Pathological Psychology category: 903 books
Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies...
by Orla Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Looking at the main destructive components of PTSD, you will be shown simple but effective techniques and strategies on how to reclaim each piece that PTSD has so ruthlessly taken from you or a loved one.You will be guided and supported through these very difficult times and gain a greater understanding...
by Meera Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
A brilliant, fiercely profound work of creative non-fiction in the vein of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts. In this extraordinary book, Meera Atkinson explores the ways trauma reverberates over a lifetime, unearthing the traumatic roots of our social structures and our collective history. Using memoir...
Culturally Competent Therapy
Working with Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The need to respond effectively to every troubled child or young person has never been greater as the world witnesses a period of global anxiety. Increased migration, terrorism, ethnic conflict, globalisation and the widening gap between rich and poor nations are producing psychological consequences...
Psychopathology at School
Theorizing mental disorders in education
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Psychopathology at School provides a timely response to concerns about the rising numbers of children whose behaviour is recognised and understood as a medicalised condition, rather than simply as poor behaviour caused by other factors. It is the first scholarly analysis of psychopathology which draws...
by Amanda LaPera
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Silver award recipient of IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin book award in the category of psychology, Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope is the compelling true story of a family's struggle with the sudden onset of their father’s severe mental illness after his fifty-third...
Treating Personality Disorder
Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.
Treating Personality Disorder offers contributions from professionals in psychiatry,...
Forensic Victimology
Examining Violent Crime Victims in Investigative and Legal Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
This new textbook provides students with the basic principles and practice standards of forensic victimology--the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues. It provides case-based coverage with original insights into the role that victimology plays...
Human Manipulation
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
We have all experienced that sinking feeling that somehow, someone else just took control of our lives and that we are powerless to do anything about it. Maybe, we just accepted a heap of lies from a politician, we bought something we didn't really want, we agreed to do something we really didn't...
Care-Giving in Dementia V3
Research and Applications Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
The first two volumes of Care-Giving in Dementia integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Taking the same multidisciplinary approach, and drawing contributions from leading practitioners, this third volume will prove invaluable to...
Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
First developed in 1955, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the original form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and one of the most successful psychotherapeutic techniques in the world. Its founder, world-renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, now offers an up-to-date description of the main principles...
DSM-5 Essentials
The Savvy Clinician's Guide to the Changes in Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Everything you need to know about the DSM-5 in an organized and concise presentation
Providing you with a quick and easy way to get up-to-speed on recent changes to the two main classification systems—DSM-5 Essentials highlights these changes in a logical and systematic manner so that you...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
A unique, multi-discipline, developmental approach to childhood psychopathology
Child and Adolescent Psychopathology is the only comprehensive text in the field to address genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors within a developmental context. Based on cutting-edge research and...
The Mind of the Terrorist
The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists as crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically "normal" and that "hatred has been bred in the bone". He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people to such extraordinary evil...