Clinical Psychology Books
Positioning Theory - Moral Contexts of International Action:
In this text, the author gives a state-of-the-art overview of positioning theory via contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field. (more)
Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis:
The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric... (more)
The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought
This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept... (more)
Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety:
This spiral-bound reference for practitioners and instructors describes various measurement tools for assessing anxiety and related disorders. Produced in conjunction with the Association for... (more)
Psychology Beyond Western Perspectives:
This work discusses, explains and illustrates some of the potential of psychology beyond the strait-jakcet that has been imposed upon it by its intellectual and empirical roots, and provides positive... (more)
The Deja Vu Experience:
"The Deja Vu Experience" covers the recent scientific discoveries and theorizing in perception, cognition, and neurophysiology, which have the potential to help clarify the cause of the deja vu... (more)
The Psychology of Emotion
As emotion and emotional experience are a daily occurrence, they have always been key topics of study for psychologists. This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to all main theories and concepts... (more)
Essential Personality:
A systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the understanding of human personality. End-of-chapter evaluation sections, summaries, further reading sections and applications of... (more)
Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia
"Living Outside Mental Illness" demonstrates the importance of listening to what people diagnosed with schizophrenia themselves have to say about their struggle, and shows the dramatic effect this... (more)
Psychoneuroendocrinology:
Written by researchers and practising clinicians, this volume reviews empirical findings, highlights the clinical significance of these findings and offers clinical guidelines for treating patients.... (more)
Attention:
What is "attention" and what is the best way to understand it? Taking its cue from this key question, "Attention: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Approach" presents a detailed overview of cognitive,... (more)
Psych ER: Psychiatric Patients Come to the Emergency Room
Drawing on the experience of evaluating over 2000 emergency room patients, Rene Muller explores the important role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine. In a series of brief essays, he discusses... (more)
Social Phobia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment
Social phobia is the least well known and least well understood of the anxiety disorders, not becoming an official part of the diagnostic nomenclature until the publication of DSM-III in 1980.... (more)
Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy
Despite the efforts of therapists and patients, many patients in cognitive- behavioural therapy do not improve. This book is designed to help the clinician better understand and work with patients... (more)
Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals.
This text offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals a routemap of the key issues integration of complementary therapies, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close... (more)
Treatment of functional somatic symptoms
There is currently a great deal of interest in patients with functional somatic symptoms - physical complaints which are not explained by organic findings - but until now there has been little... (more)
Personality and psychological disorders:
Written by psychologists in areas of abnormal and differential psychology, this text aims to integrate evidence and ideas from healthy personality and temperament on the one hand and psychological... (more)
International handbook of social anxiety: Concepts, research and interventions relating to the self and shyness
This handbook provides a review of knowledge of the fundamental biological and developmental processes related to self, social interaction and shyness. It deals with the psychological effects of... (more)
Trauma, war, and violence: public mental health in socio-cultural context:
Traumatic stress resulting from armed conflict and terrorism is a prime concern of governments, organizations and the United Nations, yet there (more)
Chronic fatigue and its syndromes:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as M.E.) is an illness characterized by the symptom of chronic and severe fatigue. It has been the subject of media debate over recent years. Such interest has... (more)
Community care of older people:
Provides an up-to-date profile of all aspects of the care of older people in the community, with a particular emphasis on the importance of maintenance. (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.17: Where children live: Solutions for serving young children and their families
This text explores children and families in their natural habitats. Its message is that a comprehensive theoretical model of effective delivery of child and family services is needed in order for... (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.18: Partnerships in research, clinical, and educational settings
Compares partnerships to traditional relationships between professionals and patients, students and research participants. The editors and contributors believe there are multiple interpretations of... (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.20: The Guided acquisition of first language skills:
Aimed at researchers and remedial practitioners in language acquisition, this text explains methods for language training and linked learning, most of which require no special academic training. It... (more)
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Vol.16: Children of the dispossessed: Far-West preschoolers 30 years on
This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage and educational programmes for the culturally different. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and... (more)