Clinical psychology Books

This is a book for practitioners, for people who, like crafts-persons or sports-people, must continually shape or fashion their conduct both within the immediate allowances or opportunities for action afforded them by their circumstances, whilst at the...

This book is a collection of essays on the topic of pre-, peri- and post-natal issues that are traumatising for the infant. Professor Franz Ruppert is the editor of the book and contributes three essays. The other 16 essays are written by practitioners...

Relearning Therapy is for therapists who want to improve their understanding of emotional problems and their therapeutic practice, and for people who want to understand where their therapeutic problem came from and how it can be resolved. The book...

A classic and comprehensive work on both traditional and modern psychosomatic medical astrology, describing the meanings of the planets, aspects, signs houses and degree areas. It includes a step-by-step guide to decumbiture charts and astro-medical...

This publication contains a collection of 22 manuscripts by authors invited to write review articles. They are based on lectures presented on the First and Second Training Course in Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmacology. These...

Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena takes the reader beyond where James H. Kleiger's original work, Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, left off. This new book offers readers a number of conceptual bridges between Rorschach...

Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work. It is a volume by...

A young female client presents with anorexia nervosa and believes that her problem has its roots in magic; parents are helpless in the face of their son's substance abuse issues; an interracial couple cannot agree on how to discipline their children.How...

Awards and Praise for the first edition: Recipient of the 2006 International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award"This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to text for stalking researchers.　 That is my opinion and the opinion of...

Current play therapy resources offer details on how to conduct play therapy, but are limited in addressing the challenges that develop when therapists conduct play therapy with real-life clients. Using the Child-Centered Play Therapy Approach, Ray has...

This book is an introduction to critical existential-analytic psychotherapy. It has been written as a response to what is considered to be a crisis point in what is currently taken as psychotherapeutic knowledge. A focus point is the relentless move in...

In Human Interaction and Emotional Awareness in Gestalt Therapy　H. Peter Dreitzel explores a model of the contacting processes between human beings and their environments and presents a phenomenological exploration of the emotions guiding such contacts...

The Restorative Nature of Ongoing Connections with the Deceased is a guide to stimulating thought and discussion about ongoing attachments between bereaved individuals and their deceased loved ones. Chapters promote broad, inclusive training and dialogue...

Eco-Art Therapy in Practice is uplifting, optimistic, and empowering while outlining cost-effective, time efficient, and research-based steps on how to use nature in session to enhance client engagement and outcomes. Dr. Pike employs her background and...

In this textbook for students and instructors of marriage and family therapy, Bethany C. Suppes offers a refreshed perspective of family systems therapy (FST), focusing on the importance of understanding its concepts and demonstrating how models of...

This book analyses how practitioners can use psychotherapy as a healing mechanism, focusing on the intersection of gender, power, and social justice within the global context. It begins by interrogating the concept of social justice itself before...

The second edition of Advanced Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy covers advanced helping- skills topics, including inductive reasoning, Socratic questioning, and creatively creating second- order change. Chapters explore strategies for using...

Adding to the growing literature on shared formulation, the authors provide over two decades of practice-based evidence for the use of a Shared Assessment, Formulation and Education (SAFE) approach to working with those with complex mental health and...

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings draws on empirical studies of real-world settings to demonstrate contemporary practice-based evidence, providing effective strategies for communicating with patients/clients in mental health settings.The...

This book describes how group treatment offers a unique opportunity for group members to learn and to change as they interact with other group members.The group structure presents a social microcosm of relationships that people who seek psychotherapeutic...

Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling bonds.Based on two major concepts, that of device (drawn from...

This engaging book is a comprehensive exploration of children's happiness and success covering a wide range of factors influencing positive functioning. It offers a holistic view of children's well-being, identifying both threats and catalysts to...

A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility offers specific guidance to support students and practitioners in providing on-going, culturally-attuned professional care. The book introduces a multicultural diversity-training model named the ORCA-Stance, an...

This essential handbook provides clinicians with the tools to introduce Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) into their practice working with individuals, couples, and families.Describing the "how to" and "how to decide what to do" aspects of IST, this...

In the pages of this book you will see the easy, natural, step-by-step way to release the miracle power for healing and a fuller life that slumbers within you. With specific techniques designed to cure illness, relieve and injuries, increase your energy...

