Unique in its dual focus on emotion and lifespan development, this text weaves together theory, research, and practical clinical implications for fostering childrens emotional well-being.
Neuroticism--the tendency to experience negative emotions, along with the perception that the world is filled with stressful, unmanageable challenges--is strongly associated with anxiety, depression, and other common mental health conditions.
El estudio de la reescritura en los textos literarios ha despertado el interés crítico en el último medio siglo, especialmente en el ámbito del hispanismo.
Bringing together leading researchers, this book comprehensively covers what is known about the amygdala, with a unique focus on what happens when this key brain region is damaged or missing.
This book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience.
This book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience.
Recognized as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines to examine one of todays most dynamic areas of research.
Recognized as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines to examine one of todays most dynamic areas of research.
This authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge about positive emotions: their nature, functions, and consequences for individuals and society.
This authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge about positive emotions: their nature, functions, and consequences for individuals and society.
Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines.
Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines.
Emotion regulation difficulties are central to a range of clinical problems, yet many therapies for children and adolescents lack a focus on emotion and related skills.
This book provides a theoretical framework and a practical model of intervention for distressed couples whose relationships are affected by the echoes of trauma.
This straight-talking book-grounded in over 25 years of experience-has already helped many tens of thousands of readers understand and manage destructive anger in all its forms.
Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences.
Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman.
Having written a bestselling book at 22, survived a harrowing battle with anorexia nervosa, and pursued a successful career as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Daniels has led a remarkable life.
Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses in tertiary institutions.
With an emphasis on learning to change through other modalities than speech, this book discusses the importance of non-verbal body experience and awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships.
Resources of empathy, humor, and creativity are needed by both the therapist and the patient to transform chronic, eruptive expressions of anger and transcend the tendency to violence.
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment.
Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts.
Building upon the theoretical work of Ferenczi, Fairbairn, and Berliner, the author describes four basic relational patterns in the lives of abused children: the reliving of abusive relationships, either as victim or as perpetrator; identification with the aggressor; masochistic self-blame; and the seeking of object contact though sex or violence.
