Clinical category: 2938 books
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A Clinician’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
For hundreds of years, the human response to personal and collective catastrophe has been recognized. Major historical events of the twen tieth century have highlighted the reality of the human response to extreme traumatization, especially the experience of persons exposed to the concentration...
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People
A Psychodynamic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Building on the success of Working with the Elderly and their Carers, this new edition pursues an in depth understanding of therapy with older people. A wide range of clinical material and 3 new chapters draw on developments in psychodynamic theory and the author's experience to offer valuable insights for trainees and experienced practitioners.
Crisis Intervention and Trauma
New Approaches to Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book provides a practical guide to crisis intervention. It emphasizes the role of violence, patient suicide, long-term sequelae of trauma, clinical assessment and risk management, professional boundaries and burn-out, and the neurophysiology of trauma, as well as the needs of underserved patient...
Understanding Transference
The Power of Patterns in the Therapeutic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Emotional links between therapists and their clients can help or hinder the therapeutic process. This comprehensive book examines how the main approaches deal with transference, looking at the technical and ethical difficulties in understanding transference from a theoretical point of view and with clinical illustration.
What Do Mothers Want?
Developmental Perspectives, Clinical Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What do mothers want and need from their parenting partners, their extended families, their friends, colleagues, and communities? And what can mental health professionals do to help them meet their daunting responsibilities in the contemporary world? The talented contributors to What Do Mothers Want?...
Transforming the Internal World and Attachment
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
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...
by Karen B. (Beth) Goldfinger, Dr. Andrew M. Pomerantz
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Outlining a step-by-step assessment model, Psychological Assessment and Report Writing, Second Edition covers five key topics central to psychological assessment: understanding the context of a referral; determining what data is needed to answer referral questions; gathering the data; integrating...
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences - Therapist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2019
Prolonged Exposure Therapy is an effective, highly flexible, and very well researched intervention to reduce the symptoms of PTSD across a variety of traumatized populations. The second edition of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide,...
Adapting Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Managing Complexity and Comorbidity
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
While the efficacy of cognitive therapy for depression is well established, every clinician is likely to encounter patients who do not respond to "standard" protocols. In this highly practical volume, leading authorities provide a unified set of clinical guidelines for conceptualizing, assessing,...
by C. Emily Durbin, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
ìThis latest installment in the Psych 101 series is a reader-friendly discussion of one of the most common mental health disorders -- depression. With the advent of the DSM-5, this book is not only timely, but it also provides a life-span approach to understanding depression.î--Doody's Medical Reviews
Depression,...
Psychological Treatment of Older Adults
An Introductory Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This multiauthored introductory textbook could not have been conceived or brought to fruition 10 or 15 years ago. Indeed, at that time relatively little attention was accorded to the psychological needs of older adults. The general tenor of the field then was that older adults would not benefit from...
Borderline Personality Disorder
A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Within the field of clinical psychology, the term borderline personality disorder was developed to fulfill a diagnostic need and has come to possess specific stereotypes and negative meanings. Because the term borderline is an emotionally charged word, it can lead to a less-than-accurate view of the...
by Paul R. Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes. The Quest to Feel Good helps the reader understand that negative emotions serve a critical adaptive purpose...
Inside This Moment
A Clinician's Guide to Promoting Radical Change Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
**"A practical guide that presents a user-friendly approach to helping patients enact radical change and acceptance through mindfulness in their personal lives."
—*****Family Medicine ***
In this breakthrough book, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Kirk Strosahl...