Clinical Psychology Books
Body-subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the Whole Person in Psychiatry
How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in... (more)
Treating the 'Untreatable': Heal
Treating the 'Untreatable' offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for the most severe psychotic disturbances, schizophrenia and delusional disorder. Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of... (more)
Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention Science
Divided into 5 parts, this book talks about: biological and social universals in development; characteristics of brain and behaviour in development; and effects of early maltreatment and stress on... (more)
Manic-depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
The revolution in psychiatry that began in the 1950s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness also known as bipolar disorder. No other mental illness... (more)
Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse
This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors... (more)
Treatment of Depression and Related Moods: A Manual for Psychotherapists
Daniel Badal discusses the many changes that have occurred in the field of depression and related mood disorder treatment in recent years in this accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book... (more)
Critical Review of the Current Trends in Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology
This work reviews the main literature but also areas that have been 'under-researched'. This book is designed to provide a forum, guided by a critical rationalism perspective, for leading scholars,... (more)
Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide
In the last twenty years, there has been an increase in the number of studies published on predicting the recidivism of sexual offenders. Several approaches to risk assessment have been developed,... (more)
Sex Offenders and the Internet
This book brings together current knowledge about sex offending on the internet. Nine chapters cover topics such as the social and legal changes that led to the identification of internet sex... (more)
Understanding Your Schizophrenia Illness: A Workbook
Being diagnosed with schizophrenia can be a devastating experience. It is therefore crucial that those diagnosed with the illness are provided with complete and accurate information that explains... (more)
Depression: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
This volume comprehensively compares and contrasts alternative models of and treatment approaches to clinical depression. Each contributor, a recognized expert in their modality, analyzes the same... (more)
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Clients' Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Guide for Clinicians: Second Edition
"Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders" provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat;... (more)
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
How could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, the author interviewed and evaluated "abductees" - old and young, male and female,... (more)
Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy
"Hands-on Help" is a narrative review of the mushrooming field of computer-aided psychotherapy for mental health problems as a whole, from the time it began in the 1960's through to the present day.... (more)
Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes: Second Edition
This new edition of "Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes" has been thoroughly updated and revised to provide an authoritative overview of the subject, including new chapters on the neurodevelopmental... (more)
The Handbook of Clinical Adult Psychology: Third Edition
This third edition of "The Handbook of Clinical Adult Psychology" has been thoroughly updated throughout to take account of recent research. As well as updating existing sections, the editors have... (more)
The Female Body in Mind: The Interface Between the Female Body and Mental Health
"The Female Body in Mind" introduces new ways of thinking about issues of women's mental health assessment and treatment. The multidisciplinary approach incorporates social, psychological, biological... (more)
Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care: Narratives from Service Users, Carers and Professionals
This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, both from a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic... (more)
The Theory and Treatment of Depression: Towards a Dynamic Interactionism Model
Recent research indicates that depression, once believed to be relatively benign, is highly recurrent and does not respond well to treatment. The goal of this book is to facilitate the development of... (more)
Bipolar Disorder
This book is the complete resource for mental health professionals, their clients, and lay people. "The Concise Guide to Bipolar Disorders" features vignettes and case illustrations, as well as... (more)
Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests
This book provides all-encompassing coverage of administration, scoring, interpretation, and reporting of brief intelligence tests. It also points out both its uses and limitations and discusses past... (more)
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems
"Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems" provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into... (more)
Behavioural Case Formulation and Intervention: A Functional Analytic Approach
"Case Formulation and Intervention in Clinical Psychology: A Functional Analytic Approach" provides a complete update on developments in functional analysis over the last 10 years. Applying a... (more)
Anxiety Disorders
"Anxiety Disorders" features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes: vignettes and case illustrations; a practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory; and, resources for... (more)
Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from... (more)
Working Memory, Thought, and Action
Working Memory, Thought, and Action is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Graham Hitch)... (more)
The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion
This is a comprehensive resource of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging inter-disciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors aim to define this... (more)
Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death: A Practitioner's Guide
Never has our culture been more aware of personal and global health hazards, from both within and without. While most people may feel some anxiety in this regard, some have an unbearable sense of... (more)