Based on a long-term study begun in 1939 exploring the human life cycle, this work provides an analysis of individual differences in coping with stress in life. The author presents a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, immature, neurotic or psychotic.
Features evidence-based reviews and practical approaches for the professional in the hospital, clinic, community and school, with case examples. This volume offers background historical and cultural information, discussion of self-injury etiology, and assessment and intervention/prevention issues.
Few resources exist that teach mental health practitioners the building block skills of working effectively with parents. Based in research, theory, and years of experience in working successfully with all types of parents, John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan provide mental health professionals with the tools to build rapport and trust with parents.
Examines the therapeutic techniques and specific challenges faced by professionals when working with survivors of interpersonal trauma. This book explores issues such as safety and protection, the long-term effects of trauma and the importance of visiting past experiences and assessing their impact on the present.
A practitioner's guidebook that presents steps to assessing and treating a problem that borders on health and psychology. It is suitable for psychologists, nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals and those who deal with sufferers of chronic sleep problems.
Addiction Research Methods is a comprehensive handbook for health professionals, policy-makers and researchers working and training in the field of addiction. The book provides a clear, comprehensive and practical guide to research design, methods and analysis within the context of the field of alcohol and other drugs.
Introduces readers to the basics of research design in quantitative and qualitative methodology written in the language of art therapy. This book includes strategies for evaluating research reports and writing for peer-reviewed publication. It is suitable for students, practitioners, doctoral candidates, and academics writing for publication.
Reviews applied behavior analysis (ABA) literature. This book identifies interventions relevant to children across the autism spectrum; and discusses potential developments in these core areas: assessment methods, from functional assessment to single case research designs; treatment methods, including reinforcement, and replacement behaviors.
In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery. This book investigates risk and problem behaviours in psychosis including staff and service factors that can impede the delivery of effective care.
In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery. This book investigates risk and problem behaviours in psychosis including staff and service factors that can impede the delivery of effective care.
Due to the disparate nature of the technologies involved in Systems Health Management (SHM), no single person can understand all aspects of the discipline. This book is the first reference text in its field to collate together in one text the state-of-the-art in research and technology.
Presents practical, step-by-step instruction on effectively administering, scoring, and interpreting neuropsychological assessment instruments. This title addresses practical and conceptual issues related to neuropsychological assessment in geriatric, pediatric, forensic, and other specialized settings.
This volume, written by two child custody examiners with years of experience and an exceptional depth of understanding of the area, synthesizes the highest quality of work in the field to articulate the best practices for these evaluations based upon professional guidelines, law, and research.
The work of Wilfred Bion is a major step forward in the psychoanalytical model making of the mental apparatus. To help understand this process two types of exposition are required: to assist students read Bion's work in a comprehending way; and to show the way to the clinical application of this modification of the working mosel of the mind.
Brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. This book outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, in Britain and abroad, in which it has been successfully applied.
Assists practicing mental health professionals in expanding their knowledge about nutritional and herbal interventions that can be attempted as alternatives to prescription medications. This volume provides a comprehensive discussion of naturopathic solutions based on existing research.
Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Volume 1 covers the evidence-based practices now identified for treating children and adolescents with a wide range of DSM disorders. Topics include fundamental issues, developmental disorders, behavior and habit disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, and eating disorders.
Finding out that a child has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can put an enormous strain on families, and the quality of support offered by professionals at this time can make a huge difference to how they adjust to the news. This book sets out the type of support that is most beneficial to families immediately following an ASD diagnosis.
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder is the definitive resource for empirically sound information on narcissism for researchers, students, and clinicians at a time when this personality disorder has become a particularly relevant area of interest.
Provides information for medical and mental health professionals on how to properly evaluate and diagnose autism spectrum disorders in individuals of all ages. This book demonstrates how to conduct an appropriate diagnostic interview to assess a child for an Autism Spectrum Disorder. It also includes a treatment of the entire diagnostic process.
Although physiological psychology is a required component of most degrees, the authors recognise that many students come from non-scientific backgrounds and may find the subject daunting. This title covers all of the essential topics in a format which is ideal for learning and rapid revision for students from all backgrounds.
With informed support, students at the K-12 and collegiate levels can overcome the obstacles of ADHD and other learning disabilities. Drawing on evidence-based techniques, this book provides school psychologists, counselors, and consultants with the best diagnoses and treatments to help their clients become effective students.
Focuses on those childhood disorders that are common or what are sometimes referred to as high incidence disorders such as learning disabilities, autism, behavior disorder, depression, and anxiety. This book provides narratives of experience from multiple perspectives with respect to numerous childhood disorders.
