Clinical Psychology Books
Depression: A Primer for Practioners
A handy reference for health care providers and mental health professionals. A brief, practical guide that provides an introduction or refresher on depression that is research-based yet easy to read... (more)
Neither Bad Nor Mad: Competing Discourses of Psychiatry, Law, Politics
This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his... (more)
Personality in Adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective: Second Edition
An ideal text for advanced students and a timely reference for researchers and clinicians, this influential work examines how enduring dispositions or traits affect the process of aging and shape... (more)
The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolu
Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look'... (more)
Psychlogical Injuries: Forensic Assessment, Treatment and the Law
Focussing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common... (more)
A General Practitioner, his Patients and their Feelings: Exploring the Emotions Behind Physical Symptoms
The author, an experienced GP with psychotherapeutic skills, discusses the attitudes that allow the doctor and patient to learn from their emotions and develop a greater tolerance of them. In a... (more)
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
This is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore... (more)
Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the... (more)
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2): Second Edition
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this is the authoritative diagnostic manual grounded in psychodynamic clinical models and theories. Explicitly oriented toward case formulation and treatment... (more)
Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may... (more)
The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the... (more)
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety
Management of Clinical Depression and Anxiety provides a brief set of clinical guidelines for handling clinical depression and anxiety in cancer patients. Using a practical toolkit format, this... (more)
Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
One out of every 10 adult psychotherapy clients likely has ADHD. Due to high comorbidities with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and other mental disorders, along with considerable behavioral... (more)
DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Elder Mental Health
Many practitioners are hesitant to treat mental health issues in older adults, believing that special expertise is required to do so effectively. DSM-5(R) Pocket Guide for Elder Mental Health is... (more)
Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice
Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice teaches the reader how to use the critically important tool of motivational interviewing to promote health and well-being. Based on the theoretical... (more)
The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions
Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating mental illness affecting a significant proportion of the world's population. It is associated with significant impairments in health-related quality of... (more)
Mental Disorders in Primary Care: A Guide to Their Evaluation and Management
Mental disorders are highly prevalent in the primary care setting, yet are frequently misdiagnosed and often inappropriately treated. The presence of unrecognized or misdiagnosed mental disorders is... (more)
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
Psychotic disorders are common and important psychiatric conditions, and patients suffering from psychosis can be challenging to assess and manage. In this new monograph, experts in schizophrenia and... (more)
Clinical Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative application of the knowledge base of psychology to the... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practices: Behavioral Health and Addictions: Second Edition
Everyone, it seems, is talking and arguing about Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). Those therapies and assessments designated as EBP increasingly determine what is taught, researched, and reimbursed in... (more)
Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders: A Handbook for Clinical Practice and Research
Many fascinating and important psychological disorders are either omitted from our current diagnostic systems or rarely covered during graduate or medical training. As a result, most mental health... (more)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Adult Outcome and its Predictors
The book provides a comprehensive summary of the best known and most highly respected well-controlled long-term prospective follow-up studies in ADHD. These studies followed children with ADHD and... (more)
The First Interview: Fourth Edition
This trusted practitioner resource and course text is grounded in James Morrison's experience with more than 15,000 mental health patients. Morrison provides a complete framework for interviewing... (more)
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena: Clinical, Conceptual, and Empirical Developments
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena takes the reader beyond where James Kleiger's original work, Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, left off. This new book offers readers a number of... (more)
Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight
In Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight, Dr. Lloyd Sederer draws upon four decades of diverse clinical practice, mental health research and public health experience to create a... (more)
Integrated Treatment for Personality Disorder: A Modular Approach
Rather than arguing for one best approach for treating personality disorder, this pragmatic book emphasizes the benefits of weaving together multiple well-established intervention strategies to meet... (more)