Abnormal psychology

What to do when treatment becomes trauma Of increasing concern to all health professionals is the mental and emotional trauma that can result from adverse medical experiences ranging from life-threatening events to even routine medical procedures.

What are the roles, functions, and identities of pastoral counselors today?

Reader's comments:`Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since.

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.

This New York Times bestselling book offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself.

In an original integration of the medical model and therapeutic community approaches to hospital milieu treatment, Oldham and Russakoff present both a systematic theory for acute hospital treatment and its practical application, spelled out in great detail without lowering the high level of their narrative to a cookbook approach to treatment.

International autism advocate and bestselling author Chantal Sicile-Kira provides this simple, concise explanation of one of the most prevalent disorders in America.

In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.

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Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.

A total CBT training solution, with practical strategies for improving educational outcomes.

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States.

Young children can erupt like little volcanoes when they are feeling angry.

MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that can be incorporated into daily life to help break the cycle of unhappiness, stress, anxiety and mental exhaustion and promote genuine joie de vivre.

Did you know that anyone--addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for?

"e;I have worked in psychiatry as well as in private practice with suicidal people.

Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice.

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes.

Children are born into a social context that is not of their choosing.

Nobody loves a father like his daughter.

'[This] is essential reading for all who aspire to professional practice to ensure that knowledge and skills are up to date in order to best serve their clients.

The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application.

Now in its second edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working.

What makes a fascist?

Why are Americans so bad at marriage?

Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT is more effective.

Managing Substance Use Disorder: Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook Practitioner Guide provides practical and empirically-based strategies for addressing and stopping substance use, and for changing daily lifestyle and behaviors that contribute to continued use.

Junk has become ubiquitous in America today.

Psychological research into autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased exponentially in the last two decades.

Hundreds of thousands of clinicians and graduate students have relied on this text--now significantly revised with more than 50% new material--to learn the fundamentals of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).

Den meisten Menschen mit Autismus fällt es schwer, sich in der "normalen Welt", in der es viele soziale Regeln, Normen und Erwartungen gibt, die als selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt werden, zurechtzufinden.

Understanding Your 7 Emotions explains how emotions help us to respond to the world around us and are fundamental to our existence.

Psychotherapy is an indispensable approach in the treatment of mental disorders and, for some mental disorders, it is the most effective treatment.

This authoritative book presents a groundbreaking evidence-based approach to conducting therapy groups for persons with substance use disorders.

This sixth edition provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy today.

This highly practical book, published in partnership with CPCAB, is a comprehensive training guide for learners on diploma practitioner courses at Level 4 and above.

This authoritative text gives students and practicing psychotherapists a rich understanding of the connections between psychopathology research and clinical practice.

A comprehensive volume on addiction medicine designed for therapists and counselors practicing in or entering the field of addiction treatment.

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to pick up the pace?

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adulthood is a prevalent and impairing disorder.

This comprehensive clinical handbook provides virtually everything needed to plan, deliver, and evaluate effective treatment for persons with substance abuse problems and persistent mental illness.

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.

'People affected by depression tell me this is the most powerful and helpful book ever written on the topic.

This fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors & Psychotherapists series provides practical examples and applications of the law as it applies to therapists in the many different contexts of their work.

Die evidenzbasierte Leitlinie gibt Empfehlungen für die Diagnostik und die Psychotherapie von Schizophrenie und anderen psychotischen Störungen wie wahnhaften und schizoaffektiven Störungen.

Structured clinical management (SCM) is a unified approach to the treatment of people with personality disorder, which is within reach of general mental health professionals without extensive additional training.

This book synthesizes the best of the new research related to anxiety disorders and how they are classified and diagnosed.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can develop at a young age and when it does, it can cause significant distress for the child and the family.

Tout le monde a des pensées gênantes, des peurs, des comportements obligatoires.