An Introduction to Family Therapy, third edition offers an overview of the core concepts informing Family Therapy and Systemic Practice and their development from the 1950s to the present day, with reflections throughout on the current state of practice.
* Provides practical strategies to bring an end the stigma surrounding mental illness * Contains work sheets and interventions guides to help facilitate the implementation of specific anti-stigma approaches * The authors are highly experienced and respected experts in the field of stigma research.
A reference for those working with or studying adolescents. It comprehensively reviews knowledge on adolescent externalizing disorders, internalizing disorders, developmental disorders, personality and health-related disorders, gender identity and sexual disorders, and maltreatment and trauma.
Key for senior management and human resources professionals, as well as counselors, psychologists, and medical staff, this handbook explores contemporary post-trauma intervention models specifically tailored for the workplace environment. Models include Trauma Risk management, Support Post Trauma, Rewind technique, and Psychological First Aid.
Cinema both reflects life and contours life -- that is its psychological power. The collective wisdom in this original book mines the illustrative value of cinema, offering therapists and life coaches access to ideas that can motivate and enlighten clients.
The theory of helplessness refers to the problems that follow in the wake of uncontrollability. The best-known application of learned helplessness has been an explanation of depression, although numerous other extensions have been made, most recently to physical illness and death.
A practical guide for mental health professionals working with infants and children who experience disorders with self-regulation, including poor sensory processing, attention deficits, sleep problems, feeding disorders and problems with play and social interactions.
Reflecting the 2005 emergency cardiovascular care guidelines, this full-color EMT field guide contains reference information useful for students and practicing EMTs. Ideal for the classroom and the field, this tool is pocket sized, spiral bound, and water and stain resistant.
This handbook provides a review of knowledge of the fundamental biological and developmental processes related to self, social interaction and shyness. It deals with the psychological effects of shyness and social anxiety and also with how it can effect health and general well-being.
Offers an introduction to the AAI and its use as an adjunct to a range of therapeutic approaches, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, parent-infant psychotherapy, home visiting programs, and supportive work in the context of foster care and adoption.
What can psychology contribute to the understanding of intellectual disabilities and how does clinical psychology help in supporting people with these disabilities? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of concepts and problems, as well as covering the clinical and consulting skills that support interventions in this field.
Topics in Applied Psychology is a series of integrated texts combining both the academic and professional aspects of applied psychology. Written by a team of high-profile UK academics, this series is ideal for second- and third-year psychology undergraduates.
Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities covers introductory and background issues, general clinical issues, and working with specific client groups, including offenders with intellectual disabilities and parents with intellectual disabilities.
Psychopathy has evolved far beyond its confusing origins in a melange of labels into an empirically measurable syndrome. This book translates findings into applied procedures and methods for all those whose work brings them into contact with psychopaths.
Describes an empirically-validated treatment program for use with those individuals who suffer from compulsive hoarding, excessive acquiring, and problems with discarding. Based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, this guide offers clinicians with the tools and information to help clients restructure their thoughts.
Various trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology. This handbook offers clinicians and graduate students guidelines and tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning, functional age, and behavior deficits.
The first title to be published in the "BRAT Series on Clinical Psychology", this book presents a critical analysis of the theories and empirical evidence to date regarding the origins of phobias and anxiety disorders, and the reasons why more women than men suffer from them.
Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology, Volume 2 covers the evidence-based practices now identified for treating adults with a wide range of DSM disorders. Topics include fundamental issues, adult cognitive disorders, substance-related disorders, psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders, and sexual disorders.
Presents an introduction to the practice of clinical psychology. This book explains a range of competencies which a psychologist is expected to possess, and how these can be applied in a variety of contexts. It covers key issues such as awareness of the social context, and the need for responsive and flexible practice.
Examines the role of stress in psychological disorders. This title includes topics such as review of psychosocial stress and health; family stress and psychological adjustments among welfare and non-welfare immigrants; eating disorders and stress; extending the stressor-strain perspective; and, role stress in flexible and creative roles.
The abundance of food in the developed countries of the world has seemingly spawned an epidemic of disorders connected to the food. This book gathers offers information on understanding the underlying causes and discovering the most effective treatments for eating disorders.
The global community is negatively impacted on a large-scale with tens of millions of people world-wide suffering from major depression. Economic growth is being stunted and lifestyles and lives crippled. This book tackles these issues by presenting research findings in this pandemic.
Reviews behavioral assessment methods and strategies for case formulation. This book offers readers a practical, data-based means of understanding psychiatric conditions for intervening effectively and measuring positive change. It also makes theories of functional analysis accessible to a range of mental health professionals.
Suitable for psychiatry residents and primary care physicians, this book focuses on the aspects of psychopharmacology related to clinical care. It presents information, by classes of drugs, about drug selection and prescription. It also reviews therapeutic approaches to the treatment of patients with major psychiatric disorders.
