Clinical Psychology Books
From Symptom to Synapse: A Neurocognitive Perspective on Clinical Psychology
The purpose of this book is to introduce clinical psychologists, other mental health practitioners, and researchers to the neurocognitive approach to assessing and treating psychiatric disorders. It... (more)
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD
If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you're facing and where you can turn for... (more)
Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder
The Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder is based on the author's conviction that with adequate training most psychiatrists and other mental health... (more)
The Addiction Casebook
The Addiction Casebook consists of 13 clinical cases that exemplify DSM-5 addiction diagnoses commonly encountered in clinical practice. Written in a colloquial, engaging, and easy-to-understand... (more)
Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology: Second Edition
Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology is a comprehensive guide to the pharmacology of drugs of abuse and the medications used to treat dependence on those substances. This new, second... (more)
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry is comprised of 38 clinical cases based on real patient interactions that straddle the domains of neurology and psychiatry. While scientifically rigorous and grounded in... (more)
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development
Mental Health Worldwide offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the... (more)
DSM-5 Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis
This book provides essential coaching tools to support teachers in planning and implementing instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The authors explain the key instructional... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Clinical Practice of Pediatric Psychology
Filled with vivid clinical material, this book describes effective practices for helping children and their families who are coping with chronic and acute health conditions and their treatment.... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on... (more)
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
Relative to some other medical specialties, psychiatry is a new and still scientifically underdeveloped field - as a result practitioners can be influenced by attractive but unproven ideas. Since... (more)
Free Will, Consciousness and Self: Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology
What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human - in everyday life and when faced with life's big questions? In this book, the author develops a... (more)
Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology: Fourth Edition
This popular and critically acclaimed text, using movies to help learn about mental illness, is being fully updated with DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, dozens of evocative and informative frame grabs, a... (more)
Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient, Profession and Community
The field of ethics is expanding and has assumed new significance as a compulsory part of study for psychiatrists and all mental health professionals. Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient,... (more)
Essential Psychopathology Casebook
A problem-based learning casebook, keyed to the newly released DSM-V. The clinical cases in this book are about real people suffering from psychopathology. Reviewing these cases will allow the early... (more)
On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts... (more)
Women Voicing Resistance: Discursive and Narrative Explorations
Feminist scholars have demonstrated how 'dominant discourses' and 'master narratives' frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing women's storying of their own... (more)
Diagnosis Made Easier: Principles and Techniques for Mental Health Clinicians: Second Edition
This popular practitioner guide and course text takes the reader step by step through diagnostic decision making in mental health. Acclaimed for both the clarity of his writing and his clinical... (more)
Clinicians in Court: A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know: Second Edition
Interacting with the legal system can be stressful and intimidating for mental health professionals. This trusted book provides user-friendly strategies to help clinicians prepare for testimony in... (more)
Drawings in Assessment and Psychotherapy: Research and Application
Drawing is a language, projected by children and adults, reflecting their joy and pain. It is used extensively by clinical psychologists, art therapists, social workers, and other mental health... (more)
The New Psychology of Money
An accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms. Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of... (more)
Case Studies in Sexual Deviance: Towards Evidence Based Practice
The assessment and treatment of sexual deviance can be very difficult tasks, and it can be hard to find mentors to provide initial skills training and help in navigating the many complexities of a... (more)
Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism
Psychological and medical perspectives on sadomasochism (SM) have historically been concerned with understanding it as a form of psychopathology. In the past (but still often today) studies of SM... (more)
Clinical Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Findings from the Collaborative Depression Study
Conceived in the early 1970s to study the phenomenology, diagnosis, genetics, and clinical course of depression, the NIMH Collaborative Depression Study (CDS) has influenced research and practice... (more)
Mental Health for the Whole Child: Moving Young Clients from Disease & Disorder to Balance & Wellness
Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, and yet the number of kids suffering from mental illness today seems to creep ever upward. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, oppositional defiant... (more)
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our... (more)
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment: Third Edition
The Cross-Battery assessment approach - also referred to as the XBA approach-is a time-efficient assessment method grounded - solidly in contemporary theory and research. The XBA approach... (more)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dental Phobia and Anxiety
Intended for professionals and researchers in clinical psychology and dentistry as well as practicing dentists, this presents the first guide to evidence-based CBT treatment of dental anxiety. Author... (more)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry’s Diagnostic... (more)