Psychiatry Books

This book is to help parents and caregivers with children and teens who are struggling with suicidal ideation and/or self-harming behaviours. This is a guide to assist parents and caregivers who are not sure how to help or how to react. The information...

This volume represents a comprehensive overview of theneuropsychology of emotion and the neural mechanismsunderlying emotional processing. It draws on recent studiesutilizing behavioral paradigms with normal subjects, thebrain lesion approach, clinical...

Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Pharmacology explores the neuropsychiatric consequences of congenital and acquired brain lesions and their appropriate pharmacologic treatment. The clinical problems addressed - practically,...

expands traditional inquiry regarding the significance of psychopathology in the criminal process to include blameworthiness for sentencing, criminal competence at various stages in the process, and dangerousnesspairs legal analysis with empirical...

Consultation-liaison psychiatry interfaces between psychiatry and the rest of medicine as well as psychology, social work, nursing, and other behavioral science disciplines. This is a practical, up-to-date handbook providing a...

Integrated care is receiving a lot of attention from clinicians, administrators, policy makers, and researchers. Given the current healthcare crises in the United States, where costs, quality, and access to care are of...

Designed primarily as a text this volume is an up-to-date and integrated overview of physiological sleep mechanisms, brain function, psychological ramifications of sleep, dimensions of dreaming, and clinical disorders...

Child psychology is a constantly expanding field, with dozens of specialized journals devoted to major disorders springing up in recent years. With so much information available - and the prospect of overload inevitable -...

Not long ago, conducting child assessment was as simple as stating that "the child gets along with others" or "the child lags behind his peers". Today's pediatric psychologists and allied professionals, by contrast, know the...

In 1997 the National Institute of Mental Health assembled a working group of international experts to address the mental health consequences of torture and related violence and trauma; report on the status of scientific...

Psychoneuroimmunology is the first textbook to examine the complex functional relationships between the nervous system, the neuroendocrine and the immune system. The international leaders in this field have been brought...

This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary...

The assessment of individual differences has a long history. As early as 2200 B.C. the Chinese were employing methods to select candidates for civil service positions. Over the ensuing centuries philosophers, theologians, and...

Basics of Managed Care in Psychological Services for Children and Families. Problems Posed by Managed Care for Services to Children and Families. Legal and Ethical Issues for the Clinician in Managed Care. Adapting to the Managed Care Environment...

What Is Infant and Early Childhood Neuropsychology? The Concept of `Risk' in Infant and Early Childhood Neuropsychology. Development of the Central Nervous System. Disorders in Brain Development. Further Assessment Considerations. Directions. Index.

The genesis of this book occurred several years ago provide readers with not only the "what to do" of child behavior therapy, but the "how to do it" as in Seattle on the veranda of a Chilean cafe overlook­ well. Each of the...

Internal Medicine: Endocrinology; S.J. Yeung, J.R. Hubbard. Cardiology; M. Fuller, J.R. Hubbard. Hematology and Oncology; R. Jain, D.D. Short. Infectious Disease; C.J. Schleupner. Gastroenterology and Hepatology; C.M. Yoshida, J.R. Hubbard...

Summary of Puerto Rican Migration; C.E. Rodriquez. Entromundos; I. Zavala-Martinez. Maternal and Child Health and Health Care in Puerto Rico; P.J. Santiago-Borrero, M. Valcarcel. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Women and Children in Puerto ...

information. This book aims to do this for practitioners, professionals in health, welfare, and education, and interested laypersons, including parents. This is no easy task, since the levels of technical knowledge vary from...

The Bio-Existential Spirit. The Definition and History of Psychotherapy. The Five Modern Schools of Mental Treatment. The Case of Beth and Howard. The History of the Hologram. Making the Diagnosis, Staging the Treatment. A Grief-Based Theory of...

Clinical Strategies in Brief Psychotherapy; R.A. Wells. Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression; C. Cornes. A Brief Family Therapy Model for Child Guidance Clinics; D.J. Hurley, S. Fisher. Brief Couple/Family Therapy; M. Snyder, B. Guerney, Jr...

