Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Autism and Creativity
Is There a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less significant than has often been claimed.
Chapters on the diagnosis and psychology of autism set the scene...
Somatizzazione e adolescenza. Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Il libro ha lo scopo di chiarire le ambiguità e le controversie che caratterizzano il costrutto di somatizzazione per proporre un modello utile alla comprensione della patologia. La descrizione di esperienze cliniche e di un progetto di prevenzione rivolto ai giovani che giungono in Pronto Soccorso...
Identità di genere e cura
Generatività e genealogia del femminile
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Attraverso gli scritti più significativi che caratterizzano il lavoro di Adele Nunziante Cesàro – l’autrice che ha approfondito quanto le differenze psicosessuali contribuiscono a formare l’identità di genere dell’uomo e della donna dalle prime fasi della vita –, il volume ripercorre un iter teorico che restituisce valore alla peculiarità dell’universo femminile.
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Dell’adolescenza il corpo è protagonista indiscusso: le trasformazioni puberali danno vita a nuove sensazioni, mutano la percezione delle distanze interpersonali, modificano la rappresentazione di sé, cimentano l’identità. Il libro raccoglie alcuni scritti dei maggiori esperti di psicoanalisi...
Handbook for Treatment of Attachment Problems in C
An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, an
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1994
Attachment Disorder occurs when a child has difficulty establishing new attachments if old ones are severely disrupted, and it is typically seen in victims of various types of trauma. This text seeks to explain how best to treat these children so that they can love and trust again and form lasting relationships.
Conversations with Anorexics
Compassionate and Hopeful Journey through the Therapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
from Publisher's Weekly:
This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work,...
The Discourse of ADHD
Perspectives on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book explores the discourse of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most debated mental health categories attributed to children and adults across the globe. The authors trace the origins, development and representation of ADHD to demonstrate how the category is produced...
On The Ball?
How football can help your mental health
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
This is a book for anyone interested in football and keeping well. Football is a global game, played, enjoyed, talked about (and given out about!) by millions of people around the world. Looking after your health, especially your mental health, has become more of a priority in recent years as higher...
Pursuing Perfection
Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at midlife and beyond. Written from a biopsychosocial and feminist perspective, Pursuing Perfection describes...
The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy
Helping Clients Discover, Explore, and Commit to Valued Action Using Acceptance and Commitment Thera
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Valuing is central to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), yet few therapists truly understand how to engage clients in this complex process. Questions such as What is the purpose of my life? and How do I make decisions? are difficult to answer honestly for ourselves, let alone share with another...
Assessing Risk
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approachoffers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending. The authors draw on their considerable experience working with high risk individuals in...
by Diane R. Gehart
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical approach for putting these ideas into action in the therapy room, including a mindful approach to therapeutic...
Another Chance to be Real
Attachment and Object Relations Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
By most accounts, people with a borderline personality disorder prove exceptionally difficult to treat. Divergent opinions abound about what, if anything, contributes to a positive outcome. Is it the quality of the relationship with the psychotherapist that is curative, in that the careful attunement...
ACT Made Simple
An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Now fully-revised and updated, this second edition of ACT Made Simple includes new information and chapters on self-compassion, flexible perspective taking, working with trauma, and more.
Why is it so hard to be happy? Why is life so difficult? Why do humans suffer so much? And what can we...