Psychiatry category: 2250 books

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Psychodynamic Therapy

A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

by Richard F. Summers, MD, Jacques P. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009

Presenting a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to conducting psychodynamic therapy, this engaging guide is firmly grounded in contemporary clinical practice and research. The book reflects an openness to new influences on dynamic technique, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychology....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders is an up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the classification of such disparate disorders as reading, spelling, writing, and language disorders. Severe and specific impairments in these functions do exist and appear...
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by Zindel V. Segal, PhD, Mark Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012

This acclaimed work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and "how-tos" of conducting mindfulness...
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by Ivan Izquierdo
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015

How do we forget? Why do we need to forget? This book intends to answer to these and other questions. It aims to demonstrate that each one is who it is due to their own memories. Thus, distinguish between the information we should keep from those we should forget is an difficult art. In this book,...
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The Alcoholic Family in Recovery

A Developmental Model

by Stephanie Brown, PhD, Virginia Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension that fuels marital stress, acting-out kids, and difficulties at work. This book...
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A Street Survival Guide for Public Safety Officers

The Cop Doc's Strategies for Surviving Trauma, Loss, and Terrorism

by Daniel Rudofossi
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012

An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers, and clinicians describing what police personnel...
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An Early Start for Your Child with Autism

Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn

by Sally J. Rogers, PhD, Geraldine Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a huge role in helping toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) connect with others and live up to their potential. This encouraging guide from the developers of a groundbreaking early intervention program provides doable, practical...
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by Ann R. Howie
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Todays therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with ones dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. This book...
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by Peter Ladd, AnnMarie Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert...
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The Psyche in Chinese Medicine

Treatment of Emotional and Mental Disharmonies with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs

by Giovanni Maciocia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009

THE PSYCHE IN CHINESE MEDICINE comprehensively discusses the treatment of mental-emotional disorders with both acupuncture and herbal medicine. Suitable for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine it discusses first the aetiology, pathology and diagnosis of mental disorders. It explores the...
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DBT Principles in Action

Acceptance, Change, and Dialectics

by Charles R. Swenson, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

The key to flexible, skillful decision making in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) lies in understanding the connections between moment-to-moment clinical strategies and core principles. This lucid guide from leading DBT authority Charles R. Swenson offers clinicians a compass for navigating challenging...
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by Robert L. Leahy, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

This practical guide presents Leahy's multidimensional model of resistance in cognitive therapy. Richly illustrated with case examples and session vignettes, the book addresses a variety of ways that clients may resist basic therapeutic procedures: noncompliance with agenda setting and homework assignments,...
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Mad Tales from Bollywood

Portrayal of Mental Illness in Conventional Hindi Cinema

by Dinesh Bhugra
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

This is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema.  It examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. Dinesh Bhugra guides the reader through...
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by Brian Bailie
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

A complete failure. This is how you can expect to feel as you watch your loved one sliding below their incoming tide of confusion.Alzheimer's is probably worse to watch than it is to suffer. If it were a physical affliction, like a broken leg or a heart attack, it would be easier to accept and...
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