Clinical Psychology Books
Mixing methods in psychology: The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in theory and practice
Can you combine qualitative and quantitative methods in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? This volume looks in detail at the problems involved in attempting to... (more)
Principles of abilities and human learning:
This text is about human abilities and the ways in which people acquire and extend them. It contains facts about people's learning and the mental processes that make it possible. The aim is to help... (more)
Mechanisms of Cortical Development
This approach, combining the fundamentals of developmental neurobiology with accessible neural modelling, is intended for postgraduates and researchers in neuroscience generally and developmental... (more)
The depressed child and adolescent
Second edition. This is an account of the nature and characteristics of depression in children and adolescents. It discusses the historical development of the concept and provides a synthesis of... (more)
Women and Schizophrenia:
A comprehensive review of this complex area which encompasses the social and psychological aspects, amongst others, of schizophrenia as experienced by women. 112 pages. (more)
Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Reviews established and emerging aspects of conduct disorder, highlighting its complexity and likely heterogeneity, including biological, neuropsychological and cognitive factors, and the role of... (more)
The Annual of Psychoanalysis: Vol 25
This collection of articles covers a range of psychoanalytical topics, including: self-pity, dependence, manipulation and exploitation; psychopharmacotherapy and psychotherapy; from empathy to... (more)
Memory: A guide for professionals
This text should aims to assist professionals concerned with assessing and treating False Memory and Fake Memory syndromes, with a clear overview of the way that memory works from a scientific... (more)
Entering the child's mind: The clinical interview in psychological research and practice
A volume that aims to teach a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. The author presents the "clinical interview" as a tool that, when understood and used properly, can provide... (more)
Treatment for chronic depression: Cognitive behavioural analysis system of psychotherapy
This volume describes the Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psyotherapy (CBASP), a research-based approach designed to motivate depressed clients to change and to help them develop needed... (more)
Treating Postnatal Depression: A Psychological Approach for Health Care Practitioners
This text provides an understanding of depression following childbirth which draws together current theories and research to produce an intervention framework. It outlines clinical guidelines and... (more)
Cognitive science and the unconscious:
Written by a group of researchers and clinicians, this text surveys a major strand in the fresh research to identify the essential characteristics and effects of the unconscious: the formulation and... (more)
The neurobiology of memory: Concepts, findings, trends
Bridging all levels of neurobiological analysis, this study of the biological mechanisms of learning and memory describes and explains the concepts, methods, findings and conclusions of modern... (more)
Personality guided therapy:
This manual provides comprehensive guidelines on psychotherapy for DSM-IV Axis I - psychological, and Axis II - personality disorders. Each chapter examines a specific disorder, such as depression,... (more)
Treatment of Personality Disorders
This monograph arose from presentations given at both the First and Second European Congresses on Disorders of Personality. It was realized that there was a need to clarify if, and how, diagnostic... (more)
Management and administration skills for the mental health professional:
Psychologists receive several years of specialized study in mental health, but they receive no formal training in the skills necessary to be successful in these roles. This book targets the... (more)
Girl Interrupted
In 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression and spent most of the next two years there. In this, her memoir of her time there, she questions our... (more)
The mental health matrix: A manual to improve services
This text proposes a simple model which can be used as a guide to increased clinical effectiveness through focused evidence-based reform. Using a time/space framework, it is intended to act as a... (more)
Family system test: Manual
The Family System Test (FAST) is a versatile clinical and research tool which can be used in individual and family settings with respondents as young as six years. This is the manual to the test,... (more)
Diagnostic and management guidelines for mental disorders in primary care: ICD-10 chapter V primary care version
Offering helpful guidelines on diagnosis in cases where the primary care physician has to do this alone, this work also provides guidelines on what to say to patients and their families, how to give... (more)
First episode psychosis:
One of a series of pocketbooks designed to provide easily assimilable information on common medical issues. The concise texts are enhanced by tables and diagrams summarizing the essential... (more)
Scientific foundations of cognitive theory and therapy of depression:
This text presents and critically evaluates the scientific and empirical status of Beck's revised cognitive theory and therapy of depression, and discusses future directions for it. This work... (more)
Darwinian psychiatry:
Can evolutionary theory explain depression, anxiety and other mental disorders? The authors re-examine this question with recent research to show that evolution may provide the essential framework... (more)