Clinical Psychology Books
Understanding Consciousness: Second Edition
Provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the... (more)
Improving Children's Mental Health Through Parent Empowerment: A Guide to Assisting Families
This book is an essential guide for parent advisors and counsellors, to helping parents take charge of their childrens mental health care. The book is divided into four parts for easy reference: Part... (more)
Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology
Examines advances in the field of measurement and analysis of change and their potential for illuminating research initiatives in the field of positive psychology. Here, concepts of measurement,... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Treating Stress After War: Education and Coping Interventions for Veterans
This book guides mental health professionals in providing resilience-based, wellness-oriented training to meet the psychological needs of those exposed to a war zone. It sensitively offers education... (more)
Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
"Accounting for Rape" presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how... (more)
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are negative, abnormal, impair daily activities, or cause stress. They include... (more)
Developmental Disorders of Language, Learning and Cognition
This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders. The book also highlights key research on normal and typical development.... (more)
Manic-depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
The revolution in psychiatry that began in the 1950s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness also known as bipolar disorder. No other mental illness... (more)
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
How could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, the author interviewed and evaluated "abductees" - old and young, male and female,... (more)
Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests
This book provides all-encompassing coverage of administration, scoring, interpretation, and reporting of brief intelligence tests. It also points out both its uses and limitations and discusses past... (more)
Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues
An increasing number of studies have been conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. "Emotion Regulation" addresses the question of these studies from diverse angles... (more)
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Newly available in paperback. Charting the intellectual history of the emerging biology of mind, Eric R. Kandel illuminates how behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and... (more)
Conversations on Consciousness
"Conversations on Consciousness" is just that - a series of twenty lively and challenging conversations between Sue Blackmore and some of the world's leading philosophers and scientists. Written in a... (more)
Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between... (more)
An Introduction to Mind, Consciousness, and Language
This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between the mind, consciousness and language,it examines the key concepts from both philosophy and linguistics, including the... (more)
Brain Science and Psychological Disorders: Therapy, Psychotropic Drugs and the Brain
Readers with little background in neuroscience and physiology may find themselves at a loss trying to navigate between the knowns and the unknowns when it comes to understanding the intricacies of... (more)
Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professions
A textbook that considers ethical and legal issues in mental health work by providing numerous case studies that encourage students to develop their own framework for ethical reasoning. The author... (more)
Advances in Personality Psychology: Volume 2
The second volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series, this book presents an authoritative collection of works by leading experts in the field. It focuses on three of the major issues in... (more)
Culture and Self-Harm - Attempted Suicide in South Asians in London:
Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that attribute to the increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London. It offers a new preventative strategy that will be of great... (more)
Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment:
This two-volume set consolidates a diverse field into a comprehensive text, providing a resource of information pertaining to psychological assessment both as a discipline and a professional... (more)
Cancer in Context
Psycho-social oncology has made significant progress in understanding the impact of cancer and it's treatment on people's lives, and this book underlines the fact that psycho-social care is an... (more)
A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique:
Repertory grid technique is a way of quantifying personal constructs, the basis of George Kelly's theory. This manual updates the content of the first edition, including different forms of the grid,... (more)
Classification and diagnosis of psychological abnormality:
Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways. Some consider it in terms of statistical infrequency whilst others look at it as deviation from social norms.... (more)