Clinical category: 2938 books
by James Morrison, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
This trusted practitioner resource and course text is grounded in James Morrison's experience with more than 15,000 mental health patients. Morrison provides a complete framework for interviewing adult patients about their current symptoms, personal and family history, mental status, behavioral risks,...
Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G)
A theoretical, clinical, and research manual
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) has gained international acclaim as an efficient treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder. The approach is also helpful for other personality disorders and conditions that are difficult to treat, e.g. addiction and eating disorders. MBT consists...
Sagacity
What I Learned from My Elderly Psychotherapy Clients
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Eight different stories from the elderly capture the heart and mind as Max Fuhrmann, Ph.D. clinical psychologist, steps from behind the professional mask to impart what he has learned from his elderly psychotherapy clients. Despite his extensive training and experience in this field, he is not prepared...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders
A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Anorexia and Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Eating Disorders with ACT
At some point in clinical practice, most therapists will encounter a client suffering with an eating disorder, but many are uncertain of how to treat these issues. Because eating disorders are rooted in secrecy and reinforced by...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems
A Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness and Acceptance Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
New Directions in the Treatment of PTSD
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you'll find a complete theoretical and practical guide...
A CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT
How to Bridge the Gap Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is expanding rapidly. Many of those who are interested in ACT are trained using a mechanistic cognitive behavioral therapy model (or MCBT). Utilizing both ACT and MCBT together can be difficult, because the approaches make different philosophical...
Posttraumatic Growth
Positive Changes in the Aftermath of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche)
The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recognized since ancient times, but given little attention by contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists, who have tended to focus on the negative consequences...
Trauma and Transformation
Growing in the Aftermath of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1995
That personal growth often occurs in people who have experienced traumatic events is an acknowledged but under-researched phenomenon. This book fills the gap: the authors use a cognitive framework to explore this finding, focusing upon changes in belief systems reported by trauma survivors.
Tedeschi...
Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Re-Visioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions...
Bullying Scars
The Impact on Adult Life and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
An explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts it can have on children. No longer do we accept it as an innocuous rite of passage, just a part of growing up that we grin and bear and grow out of later. But do we grow out of it, or are there lingering...
The Colors of Childhood
Separation-Individuation across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? Are there culturally distinct sub-groups within the African-American population? How ubiquitous are psychoanalytically...
by J. Graham Beaumont, PhD, CPsychol
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
This outstanding text gives students a solid grounding in clinical and experimental neuropsychology. The author is a leading authority whose engaging writing style and thorough yet concise coverage of brain localization, anatomy, and their links to cognitive function make the book ideal for undergraduate...
Meaning in Life
An Evidence-Based Handbook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This inspiring, insightful new text provides a practical guide to helping clients live a meaningful and satisfying life despite the challenges they may be facing.
Divided into three parts, it starts by drawing on empirical research to demonstrate the effectiveness of meaning-oriented practice...
by Jeana L. Magyar-Moe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Positive psychology - essentially the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive - is a relatively new discipline that has experienced substantial growth in the last 5-10 years. Research suggests that the principles and theories from this area of study are...