Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Moving Beyond Assessment
A practical guide for beginning helping professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Moving Beyond Assessment: A Practical Guide for Beginning Helping Professionals is a text designed to help beginning professionals from social work, nursing, psychology, counseling, and other related disciplines navigate the early stages of working with clients in a variety of settings. The authors...
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities
Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work. It raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research....
Humor
The Psychology of Living Buoyantly
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being. In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
by Maree Teesson, Wayne Hall, Heather Proudfoot
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The first edition of Addictions established itself as a valuable resource for students and professionals alike. This authoritative new edition builds on the success of the previous book, incorporating advances in research and practice over the last ten years.
The book includes material on:
the...
Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving
Research • Practice • Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Effective, meaningful caregiving requires a well-coordinated and informed effort guided by various highly skilled specialists across several interrelated professions, including psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists. Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving addresses the information...
Caregiving Across the Lifespan
Research • Practice • Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Most scholars do not consider the long-term nature of caregiving, but rather focus on a specific developmental period (e.g., old age) or a specific disability (e.g., cancer). Yet the most important lessons about caregiving may occur at any age, regardless of disabilities or other limitations. Caregiving...
by Richard A. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce. The book offers guidelines for therapeutic treatment of these problems.
The Positive Power of Imagery
Harnessing Client Imagination in CBT and Related Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The Positive Power of Imagerypresents the theory and practice of imagery therapy as a creative intervention that challenges therapists to learn the skills for creatively designing personalized exercises to match clients' specific needs, problems, and personalities.
Presents a unique integration...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
What are the distinctive theoretical and practical features of acceptance and commitment therapy?
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a modern behaviour therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness interventions alongside commitment and behaviour change strategies to enhance psychological...
Psicología de la violencia Tomo I
Causas, prevención y afrontamiento
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
En América Latina se vive una etapa muy violenta desde inicios del Siglo XXI. En México, en la actualidad, cada vez hay más expresiones de delincuencia organizada y crece también la violencia impulsiva y el suicidio. Las ejecuciones colectivas e individuales como secuestro, asesinato, asalto,...
ACT for Psychosis Recovery
A Practical Manual for Group-Based Interventions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
ACT for Psychosis Recovery is the first book to provide a breakthrough, evidence-based, step-by-step approach for group work with clients suffering from psychosis. As evidenced in a study by Patricia A. Bach and Steven C. Hayes, patients with psychotic symptoms who received acceptance and commitment...
Suicide Prevention and New Technologies
Evidence Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The internet, smartphones, computer self-help programmes and other technological advances are the new frontiers of suicide prevention, with organisations around the world rapidly expanding these services. This book provides a critical overview of new technologies in suicide prevention and presents promising practices and future perspectives.
by Michael H. Fulkerson LPCC
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Designed to be a primer for mental health practitioners desiring to write treatment plans from a reality therapy perspective, Treatment Planning from a Reality Therapy Perspective, by author Michael H. Fulkerson, provides an explanation of how reality therapy treatment planning differs from traditional...