Clinical Psychology Books
Positive Psychiatry: A Clinical Handbook
Long overdue, Positive Psychiatry provides a rigorous and clinically useful guide to the growing body of research that strongly suggests that positive psychosocial factors such as resilience,... (more)
DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview
DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview provides the background, context, and detailed guidance necessary to train clinicians in the use of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI),... (more)
Treating Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Core Techniques and Strategies
Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales,... (more)
The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders
Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of developmental disorders have resulted in much greater... (more)
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach
This text helps students develop critical skills in diagnosis, case conceptualization and treatment planning by presenting a series of diagnostic cases based on characters from popular culture. Using... (more)
Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications: Third Edition
From leading authorities, this significantly revised and expanded handbook is a highly regarded reference in a rapidly growing field. It thoroughly examines the conscious and unconscious processes by... (more)
A CBT Approach to Mental Health Problems in Psychosis
This book draws together advances in the understanding, assessment and treatment of stress, negative symptoms, social anxiety, OCD, PTSD and mood disturbance in people with a diagnosis of psychosis,... (more)
The CBT Handbook: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This is a comprehensive resource of photocopiable worksheets to aid therapeutic intervention. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aims to help people overcome their emotional difficulties through... (more)
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling mental illnesses and is also highly prevalent, occurring in approximately 1% of the population and affecting both men and women equally. The disorder has a... (more)
Personality Disorder
A practical guide to personality disorders, this pocketbook is written with clinical utility in mind. Case examples and a focus on evidence based treatments will give busy health professionals... (more)
Madness Cracked
The recent publication of a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical manual (DSM-5) highlighted the two contrary viewpoints that exist within the field of mental health. There are those... (more)
Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions: Standards and Cases
Most mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the... (more)
The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement
What is defiance, and when does defiant behaviour impede one's ability to aim at flourishing? People who are defiant can present perplexing challenges etiologically, diagnostically, and responsively.... (more)
Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Recently there has been a growing awareness of the process of recovery from serious mental illness and the importance of coming to terms with the challenges resulting from the illness. Acceptance of... (more)
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this... (more)
The Bipolar Book: History, Neurobiology, and Treatment
As a major mainstay of clinical focus and research today, bipolar disorder affects millions of individuals across the globe with its extreme and erratic shifts of mood, thinking and behavior. Edited... (more)
Cognitive-Experiential Theory
In this volume, Epstein presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory, that is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is... (more)
Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice: Stories of Mind and Soul
For people with mental illness, spirituality and faith are closely connected with questions of relationship, transcendence, and finding meaning and purpose in life - questions best approached by way... (more)
Madness: Ideas About Insanity
This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it... (more)
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Classic Edition
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the... (more)
Clinical Psychology: Psychopathology Through the Lifespan
This innovative textbook adopts a lifespan approach to mental health. Paul Bennett provides an overview of factors that influence risk for mental health problems throughout the life course and... (more)
Culture and Madness: A Training Resource, Film and Commentary for Mental Health Professionals
Culture and Madness is a training resource that critically approaches the subject of culture by questioning commonly held professional and cultural assumptions and biases. It outlines how mental... (more)
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders: A Motivational Systems Approach to Theory and Treatment
Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA),... (more)
Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
This edited collection introduces and explores radical alternatives to mainstream psychiatric practices that build on the knowledge of people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric... (more)
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Case Study and Contemporary Perspective
The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry's Diagnostic... (more)
Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in... (more)
Comparative Psychology for Clinical Psychologists and Therapists: What Animal Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Psychology
Featuring animal research, from pigeons to primates, this book explains how comparative psychology can enrich our insights into human psychological processes. Each chapter covers a different... (more)
DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Building on the best-selling Pocket Guide to the DSM-5(t) Diagnostic Exam, The DSM-5(R) Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health teaches readers how to formulate a diagnosis and treatment... (more)
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich... (more)
Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics
Emphasising clinical realities over abstract theories, A Clinical Guide to Psychiatric Ethics thoroughly illustrates and applies the ethics principles and practices that instruct psychiatric... (more)