Neuropsychology as a field has been slow to embrace and exploit the potential offered by technology to either make the assessment process more efficient or to develop new capabilities that augment the assessment of cognition.
Most of the essays offered here are revised versions of papers first prepared for an invitational conference on "e;The Psychology of Biography,"e; held in Chapel Hill, November 12-14, 1981.
Ethics for Global Mental Health examines the limitations of current normative approaches to global mental health (GMH) work and argues for a values-based framework that prioritizes accountability and contextual relevance of humanitarian and profession-specific values.
Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent's educational history, the economy and the parent's financial standing, and advances in technology.
Focusing on juvenile transfer and disposition evaluations, this volume provides an up-to-date integration of current law, science, and practice with respect to juvenile risk assessment, treatment needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity.
This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.
Das Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) wurde von James McCullough speziell für die Behandlung der chronischen Depression entwick-elt.
This work provides a rich mine of ideas to stimulate thinking about organisational interaction, and organisations in relation to various socio/cultural values.
This beautifully illustrated set contains a storybook and accompanying workbook, designed to be used with children and families working to re-build family relationships.
Psychoanalytic theory frequently explains psychopathology from the perspective of either inadequate early care or as the result of environmental factors.
EMDR in der Schmerztherapie: wirkungsvoll und effizient- Das erfolgreiche Verfahren in überarbeiteter Neuauflage- Zahlreiche Arbeitsmaterialien, Ressourcenübungen und Patienteninformationen- Mit Video-TutorialsChronische Schmerzen sind oft schwer zu behandeln und führen bei den Betroffenen zu einer großen emotionalen Belastung.
This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature.
The Aging Mind offers an accessible introduction to what research has revealed about how our bodies and brains age, and how these changes affect our everyday experiences and lives.
This dictionary is the first to deal comprehensively with the history of counseling in the United States for the last 100 years and with the professional, ethical, and legal aspects of counseling.
Dieses Buch informiert ausführlich und verständlich auf psychologischer Grundlage über Fähigkeiten, wie eine Paarbeziehung gestaltet und aufrechterhalten werden kann.
Dieser Band legt der psychologischen Psychotherapie das biopsychosoziale Modell als integrierende Theorie zugrunde und zeigt damit den Weg zu einer wissenschaftlich begründeten und Schulen übergreifenden Denk- und Arbeitsweise auf.
In this economic-clinical review of home care services, the reader finds a brief economic history of psychiatric services in this country, several models of psychiatric care, an illustration of the burdens borne by families when such services are unavailable, and strategies for developing "e;managed care-friendly"e; services programs.
Psychosoziale Belastungen bei einer Krebserkrankung lindern- Flexible Anwendungsformen: Interventionen für Einzel- und Gruppensetting, stationär wie ambulant- Expertise: Baut auf langjähriger klinischer Erfahrung der AutorInnen mit psychoedukativen und psychotherapeutischen Interventionen auf- Wirksamkeit: Wissenschaftlich belegt im Rahmen eines von der Stiftung Deutsche Krebshilfe geförderten ForschungsprojektesDie Psychoedukation als Unterstützung von Krebspatientinnen und -patienten ist mittlerweile auch im deutschen Gesundheitssystem anerkannt.
Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon.
Artists, Writers and Philosophers on Psychoanalysis presents eclectic interviews with leading figures in their fields, focusing on the impact psychoanalysis has had on their lives and work, and the place of psychoanalysis within culture.
Launching Palgrave's new interdisciplinary Professional Keywords series, this reader-friendly reference guide distils the vast field of groupwork study and practice into digestible, yet authoritative, chunks.
Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the 'proto-mental' area of the psyche-soma.
In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically relied principally on a two-person psychology to understand psychosocial development and practice.
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process.
If you're one of the billions of people in the world who work for someone else, you'll definitely want to see what's inside Defective Bosses: Working for the "e;Dysfunctional Dozen.
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special challenges stepfamilies face.
The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing psychiatric patients with psychoses, including both schizophrenia and the affective disorders.
The Intimate Edges of Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma is a personal account of an analysis spanning more than 20 years, written by practicing psychoanalysts.
Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be `unreachable' or `non-responsive'.
New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond expands on the mission of the previous two Techniques books, featuring innovative approaches to address the needs of those whose lives have been shadowed by loss-whether through bereavement, serious illness, the rupture of a relationship, or other complex or intangible losses, such as of an identity-defining career.
This book brings together world experts in the field of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs) who practice an integrated and holistic approach in their care for patients to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive evaluation of a range of issues associated with the biopsychosocial treatment of FGIDs.
This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of Jung's work to the humanities, and to those areas where the humanities and sciences share borders.