Parrino, Kidwell & Bates, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 2nd Edition is a balanced approach to the main theme of value creation balanced by risk management. The goal of this text is to provide both intuitive and calculation based- to master content.
Focusing on brain differences as well as on neurodiversity that presents the brain as an ecosystem which adapts to different environments, this book provides a compilation of research on the gifts and abilities of individuals with neuropsychological disorders. It reframes the debate about neurodiversity.
The Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I provides an up-to-date overview of the rapid advances made in the clinical and basic science studies in the field, supporting our understanding of the relationship between the various aspects of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Throughout the training and careers of psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and neuropsychologists, there are many errors and misconceptions that can diminish the quality of evaluations. This book offers guidelines and materials to help identify, understand, and avoid some of these problems.
Offers an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. This book provides an account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child anxiety, along with nine detailed case studies illustrating the ways in which they can be helped.
Provides information for psychiatrists in acute clinical situations. This book offers information on how to assess the patient, how to effectively manage psychiatric emergencies as well as the accurate diagnosis and management of common psychiatric conditions.
Examines the connections between time, space, phantasy and sexuality in clinical practice. This book explores the subtleties of the encounter between patient and analyst, addressing how aspects of the patient's unconscious past are actualised in the present, producing meanings that can be re translated to the past.
Blades, Blood and Bandages tells the stories of 25 people's experiences of self-injury. In so doing, themes which have so far been under represented in the study of this phenomenon are brought to the fore. In particular, it investigates how people who self-injure are affected by suffering, ritual and stigma.
The rampant growth of addiction requires counselors to become knowledgeable in the dynamics of addiction. The Third Edition of this book is fully revised to include significant changes in theory and research that have emerged over the past five years. Two new chapters have been added, as well as a CD-ROM with clinical group exercises.
Eating disorders refer to a range of problems characterized by abnormal eating behaviours and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of eating and weight disorders, this volume also covers: anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; atypical eating disorders and binge eating disorders; and, obesity.
Examines the lives of the perpetrators of violence and offers us ways of making sense of acts that seem beyond our comprehension. Explores the roots of violence and distress in personal experience and offers a challenging exploration of the way in which society tries to make sense of madness and badness.
Each chapter of this book offers comprehensive detail and analysis of a specific sub-set of the covered cultural groups, with basic demographics, mental health challenges, practical solutions and future research directions, plus a detailed summary table.
Following an interdisciplinary approach, this title covers the drug issues. It emphasizes the idea that a drug's effects depend not only on its properties, but also on the biological and psychological characteristics of its user. It features discussions of the individual classes of drugs, and chapters on pharmacology and psychopharmacology.
Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the 'MPD' community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. This book scrutinizes today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory.
Summarizes information on adaptive behavior and skills as well as general issues in adaptive behavior assessment with the goal of promoting sound assessment practice during uses, interpretations, and applications of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-II (ABAS-II). This book assists in the functional use of the ABAS-II.
Research in the area of impulse control disorders has expanded exponentially. The Oxford Handbook of Impulse Control Disorders provides researchers and clinicians with a clear understanding of the developmental, biological, and phenomenological features of a range of impulse control disorders, as well as detailed approaches to their treatment.
This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how diagnoses have increased in recent years and the reasons behind this. Topics range from genetics to social culture, offering a comprehensive overview of this area.
The purpose of this edited book is to provide mental health practitioners with a functional understanding of the empirical literature on the psychology of religion and spirituality, while at the same time outlining clinical implications, assessments, and strategies for counseling and psychotherapy--
Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, but beyond gender there are a variety of risk factors that influence the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing depression. This book divides risk factors into biological, cognitive, and social risk factors.
A patient's manual to taking control of borderline personality disorder (BPD), this text offers individuals with BPD concrete and specific material and techniques with which to work. Through the readings, therapy and the accomapanying CD-ROM, patients should be helped to maintain any gains made.
An increasing number of studies have been conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. This book addresses the question of these studies from diverse angles while encompassing conceptual, developmental, and clinical issues.
The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) is a tried and tested approach to assessing the needs of the severely mentally ill which is suitable both for research studies and routine clinical use. This text includes three versions of CAN, all photocopiable, and material for CAN training workshops.
Deals with how adults can finally overcome the traumas of their childhood. This book presents theories that enhance communication and enable adults to express emotions that have been trapped for years. It explains why subconscious pain, unaddressed for decades, manifests itself later as depression, primal inadequacy and chronic loneliness.
Offers a framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned pattern of behavior - it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration.
