Clinical Psychology Books
Evidence from Within: A Paradigm for Clinical Practice
This book squarely addresses the question: does psychotherapy work? It proposes an innovative model of psychological and psychiatric assessment and treatment. Having read this book, the practitioner... (more)
Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook
Discusses assessments and interventions and includes material on managing offenders with developmental disabilities, as well as those with dangerous and severe personality disorder. This handbook... (more)
Personal Development and Clinical Psychology
This book is suitable for qualified clinical psychologists in the UK, as well as CP trainers and trainees. Unique to the market, this book focuses on an area of increasing interest - personal... (more)
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates... (more)
Stress-induced and Fear Circuitry Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
As disorders in which stress or fear play major roles present an increasing need for psychiatric care around the world, this volume summarizes current research to determine whether a specific group... (more)
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Professionals Disclose Their Personal and Family Experiences of Mental Illness
People with mental illness are often stigmatized, both in the U.S. and around the world. Paradoxically, many in the mental health professions are themselves the source of a great deal of such stigma.... (more)
Clinical Psychology: The Study of Personality and Behavior
This book serves as a reference for courses in clinical psychology. It describes historical developments that have helped to shape the field, the roles and functions of the clinical psychologist,... (more)
Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis: Philosophy, History and Clinical Practice
This book looks at the range of treatment programmes on offer in therapeutic communities for those suffering from psychosis. "Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis" offers a uniquely global insight... (more)
The Single Woman: A Discursive Investigation
The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of our time. It is increasingly likely for most women that they will spend periods of their lives... (more)
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment
"Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment" offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders,... (more)
The Curse of the Self: Self-awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life
Despite its obvious advantages, our ability to be self-reflective comes at a high price. Few people realise how profoundly their lives are affected by self-reflection or how frequently inner chatter... (more)
Critical Review of the Current Trends in Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology
This work reviews the main literature but also areas that have been 'under-researched'. This book is designed to provide a forum, guided by a critical rationalism perspective, for leading scholars,... (more)
Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes: Second Edition
This new edition of "Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes" has been thoroughly updated and revised to provide an authoritative overview of the subject, including new chapters on the neurodevelopmental... (more)
The Theory and Treatment of Depression: Towards a Dynamic Interactionism Model
Recent research indicates that depression, once believed to be relatively benign, is highly recurrent and does not respond well to treatment. The goal of this book is to facilitate the development of... (more)
Anxiety Disorders
"Anxiety Disorders" features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes: vignettes and case illustrations; a practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory; and, resources for... (more)
How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression
"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psychology' (EP). Do most types of depression represent an... (more)
Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing
This book reports on an investigation on the practice of clinical supervision in mental health nursing. Incorporating three case studies, it illuminates the reciprocal interactions between clinical... (more)
Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes
This volume brings together leading investigators who integrate two distinct research domains in social psychology - people's internal worlds and their close relationships. Contributors present... (more)
Tackling Mental Health Crises
How can medical, psychological and social approaches to tackling crises be integrated? How best to manage clients who present in crisis is a vital but much neglected area of clinical practice.... (more)
Argumentative and Aggressive Communication: Theory, Research, and Application
"Argumentative and Aggressive Communication" is the first book entirely devoted to the theory-building, research and application issues on aggressive communication. In addition to fully describing... (more)
Staying Well After Psychosis: A Cognitive Interpersonal Approach to Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Relapse rates are high in people who experience psychosis, with serious personal, family, social and financial costs. While interest in the psychological treatment is growing, there has been no book,... (more)
Psychosocial Interventions for People with Schizophrenia: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Workers
This title provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psychosocial interventions. It explains these interventions within the context of current... (more)
Personality Disorders and Community Mental Health Teams: A Practioner's Guide
Practitioners in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) frequently find that traditional forms of support are ineffective when offered to patients with personality disorder. This book considers the... (more)
Recovery Beyond Psychiatry
David Whitwell's thesis is that it is not conventional psychiatric treatment that is key to recovery but non-specific aspects of care such as support, safety, general health, good relationships. The... (more)
Principles of Rorschach Interpretation:
This second edition of Irving Weiner's comprehensive, clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality description has been revised to reflect both modifications in the Rorschach... (more)
Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling:
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural... (more)
Is Anyone Listening?: Putting the Views of Survivors of Domestic Violence into Policy and Practice
This volume paints an overall picture of how domestic violence is being dealt with today and how contemporary concerns about service-user participation in improving services can be put into real and... (more)
A Short Introduction to Psychiatry
This book is designed to give readers a clear picture of the profession of psychiatry as it is today as well as an understanding of the subject from which to develop further study. The author... (more)
Cognition and Instruction: 25 Years of Progress
Designed both to chronicle the advances in the field linking cognitive psychology and instructional design and to present challenges for the future, this volume addresses issues of content, process... (more)
The Perspectives of People with Dementia: Research Methods and Motivations
The text focuses on projects which have taken different approaches to working with people with dementia in research, including examining the process of interviewing people with dementia whose first... (more)