Clinical Psychology Books
Surviving, Existing or Living: Phase-specific Therapy for Severe Psychosis
For professionals working with people who experience severe psychosis, increasing empirical evidence for the benefits of psychotherapy for psychosis has been especially welcome. Given the limitations... (more)
Psychosis and Emotion: The Role of Emotions in Understanding Psychosis, Therapy and Recovery
There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book... (more)
Insanity and Divinity: Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
How close is spirituality to psychosis? Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical... (more)
A Guide to Psychological Understanding of People with Learning Disabilities: Eight Domains and Three Stories
Who are the people we describe as having learning or intellectual disability? Many clinical psychologists working in a mental health setting are now encountering people with learning disabilities, in... (more)
Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People's Problems
The first edition of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy caught the wave of growing interest in formulation in a clinical context. This completely updated and revised edition summarises... (more)
A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments
For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive... (more)
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now... (more)
Alcohol-Related Violence: Prevention and Treatment
Presents an authoritative collection of the most recent assessment and treatment strategies for alcohol-related aggression and violence.
* Features contributions from leading international... (more)
The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy
While iconic popular images celebrated family life during the 1950s and 1960s, American families were simultaneously regarded as potentially menacing sources of social disruption. The history of... (more)
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
This book argues that psychiatry's love affair with the diagnosis of depression has become a death grip. Depression is a real illness, especially in its melancholic form. But most patients who get... (more)
Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry
Hippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an experienced psychiatrist and researcher. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer... (more)
The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health
Every day millions of people struggle with psychological and emotional problems. The Stressed Sex sets out to answer a simple, but crucial, question: are rates of psychological disorder different... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: An Evidence-based Guide for Generalist Mental Health Professionals
Over the past two decades considerable progress has been made in developing specialist psychosocial treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet the majority of people with BPD receive... (more)
The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided to publish a revised edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). There was great hope that a new manual would display psychiatry... (more)
Person-centered Diagnosis and Treatment in Mental Health: A Model for Empowering Clients
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a... (more)
American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails.... (more)
Diagnostic and Behavioral Assessment in Children and Adolescents: a Clinical Guide
This comprehensive volume shows how to use both diagnostic and behavioral assessment knowledgeably and effectively throughout the process of treatment. The two traditions have developed along... (more)
Handbook of Mental Health Nursing
A concise and user-friendly guide, Handbook of Mental Health Nursing will help you to learn the essential skills required for practice. This practical handbook is informed by an interdisciplinary... (more)
Mental Health Law: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
Completely updated to reflect current changes in the law and in practice, Mental Health Law: A Practical Guide is a concise and approachable handbook to mental health law for students and... (more)
Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality: Third Edition
A complete, thorough, and pragmatic guide to clinical assessment, this authoritative book meets a key need for both students and practitioners. The authors describe how to construct a moving picture... (more)
Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change: Selecting and Planning Interventions: Second Edition
A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general-and the stages-of-change model in particular-to make substance abuse... (more)
Mind Stimulation Therapy (MST): Cognitive Interventions for Persons with Schizophrenia and Other Clinical Populations
This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation... (more)
Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis: Second Edition
Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called 'schizophrenia'? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are psychiatric... (more)
Body Image: A Handbook of Science, Practice, and Prevention: Second Edition
The standard reference for practitioners, researchers, and students, this acclaimed work brings together internationally recognized experts from diverse mental health, medical, and allied health care... (more)
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference for the psychology and psychiatry student, intern, or resident, early career psychologist... (more)
DSM-5 Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria
DSM-5 Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria will be useful to a wide audience of teachers, students, clinicians, and all professionals seeking to fully understand the... (more)
DSM-5 Guidebook: The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
As a companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), this guidebook serves two critical functions. First, it acts as a guide for busy clinicians in need... (more)
Study Guide to DSM-5
The Study Guide to DSM-5 is an indispensable instructional supplement to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. The Study Guide is intended to assist readers in... (more)
DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
Diagnosing patients requires the ability to elicit information from the patient, identify symptoms and recognize patterns, determine possible causes, and then make an accurate diagnosis. Experienced... (more)
Social Selves: Theories of Self and Society: Second Revised Edition
This new, completely revised version builds on the popular success of the first edition. It seeks to answer the basic social question of 'who am I?' by developing an understanding of self-identity as... (more)