Clinical Psychology Books
Competency in healthcare: A practical guide to competency frameworks
This practical guide examines "competencies" - the knowledge and skills an employee uses in his or her work, and the employee-related levers for achieving results. It defines competency frameworks... (more)
Clinical Psychology and Single-case: A Practical Approach to Treatment Planning & Evaluation
This work focuses on the importance of learning from single case evaluation of the therapeutic process, an approach which is appropriate to the demand for evidence based, managed care. (more)
Cognitive interfaces: Constraints on linking cognitive information
Considers the architecture of the mind and the relationship between language and cognition. Contributors discuss how information is linked between different cognitive and expressive levels - so that... (more)
Reasoning and thinking:
An undergraduate textbook which reviews psychological research in the major areas of reasoning and thinking. It covers major theoretical debates, and recurring themes include human rationality, the... (more)
Management and administration skills for the mental health professional:
Psychologists receive several years of specialized study in mental health, but they receive no formal training in the skills necessary to be successful in these roles. This book targets the... (more)
The mental health matrix: A manual to improve services
This text proposes a simple model which can be used as a guide to increased clinical effectiveness through focused evidence-based reform. Using a time/space framework, it is intended to act as a... (more)
Darwinian psychiatry:
Can evolutionary theory explain depression, anxiety and other mental disorders? The authors re-examine this question with recent research to show that evolution may provide the essential framework... (more)
Mental health in our future cities:
This text compares mental health services in London with those in Amsterdam, Baltimore, Bangalore, Copenhagen, Kobe, Madison, Porto Alegre, Sydney, Teheran and Verona. It describes arrangements that... (more)
Chronic pain
The theme of this book is conquering pain and its related problems through proper management. It offers numerous tools and concepts with which to attack chronic pain. Thse include cognitive and... (more)
From subjects to subjectivities: A handbook of interpretive and participatory methods
From Subjects to Subjectivities profiles the recent debates about the role of qualitative and participatory methods in psychology, a discipline which has traditionally seen itself as a form of... (more)
Clinical audit in mental health
This text examines the purpose, methods and implementation of clinical audit programmes in mental health care. It reviews the historical development of audit in psychiatric/mental health,... (more)
Mind and brain for beginners
Contrasting the seemingly bizarre consequences of head injury with the workaday triumphs of the healthy brain, this text invites the reader to take a fresh look at the nature of the mind,... (more)
Healing the mind: A history of psychiatry from antiquity to the present
This text begins with 2500 years ago, and ends in the present, with DSM-IV. For each century and era the book outlines major trends, movements, and contributing forces which set the tone of the... (more)
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective
Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Clinical Perspective is the ideal primer for anyone who works with people who self-injure. Profiling who is affected as well as what their... (more)
Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy: A Clinicians Guide
Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy moves beyond stereotypes about video game addiction and violence to consider the role that games play in psychological experiences and mental health.... (more)
Treating Sex Offenders: An Evidence-Based Manual
This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation-a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS)... (more)
Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals
Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care. The book takes an interdisciplinary... (more)
Ethical Issues and Guidelines in Psychology: Perspectives and Research
Topics covered include the various ethical principles and guidelines developed by professional bodies, problems relating to different kinds of research (in particular socially sensitive research),... (more)
Managing Intense Emotions and Overcoming Self-Destructive Habits: A Self-Help Manual
The manual describes the problem areas, the skills needed to overcome them and how these skills can be developed. It is designed to be used with the help of professional mental health staff, ideally... (more)
The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the... (more)