Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
ACT Questions and Answers
A Practitioner's Guide to 150 Common Sticking Points in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Renowned ACT expert Russ Harris presents easy-to-read Q&A sessions to uncover the most common ways clients and practitioners get stuck when using ACT, how to get unstuck, and how to transform that “stuckness” into powerful personal growth.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is...
Healing and Change in the City of Gold
Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This important volume takes a life course approach in sharing empirical insights on the family experiences of African American males in socioeconomic and political contexts. Representing fields ranging from developmental psychology to public health and sociology to education, chapters identify challenges...
DSM-5 Essentials
The Savvy Clinician's Guide to the Changes in Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Everything you need to know about the DSM-5 in an organized and concise presentation
Providing you with a quick and easy way to get up-to-speed on recent changes to the two main classification systems—DSM-5 Essentials highlights these changes in a logical and systematic manner so that you...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Born out of the excitement of a convergence of ideas and passions, this book provides a synthesis of the work of researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians who are leaders in the field of trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy.
As we move into the third millennium, the field of mental health...
Human Strengths and Resilience
Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Human Strengths and Resilience is intended to serve as a bridge between these two rapidly expanding disciplines by focusing on the critical issue of human strengths and resilience in cross-cultural and international perspective. To achieve these ambitious goals the editors have assembled an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Science of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy describes the scientific approach of CBT, reviews the efficacy and validity of the CBT model, and exemplifies important differences and commonalities of CBT approaches.
The overarching principle of CBT interventions is that cognitions causally influence...
The Web of Violence
Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence...
Suicide
Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do? Should I refer on? Should I break confidentiality? Have I assessed this client correctly? Both experienced...
Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health
Issues and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group.
Based...
Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment
A New Frontier in Mental Health Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship: not only how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, but also how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature, the visual and performing arts, architecture, and religion and mythmaking. The political power of trauma...
Art Therapy with Military Populations
History, Innovation, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
For decades, art therapy has proved to be a practical treatment for veterans and other military populations suffering from trauma. Art Therapy with Military Populations provides an in-depth overview of both the theoretical and historical bases of art therapy with these groups while also chronicling...
Contextual Schema Therapy
An Integrative Approach to Personality Disorders, Emotional Dysregulation, and Interpersonal Functioning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In this groundbreaking book, three internationally recognized psychologists present a step-by-step guide outlining the most up-to-date innovations in schema therapy (ST). This important book offers a clear and practical road map for putting the schema mode model into practice, improving clients' interpersonal...