Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
by Susan Cave
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
How is psychological abnormality recognised? How many different mental disorders are there, and what are their characteristics? Although there are established guidelines for clinicians working in this area, these have been subject to many criticisms. Exploring how views on this subject have changed...
by Clayton Redfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
A concise demonstration of Ethics codes, according to the APA and ACA, both of which enables clarification for members and to those they serve. At least one example of my understanding and analysis is given for most of the ACA codes. Among them are:
A: The Counseling Relationship
B: Confidentiality
C:...
Depression
Causes and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of...
Psychological and Political Strategies for Peace Negotiation
A Cognitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Peace is one of the most sought after commodities around the world, and as a result, individuals and countries employ a variety of tactics to obtain it. One of the most common practices used to accomplish peace is negotiation. With its elevated role in the dialogue surrounding peace, negotiation is...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This comprehensive Handbook of original chapters serves as a resource for clinicians and researchers alike. Two introductory chapters cover general issues in violence risk assessment, while the remainder of the book offers a comprehensive discussion of specific risk assessment measures.
Forensic...
Psychoanalysis and Culture
Contemporary States of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issues in the area of application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The author argues that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global issues...
Recovering Sanity
A Compassionate Approach to Understanding and Treating Pyschosis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2003
Recovering Sanity is a compassionately written examination of the experience of psychosis and related mental illnesses. By presenting four in-depth profiles of illness and recovery, Dr. Edward Podvoll reveals the brilliance and chaos of the psychotic mind and demonstrates its potential for recovery...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
Getting Even
Forgiveness and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
We have all been victims of wrongdoing. Forgiving that wrongdoing is one of the staples of current pop psychology dogma; it is seen as a universal prescription for moral and mental health in the self-help and recovery section of bookstores. At the same time, personal vindictiveness as a rule is seen...
The Descent of Madness
Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens.
Having explained the rationale for an evolutionary approach to psychosis,...
by Laraine Masters Glidden, Laraine Masters Glidden, Marsha Mailick Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and...
by Jan Smedslund
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Psycho-Logic is an attempt to formulate explicitly the implicit common-sense psychology embedded in everyday language and taken for granted by its users. The key concepts in this system are given definitions, and the basic assumptions are presented in the form of axioms. A number of corollaries and...
The State of Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)
Essays and addresses
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis’s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes.
Originally published...