertake observational studies of dreams (1900), everyday mistakes (1901), sexuality (1905b), character formation (1908, 1931), jokes (1905a), and...
Schizotypy
New dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
For several decades there has been an increasing move towards viewing the psychotic illnesses from a dimensional perspective, seeing them as continuous with healthy functioning. The idea, concentrating mostly on schizophrenia, has generated considerable theoretical debate as well as empirical research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book is a concise, practical guide to both paraphilia and paraphilic disorders as defined by the DSM-5 guidelines. Written by experts in the field, the chapters cover the different types of paraphilic disorder as well as the cutting-edge, emerging issues such as online sex. Unlike any other book...
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment
Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mindfulness, mentalization, psychological mindedness, and the attachment relationship. Geoff Goodman...
Substance Abuse Recovery in College
Community Supported Abstinence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Substance Abuse Recovery in College explains in authoritative detail what collegiate recovery communities are, the types of services they provide, and their role in the context of campus life, with extended examples from Texas Tech University’s influential CSAR (Center for the Study of Addiction...
Emotions and the Family
for Better Or for Worse
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book presents, for the first time, a full range of perspectives on emotions and the family from the radical behaviorist to the intrapsychic. B.F. Skinner begins the volume by examining the role of feelings in applied behavior analysis, thus laying the groundwork for the reactions of many distinguished...