This book offers a practical guide for professionals working 'indirectly' with clients through consultation with staff. It introduces the principles of a collaborative approach to consultation with... (more)
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder: DSM-5 Selections is crafted around a specific disorder cited in DSM-5. This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of... (more)
This core textbook for trainees in child and adolescent psychiatry has been extensively updated and extended, with a number of new chapters covering the major disorders and the range of service... (more)
This authoritative clinical handbook provides a detailed overview of the main disorders encountered by child and adolescent psychiatrists in clinical practice, ranging from eating, sleep and... (more)
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social... (more)
This work is designed to help mental health graduate students and professionals understand and interpret the MCMI-III. It discusses the design, development and operating characteristics of the... (more)
Contains a step by step approach that tells how you can learn to break free from the destructive cycle of obsessive behavior and regain control of your life. This book shows you how to reduce the... (more)
Helps students explore and understand the essentials of psychology. This text offers a balanced and accurate representation of the discipline through a highly accessible synoptic approach, which... (more)
In this extraordinary new text, an international array of scholars explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide, slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease. Among the cases addressed... (more)
The author, who worked alongside R.D. Laing in Glasgow, seeks to put the record straight. From the contemporary perspective, Laing is admired as a pioneer of ideas and a charismatic and prominent... (more)
Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of 'existential feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current philosophical and... (more)
Provides practicing clinicians with the information on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology. This work includes details on many treatment techniques for different pediatric... (more)
This is an introduction to epidemiology in health care. This fifth edition provides the reader with the core elements of epidemiology needed in health care practice and research. The text has been... (more)
The goal of this new text is to bring together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and... (more)
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J.... (more)
Consistently portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless creatures, psychopaths may seem far removed from our everyday lives. The reality, however, brings them... (more)
This significant text combines comprehensive coverage of the fundamental theoretical ideas and most influential research with an overview of more recent developments. Attribution concerns the... (more)
An alternative to, not a replacement for, the author's text on theories of personality ("An Introduction to Theories of Personality", 1993), this book describes and discusses an example of each major... (more)
This book is designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of... (more)
This introduction to psychology spans the six central areas of the topic: cognitive psychology; individual and abnormal psychology; social psychology; developmental psychology; and comparative... (more)
This video offers information and guidance for individuals and families coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis. Depicting the elements of effective clinical management, the programme features... (more)
Consistently portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless creatures, psychopaths may seem far removed from our everyday lives. The reality, however, brings them... (more)
Mental health practitioners (MHPs) often earn a trust that not many other professionals do with their patients. It is with this trust that MHPs are able to encourage and help their clients begin a... (more)
Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in... (more)