Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Death by Design
Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing...
Repetition and Trauma
Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, Repetition and Trauma is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of stress and the "teleonomic" character of human evolution...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
"This work will be the one that students and clinicans keep on their shelves as the gold-standard reference for health behavior change. Summing Up: Essential"
--Choice
"The third edition of this handbook provides students and practitioners with the most complete and up-to-date...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Undoubtedly this symposium will prove to be an important landmark in the development of our understanding of the psychopathology of human adaptation in general, as well as of the general adaptation syndrome and stress in particular. It was organized to give an opportunity to an international group...
Psychological Torture
Definition, Evaluation and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Sadly, it is highly likely that psychological torture is committed by governments worldwide and yet, notwithstanding the serious moral questions that this disturbing and elusive concept raises, and research in the area so limited, there is no operational or legal definition. This pioneering new book...
A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for most mental health problems. Each different problem is usually treated by a different model of CBT. Yet evidence tells us that the same processes are responsible for long term distress in us all. This handy manual draws on evidence...
Positive Psychotherapy
Clinician Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. And indeed, they are - but in the rush to identify and reduce...
The Employment Relationship
A Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Employment Relationship presents a controversial perspective on an area hitherto dominated by industrial relation experts and radical sociological theorists. Exploring some of the metaphors commonly used to describe the employment relationship, Peter Herriot argues that it is often their dark...
Ethics for Counselors
Integrating Counseling and Psychology Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
"It is one thing to discuss these matters clearly and often, but it is another to make them living experiences for the reader. I am particularly impressed by the many ways in which the authors strive to involve the readers, whether it be by presenting dilemmas to consider or spelling out activities...
by Shulamith Kreitler, Hans Kreitler
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Hardly anything in psychology is as irking as the trait concept. Psychologists and laypersons alike use primarily adjective trait-names to characterize and even concep tualize the individuals they encounter. There are more than a hundred well-defined personality traits and a great many questionnaires...
The Development of Logic in Adulthood
Postformal Thought and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In this book Jan D. Sinnott synthesizes her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development to describe the growth of complex (or `postformal') thought in adults. She shows specifically how adults improve mentally over a lifetime and learn to think in more complex and wiser ways. Applications...
Managing Madness (Psychology Revivals)
Changing Ideas and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill. Originally published in 1986, this title explores the history and theory of psychiatry to illuminate current practice at the time, and shows why mental health services had developed in particular ways....
Trans-Generational Family Relations
Investigating Ambivalences
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The present volume deals with the experience of ambivalence in family relations - a well-known phenomenon that has inspired more and more research and theorizing in the last years but that is however sometimes difficult to capture. Bringing together junior and senior researchers from different parts...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Collating for the first time a range of techniques in positive psychology, this handbook introduces topics such as courage, empathy and humor, and spans areas as diverse as gratitude, forgiveness and strengths. It also explores special considerations such as ethics and motivation, and offers informed...