The Developing Brain: The Internal Environment of the Developing Brain; K.M. Dziegielewska, N.R. Saunders. Neuronal Migration and Differentiation During Normal and Genetically-Perturbed Development of the Hippocampal Formation; R.S. Nowakowski. ...

I - Money in Life.- 1. How Much is Enough?.- 2. Money Styles.- 3. Material Incentives in Childhood and Adolescence.- 4. Poverty and Psychopathology.- 5. Power, Gender and Money.- 6. Men, Money and Masculinity.- 7. Money as a Mirror of Marriage.- 8. Money...

1: Fundamentals.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Data Aquisition.- Map Construction.- Interpolation.- 1.3 Spatial Sampling.- 1.4 Reference and Reference-Dependence.- 1.5 Map Display Methods.- Scaling and Floating Voltage Scales.- Summary Maps.- 1.6...

1. Metabolism of Ethanol.- 1.1. Pathways of Ethanol Oxidation.- 1.2. Alteration in the Metabolism of Ethanol after Chronic Ethanol Consumption.- 1.3. Effects of Liver Disease, Blood Flow, Circadian Rhythm, Gender, and Other Factors on Hepatic Alcohol...

Chronic and excessive alcohol consumption disrupts a number of biologic sys­ tems. Central nervous system pathology, associated with long-standing alcohol ingestion, has particularly deleterious consequences to the individual...

This book provides the theoretical framework on how to manage crises in organizations. The authors connect crisis management theories with practical examples from Chinese companies andit contributes to better crisis management not only in Chinese...

Delve into a series of inspiring poems written by Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Stephen B. Stokl as he reflects on his life's own path as it weaves in and out of the journeys of others. Through decades of practice with thousands of patients, Dr. Stephen...

Mirrors of Madness depicts the social-psychological processes and institutional consequences of psychiatric staffs experience of "closet insanity" (private worries about theirown social and psychological competence) and "reverse role modeling"...

This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. There are no recent books covering so wide a time span. Many of the facets covered are pertinent to issues...

In addition to filling a need within the field of parental behavior, this book contributes importantly to the growing area of emotional and motivational neuroscience. A major part of neuroscience research at the whole...

One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients feel still stigmatized, psychiatrists are struggling with...

This fine new book, the third in a series, brings psychologists up to date on the advances of phenomenological research methods in illuminating the nature of human awareness and ex­ periences. In the more congenial and...

The focus of Volume I of the Handbook of Human Brain Function was on basic scientific principles of brain imaging as it relates to the study of human brain function. Once the scientific bases for a particular discipline are...

Until recent advents in neuroimaging, the brain had been inaccessible to in vivo visualization, short of neurosurgical procedures or some unfortunate traumatic exposure. It is a tribute to the early contributors to clinical...

Assessment is a topic that is central to psychology. In the case of clinical psychology, assessment of individual functioning is of keen interest to individuals involved in clinical practice as well as research. Understand­ ing...

Within the last decade there has been a tremendous explosion in the clinical, theoretical, and empirical literature related to the study of dissociation. Not since the work done at the tum of the century by Pierre Janet, Morton...

Here is a practical reference offering mental health professionals 16 state-of-the-art methods for treating a variety of problems presented by outpatient and inpatient adult clients. Supported by ample clinical ...

Preschool children have been largely neglected in the mental health treatment literature, although research has established that many behavioral and emotional disorders in children result from events occurring during the...

Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was a labor of love to read this...

Reknowned authorities offer the first international handbook on anxiety and phobic disorders in children and adolescents. Using DSM-IV and ICD classifications, this comprehensive and up-to-date volume addresses issues...

Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework. Dr...

This book could not have been conceptualized or published 20 years ago. Indeed, it is doubtful that we could have organized the material for this handbook 10 years ago. Over the last 20 years, however, the painstaking efforts...