Abnormal psychology

This groundbreaking core textbook offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.

This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's Othello.

An essential guide to the challenges men face in creating healthy and engaged relationships in all areas of their lives.

Sleep disturbances in individuals with psychological diseases may be a symptom of the underlying disease, a separate disturbance, or evidence of sleep-medicine conditions.

An intimate look at war through the lives of soldiers and their families at Fort HoodMaking War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it.

A leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients to show how effective talk therapy can be as a treatment   Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization.

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.

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.

Reconnect with Your Body and Nature to Heal from Trauma As psychologist and mindfulness teacher Rochelle Calvert explores in this powerful book, one of the greatest sources of healing from trauma is all around us nature.

In dem hitzig geführten Streit der Meinungen um das Für und Wider des Familien-Stellens nach Bert Hellinger vermag dieses nüchterne Buch wichtige sachliche Impulse zu geben.

Die Neubearbeitung des Manuals liefert eine praxisorientierte Beschreibung der Behandlung von Zwangsstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen im Alter von etwa 8 bis 18 Jahren.

Recently, there has been a rise in opioid use in the United States involving both the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and more traditional illicit opioids, such as heroin.

During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level.

The time has come for Debunking ADHD and exposing how this invented disorder created to drug children does not exist.

The church across North America has struggled to minister effectively with children, teens, and adults with common mental health conditions and their families.

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From leading experts in behavioral activation research and clinical practice, this volume presents an empirically tested approach for helping clients overcome depression by becoming active and engaged in their own lives.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive yet compact description of various forms of addiction, a disorder suffered by one in every 10 people in the United States.

Wie Trennungsberatung auch bei Streitpaaren gut gelingt: Miteinander Auseinander- Das erste Handbuch, das auch auf die Herausforderung durch hochstrittige Paare eingeht- Mit vielen Beispielen und konkreten InterventionenWenn Eltern minderjähriger Kinder sich trennen, sind Konflikte vorprogrammiert, die oft sehr emotional und kontrovers ausgetragen werden.

This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state.

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia.

Presents real-life cases along with rationale behind diagnoses and connections to DSM-5 criteria with symptomatology This unique casebook for graduate level programs in the mental health professions is a masterful vehicle for students to put the new DSM-5 into practice bypresenting actual clinical experiences from practitioners.

What can a daughter do when the mother she loves is bent on destroying herself?

Learn how to live well and thrive-with tools and insights from positive psychologyWe often view the path to happiness and fulfillment as a mission to fix ourselves and solve our problems-but positive psychology has proven that true, lasting happiness is created from focusing on what works: cultivating your strengths and virtues, enhancing positive feelings and experiences, and fully engaging with all that life throws at you.

When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine's search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46.

This book is a unique and timely addition to the literature for it provides approaches for dealing with the cognitive and emotional consequences of common neurological diseases.

Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior.

In this provocative and pathbreaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of the most dramatic cultural shifts of our time.

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge--but it doesnt have to rule your life.

In many countries there has been an alarming increase in rates of suicide and self-harm, yet the stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care.

Mehr als ein Drittel aller Frauen kennt aus eigener Erfahrung Schwierigkeiten mit der sexuellen Erregung oder dem Orgasmus, leidet unter fehlendem sexuellen Verlangen oder hat Schmerzen beim Sex.

Two leading schizophrenia researchers present an accessible and comprehensive guide to dealing with the disease.

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences.

Zwangsstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen beinhalten meist multiple Zwangsgedanken und Zwangshandlungen und können sich als sehr komplex erweisen.

Dynamic Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors: Living Past Neglect by Lori Bennett examines the aftereffects of emotional neglect in order to help clinicians to better serve survivors.

In this book, a psychologist and a professor detail the history, psychology, and effects of this little-studied condition that has altered individuals and societies worldwide, arguing that the disorder deserves its own classification.

World-acclaimed sexologist Jaiya has worked with thousands of clients around the world, transforming their relationships and their lives.

Exposure anxiety is increasingly understood as a crippling condition affecting a high proportion of people on the autism spectrum.

Die Dialektisch-Behaviorale Therapie (DBT) von Marsha Linehan ist ein evidenzbasiertes Therapieprogramm zur Behandlung von Patienten mit einer Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS).

Eine von zehn Frauen leidet nach der Geburt ihres Kindes unter einer postpartalen Depression.

Delve into the intricacies of the human mind with this engaging and insightful guide to how the brain works.

Substanzungebundene Abhängigkeitserkrankungen rücken in den letzten Jahren immer mehr in den Fokus wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.

In the past couple of decades studies investigating the genetic background of psychiatric disorders have mushroomed.

Das Buch ist ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden für die Behandlung von Persönlichkeitsstörungen.

Das AMDP-System zur Dokumentation des psychischen Befundes hat eine weite Verbreitung in der klinischen Anwendung und in Forschungsprojekten gefunden.

Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Oppositional and Defiant Behaviours equips parents, educators and professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based program that combines mindfulness and cognitive therapy techniques for working with stress, anxiety, depression, and other problems.

';Opioids claim the lives of 115 people per day.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.