Psychiatry category: 2250 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Bringing together leading investigators, this comprehensive handbook is a one-stop reference for anyone planning or conducting research on personality. It provides up-to-date analyses of the rich array of methodological tools available today, giving particular attention to real-world theoretical and...
Clinician's Guide to Evidence Based Practices
Mental Health and the Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
All mental health and addiction practitioners want to provide their patients with the most effective treatments. But with this comes the challenge of wading through the overwhelming amount of scientific research and integrating it with clinical expertise and patient values. Here, a trio of distinguished...
by Robert J. Wicks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Author of several acclaimed books and expert in the field of secondary stress, psychologist Robert Wicks addresses the experience of the mental health professional and raises awareness of the insidious, almost silent psychological defenses of denial and avoidance in the life of the clinician. A concise...
Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography
Basic Principles, Clinical Applications, and Related Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The leading reference on electroencephalography since 1982, Niedermeyer's Electroencephalography is now in its thoroughly updated Sixth Edition. An international group of experts provides comprehensive coverage of the neurophysiologic and technical aspects of EEG, evoked potentials, and magnetoencephalography,...
Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine
Expert Consult - Online
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Accurately diagnose and treat adult and pediatric sleep disorders with exceptional visual guidance from world-renowned sleep expert Dr. Meir H. Kryger. Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine is an easy-to-read, highly illustrated atlas that details the physiologic, clinical, morphologic, and investigational...
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success
How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills--the...
by Alec L. Miller, PsyD, Marsha M. Linehan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The authors are master clinicians who take the reader step by step through understanding...
Authentic Assessment for Early Childhood Intervention
Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2007
Meeting a crucial need, this book provides clear recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities. It describes principles and strategies for collecting information about children's everyday activities...
Recovery From Disability
Manual of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
The time is right for recovery from serious mental disorders. Mental health professionals and state and local mental health agencies are responding to a national call for action on recovery: from the President's Commission on Mental Health, the Surgeon General, the National Alliance on Mental Illness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This authoritative guide, now significantly revised and expanded, has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change. Leading experts describe ways to combine motivational interviewing...
Treating Sex Offenders
An Evidence-Based Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation—a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS) comprises 10 evidence-based modules that teach participants the skills to desist from problem behaviors,...
Teen Suicide Risk
A Practitioner Guide to Screening, Assessment, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Meeting a vital need, this book helps clinicians rapidly identify risks for suicidal behavior and manage an at-risk teen's ongoing care. It provides clear guidelines for conducting suicide risk screenings and comprehensive risk assessments and implementing immediate safety-focused interventions, as...
by Gary B. Mesibov, Victoria Shea, Eric Schopler
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
- Professionals can be trained in the program and its methods
- Translates scientific knowledge so that practitioners and parents can easily understand the current state of knowledge
- Offers strategies that can be tailored to an individual's unique developmental and functional level
- Advises parents...
The Antidepressant Survival Guide
The Clinically Proven Program to Enhance the Benefits and Beat the Side Effects of Your Medication
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
"Now patients can have the best of both worlds -- freedom from depression and freedom from side effects. Dr. Robert Hedaya offers a wealth of wisdom drawn from years of clinical experience, research, and teaching. This book is a much-needed lantern in the darkness."
-- Norman Rosenthal,...