Psychology

This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group.

Bringing together relational, systemic and ecological approaches, this pioneering book outlines a valuable integrative psychotherapeutic method and presents the core steps for implementing it into practice.

Combining psychology and spirituality, this practical book considers archetypes from Asian, Middle Eastern and European myths and explains how they can be used in therapeutic practice to help clients achieve personal or clinical goals.

The go-to guide for those raising children with mental disorders that Booklist calls a "e;reassuring guide"e; and a "e;genuinely helpful handbook.

This concise and highly accessible book contains everything that parents and busy professionals need to know about ADHD.

This book articulates a broad range of theoretical viewpoints, both classical and contemporary, in the field of the psychology of religion.

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.

Renowned child therapist Clark Moustakas demonstrates how play can be used to affirm and liberate children_children who suddenly become troubled in their school or family lives and can work out their anger and fear in just a few sessions, as well as children who are seriously disturbed and must struggle to achieve emotional maturity, respect for others, and faith in themselves.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

In a world that is forever fragmenting into divisions of ethnicity and class, this groundbreaking book offers an approach to therapy that reaches across the boundaries that usually divide us.

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.

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate.

This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives.

This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.

Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives.

For therapists working in clinics and hospitals, as well as those who conduct private practices, supervision is a crucial resource long past formal training.

Practicing Intersubjectively describes how the intersubjective systems perspective informs, shapes and guides the psychotherapeutic process.

Since its development thirty-five years ago, the practice of cognitive therapy has been extended well beyond the treatment of depression.

This volume addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening.

Passionate feelings of love and hate are stirred in psychotherapy.

Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness.

Parenting:Contemporary Clinical Perspectives offers fresh insights into treating parents and their children that highlight the evolving role of parents throughout the lifespan and amidst contemporary social pressure and change.

This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.

Often seen as supernatural, unpredictable, illusory and possibly dangerous, ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance and other parapsychological activities are actually happening all the time and help us make sense of everyday experiences.

The feeling that one can't get over a moral wrong is challenging even in the best of circumstances.

The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally.

This book outlines an innovative, individualized approach that honors the unique therapy needs of each client.

This book articulates a broad range of theoretical viewpoints, both classical and contemporary, in the field of the psychology of religion.

What are the motivations and desires behind relationship choices and sexual behaviour?

This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.

A groundbreaking guide for parents to help protect the mental health of children aged four to twenty-one.

Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy offers salient points learned from the author's forty years of practice and teaching, and applies psychodynamic psychotherapy to the contemporary practice climate.

Reverence is defined as a sense of awe or profound respect for the person.

Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions.

Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf.

The Administrative Challenges of (Play) Therapy brings together essays by eight therapists who tell the stories their career paths in the fields of social work and psychology, specializing in children and family therapy .

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning.

Just days after publishing his first book on the theory of foolishness, Stephen Greenspan learned that he had been hoodwinked by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, or more accurately the Madoff "e;feeder"e; fund he invested in.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

Behavior Management: Traditional and Expanded Approaches serves as a reference guide on the implementation of basic and more advanced behavior management strategies.

Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders.

This book asserts that the better one understands the causes of behavior, the better one can apply that knowledge to produce a better world.

Drawing on the author's unusual background as a seminarian turned scientist and business executive, Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

Applying recent psychological and neuropsychological studies of emotions, Erika Wilson explores the role of emotions in major Eastern, Western, and primal religions, as well as in some contemporary spiritual movements.

For those who believe America is worth defending, The Control Factor explores the psychological maneuvers, fantasies, and entanglements we engage in to avoid clearly seeing the Islamic threat that confronts us.

This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students.

This accessible introduction to developmental psychology examines how children develop, from language development to social learning and the development of emotion.

The one-stop guide to studying psychology at degree level.

As humans, we often differentiate ourselves from other animals by our intelligence and ability to learn, but are these distinctions always so simple?