Clinical Psychology category: 2166 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The evident rapid expansion of scientific work and intense interest in both experimental and clinical aspects of new drug delivery systems provided strong motivation for planning this symposium. In designing the program, speakers were identified for their particular expertise in a wide range of topics...
Desire for Control
Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book is a cumulation of a research program that began in the sum mer of 1978, when I was a doctoral student at the University of Missouri. What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about individual differ ences in need for personal control led to a personality scale, a few pub lications,...
by Eric A. Kreuter, Kenneth M. Moltner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This volume explores new ground in the area of personal transformation, achieved partly through a person’s volition with a guide or catalyst. The authors research and define the dynamics of paradigmatic-thinking, incorporating a series of case vignettes of personal transitions. They describe impediments...
by Paula T. Trzepacz, Robert W. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1993
Developed from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this comprehensive text devoted solely to describing the mental status examination (MSE) fills a void in the teaching literature and will be valuable to both students first learning about the MSE and seasoned clinicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through...
by Jenny Altschuler
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them. With clarity and compassion, this text explores the difficulties and dilemmas those who are ill and their families face, offering specific guidelines for the professionals who work...
The Sexual Abuse of Children
Volume II: Clinical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The sexual abuse of children is now seen as an enormous problem; first, because there is an increasing awareness that it is more prevalent than previously thought, and second, because it gives rise to so many complex questions. How is sexual abuse to be defined? What are the effects of abuse? How...
Behavioral Integrative Care
Treatments That Work in the Primary Care Setting
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Integrated care is arguably one of the most important developments in the delivery of health care over the last few years. This new approach to health care, roughly defined as the provision of behavioral or mental health care in a way that is more coordinated with the primary medical healthcare setting,...
Death Threats and Violence
New Research and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This fascinating work analyzes the meaning and impact of homicidal threats, the means by which they are communicated, and their development from infrequent private occurrence to ongoing social problem. Using data from the Stalking and Violence Project and recent events including the Virginia Tech...
Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictive Disorders
An Evidence-Based Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictive Disorders distills the complex literature on addiction, offering a curated toolbox of integrated pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments in chapters authored by leading experts. Introductory chapters on the epidemiology,...
Psychotraumatology
Key Papers and Core Concepts in Post-Traumatic Stress
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The nosological roots of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be traced back to th~American Psychiatric Association's DSM-I entry of gross stress reaction, as published in 1952. Yet the origins of the current enthusi asm with regard to post-traumatic stress can be traced back to 1980, which...
Reconstructing Meaning After Trauma
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
Reconstructing Meaning After Trauma: Theory, Research, and Practice informs actual therapeutic work with clients who present with traumas or other life disruptions by providing clinicians with information on the construction of meaning. It includes material on diverse mechanisms of clinical change...
by Sue Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This hands-on manual offers a clear introduction to play and drama work for professionals working with adults at risk. Many adults feel nervous about drama and think that play is childish. Sue Jennings shows that by participating in play and drama people can make a difference to how they feel about...
Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance
Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations.
Underpinned by extensive practical...