Clinical psychology

Current play therapy resources offer details on how to conduct play therapy, but are limited in addressing the challenges that develop when therapists conduct play therapy with real-life clients.

This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious.

Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks.

Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail.

African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, and nurses, and as a reference volume for thanatologists, academics, and researchers.

Humanitarian aid workers are trying to make a difference in an increasingly dangerous world.

Expert public psychiatrists use case studies to share best-practice strategies in this clinically-oriented introduction to community mental health.

This clinical manual provides a CBT-based psychosocial intervention for use with individuals distressed about their appearance due to a disfigurement from birth, accident or illness, or those coping with another visible difference.

If psychoanalysis, for freud, was an impossible profession, what consequences would this have for psychoanalytic training?

Consensual nonmonogamy (CNM) means that all partners in a relationship consent to expanded monogamy or polyamory.

This book presents the general framework of the psychoanalytic approach to groups, describing the main elements of a psychoanalytic model of the group and of the subject within the group.

In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr.

Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

This book collects and synthesizes the latest thinking on the condition in its variety of cognitive and behavioral presentations, matched by a variety of clinical responses.

Metakognition oder das Denken über das Denken - Wie denken wir?

A focused look at the usesand misusesof psychological tests in the context of child custodyThis book presents an advanced examination of psychological testing and usage in the child custody arena.

Narration and Therapeutic Action raises challenging questions about the limitations of science and of scientific inquiry for the practice of social work.

Originally published in 1986, the impetus for this volume developed from a conference organized by Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and the editors on behalf of the Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology, the Society of the Study of Social Biology, and the Center for Studies of Mental Health of Aging at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Das Manual stellt nach einer Übersicht über den Stand der Forschung die Diagnostik von Sozialen Ängsten dar und erläutert ausführlich das Vorgehen bei der multimodalen Therapie.

Attachment theory is influencing how we understand interpersonal relationships and how psychotherapy can help facilitate change for those struggling in relationships.

Although "e;School Psychology"e; first became recognized as a specialty in professional psychology by CRSPPP in 1998, this area of psychology can be traced back to the late 19th century, where it can be thought to have developed alongside "e;Clinical Psychology"e; due to the types of cases seen in Lightner Witmer's Psychological Clinic that opened in 1896.

Auf der Grundlage neuer Erkenntnisse über die verschiedenen Ursachen und Pathogenesen zerebraler Ischämien durch verbesserte diagnostische Untersuchungsmethoden wie z.

Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival explores the integration of traumatic helplessness in the course of psychoanalytic treatment.

This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century.

Alcohol continues to be the substance of choice for today's youth, leading to serious physical, psychological, and social consequences.

Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences.

Infused with clinical wisdom, this book describes a supportive group treatment approach for survivors just beginning to come to terms with the impact of interpersonal trauma.

Psychology and many of its subfields have seen a significant shift over the past 10-12 years toward a focus on hope, positive attributes, and character strengths through the positive psychology movement.

Many therapists and counselors find themselves struggling to connect the research on the psychology of religion and spirituality to their clinical practice.

In A Re-Visioning of Love: Dark Feminine Rising, Ana Mozol parts the illusory veils of persona as she explores the reality of feminine experiences relating to love, trauma and sexuality in contemporary Western society.

The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) was developed as a clinical method of addressing deep issues of trauma, notably post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relating to physical and emotional abuse and addiction.

This book takes psychoanalysis into the 21st century, examining issues of existentialism, postphenomenology, social media, and death and death anxiety that have gone largely ignored in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature.

This outstanding memorial volume records and reassesses the contributions of Merton M.

Daydreaming, our ability to give 'to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour.

Was vernachlässigten Kindern und Jugendlichen hilftVernachlässigung ist die mit Abstand häufigste Gefährdung des KindeswohlsErstes Werk speziell zum Thema KindesvernachlässigungZahlreiche Falldarstellungen und praxisrelevante HilfestellungenIm Gegensatz zu körperlichen und sexuellen Übergriffen auf Kinder steht die weit verbreitete Kindesvernachlässigung kaum im Fokus öffentlicher Wahrnehmung.

Metabolic syndrome is a set of risk factors that includes: abdominal obesity, a decreased ability to process glucose (insulin resistance), dyslipidemia (unhealthy lipid levels), and hypertension.

Now in its fifth edition, The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse groups who are grappling with the many challenges unique to family therapy practice.

The Half-Alive Ones consists of nine clinical papers and two more theoretical ones.

Throughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "e;demonization,"e; the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or to forces within the self.

Appropriate for professionals in gerontology, sports psychology, health psychology, physical education and social science programs that deal with older populations and community resources, this book first discusses the pros and cons of physical activity for older persons.

A compact, "e;how-to"e; manual on effective, evidence-based treatments for enuresis and encopresis.

POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: From Neurobiology to Treatment presents a comprehensive look at this key neuropsychiatric disorder.

I would like to thank Judy Gammelgaard and Andrew Moskowitz for their encouragement, critique, and confidence in me, without which I could not have undertaken the present study.

Hypnotherapy Scripts to Promote Children's Wellbeing is a collection of tried-and-tested scripts that will aid hypnotherapists in developing and implementing treatment plans for promoting the wellbeing of children.

Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life.

The 21ST CENTURY:THE AGE OF SERIAL VIOLENT CRIME Despite technological and societal advances, crimes of an inexplicably violent nature still permeate contemporary civilizations throughout the world.

This book invites individual therapists to think systemically (including issues of social justice) and family therapists to explore a deeper understanding of the individual in contexts, including the domain of the unconscious.

Complete with exercises, reflections, and specially selected tasks, this workbook is written for those suffering from heartbreak (and their therapists) to support them in navigating and managing the pain of breakups.

This book presents essays that consider the status and significance of the 'pictures of the mind', in Freud, and also in the work of the major psychoanalytic thinkers.