Tackling some of the most important ideas in child psychology and human development, Human Resilience presents key theories from Ann and Alan Clarke's pioneering work in this field. The Clarkes discuss major interacting influences on development, including genetic and environmental effects, chance events and the tendency for people to influence ......
Helping Clients with Coexisting Mental and Relationship Disorders
This essential handbook describes effective treatments for a particularly challenging clinical population: couples struggling with both relationship distress and individual mental health difficulties. Distinguished scientist-practitioners provide detailed accounts of their respective approaches, reviewing conceptual and empirical foundations as ......
In this text, legal and mental health experts explore the ramifications of the controversial sexual predator commitment laws, registration and community notification laws, and chemical castration laws that have come into existence since 1990.
This guide examines the struggle of psychologists to acquire the authority to prescribe psychotropic medications. It compares the history of it with that of other healthcare professions, such as doctors who had to compete with nurses and pharmacists for the right to prescribe.
The variety of innovative techniques and theoretical perspectives offered in this volume should challenge readers to think about and expand on their understanding of qualitative research and its continually emerging applications.
What can be done to help those persons who consistently do not respond to therapeutic interventions, despite significant suffering and repeated attempts to seek treatment? This text presents a powerful evidence-based approach to working with these individuals.
Written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners, this is a text for clinicians wishing to learn and use this integrative approach. The comprehensive volume includes an authoritative conceptual overview and step-by-step guidelines for assessment and treatment.
A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul (POD)
In his last years, Otto Rank turned his lifetime of thought and learning toward two of the most difficult topics in human history: religion and the soul. The result was this now-classic work, available in this new, very accessible English translation. Unlike many other intellectuals of the twentieth century, Rank maintains a place for the soul ......
Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon is a developmental psychologist and a lecturer in psychology at the University of Stirling. She has contributed considerably to developmental psychology and child care literature and has a young son called Dylan.
