Clinical Psychology Books
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Wellness Perspectives on Behaviors, Symptoms, and Diagnosis
Grounded in a wellness, strengths-based, and developmental perspective, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is the ideal guide for counselors and other clinicians seeking to understand self-injurious behaviors... (more)
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide and Manual
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis.... (more)
Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy
The creation of meaning is a central feature of human life. The full spectrum of experience, from joyful, devoted living to unbearable psychological suffering, is orchestrated by the meanings that... (more)
The Schizophrenia Spectrum: Second Edition
An essential reference for assessing and treating people withschizophrenia spectrum disorders - now updated and even morecomprehensive.The new edition of this highly acclaimed volume provides a... (more)
Treating Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Core Techniques and Strategies
Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales,... (more)
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling mental illnesses and is also highly prevalent, occurring in approximately 1% of the population and affecting both men and women equally. The disorder has a... (more)
Personality Disorder
A practical guide to personality disorders, this pocketbook is written with clinical utility in mind. Case examples and a focus on evidence based treatments will give busy health professionals... (more)
Madness: Ideas About Insanity
This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it... (more)
Clinical Psychology: Psychopathology Through the Lifespan
This innovative textbook adopts a lifespan approach to mental health. Paul Bennett provides an overview of factors that influence risk for mental health problems throughout the life course and... (more)
Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics
Emphasising clinical realities over abstract theories, A Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics thoroughly illustrates and applies the ethics principles and practices that instruct psychiatric... (more)
A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar but Not Unipolar-Practical Management
Clinicians know that people often present with a spectrum of symptoms, but the DSM discusses criteria in absolute terms - symptoms are either present or absent. This book offers treatment guidelines... (more)
Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery
In Mental Health User Narratives, sociologist Bruce Cohen argues that the real experts on 'mental illness' - namely, service users - continue to be marginalised and silenced by health professionals.... (more)
Geriatric Depression: A Clinical Guide
Written for a broad range of mental health professionals, this book explains why depression can be challenging to treat in older adults and describes the most effective interventions. Noted geriatric... (more)
Dream Research: Contributions to Clinical Practice
This edited volume shows the relationship between dream research and its usefulness in treating patients. Milton Kramer and Myron Glucksman show that there is support for searching for the meanings... (more)
Treating Disruptive Disorders: A Guide to Psychological, Pharmacological, and Combined Therapies
Treating Disruptive Disorders is a practical book for busy clinicians - psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, and more - as well as students, interns, or... (more)
Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide
Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide offers both a practical guide and rich clinical resource for a broad audience of mental-health practitioners seeking to sharpen their understanding of... (more)
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia
This is a classic edition of Christopher Frith's award winning book on cognitive neuropsychology and schizophrenia, which now includes a new introduction from the author. The book explores the signs... (more)
Handbook of Self and Identity: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the authoritative reference in the field, this volume comprehensively reviews theory and research on the self. Leading investigators address this essential construct at multiple... (more)
Mental Health for the Whole Child: Moving Young Clients from Disease & Disorder to Balance & Wellness
Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, and yet the number of kids suffering from mental illness today seems to creep ever upward. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, oppositional defiant... (more)
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
This book argues that psychiatry's love affair with the diagnosis of depression has become a death grip. Depression is a real illness, especially in its melancholic form. But most patients who get... (more)
Mental Illness
Mental illness is a highly controversial and contested field, informed by the ideas and research of academics and practitioners working in psychiatry, psychology, pharmacology, sociology, genetics... (more)
Psychology in the Bathroom
Excretion is a universal part of the human experience that is veiled in taboo. The toilet is a focus of intense emotions, unseemly interests, strange afflictions and earthy humour. Psychology in the... (more)
Clinical Manual for Treatment of Alcoholism and Addictions
In an extensively updated and reformatted third edition, the Clinical Manual for Treatment of Alcoholism and Addictions provides a concise overview of addiction treatment issues relevant to... (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)
Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self
Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what depersonalization disorder is all about. This important volume explores not only depersonalization, but the philosophical and literary implications of... (more)
Challenging Depression: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
Here, both therapist and client will learn the causes of depression, how to recognize and diagnose the different iterations of depression, the wide variety of psychotherapeutic and... (more)
Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia
The experience of madness - which might also be referred to more formally as schizophrenia or psychosis - consists of a complex, confusing and often distressing collection of experiences, such as... (more)
Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health
This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers... (more)
Mental Health Across Cultures: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals
Every health professional interacts with patients from different cultures to their own, not just those from different countries, ethnic or religious groups, but also those with cultural differences... (more)