Clinical psychology

Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses how to set up therapy groups and make them work.

How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else?

School Counselling in a Chinese Context discusses research in school counselling in the Chinese context of Hong Kong schools and various educational settings, and provides a contextualized understanding of counselling issues.

This highly topical book integrates theory and practice about children and their education provision in secure accommodation.

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Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day.

Therapeutic Approaches in Psychology is a simple introduction to the many psychological therapies in use today, including cognitive-behavioural, humanistic and psychodynamic approaches.

In this approachable book, Mark Kinet offers a unique methodology for integrating psychoanalytic work in the psychiatric setting.

Teachers need to be equipped not only to teach, but also to help build mental security and wellbeing into the lives of young people and children.

Here is a timely volume that reviews the current state of knowledge of cocaine use.

Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist.

Drawing upon thirty-two years of extensive school work (including classroom teaching, school administrator, principal, District Curricula Director responsible for change, school psychologist, and Director of Special Education and presently teaching at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), the principals of control theory/reality therapy and Dr.

"e;This book builds upon my early work and the work and others by offering a comprehensive guide to practitioners interested in facing and helping to heal trauma and manage the drama systemically with a special focus on children and adolescents.

Winnicott stressed the importance and the peculiarity of paradox in human development, as well as the necessity of supporting and accepting it.

The work of Jaques Lacan, eminent French psychoanalyst and influential thinker (1901-1981), is recognized as being of vital importance to psychoanalysts, philosophers, and all those concerned with the the study of man and language.

An analysis of a scandal involving a doctor accused of allowing a number of women to develop cervical cancer from carcinoma in situ as part of an experiment he had been conducting since the 1960s into conservative treatment of the disease, to more broadly explore dramatic changes in medical history in the second half of the twentieth century.

Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in postwar USA, inaugurated by the neosomatic revolution, which had profound consequences for the treatment of psychotic patients.

Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism is concerned with the loss of a sense of limit in technological medicine today, and the way in which the denial of death leads to an uncontrollable, consumeristic multiplication of needs.

Choice Editors' Picks for April 20242024 Choice Review Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award WinnerThe Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s.

During the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking the fundamental question: What can be done to liberate humanity from the menace of war?

It aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence.

"e;Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills"e; points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world.

Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in philosophy and the social sciences, in a book that shows how it is possible to see the value of Lacanian concepts without necessarily being defined by them.

In sharp contrast with the current top-down medicalized method to treating addiction, this book presents the felt sense polyvagal model (FSPM), a paradigm-shifting, bottom-up approach that considers addiction as an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states and trauma.

This book focuses on the role of ethics in the application of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) in clinical practice.

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

This book presents original research examining parents' perspectives on the structure, content and delivery of parenting programmes.

This volume reflects the achievements in developing new concepts and models of family therapy and new approaches to special clinical issues and problems during the 1980s.

What is it that makes a counsellor or psychotherapist competent?

The internet, social media platforms, and digital technology all seem to point to a world of greater interconnectivity and social connection.

This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury.

Do the ancient Greek poets, playwrights, philosophers and mythologies have anything to say to modern human beings?

Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being.

Through a richly detailed close reading of Wilfred R.

This book is a generously illustrated title in Stahl''s series, covering pain psychology and management.

Die überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage des bewährten Lehrbuches liefert in 45 Kapiteln eine Übersicht über Grundlagen und wichtige Anwendungsbereiche der Klinischen Kinderpsychologie.

There has been a burgeoning of interest in the relation between biological development--particularly brain development--and behavioral development.

Delivered to advanced candidates at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, The Chicago Institute Lectures reveal a Kohut in transition, a Kohut wrestling with the creative tension in psychoanalysis between tradition and innovation, between continuity and change, even as he worked toward the psychology of the self "e;in the broad sense"e; that marked his decisive break from traditional psychoanalytic thought.

First published in 2002, in this innovative book two leading practitioners tell the stories of the people they have met as clients and how they, as therapists, tried to help them.

Frances Tustin (1913-1994) was one of the first professionally trained child psychotherapists in Britain.

This compelling casebook integrates critical incidents, spirituality, and counseling with diverse populations dealing with issues across the life development continuum.

By age 16, significant - one might even say "e;alarming"e; - numbers of students are demonstrating signs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Do you have clients who do not want to be helped?

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers.

Leiden bringt Menschen an Grenzen, bei denen es oft schwierig ist, sich innerlich aufrechthalten zu können.

This book investigates the most common approach to assessing behavior in youth development.

This textbook explores the relationship between the natural world and psychological well-being.

Psychological analysis usually sets its sights upon the patient or upon cultural phenomena such as myths, literature, or works of art.

Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development2002 provides the most current research and scholarship available in the field of child psychiatry and child development.