Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
by Craig Winston LeCroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment. There are also a variety of detailed treatment manuals that describe the step-by-step procedures to guide ongoing research...
Sexual Strands
Understanding and Treating Sexual Anomalies in Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Homosexuality, transsexualism, bisexuality, pedophilia, sexual aggression and rape, fetishism, physical abnormalities, and sexual dysfunction are among the sexual anomalies discussed in this timely and comprehensive review. The origins and treatment of unusual sexual behaviors are analyzed from the...
by Per Bech
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This innovative monograph introduces a measurement-based framework for effective treatment of patients with mood disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia. Rooted firmly in principles of pharmacotherapy and clinical psychometrics, the book’s signature diagram balances rating scale results...
Looming Vulnerability
Theory, Research and Practice in Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat. The core feature of the model—the perception of growing, rapidly approaching threat—is traced to humans’...
Self-System Therapy for Depression
Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Depression is one of the most common forms of psychological distress and can have devastating consequences for individuals and their loved ones. Decades of research have shown that there are many possible causes of depression, and one of those causes involves problems with self-regulation. Self-regulation...
Leisure and Positive Psychology
Linking Activities with Positiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as flow, fulfilment, altruism, well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
The Psychology of Working
A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In this original and major new work, David Blustein places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, such as intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities.
He also provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Behavioral and technological innovation has a special place in the future of graduate and medical education, both for students and for educators. A new multi-media pedagogy offers innovative techniques and technologies, drawing widely upon behavioral science.
The psychology of multi-media education...
by Robert Weis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Robert Weis' third edition of Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding child disorders. Using case studies, this perspective examines the emergence of disorders over time, pays special attention to risk and protective...
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and the Psychodynamic Evolution
Bringing Values into Treatment Planning and Enhancing Psychodynamic Work with Buddhist Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
If you are a psychodynamic therapist interested in the growing mindfulness movement, you may be looking for resources to help you enhance your practice. More and more, professionals in the psychodynamic tradition are finding that mindfulness exercises help their patients connect with the moment and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume has three goals with respect to the interplay between philosophy and behavioral psychology's experimental, applied, and interpretive levels of knowing. It aims to examine core principles in the philosophy of science, as they are interpreted by and relate to behavioral psychology; how these...
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit
From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Awards and Praise for the first edition:
Recipient of the 2006 International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award
"This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to text for stalking researchers. That is my opinion and the opinion of multiple fellow scholars I know...
Lighter as We Go
Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward...
Person-Environment Psychology and Mental Health
Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
In recent years, mental health professionals who have traditionally focused on the emotional state of the individual have come to realize that problems arise from the unique interactions between particular individuals and environments. From necessity, they are beginning to look at context; no longer...