Psychiatry category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past two decades, remarkable advances have been made in psychopharmacology, resulting in increased demands for journal space (witness the large number of journals that cater primarily or exclusively to this topic). Concomitantly, a need developed for more integration of the currently available...
Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression
Origins of Anxiety and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Some twenty percent of us are afflicted with common anxiety and depressive disorders--not just brief bouts of nervousness or sorrow, but painful dysfunctions without obvious benefit. Why do so many people suffer from angst? In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psychiatrist...
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Clinical Principles and Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of the use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in different psychiatric conditions. Here we review tDCS clinical studies employing different types of design (from single-session tDCS studies to randomized clinical trials) as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In this volume of the series Human Brain Function: Assessment and Rehabilitation we cover the area of how brain function is assessed with behavioral or neuropsycholog ical instruments. These assessments are typically conducted by clinical neuropsy chologists or behavioral neurologists, and so...
Chorea
Causes and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Chorea: Causes and Management provides a comprehensive and timely update for the wide variety of neurological conditions, both inherited and acquired, which result in this common hyperkinetic movement disorder.
This book describes in detail the latest clinical and etiological information regarding...
The Basal Ganglia
Novel Perspectives on Motor and Cognitive Functions
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This groundbreaking text takes current knowledge of the basal ganglia far from well-known motor-based models to a more inclusive understanding of deep-brain structure and function. Synthesizing diverse perspectives from across the brain-behavioral sciences, it tours the neuroanatomy and circuitry...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness
Advances in Neuroscience Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally asserts that brain mechanisms ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems from the idea that the brain consists entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms...
Biology of Depressive Disorders. Part A
A Systems Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is the third in a series on depressive illness. The first volume, entitled Phenomenology of Depressive Illness, is devoted to a de scription of depressive illness from a variety of perspectives that include those of the patient, the clinician, and the psychiatric researcher. It de...
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Fourth Edition
A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides...
Treating Traumatic Bereavement
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book presents an integrated treatment approach for those struggling to adapt after the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one. The authors weave together evidence-based clinical strategies grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about both trauma and grief. The book offers a clear framework and many...
Personality-Disordered Patients
Treatable and Untreatable
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Determining the amenability of personality disorders to psychotherapy -- a patient's capacity to benefit from verbal approaches to treatment -- is important in helping clinicians determine the treatability of cases. Michael Stone here shares the factors he has observed over long years of practice...
What to Do When Children Clam Up in Psychotherapy
Interventions to Facilitate Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Therapists who work with children and adolescents are frequently faced with nonresponsive, reticent, or completely nonverbal clients. This volume brings together expert clinicians who explore why 4- to 16-year-olds may have difficulty talking and provide creative ways to facilitate communication....
Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders
Psychological Science and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Grounded in the latest clinical and developmental knowledge, this book brings together leading authorities to examine the critical issues that arise when children and adolescents become involved in the justice system. Chapters explore young people’s capacities, competencies, and special vulnerabilities...
Treatment of Sex Offenders
Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This rigorous survey offers a comprehensive rethinking of the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders for a bold challenge to practitioners. It critiques what we understand about offenders and the mechanisms of offending behaviors, and examines how this knowledge can best be used to reduce offending...