Clinical Psychology Books
Alcohol-Related Violence: Prevention and Treatment
Presents an authoritative collection of the most recent assessment and treatment strategies for alcohol-related aggression and violence.
* Features contributions from leading international... (more)
Loneliness Updated: Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives
"To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness... (more)
Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry
Presents a unique examination of mental illness - derived from philosophical action theory. Delusion is common to many mental disorders, resulting in actions that, though perhaps rational to the... (more)
Unmasking Psychological Symptoms: How Therapists Can Learn to Recognize the Psychological Presentation of Medical Disorders
More than 100 medical diseases - many common ailments - are capable of masquerading as mental disorders. This book shows clinicians how to identify patients who are most likely to have an underlying... (more)
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory
The Sublime Object of Psychiatry is the first book to study representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry,... (more)
Clinical and Neuropsychological Foundations of Schizophrenia
This volume is the first practitioner-oriented source of information on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia that conveys the growth in the field in terms of what is known about cognition in... (more)
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Brings together contributions from leading proponents of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities, which offer key information on the nature and prevalence of psychological... (more)
Vulnerability to Psychosis: from Neurosciences to Psychopathology
Early clinical intervention in psychosis is now a major objective of mental health services and the development of specialist intervention services has greatly facilitated research on the early... (more)
Mental Health Services for Adults with Intellectual Disability: Strategies and Solutions
This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have... (more)
An International Psychology of Men: Theoretical Advances, Case Studies, and Clinical Innovations
This text is the first to provide a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings. It demonstrates that gender... (more)
The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology: Fourth Edition
"The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology" has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully updated for its fourth edition, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary... (more)
The Damaged Core: Origins, Dynamics, Manifestations, and Treatment
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things... (more)
The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan
Research has suggested that childhood experiences confer risk/resilience for reactions to trauma in adulthood, and predictors and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to differ... (more)
Personality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence-based Approach
This book takes an evidence-based look at personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence, and makes links between the two. Each... (more)
Prescriptions for the Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry
This book focuses on the most striking change within the field - the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. Where once psychiatrists were trained in... (more)
The Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation
This book begins with an overview by Herbert Kelman, discussing reconciliation as distinct from related processes of conflict settlement and conflict resolution. Following that, the first section... (more)
Geriatric Psychiatry Basics
A concise primer to understanding the fundamentals of elderly mental health care. As the client population ages, more general psychiatrists are being called upon to care for elderly patients. This... (more)
Treatment of Bipolar Illness: A Casebook for Clinicians and Patients
The definitive book on the latest research and treatment methods of bipolar disorder. Based on over ten years worth of research and study, this book presents the most up-to-date information on the... (more)
Relational Processes and DSM-V: Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment
Seeking to integrate the large volume of clinical research on relational processes and mental health disorders with other scientific advances in psychiatry, "Relational Processes and DSM-V" builds on... (more)
A Guide to Teaching Developmental Psychology
This practical guide shares ideas, tips and strategies for effectively teaching lifespan developmental psychology to undergraduates. It provides a unique wealth of concrete suggestions for teachers,... (more)
Recovery from Schizophrenia: An International Perspective - A Report from the WHO Collaborative Project, the International Study of Schizophrenia
This book is a report of the findings of the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS), Focusing on variations in the course and outcome of schizophrenic disorders, the investigation covers 14... (more)
Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse
This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors... (more)
Treatment of Depression and Related Moods: A Manual for Psychotherapists
Daniel Badal discusses the many changes that have occurred in the field of depression and related mood disorder treatment in recent years in this accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book... (more)
The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated... (more)
Key Concepts in Health Psychology
"Key Concepts in Health Psychology" provides a detailed conceptual analysis of current issues and debates as well as theories and models in health psychology in a unique manner. Aimed at people... (more)
Human Performance: Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences
Human Performance is a comprehensive textbook providing an accessible review of both performance in the real world and essential cognitive science theory. Provides the student and researcher with a... (more)
An Argument for Mind
In this elegantly written book, Jerome Kagan melds the history of the field of psychology during the past 50 years with the story of his own research efforts of the same period and an analysis of... (more)
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction
This volume concentrates on the fundamental issues raised by the application of modern Darwinism to psychology. It also offers a non-technical account of new findings about the roles that conflicting... (more)
Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology: Issues, Terms, & Concepts
This Dictionary is an up-to-date volume that contains numerous references to relevant concepts and terms in the field of multicultural psychology. The author has collected, studied, and analyzed a... (more)