Clinical category: 2938 books
Psychological Injuries
Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological...
Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
The tyranny of desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myth,...
Advances in REBT
Theory, Practice, Research, Measurement, Prevention and Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This authoritative volume commemorates six decades of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy by assembling its current state of theory, practice, and research. Bedrock chapters on defining features, assessment and measurement, and empirical findings place REBT squarely in the cognitive-behavioral landscape,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In the past 10 years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of theoretical and empirical investigations into the maintenance and enhancement of close, romantic relationships. This literature targets the everyday behaviors, expressions of love, and cognitive styles that characterize such...
by Paul H Blaney, Theodore Millon
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
While most abnormal psychology texts seem to aim solely for breadth, the acclaimed Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology aims for depth, with a focus on adult disorders and special attention given to the personality disorders. Almost a decade has passed since the first edition was published, establishing...
by Jack Martin, Jeff H. Sugarman, Sarah Hickinbottom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that rely on biological models, and constructionist...
by Alexander S. Templeton
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Many books on vitamin C have been written over the decades since its discovery in the 1930s. The Ascorbate Papers—referring to the formal chemical name of this interesting molecule—addresses the possibility that other vitamin book authors only skimmed the original clinicians’ papers; or worse,...
Motivational Dialogue
Preparing Addiction Professionals for Motivational Interviewing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Motivational Dialogue explores the application of motivational interviewing in various contexts, with a view to enhancing understanding and improving practice.
The book describes the research and practice of motivational interviewing as a stand alone intervention, as an adjunct to further treatment,...
Careers in Mental Health
Opportunities in Psychology, Counseling, and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Accessible and unbiased, Careers in Mental Health introduces upper-level high school students and beginning undergraduates to the different aspects of various mental health professions.
Contains essential career advice for anyone considering an advanced degree in one of the “helping” professions...
Cognitive Behavioural Prevention of Suicide in Psychosis
A treatment manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well underlie...
by Dennis J. Dietzen, Shannon Haymond, Michael J. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A complete full-color guide to medical laboratory test selection and test result interpretation for disorders and diagnoses specific to pediatric and neonatal populations
Laboratory medicine practiced at a pediatric institution has unique characteristics specific to infants and children, who...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives...
Good Stuff
Courage, Resilience, Gratitude, Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains chapters on Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice. Together, the six chapters constitute a harmonious...
Person-Centred Therapy
A Clinical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. Person-Centred Therapy returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies.
Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on...