Helps you sharpen your counseling skills with thoughtful insight into critical interviewing techniques that result in more effective and compassionate therapy. Offering real-world case examples, this essential guide equips you to master the skills necessary in mental health interviewing.
*Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching updates readers on cutting edge science and provides new assessment tools coaches can use to evaluate client resources, goals and values. * Introduces findings from new research on goal commitment strategies, motivation, growth-mindset theory and goal revision.
Gives a review of the thoughts and methods which relate to undertaking research, and evaluating research and clinical treatment. This text presents research methods and clinical treatment with a emphasis placed on the evaluation of research. It also includes features such as: case studies; chapter summaries; and glossary of key terms.
Exactly what is depression? Do we under- or over-diagnose it? Do treatments on offer really work? Clark Lawlor sheds light on the current debates by looking back at how depression has been described, understood, and dealt with in other cultures and throughout history.
Offers a practical approach to inpatient treatment of children and adolescents. This title features disorders that are covered with precise clinical description, discussion of behavioural and psychiatric evaluation, and presentation of the integration of behavioural and psychopharmacologic treatments.
A cornerstone of the professional relationship and a vital prerequisite to treatment, the diagnostic interview sets the tone for the therapy to come. This title covers interviewing strategies, rapport building, the role of empathy, specific disorders, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia.
This text gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. It is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.
Bereavement is a challenging area for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This text draws together a comprehensive evidence-base for supporting grieving people from a wide range of research, and applies it to a health and social care context.
Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf.
Many people occasionally suffer from a negative body self-image but, for an increasing number of people, this can turn into a more serious preoccupation. However, they can be successfully treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This book addresses CBT.
With grand, inclusive theories of psychology such as Freud's now largely discredited, psychological enquiry is focused more narrowly and empirically. This book aims to change the status quo and offer a new, redefining and unified theory of psychology.
• Thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text -- now includes a Randomised Control Trial-verified treatment manual • Includes pre- and post-therapy assessment instruments • Covers the psychological techniques recommended by the 2006 NICE treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder.
The term workplace disabilities is synonymous with greater clinical and case management complexity and escalating personal, social, occupational and economic cost. This title focuses on early detection of risk and management to prevent injury from developing into long-term disability.
Uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions. This book provides advice on methods of coping, routes to growth, recovery and well-being, and how schizophrenia can be viewed in a positive light. It also explores the insights of RD Laing and discusses how they can be applied to contemporary research.
This work explores the confusions which postmodernism generates for clinical psychology, identifies contemporary concerns in clinical practice, and seeks to answer questions pertaining to future models of practice and the contribution of pluralist services to societal improvement.
From authors at the forefront of the dual disorders field, this comprehensive clinical handbook provides virtually everything needed to plan, deliver and evaluate effective treatment for persons with substance abuse problems and persistent mental illness.
In recent years, a number of new therapeutic approaches to personality disorder have been developed. This book, written by practitioners working in an established high secure setting, provides a practical and accessible account of common issues with offenders diagnosed with personality disorder.
The CDC issued an alert indicating that autism may impact one out of every 150 children. This book collects work from researchers who report on evidence indicating links between autism and a number of oxidative stress-related abnormalities such as neuroinflammation, membrane and metabolism abnormalities, and signal transduction.
Contains over 1, 000 treatment goals, objectives, and interventions, as well as space for recording specific treatment plan options. This guide is organized around 31 behaviorally based issues, from employment problems and family conflicts, to financial needs and homelessness, to intimate relationship conflicts and social anxiety.
• One of the very few evidence-based treatments to consistently demonstrate efficacy in clinical trials involving both adult and adolescent substance abusers. • Authors have used the materials in the book to train thousands of mental health professionals in FBT.
An exploration of the interface between psychosis and spirituality. It draws on research and developments from a range of disciplines and challenges conventional understandings. Topics covered include schizotypy, the neuropsychological perspective, and the mystical side of psychosis.
*Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia is an easy-to-use and essential resource for practitioners and students. * Edited by leaders in the field and contributed to by both seasoned clinicians and newer practitioners with expertise in relevant, cutting-edge evidence-based practices.
Helps prepare clinicians to navigate the clinical and ethical dilemmas involved in maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries. This book explains what boundary violations are, their harmful impact on both patient and therapist, and how to avoid them. It also covers sexual misconduct, role reversal, gifts, self-disclosure, and physical contact.
In this work, Marsha M. Linehan not only provides specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, personality, psychoanalytic, strategic and other commonly employed modalities, but helps the therapist survive the process.
Claims that a doctor has developed a treatment program especially for 'hidden' addicts - people whose lives look just fine on the surface, but who are secretly driven by stress into addictive, destructive behaviors. This title also claims that the program treats both hidden substance abuse problems and their underlying causes.