Clinical Psychology Books
Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook
This comprehensive book explores how visual art, cinema, music, poetry, literature and drama can inform the teaching and practice of psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Edited and written... (more)
Understanding Personality Disorders: An Introduction
Misdiagnosed, misunderstood and oftentimes entirely overlooked, the obscurity surrounding personality disorders can debilitate as much as the disorders themselves. Using case study examples... (more)
Understanding Psychosis: Issues and Challenges for Sufferers, Families and Friends
When a loved one is struck with psychosis, people often misunderstand what is happening and why. They may feel helpless or confused or frightened, not knowing what to do with or for the sufferer or... (more)
Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors
Voices of Experience contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living... (more)
Problematic and Risk Behaviours in Psychosis: A Shared Formulation Approach
In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery. This book... (more)
Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context
All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of... (more)
Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD
As traumatic events, disasters, and war pervade everyday life around the globe, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) inevitably affects many people. The Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD... (more)
Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology
This compelling book argues that all people with schizophrenia share a personality organization known as schizotypy. Presented is a novel framework for understanding schizophrenia through the study... (more)
Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia
Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payors. Edited by leaders in the field and featuring contributions by both seasoned clinicians and newer practitioners with... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Concepts, Methods and Practice: Second Edition
A thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text, this new edition includes an RCT-verified treatment manual and incorporates techniques recommended by the NICE guidelines for treating bipolar... (more)
Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special... (more)
Enchantments of the Clinic: Power, Eroticism, and Illusion in the Clinical Relationship
Reflecting on his experience in the clinical trenches, a pragmatic existential therapist offers a provocative study of power, erotic influence, and illusion in the clinical relationship. Written in a... (more)
Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be... (more)
Treating Sexual Desire Disorders: A Clinical Casebook
The loss or lack of interest in sex is a common complaint in sex therapy. Organized around in-depth case presentations, this book showcases effective treatment approaches for individuals and couples.... (more)
The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care
This indispensable book provides therapists and counselors with crucial knowledge about psychotropic medications: when and how to make medication referrals, how to answer patients questions and help... (more)
Social Psychological Foundations of Clinical Psychology
Uniquely integrative and authoritative, this volume explores how advances in social psychology can deepen understanding and improve treatment of clinical problems. (more)
Diagnostic Issues in Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depression (MD) form the largest group of common mental disorders. These two conditions often occur together, and emerging evidence suggests several... (more)
Addictive Behaviors: New Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Contains articles that describe a wide range of biological, psychological, and social approaches to researching and treating addictive behaviors. This book is of interest to clinical health... (more)
Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Studies have proven that involving the family in psychiatric care is efficacious, and yet many clinicians lack the specific knowledge and skills to do this successfully. The Clinical Manual of... (more)
Reflections on Relationships with Self and Others
'Writing is a dialogue with oneself', says Dr Jerry M. Lewis in the opening pages of this new work. Fortunately, he has included the rest of us in on the conversation. For fifteen years, his words... (more)
Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders
This is the first book to provide quantitative assessment of potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed to harm) for all approved treatments for bipolar disorder, providing... (more)
Understanding Bipolar Disorder: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
This is the first book to systematically examine the development and course of bipolar disorder across the lifespan, identifying important directions for evidence-based treatment and prevention. (more)
Treating Personality Disorder: Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs
Considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment... (more)
Stress, Coping, and Development
Examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. (more)
The Quest to Feel Good
This volume describes how emotions, rather than being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often over relied upon as a function of basic learning... (more)
Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders: From Research to Treatment
Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition - put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes - limiting their abilities to recognize, express... (more)
Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Scientific Foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11
This forward-thinking volume grapples with critical questions surrounding the mechanisms underlying mental disorders and the systems used for classifying them. Edited and written by leading... (more)
Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory
Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory covers the various uses of a commonly employed multi-scale self-report inventory of psychological functioning. This book has gathered... (more)
Panic Disorder: The Facts: Third Edition
Panic disorder is a remarkably common psychological condition, characterized by sudden attacks of intense fear and panic. Approximately 3% of the population will experience some aspects of panic... (more)