Clinical Psychology Books
Personality and psychopathology: Building a clinical science
This collection of papers represents Millon's influential ideas regarding theory, taxonomy, assessment and intervention. It should be a useful reference for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists... (more)
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
TFrom insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation.... (more)
Person-Centred Care in Psychiatry: Self-Relational, Contextual and Normative Perspectives
One of the paradoxes about psychiatry is that we have never known more about and better treated mental disorders, yet there exists so much unease about the practice of mental healthcare. Patients... (more)
Conducting School-Based Functional Behavioral Assessments: Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide
Widely recognized as a gold-standard resource, this authoritative book has been revised and expanded with 50% new material. It provides a complete introduction to functional behavioral assessment... (more)
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Counseling in Chaos
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies is a riveting collection of case studies by master clinicians that reveal how disaster mental health interventions must be tailored to meet the needs of survivors.... (more)
A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique,... (more)
The Mental Health Clinician's Workbook: Locking In Your Professional Skills
Rich with compelling case material, this hands-on workbook helps mental health practitioners and students build essential skills for clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis.
Renowned... (more)
Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction
This text describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarises the most up-to-date knowledge about the biological... (more)
Schizophrenia Revealed: From Neurons to Social Interactions
A modern view of schizophrenia based on neuroscience, this title goes beyond the symptoms of the illnesss and is a primer on what we know about the disorder at the beginning of the 21st century. (more)
Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse against females is a serious problem in society and there is a need for greater understanding of the presentation and treatment of adult survivors of sexual abuse. In this volume, Baker... (more)
Personality in Adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective: Second Edition
An ideal text for advanced students and a timely reference for researchers and clinicians, this influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape... (more)
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for handling clinical depression and anxiety in cancer patients. Using a practical toolkit format, this... (more)
Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice
Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice teaches the reader how to use the critically important tool of motivational interviewing to promote health and well-being. Based on the theoretical... (more)
The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions
Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating mental illness affecting a significant proportion of the world's population. It is associated with significant impairments in health-related quality of... (more)
Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, and Defense
Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing... (more)
Depressive Disorders: DSM-5 Selections
Depressive Disorders: DSM-5 Selections is crafted around a specific disorder cited in DSM-5. This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing depressive disorders while... (more)
Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Recently there has been a growing awareness of the process of recovery from serious mental illness and the importance of coming to terms with the challenges resulting from the illness. Acceptance of... (more)
The Bipolar Book: History, Neurobiology, and Treatment
As a major mainstay of clinical focus and research today, bipolar disorder affects millions of individuals across the globe with its extreme and erratic shifts of mood, thinking and behavior. Edited... (more)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry's Diagnostic... (more)
Using Drawings in Clinical Practice: Enhancing Intake Interviews and Psychological Testing
Clinicians are always in need of enticing techniques to engage clients on a daily basis, especially those who are nonverbal or initially opposed to feedback. Using Drawings in Clinical Practice... (more)
Nostalgia: A Psychological Resource
Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an important... (more)
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® is the second edition of the widely-read book first published in 2013. This second edition is thoroughly revised, and has several new chapters... (more)
Schizophrenia Research: Recent Advances
Schizophrenia is a relatively common disease whose lifetime prevalence in the general population is reported to be about 1%. From the perspective of public health, the illness has been associated... (more)
The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience
Are psychopaths 'evil' and untreatable, or do they suffer from a form of mental illness comparable to schizophrenia? Do they have free will? Do we?
In this at once terrifying and exhilarating... (more)
Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) is a rapidly developing subspecialty of psychiatry focusing on psychiatric care of patients with other medical disorders. PM specialists diagnose and manage psychiatric... (more)
Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new 'recovery' focus in mental... (more)
The Social Determinants of Mental Health
The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors... (more)
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology: Second Edition
This valued resource helps practitioners and students evaluate the merits of popular yet controversial practices in clinical psychology and allied fields, and base treatment decisions on the best... (more)