Clinical psychology Books

In 1951, a young hospital doctor treated a patient suffering from a rare and debilitating skin disease - thought to be incurable - with a single session of hypnosis, unaware that he was about to make medical history. The case caused a sensation. Doctors...

This book includes procedures for assessing clients, techniques, and clinical applications for treating clients using aquatic therapy.

The Power Threat Meaning Framework is a new perspective on why people sometimes experience a whole range of forms of distress, confusion, fear, despair, and troubled or troubling behaviour. It is an alternative to the more traditional models based on...

Practical Emotional Intelligence is a collection of six books that are designed to help you with every aspect of emotional development, interpersonal relationships, becoming more charismatic and influential, improving your communication skills, and...

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...

The journey to refinement and confidence is seldom easy. It requires, first and foremost, the changing of one's mind from the old way of thinking and executing to a new and completely abnormal way. It is an uncomfortable place to exist when you...

This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes andliterature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on theirown mentoring and coaching practice. How realistic are...

A life well-lived requires courage, insight and the ability to see one's self as a leader, not a follower. Leadership is not just for CEOs - leadership is an essential quality for successful everyday life. The ability to lead and role model for others...

Emile Coue came up with novel way to improve the lives of people. He was a pharmacist by trade and often saw ailing people. This lead him to develop autosuggestion, a form of self-hypnosis. At the time his theories weren't popular but over the years...

The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures have been used for over one-thousand years as a teaching paradigm for individuals on a spiritual path of awakening and liberation from ego-self's conditioned dualities, separations, ignorance, attachments and errors and of...

What are the essential skills needed to set up and run a successful coaching practice?Coaching is the new growth industry in the UK and coaching as a profession is increasingly becoming an attractive option for motivated professionals. Achieving...

We propose that design thinking and design reasoning can play an important role in assisting the field of mental health as it explores what it means to move expertise beyond current health care settings. The clinical literature is comprised of three...

Essential Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Everyday Practice in Our Diverse World is the first book to provide an integrated presentation of relational competencies, microskills, and theories. Clear and concise, it gives an overview of...

JAMAS EN MI VIDA IMAGINE LO QUE SE SIENTE NO PODERSE MOVER ENABSOLUTO, NI SENTIR UN DOLOR TAN INMENSO EN TODO EL CUERPO,QUE NO PUEDO EXPLICAR CON PALABRAS.SEGÚN EL DIAGNOSTICO, LA ENFERMEDAD DE LA FIBROMIALGIAYA DIAGNOSTICADA DOS AÑOS ATRÁS, CULMINO EN...

Every child needs a mentor, but especially the Black male. In many homes today, the average male will not have a positive role model in his life. He, too, may not experience a Black male teacher and in some cases an athletic coach either. What has...

This is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons.

In this book, the authors offer a state of the art review of applied social-psychological research on gender at work, shedding light on all the different ways that work-related perceptions, attributions, outcomes, and the like differ for women and men.

This ground-breaking volume provides an encompassing and detailed account of clinical psychologists' highly varied work on the psychiatric ward in mental health inpatient settings. An international collection of clinical psychologists describe challenges...

This book recognizes and legitimizes the significance of pet and animal loss by exploring the various expressions of trauma and grief experienced by those who work with, live with, or own an animal or pet. The chapters of Pet Loss, Grief, and Therapeutic...

Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families. Chapters based on current developmental psychology research prepare mental health, school, and...

First published in 1988, behavioural family therapists worked in an area that had greatly changed since its inception over 20 years before. Growing out of the pioneering work of Gerald Patterson, Robert Paul Liberman, and Richard Stuart, whose...

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading...

Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy provides a comprehensive and timely model for spirituality-integrated therapy which is truly pluralist and responsive to the ever-evolving World of religion/spirituality. This book presents an algorithmic,...

Volume 17 of Progress in Self Pcychology begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. The abil

The key to understanding gaslighting or other emotional manipulation is to learn why it's done. The origins of manipulation can be found in the roots of dark psychology - an unofficial branch of psychology surrounded by misconceptions leading to fear and...

¿ Ha habido alguna vez en la que alguien te haya hecho sentir culpable aunque sepas que no has hecho nada malo? Tal vez tuviste que cancelar los planes con tu pareja porque estabas cansado o te llamaron del trabajo, aunque los planes se hicieron...

La clave para entender el gaslighting u otra manipulación emocional es aprender por qué se hace. Los orígenes de la manipulación se encuentran en las raíces de la psicología oscura, una rama no oficial de la psicología rodeada de conceptos erróneos que...

In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - an approach that focuses on challenging and changing the rigid and extreme attitudes that largely determine emotional and behavioural...

This book, the second of the two volumes, continues to chart the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and researched within the public sectors of six different countries around the world. It discusses psychoanalytic...

A Practitioner's Guide to Cybersecurity and Data Protection offers an accessible introduction and practical guidance on the crucial topic of cybersecurity for all those working with clients in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, psychotherapy and...

Heideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility as well as understanding of its relevance to therapeutic practice.

The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age.

This book presents strategies for using systemic theory and evidence-based practice in schools to support students, the adults in their lives, and their wider communities.

This new, thoroughly revised fifth edition of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review offers a comprehensive study guide of child psychiatry.

Pluralistic Therapy provides answers to the most important and common questions asked about the origins, principles, and practice of pluralism. Written in an accessible style by experts in the field, the book provides the reader with a comprehensive...

In this insightful and accessible book, George Lyon Turner explores the complex dynamics of desire and volition. Drawing on research from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Turner examines the factors that influence what we want and our ability to...

Under normal circumstances, the elements of spirituality are all but cast out of a therapy session. In therapy, we acknowledge the emotions, thoughts and sensations of our bodies, but we ignore the indispensable spiritual aspect of the human experience,...

A remarkable journey through the hidden dimensions of our inner world . . .Soul-Centered Healing: A Psychologist's Extraordinary Journey into the Realms of Sub-Personalities, Spirits, and Past LivesWhen clinical psychologist Tom Zinser started working...

The Therapist and the Soul: From Fate to Freedom by Elisabeth LukasElisabeth Lukas is one of the leading practitioners of logotherapy in the world, and is internationally known for applying and extending the work of Viktor Frankl. Frankl noted that, "For...

This book overviews a revolutionary new method of psychotherapy, Lifespan Integration, which Peggy Pace developed beginning in 2002. Lifespan Integration (LI) is an efficient body-based psychotherapeutic method which helps clients recover from traumatic...

This is the second book by Professor Franz Ruppert in English translation and continues his exploration of the impact of trauma across generations. Here he deepens his understanding of the process and function of psychological splitting as a natural...