Clinical Psychology Books
Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Second Edition
This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change.... (more)
Imagery for Pain Relief: A Scientifically Grounded Guidebook for Clinicians
Imagery for Pain Relief, the first book of its kind, familiarizes the reader with basic scientific information about pain and mental imagery and shows why imagery is a valuable tool for pain... (more)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-5 Personality Disorders: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Third Edition
The first edition of Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders broke new ground. It differed from other CBT books by offering brief but thorough user-friendly resources for... (more)
Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new 'recovery' focus in mental... (more)
Offenders, Deviants or Patients?: An Introduction to Clinical Criminology: Fifth Edition
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern,... (more)
The Psychology of Terrorism
The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and... (more)
Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Post War USA: On the Borderland of Madness
Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in post war USA, inaugurated by the neo-somatic... (more)
Schizotypy: New Dimensions
For several decades there has been an increasing move towards viewing the psychotic illnesses from a dimensional perspective, seeing them as continuous with healthy functioning. The idea,... (more)
The Bipolar Workbook: Tools for Controlling Your Mood Swings: Second Edition
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge, but it doesn't have to rule a person's life. Many tens of thousands of readers have used the science-based tools in this book to recognize the early warning... (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)
What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today
This book covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as... (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 Social Determinants of Mental Health
The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors... (more)
Introducing Mental Health: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals. Fully revised, this second edition is up to date with... (more)
Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorders
Clinicians searching for evidence-based quantitative assessments on which to base diagnosis and treatment of patients with bipolar disorder need look no further. Advances in Treatment of Bipolar... (more)
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents provides expert guidance to practitioners responding to high-stakes situations, such as children considering or... (more)
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark psychological deliberation, suggesting that our only hope in... (more)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults
This volume opens with an overview of the diagnosis and assessment of OCD in adults and delineates an evidence-based conceptual framework for understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment... (more)
Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)
As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an... (more)
Clinical Psychology (Psychology Revivals): Research and Developments
Originally published in 1987, this book presents papers from the First Conference of European Clinical Psychologists, held at the University of Kent Canterbury in July of that year. It shows some of... (more)
Managing Madness (Psychology Revivals): Changing Ideas and Practice
Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill. Originally published in 1986, this title explores the history and theory of psychiatry to illuminate... (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)
A Constructionist Clinical Psychology for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Most clinical psychologists and cognitive behaviour therapists adopt a perspective which assumes that a client's distress arises from inaccurate perceptions of the external world and that these... (more)
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Working with the Hard to Reach
Despite the steady acceptance of psychological interventions for people with psychosis in routine practice many people continue to experience problems in their recovery. The need to develop new... (more)
The Assessment of Psychosis: A Reference Book and Rating Scales for Research and Practice
This book reviews the descriptive features of psychotic symptoms in various medical conditions (psychiatric, early psychosis, general medical, neurological and dementia), non-medical settings... (more)
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques... (more)
Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is currently the subject of considerable research, since recent epidemiological studies have suggested that the condition is more prevalent than was originally believed.... (more)