Clinical psychology

Over the span of history, not all pregnancies were met with welcome and anticipation.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Secondary Schools is a humanistic guide used to produce reliable human capital outputs while ensuring the promotion of socially just practices on campus.

This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "e;laughter through tears"e; of Jewish humour-is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "e;harshness"e; of everyday life.

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature?

Awarded the book prize for 2012 by the Australasian Journal on Ageing!

The Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology is a group of investigators from many disciplines who share an interest in studying the longitudinal aspects of psychiat- ric disorder.

Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary and global overview of evidence-based sexuality education (SE) programs and practices.

Das Buch vermittelt übersichtlich ein vollständiges ganzheitliches Therapiekonzept zur Behandlung von Schlafstörungen und führt damit das Vorgängerwerk "Nichtorganische Schlafstörungen" der Autorin inhaltlich und methodisch weiter.

Learn to balance the professional demands of your ministry with your personal needsNo amount of research, study, or planning can prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their personal lives by the demands of their ministries.

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory.

Schema Therapy combines proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques with elements of interpersonal, experiential, and psychodynamic therapies in order to help people with long-term mental health problems including personality disorders and chronic depression.

Die Diagnostik und Therapie psychischer Erkrankungen ist in einer dynamischen Entwicklung begriffen.

Management of chronic illness in children and adolescents often is a multifaceted challenge that requires the attention and expertise of individuals from a variety of disciplines that include psychology, psychiatry, social work, and medicine.

Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell is a short, accessible guide to one of the most popular approaches to counselling.

Therapieprozesse können an ihre Grenzen geraten, wenn die in der Ausbildung erlernten Deutungsmuster oder Interventionstechniken nicht mehr greifen, weil sie z.

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models.

Edited by recognized experts Michel Hersen and David Reitman, Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 2, Children and Adolescents, is a thorough and practical reference for those working with children and adolescents.

This highly engaging guidebook provides an accessible introduction to research methods and the research process within the coaching and mentoring context.

Advancements in research in psychological science have afforded great insights into how our minds work.

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being.

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.

The bestselling treatment guide, updated to reflect changes to the DSM-5 Selecting Effective Treatmentsprovides a comprehensive resource for clinicians seeking to understand the symptoms and dynamics of mental disorders, in order to provide a range of treatment options based on empirically effective approaches.

This book provides a comprehensive review of mental health topics for pre- and postsurgical patients.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies provides the first authoritative overview of methodology in this growing field.

This book, the third in a series based on the Belgirate conferences, deals with the personal as well as the organisational journeys of Group Relations practitioners and examines these through the lens of tradition, succession and creative application.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

The Oxford Handbook of Education and Training in Professional Psychology provides the first comprehensive treatment of the processes and current state-of-the art practices bearing on educating and training professional psychologists.

The recently widowed experience many complex problems, and an understanding of their needs and the kinds of difficulties they encounter is essential if appropriate services and help are to be mobilized.

Relating to Voices helps people who hear voices to develop a more compassionate understanding and relationship with their voices.

This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing 21st-century U.

This book was written to be a comfort and guide for bereaved parents whose adult child has died; to show by sharing our experiences that we are not alone in our responses to our child's death; that we are not weak, defective in character or otherwise inadequate because of the way we grieve; to spell out ways in which some of us have increased our understanding of our condition, found solace, dispelled guilt and anger, overcome depression, come to terms with survivors, and memorialized our deceased children.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy.

This manual for facilitators of teen grief groups and other mental health professionals, addresses the unique needs of adolescents experiencing traumatic reactions in the aftermath of violent death.

Packed with useful clinical tools, this state-of-the-art manual presents an empirically supported treatment solidly grounded in current scientific knowledge.

This groundbreaking volume presents a new conceptual approach to treating adults with eating disorders and their children.

Relational Ethics in Practice presents a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice.

In recent years, reported racial disparities in IQ scores have been the subject of raging debates in the behavioral and social sciences and education.

This book offers a unique understanding of African American populations and their articulation of sexuality and race by introducing a comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology.

The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated istead by the strong emotions the subject excites.

This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective round-trip between the past and the present.

This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, offering an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche both in clinical practice and everyday life.

In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years.

As professional psychology has transformed into the practice of psychology as a health profession, a substantial focus has been placed on defining the competencies required for practicing as health service providers.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Ein Klassiker der Psychotherapie – aktualisiert und erweitert- Ein erfolgreicher psychotherapeutischer Ansatz wurde auf den neuesten Stand gebracht- In alle Richtlinienverfahren integrierbar- Zur Teile-Therapie finden große Kongresse und Tagungen stattDie Arbeit mit Persönlichkeitsanteilen bereichert seit gut 25 Jahren den "Werkzeugkoffer" von PsychotherapeutInnen und beratenden PsychologInnen.

Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.