Overcome Anxiety offers an overview of the ramifications and types of anxiety, and an in-depth review of the causes and impact of anxiety. Dr. Steinberg discloses the value of conventional and innovative mental health interventions and provides the tools...

As a BIPOC therapist, you learned a lot of things in graduate school, but how to set up your own private practice wasn't one of them. Most of us got through graduate school figuring out--on our own--how to adapt the things we learned to the...

Questo libro è il frutto des lavoro congiunto di eccellenti esperti es ricercatori nell'ambito Solution Focused riuniti in un gruppo di lavora promosso da EBTA (European Brief Therapy Association), e rappresenta la summa degli ultimi sviluppi del modello.

Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan? Providing a thoughtful and considered exploration of this question, this book presents a critical reassessment of posttraumatic growth, based on correcting prior theoretical and...

This important book proposes revising the current informed consent protocol for predictive genetic testing to reflect the trend toward patient-centered medicine. Emphasizing the predictive aspect of testing, the author analyzes the state of informed...

This thorough reviewof social justice in family therapy guides practitioners to incorporateconcepts of equity and fairness in their work. Expanding on the relationshipsbetween larger social contexts and individuals' family functioning, it offers...

This work prepares teachers, college students, and higher education faculty to conduct various types of presentations, including workshops and teacher inservice trainings; poster sessions; panel discussions; roundtables; research forums; and...

During the past decades, "Dynamics of the singing voice" has successfully been established as a reference text for teachers of singing, singers, choral conductors and organists, speech and voice therapists, laryngologists and...

Faszinierende neue Erkenntnisse aus der Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie werden in diesem Band vorgestellt. Renommierte Experten und angehende Psychiater und Psychotherapeuten aus dem deutschen Sprachraum geben einen Einblick in...

Psychoonkologie hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem eigenständigen Wissenschaftszweig entwickelt. Die Erforschung der psychosozialen Dimension der Krebserkrankungen hat die Praxis der Behandlung Krebskranker, aber auch das...

Das Buch behandelt ein brisantes Thema in Zeiten der Kostenprobleme im Gesundheitswesen: die Krankheitsvorbeugung, ausgehend von den Erkenntnissen der Psychotherapie. Es gibt einen Einblick in die Entstehungsbedingungen,...

Der vierte Band der erfolgreichen Buchreihe "Aktuelle Probleme der Schizophrenie" behandelt Aspekte der Psychiatrie, die gegenwärtig im Brennpunkt der Diskussion stehen. Führende Autoren aus dem gesamten deutschen Sprachraum...

Das Buch vermittelt den aktuellen Stand im Verstehen und Versorgen von Patienten mit schizophrenen Störungen. Entsprechend der Komplexität der Erscheinungsbilder, deren Entwicklungs- und Verlaufsbedingungen sowie deren...

Das Buch "Kind und Umwelt" ist als Sammelband nach drei Symposien des Vereines "Kind-Familie-Umwelt" entstanden. Der Verein setzt sich die Verbrei­ tung psychohygienischen Wissens in praktischer wie in wissenschaftlicher Weise...

MeineEntscheidung, dem Vorschlag Folge werden, urn einen weiteren Schritt der zu leisten, ein Geleitwort fur das neue Menschheit auf dem Wege der Huma­ Buch uber . posttraumatlsche Storunqen" nisierung zu setzen. Damit wird...

Im vorliegenden Buch werden von führenden Vertretern der Fachgebiete Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie neueste Erkenntnisse für den klinischen Alltag aufbereitet dargestellt. Der erste Beitrag äußert sich grundsätzlich zum...

Die Psychiatrie befindet sich in einem rasch voranschreitenden Entwicklungsprozeß: Neue diagnostische Möglichkeiten und ein wachsendes Verständnis der komplexen ätiopathogenetischen Mechanismen psychischer Erkrankungen, auf...

Aus dem Inhalt: Wissenschaftliche Beiträge: J.M. Giesler et al., Psychoanalytische Kurztherapie brustkrebsoperierter Frauen; W. Berland, Unerwartete Genesung von Krebskranken - Wie sich Patienten ihr Überleben erklären; R...