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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book is a concise, practical guide to both paraphilia and paraphilic disorders as defined by the DSM-5 guidelines. Written by experts in the field, the chapters cover the different types of paraphilic disorder as well as the cutting-edge, emerging issues such as online sex. Unlike any other book...
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment
Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mindfulness, mentalization, psychological mindedness, and the attachment relationship. Geoff Goodman...
Substance Abuse Recovery in College
Community Supported Abstinence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Substance Abuse Recovery in College explains in authoritative detail what collegiate recovery communities are, the types of services they provide, and their role in the context of campus life, with extended examples from Texas Tech University’s influential CSAR (Center for the Study of Addiction...
by Robert P. Archer
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1987, the objective of this volume was to provide a clear and comprehensive review of the literature in the area of adolescents and the MMPI based on the research studies that had occurred in the previous 40 years. It was written to provide the reader with an appreciation and...
Emotions and the Family
for Better Or for Worse
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book presents, for the first time, a full range of perspectives on emotions and the family from the radical behaviorist to the intrapsychic. B.F. Skinner begins the volume by examining the role of feelings in applied behavior analysis, thus laying the groundwork for the reactions of many distinguished...
Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology
MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition provides updated recommendations for researchers and clinicians concerning the MMPI-A, the most widely used objective personality test with adolescents, and also introduces the MMPI-A-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF), the newest...
by C. J. Brainerd, V. F. Reyna
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions have been reached after a decade or so of intensive research, the majority of them are not well known outside the immediate...
Metabolic Bone Disease
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Metabolic Bone Disease, Volume I covers the approach to a variety of disorders of mineral metabolism. The book discusses bone metabolism and calcium regulation; kidney function in calcium and phosphate metabolism; as well as the role of alkaline phosphatase in metabolic bone disorders. The text also...
by Anthony Breu, MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This issue, edited by Dr. Anthony Breu, includes the following articles: Superventricular tachycardias (SVT); Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); Use of culture data in the hospital;...
The Causes and Cures of Neurosis (Psychology Revivals)
An introduction to modern behaviour therapy based on learning theory and the principles of conditioning
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1965 this book was an introduction to post-Freudian methods of diagnosing and treating neurotics of the time. These methods were known collectively as ‘behaviour therapy’, a term indicating their derivation from modern behaviourism, learning theory, and conditioning principles....
Sexual Offenders
Personal Construct Theory and Deviant Sexual Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Is there an alternative way of treating sexual offenders beyond traditional psychiatry?
Sexual Offenders explores and develops personal construct theory in terms of forensic and social psychology, and examines the possibilities for sexual offender assessment and therapy.
Rather than...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
If ever a book could be called timely, this is it. Sleep disorders medicine has made rapid advances in recent years. The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public...
Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: A Casebook by Linda A. Wilmshurst provides 25 real-life cases to give readers a deeper understanding of a wide range of disorders within the context of the DSM–5. As they explore complex cases, readers learn to integrate theory into research-based assessments...
The Children of Tantalus
Breaking the cycle of psychological wounds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Tantalus, a king in ancient Greece, kills his son and is condemned to torture and punishment. All his family are damned to repeat his deed and kill each other, until his great grandson Orestes finds a way out of the endless repetition of violence. Violence and suffering are inseparably interconnected....