Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Social Development
Relationships in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Sections cover foundational developmental science, the self and relationships,...
Understanding and Controlling Crime
Toward a New Research Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual frameworks...
by John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the...
The Metaphor of Play
Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Personality disorder can be conceived as the result of a disruption on the development of self. This thoroughly updated edition of The Metaphor of Play examines how those who have suffered such disruption can be treated by understanding their sense of self and the fragility of their sense of existence.
Based...
Psychiatric Clinical Skills
Revised 1st Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Psychiatric Clinical Skills is a practical guide to engaging and assessing people who have mental health problems. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, it focuses on “what to ask” and “how to ask” and covers a wide spectrum of clinical problems and settings. It includes a chapter written...
Dual Diagnosis, Second Edition
Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Updated for today's health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population. Providing a unique synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework...
Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis, Revised Edition
Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5®
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This trusted practitioner resource and text helps the busy clinician find the right psychiatric diagnosis and avoid the many pitfalls that lead to errors. Covering every disorder routinely encountered in clinical practice, Allen Frances provides the ICD-9-CM codes and (where feasible) ICD-10-CM codes...
by Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
For adults with ADHD, problems with attention, planning, problem solving, and controlling emotions can make daily life an uphill battle. Fortunately, effective help is out there. No one is a better guide to how to get the best care—and what sufferers can do for themselves—than renowned ADHD researcher/clinician...
Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition
Helping People Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrates what they look like...
by Susan Williams White, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
This practical, research-based guide provides a wealth of tools and strategies for implementing social skills training in school or clinical settings. Numerous case examples illustrate common social difficulties experienced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Asperger...
Behavioral Activation for Depression
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
From leading experts in behavioral activation research and clinical practice, this volume presents an empirically tested approach for helping clients overcome depression by becoming active and engaged in their own lives. Behavioral activation is a stand-alone treatment whose principles can be integrated...
Learning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Building on its successful "read-see-do" approach, this second edition of Learning Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: An Illustrated Guide seamlessly combines 23 all-new videos with informative text and figures, charts, worksheets, checklists, and tables to help readers not only learn the essential...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice
Applications across Disorders and Settings
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
First developed to treat suicidal individuals with borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has since been adapted to a range of settings and populations. This practical book--edited by close collaborators of DBT originator Marsha M. Linehan--presents applications for depression,...
Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change, Second Edition
Selecting and Planning Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general -- and the stages-of-change model in particular -- to make substance abuse treatment more effective. The authors are leaders in the field who describe ways to tailor interventions...