Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
Brain Injury Treatment
Theories and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Brain Injury Treatment: Theories and Practices is a thorough and wide-ranging account of the rehabilitation of brain injury.
Written from an international perspective, this book presents a detailed discussion of the basic science of brain injury. It explains the treatments used in brain injury...
The Power of Human Imagination
New Methods in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For at least half of the twentieth century, psychology and the other mental health professions all but ignored the significant adaptive pos sibilities of the human gift of imagery. Our capacity seemingly to duplicate sights, sounds, and other sensory experiences through some form of central brain...
Aggression
Individual Differences, Alcohol And Benzodiazepines
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The incidence of aggression and violence is of wide concern. It is therefore vital that we try to understand the mechanisms involved. This book outlines definitions and theories of aggressive behaviour and points out the contribution of both biological and psychological factors. Aggression primarily...
by Eva Leveton, MS, MFC
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"Psychodrama and Socio-drama are new concepts of therapy to resolve mental health issues in Bangladesh. Mental health professionals in Bangladesh who had been able to absorb the technique created by integrating socio-psychodrama have been greatly benefited from this intervention in the healing process......
Evolutionary Psychiatry
A new beginning
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Evolutionary Psychiatry was first published in 1996, the second edition followed in 2000. This ground breaking book challenged the medical model which supplied few effective answers to long-standing conundrums. A comprehensive introduction to the science of Darwinian Psychiatry, the second edition...
The Mind in Therapy
Cognitive Science for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Human mental capacities and processes are the raw materials with which psychotherapists work. Thus what cognitive scientists have discovered in recent decades is potentially tremendous value for psychotherapeutic practice. But the new knowledge is not readily accessible to therapists, who find both...
Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship
A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan? Providing a thoughtful and considered exploration of this question, this book presents a critical reassessment of posttraumatic growth, based on correcting prior theoretical and methodological limitations in the current research....
Learning Forensic Assessment
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Major developments in the field since the publication of Learning Forensic Assessment are integrated in this revised edition, including revised editions of the DSM-5, HCR-20 scale, and child custody guidelines.
This textbook is designed for graduate students learning forensic assessment and...
by Erica Frydenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges. The author focuses on how to think and act differently about what we do as we face challenges, and how to assess each situation as one of challenge rather than threat or harm because we have the strategies to cope. Spanning eleven chapters,...
The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders
Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Although eating problems--ranging from body dissatisfaction and dieting to anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa--can begin and typically have their roots in childhood, theory and research in developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology have not received substantial attention in eating...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Biological underpinnings of the cognition-emotion interface are reviewed, including the role of neurotransmitters...
Dementia Care - The Adaptive Response
A Stress Reductionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The process of dementia makes the experience of day-to-day living an acute challenge. This could be mediated with educated and timely inputs and the caring contract negotiated to preserve both dignity and quality of life. The premise of the adaptive response model is that armed with the knowledge...
Analysts in the Trenches
Streets, Schools, War Zones
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The horrific events of 9/11 and its sequelae have reinforced what thoughtful analysts have long known: that they have a responsibilty to respond to the complex social and emotional issues arising in their communities - to function, that is, as "community psychoanalysts." Analysts in the...
Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy
Innovative Strategies and Protocols
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This is definitely a book whose time has come. One of the brilliant aspects of the EMDR therapy approach is that it makes it clinically possible to cut through social issues, and yet maintain its cultural consonance. From multiple contributions around the world, each chapter brings significant insights...