Clinical category: 2938 books
Traumatic Stress
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Renowned scientists and practitioners provide a concise summary of current theory, research, and clinical practice regarding traumatic stress. An integrative biopsychosocial theory of trauma response provides a framework for the book. Chapters consider the frequency and likely mental health consequences...
The Impact of Parenthood on the Therapeutic Relationship
Awaiting the Therapist's Baby
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This volume covers the range of reactions that both patients and clients have to the circumstance of a child entering the therapist’s family. Through research, the authors show these reactions can be extremely powerful, and when fully explored can be used to advance the therapy and the development...
Self-Efficacy, Adaptation, and Adjustment
Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Covering over fifteen years of research, this compilation offers the first comprehensive review of the relationships between self-efficacy, adaptation, and adjustment. It discusses topics such as depression, anxiety, addictive disorders, vocational and career choice, preventive behavior, rehabilitation,...
Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment
Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
For five decades, negative body image has been a major focus of study due to its association with psychological and social morbidity, including eating disorders. However, more recently the body image construct has broadened to include positive ways of living in the body, enabling greater understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When is it timely to publish a synthesis of previously published and original materials from a specific discipline? I believe it to be timely when one has a sufficient amount of high-quality material covering the critical areas of that topic, when the previously published material is scattered over...
Family Functioning
The General Living Systems Research Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The family, that most fundamentalof human groups, is currently perceived to be changing in response to social, biological, cultural and technological developments in our postmodernsociety. While the observed changes in families have been considered by some sociologists to be evidence of adaptation...
Mental Health Self-Help
Consumer and Family Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Building on earlier patient-empowerment movements, consumer- and advocate-driven mental health self-help (MHSH) initiatives currently outnumber traditional mental health organizations. At the same time, this apparent success raises significant questions about their short-term efficacy and their value...
The Gender Gap in Psychotherapy
Social Realities and Psychological Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of readings is designed to clarify the relationship between social structures and psychological processes. Our awareness of the need for such a book derives from our extensive experiences in teaching a for mal course for mental health professionals on gender and psychother apy....
Understanding Repeated Self-Injury
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Why do some people repeatedly injure themselves? How common is this form of self-harm? How can professionals offer appropriate intervention and support to those whose lives are troubled by it, either directly or indirectly? This authoritative and systematic book adopts a holistic approach to the problem...
by Arnold P. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In The Psychology of Vandalism, Arnold P. Goldstein thoroughly examines the status, causation, prevention, and remediation of vandalistic behavior. Goldstein provides vandal- and environment-oriented explanations and interventions. He includes 169 tactics to reduce vandalism as well as ways for selecting...
The Transformed Self
The Psychology of Religious Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book is about the dramatic experience of religious conver sion. The phenomenon of religious conversion lies at the crossroad of several disciplines. As the title of this book indicates, my own interest in religious conversion is not sociological, historical, nor anthropolog ical. My primary...
by Kirk A. Brunswig, William O'Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Relapse Prevention for Sexual Harassers is the first volume specifically devoted to describing effective interventions. Theoretically and empirically based, this clinical manual conceptualizes sexual harassment as a form of sexual abuse, and presents a treatment program based on the tested principles...
Acute Pancreatitis
An A-Z
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Acute pancreatitis is a common cause of acute abdomen. Diagnoses is difficult as the symptoms mimic that of many other medical and surgical conditions. Patients with severe acute pancreatitis can develop multiple organ failure and need intensive care. As its management is multi-disciplinary involving...
Minority and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment
Enduring and Emerging Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Minority and cross-cultural psychology is more relevant now than ever in our diverse world. Given the dramatic local and global changes occurring daily with regard to demographics, population changes, and immigration issues, minority and cross-cultural psychology is fast becoming a respected and critical...