Clinical Psychology Books
Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Up to one in ten children may have a clinically significant psychiatric disorder. This book is a comprehensive update on the field of psychiatric disorders in children and young people. Conditions... (more)
Prevention and Management of Violence: Guidance for Mental Healthcare Professionals
This evidence-based book promotes good practice in the prevention and management of violence in patients with mental disorder and will be of practical use to a wide range of mental health... (more)
American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
As American Melancholy reveals, if you read about depression anywhere today - medical journal, popular magazine, National Institute of Mental Health pamphlet, or pharmaceutical company drug... (more)
Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out
A useful guide to understanding the mysteries of the mind and how we can change for the better. How can it be that perfectly intelligent people do such obviously counterproductive things so much of... (more)
Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as "evil". This is hotly contested... (more)
The Clinician's Guide to Bipolar Disorder: Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each patient's changing needs. Highly readable, accessible,... (more)
Handbook of Depression: Third Edition
The authoritative reference on depression and mood disorders, this volume brings together the field's preeminent researchers. All aspects of unipolar and bipolar depression are addressed, from... (more)
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5 Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition differs from other psychopathology and abnormal psychology books. While other books focus on... (more)
From Symptom to Synapse: A Neurocognitive Perspective on Clinical Psychology
The purpose of this book is to introduce clinical psychologists, other mental health practitioners, and researchers to the neurocognitive approach to assessing and treating psychiatric disorders. It... (more)
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD
If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you're facing and where you can turn for... (more)
Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder
The Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder is based on the author's conviction that with adequate training most psychiatrists and other mental health... (more)
Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: Fifth Edition
The first major textbook to cover the treatments of DSM-5 disorders in one volume, Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: Fifth Edition provides up-to-date, comprehensive information for the... (more)
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry
Casebook of Neuropsychiatry is comprised of 38 clinical cases based on real patient interactions that straddle the domains of neurology and psychiatry. While scientifically rigorous and grounded in... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Fifth Edition
It is difficult to improve on a classic, but the fifth edition of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice does just that, offering the updates readers expect and a deft reorganization that... (more)
Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem: A Guidebook
This is a guidebook to help children who: "don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them"; "have been deeply shamed"; "have received too much criticism or haven't... (more)
Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization and Development
Mental Health Worldwide offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the... (more)
DSM-5 Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis
This book provides essential coaching tools to support teachers in planning and implementing instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The authors explain the key instructional... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Clinical Practice of Pediatric Psychology
Filled with vivid clinical material, this book describes effective practices for helping children and their families who are coping with chronic and acute health conditions and their treatment.... (more)
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on... (more)
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
Relative to some other medical specialties, psychiatry is a new and still scientifically underdeveloped field - as a result practitioners can be influenced by attractive but unproven ideas. Since... (more)
Free Will, Consciousness and Self: Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology
What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our self in a human - in everyday life and when faced with life's big questions? In this book, the author develops a... (more)
Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology: Fourth Edition
This popular and critically acclaimed text, using movies to help learn about mental illness, is being fully updated with DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, dozens of evocative and informative frame grabs, a... (more)
Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient, Profession and Community
The field of ethics is expanding and has assumed new significance as a compulsory part of study for psychiatrists and all mental health professionals. Ethics and Mental Health: The Patient,... (more)
Essential Psychopathology Casebook
A problem-based learning casebook, keyed to the newly released DSM-V. The clinical cases in this book are about real people suffering from psychopathology. Reviewing these cases will allow the early... (more)
Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Recovery
Recovering from severe mental illness is one of the most terrifying human experiences in health care. Often conventional rehabilitation approaches focus on helping the patient with his or her... (more)
On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts... (more)
Women Voicing Resistance: Discursive and Narrative Explorations
Feminist scholars have demonstrated how 'dominant discourses' and 'master narratives' frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing women's storying of their own... (more)
Diagnosis Made Easier: Principles and Techniques for Mental Health Clinicians: Second Edition
This popular practitioner guide and course text takes the reader step by step through diagnostic decision making in mental health. Acclaimed for both the clarity of his writing and his clinical... (more)
Clinicians in Court: A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know: Second Edition
Interacting with the legal system can be stressful and intimidating for mental health professionals. This trusted book provides user-friendly strategies to help clinicians prepare for testimony in... (more)