Clinical Psychology Books
Dimensional Approaches in Diagnostic Classification: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
Among today's astounding research discoveries, perhaps the most fascinating is the mapping of the human genome and its implications for a vastly improved understanding of how genes affect our... (more)
Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Clinicians
The first comprehensive book of its kind, this book compiles the latest data in neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neurogenetics, and functional outcomes research to enable clinicians to more effectively... (more)
Clinical Manual for the Evaluation and Treatment of Sleep Disorders
This is the first clinical text devoted solely to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders that is both comprehensive and conveniently portable. The book's 13 chapters offer a concise,... (more)
The Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays
Brain stimulation - focally applying electricity to the brain - is a field with a rapidly expanding and promising array of techniques, which already have proven efficacy in treating conditions... (more)
Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us
'This pioneering book offers wonderful insight into the experience of opposite sex twins in adulthood. It is a very welcome addition to the literature and warmly recommended to all who know or work... (more)
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health: A Handbook for Practitioners
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings. It... (more)
Personality Disorder: The Definitive Reader
Offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.... (more)
Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering
After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical... (more)
Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Relational Approach
This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters are notably challenging to engage, often... (more)
Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective: Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience: Second Edition
This fully revised second edition uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions, providing advice on methods of coping, routes to growth, recovery and... (more)
Psychodynamic Therapy: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations
The purpose of this book is to reintroduce psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical and immediate in their... (more)
Trichotillomania: An ACT-enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach: Workbook
Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder which involves at least two levels of psychological functioning. At one level, it is a habitual behaviour. This type of TTM involves automatic pulling and... (more)
Coping with Chronic Illness: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Adherence and Depression: Workbook
If you suffer from a chronic medical condition like cancer, HIV, diabetes, asthma, or hypertension, you know how hard it can be to perform all the self-care behaviours required of you, especially if... (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)
Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self
With advances in medical technology and with many large scale, longitudinal studies now underway, social and biological science have built a convincing case that the varieties of madness subsumed by... (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)
Trichotillomania: An ACT-enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach: Therapist Guide
Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat as few effective therapeutic options exist. Behaviour therapy has the greatest empirical support, but the number of mental... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management for Prostate Cancer Recovery: Workbook
After surgery for localized prostate cancer, you may find that treatment related side effects may lead to some difficulty readjusting to everyday life. You may notice an increase in your stress... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management for Prostate Cancer Recovery: Facilitator Guide
Men treated for localized prostate cancer have an excellent medical prognosis, but may have difficulty in readjusting to life after surgery as a result of treatment related side effects. Changes in... (more)
Coping with Breast Cancer: Workbook for Couples
As a couple coping with early stage breast cancer, it is important that you face the stresses and challenges together. To support each other during this difficult time, you and your partner may... (more)
Coping with Breast Cancer: A Couples-focused Group Intervention: Therapist Guide
Early stage breast cancer can be stressful and upsetting for both the woman dealing with the disease and her partner. This illness can also place a strain on a couples relationship. However, couples... (more)
Minding the Body: Workbook
Having a serious illness can be incredibly difficult, especially when there is no cure. As your disease progresses, not only your physical health, but your entire well-being may be affected.... (more)
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to the Beginning of the End of Life: Minding the Body: Facilitator Guide
Individuals with serious and incurable illnesses often require care that goes beyond the body. As they face the challenges of living with and eventually dying from their conditions, they may need to... (more)
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Professionals Disclose Their Personal and Family Experiences of Mental Illness
People with mental illness are often stigmatized, both in the U.S. and around the world. Paradoxically, many in the mental health professions are themselves the source of a great deal of such stigma.... (more)
Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
Although the perceptions and realities of ageing have changed markedly over the last few decades, for practitioners working with older people, emotional problems remain a major factor of health and... (more)
Coping with Chronic Illness: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Adherence and Depression: Therapist Guide
The treatment outlined in this therapist guide is intended for people suffering from depression and living with chronic illnesses. As a result of their poor health, many individuals who are... (more)
Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
Psychoanalysis has had to defend itself from a barrage of criticism throughout its history. Nevertheless, there are many who claim to have been helped by this therapy, and who claim to have achieved... (more)
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide: Second Edition
This second edition provides a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It includes new research about BPD's relationship to other disorders and... (more)
The Physician as Patient: A Clinical Handbook for Mental Health Professionals
This practical handbook combines the perspectives of two seasoned psychiatrists who have been assessing and treating physicians for more than 30 years and who here discuss not only common illnesses... (more)
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures: Second Edition
Offers a concise summary of key evaluations that clinicians can use in daily practice to enhance the quality of patient care in terms of both diagnosis and assessment of outcomes. Comprising a wide... (more)