Clinical Psychology Books
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disabling and distressing mental health problem. This accessible introduction examines OCD's causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, and is richly illustrated... (more)
Schizophrenia
This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students. It covers the theoretical foundations of different perspectives of schizophrenia, including medical,... (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations: An Advanced Practical Companion
Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and treatment resistant of all. This new... (more)
Seminars in Liaison Psychiatry: Second Edition
This is an up-to-date overview of a wide range of common clinical areas involving the interface between physical and psychological health, that fall within the liaison psychiatry sub-specialty. It... (more)
Psychology's Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
This book is the product of long thought and profound concern about the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a brilliant thinker and leading researcher in the field, examines current... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Violence Risk Assessment
Presenting a comprehensive framework for conducting a scientifically grounded violence risk assessment, this book is authoritative, current, and practical. The essentials of doing this type of... (more)
Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems
For the last thirty years, the nation's mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering... (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)
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)
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)
Understanding Intensive Interaction: Context and Concepts for Professionals and Families
Intensive interaction is a valuable approach, with the potential to enhance radically the well-being of difficult-to-reach individuals, such as those with profound and severe learning disabilities,... (more)
Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Sometimes described as the nemesis of the primary care physician, somatoform disorders are frustrating, expensive to treat, and under-investigated. Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders provides... (more)
Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the New Mental Health Act
The new Mental Health Act, amending the 1983 Act, was passed in 2007 and came into operation only this year. The new Mental Capacity Act was passed in 2005 and came into operation in 2007. Together... (more)
The Mind and Its Discontents: Second Edition
The first edition of "The Mind and its Discontents" was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness. In the ten years since the first edition, there has been growing interest in... (more)
Dimensional Approaches in Diagnostic Classification: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Among today's astounding research discoveries, perhaps the most fascinating is the mapping of the human genome and its implications for a vastly improved understanding of how genes affect our... (more)
Clinical Manual for the Evaluation and Treatment of Sleep Disorders
This is the first clinical text devoted solely to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders that is both comprehensive and conveniently portable. The book's 13 chapters offer a concise,... (more)
Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
Although the perceptions and realities of ageing have changed markedly over the last few decades, for practitioners working with older people, emotional problems remain a major factor of health and... (more)
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures: Second Edition
Offers a concise summary of key evaluations that clinicians can use in daily practice to enhance the quality of patient care in terms of both diagnosis and assessment of outcomes. Comprising a wide... (more)
SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology
Provides a guide to the major themes and debates in health psychology. This title covers the work in epidemiology of health and illness, health-related cognitions, chronic illness, interventions in... (more)
What is Mental Disorder?: An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values
The effects of mental disorder are apparent and pervasive, in suffering, loss of freedom and life opportunities, negative impacts on education, work satisfaction and productivity, complications in... (more)
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Clients' Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress
At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness. It examines... (more)
Working Memory, Thought, and Action
Working Memory, Thought, and Action is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Graham Hitch)... (more)
Mental Health Matters: A Reader
An interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health. The work considers the social and historical dimensions of mental health, how to involve users in... (more)
Acute Mental Health Care in the Community: Intensive Home Treatment
DThis innovative text focuses on a key aspect of community mental health care - Intensive Home Treatment (IHT). It examines the issues surrounding the provision of home treatment to individuals as an... (more)
Mental Health Policy: Global policies and human rights
Mental health has become a global issue. Throughout both the developed and developing worlds, the treatment and care of the mentally disordered, and the need to improve the mental health of all... (more)