Clinical Psychology Books
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific... (more)
Becoming Mindful: Integrating Mindfulness into Your Psychiatric Practice
Featuring embedded exercises and guided meditations - as well as an appendix with audio guided meditations and a resource list - Becoming Mindful: Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Psychiatric... (more)
Towards a Mental Health System That Works: A Professional Guide to Getting Psychological Help
Research has established that there are efficacious psychological therapies for most common mental disorders. In Towards a Mental Health System That Works, psychologist Michael J Scott details the... (more)
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)
Coding and Documentation Compliance for the ICD and DSM: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
Coding and Documentation Compliance for the ICD and DSM provides professionals, professors, and students with a logical and practical way of understanding a difficult topic in healthcare for the... (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)
Working with Sex Offenders: A Guide for Practitioners
Working with Sex Offenders is a unique book which brings together leading practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date distillation of relevant guidance to assist anyone who... (more)
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Maori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural... (more)
How to Rethink Mental Illness: The Human Contexts Behind the Labels
The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to... (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)
Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery
This book explores the foundation and causes of intimate coercion, focusing specifically on the identification of the issue and subsequent healing process. Coerced by a relation, friend, or lover,... (more)
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral Training
Whether you are thinking about starting therapy, going to graduate school, or are yourself a practicing healer of hearts and minds, Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral... (more)
Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical... (more)
The Rorschach in Multimethod Forensic Assessment: Conceptual Foundations and Practical Applications
This volume demonstrates how multimethod forensic assessment with the Rorschach adds incremental validity, insight, and practical value. Case discussions by leading forensic psychologists illustrate... (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)
Bipolar Disorder: Second Edition
The completely revised edition of this popular text on bipolar disorder, with new, extensive information on medication management and incorporating the latest findings of evidence-based treatment... (more)
Understanding OCD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the... (more)
Depressive Disorders: DSM-5 Selections
Depressive Disorders: DSM-5 Selections is crafted around a specific disorder cited in DSM-5. This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing depressive disorders while... (more)
Sleep-Wake Disorders: DSM-5 Selections
Sleep-Wake Disorders: DSM-5 Selections is crafted around a specific disorder cited in DSM-5. This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing sleep-wake disorders while... (more)
Positive Psychiatry: A Clinical Handbook
Long overdue, Positive Psychiatry provides a rigorous and clinically useful guide to the growing body of research that strongly suggests that positive psychosocial factors such as resilience,... (more)
DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview
DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview provides the background, context, and detailed guidance necessary to train clinicians in the use of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI),... (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)
The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders
Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of developmental disorders have resulted in much greater... (more)
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach
This text helps students develop critical skills in diagnosis, case conceptualization and treatment planning by presenting a series of diagnostic cases based on characters from popular culture. Using... (more)
Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications: Third Edition
From leading authorities, this significantly revised and expanded handbook is a highly regarded reference in a rapidly growing field. It thoroughly examines the conscious and unconscious processes by... (more)
A CBT Approach to Mental Health Problems in Psychosis
This book draws together advances in the understanding, assessment and treatment of stress, negative symptoms, social anxiety, OCD, PTSD and mood disturbance in people with a diagnosis of psychosis,... (more)
The CBT Handbook: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This is a comprehensive resource of photocopiable worksheets to aid therapeutic intervention. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aims to help people overcome their emotional difficulties through... (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 Cracked
The recent publication of a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical manual (DSM-5) highlighted the two contrary viewpoints that exist within the field of mental health. There are those... (more)