A Comprehensive and Compassionate Guide for Parents
The go-to guide for those raising children with mental disorders. The prevalence of mental health disorders in children is rising in the United States. In fact, recent studies estimate that one in six children ages six to seventeen have a mental health disorder. Your Child's Mental Health Diagnosis: A Comprehensive and Compassionate Guide ......
A Brief Treatment Approach for Mental Health Professionals
Provides mental health professionals with instructions for conducting written exposure therapy (WET) with clients who have posttraumatic stress disorder. Denise Sloan and Brian Marx developed WET in response to a growing demand for an effective PTSD treatment that is easier to implement, more affordable, and has lower dropout rates.
Mixed messages about sex, from the media, our schools, and even our parents, can make the facts of life seem less than straightforward. Covering everything from foreplay to role play, this forthright guide alleviates common anxieties about sex and autism, and provides the tools for you to improve your sexual confidence on the spectrum.
An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Violence, 25th Anniversary Edition
Offers an insightful portrait of chronic predatory offenders, problem police officers, and others with a demonstrated propensity for violent conduct. Dr Toch explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions, and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent.
This practical guide explains how forensic psychologists can successfully use the MMPI-2 to evaluate clients in various forensic contexts and present results to attorneys and judges.
Using case studies and examples, this book proposes five universal human needs and three categories of coping strategies where major sexual problems find pathological camouflage to elude detection and treatment. It gives professionals and lay persons alike the techniques for recognising the 'unspeakable monsters' of sexual disease.
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate damaging of one's own body tissue in the absence of any intent to die. This book provides answers to some key questions such as: How prevalent is NSSI? What is its history? Does it occur more frequently among youth? Among females? And, what influences its occurrence?
This book presents a holistic approach to treating patients with personality disorders that seeks to inspire psychotherapists and encourage innovation. Focusing on core mechanisms of change that span different therapeutic approaches, this book invites clinicians and researchers to join a dialogue with the authors, as they examine personality ......
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the clinical treatment of narcissistic clients. Above all, the chapter authors demonstate that narcissism is an eminently treatable disorder that can be approached using a variety of therapeutic models.
Providing clinicians with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that they can tailor to the needs of individual clients, this state-of-the-art treatment planner is filled with case examples and clinical tools. Simon A. Rego presents the latest thinking on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and explains how it has been reclassified in DSM-5. He ......
Cognitive behavioral therapy for postdisaster distress is a transdiagnostic, research-based, and time-limited approach to alleviating distressing and persistent symptoms through psychoeducation and skills training.
How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Compet
Tens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma. The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework can be used with children, parents, and other caregivers in a wide range of ......
How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency
Packed with practical clinical tools, this guide explains how to plan and organize individualized interventions that promote resilience, strengthen child-caregiver relationships, and restore developmental competencies derailed by chronic, multiple stressors. Includes more than 45 reproducibles.
Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship
This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track. Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience as well as cutting-edge research on ......
This state-of-the-science guide to assessing and treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in active-duty service members and veterans has now been extensively revised with 65% new material. Leading authorities review available evidence-based treatments, including individual, group, and couple and family therapy approaches. Knowledge about ......
Provides an overview of theoretical and empirical frameworks for understanding PTSD in first responders and outlines practical and evidence-based approaches to assess and treat PTSD in these populations. This is followed by a thorough discussion of the assessment process and guidance on treatment strategies with this population.
Distinguished clinical and developmental psychologist Joy Osofsky and her coauthors distil the vast literature on childhood trauma in this concise guide that reviews what effects these traumatic experiences can have and which treatments are best suited for addressing them. They provide a detailed framework for selecting the most appropriate ......
From a leading addiction specialist, this highly practical book explores what works in treating adolescents. Oscar G. Bukstein answers the clinician's vital question: "What do I do now?" He describes best practices for enhancing youths' motivation for change, teaching a variety of recovery skills, and implementing parent management training and ......
This widely respected text and practitioner guide, now revised and expanded, provides a roadmap for effective clinical practice with clients with substance use disorders. Specialists and nonspecialists alike benefit from the authors' expert guidance for planning treatment and selecting from a menu of evidence-based treatment methods. Assessment ......
A practical guide for clinicians and other professionals working with children and adolescents exposed to trauma, offering an overview and rationale for a comprehensive approach to trauma-informed assessment, including key domains and techniques.
In transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy (EFT-T), therapists target deep core emotional vulnerability-- sadness/loneliness, shame, and fear/terror-that underlie the diagnostic cluster depression, anxiety, and related disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Part I presents the theoretical underpinnings ......
Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics
Applying the theories and evidence of the author's psychoanalytic investigations, this is a study of aboriginal peoples and the earliest cultural stages of the human race before the rise of large-scale civilisations. It points out the striking parallels between the cultural practices of native tribal groups and the behaviour patterns of neurotics.
The insidious opioid epidemic has ravaged American homes and communities for far too long. Three million American families have a loved one addicted to opioids, and fatal drug overdose is the number one cause of death for all Americans aged eighteen to forty-four. Though we are deeply familiar with the tragedy and severity of this public health ......
Many OCD sufferers fail to improve using the standard exposure-response prevention (ERP) treatment. But, as Clinical Psychologist Michael Alcee contends, it's not the patients who are failing the treatment, but rather the treatment that is failing the patients because it ignores the heightened empathy and existential sensitivity that accompanies ......
This concise, accessible guide for helping professionals not trained in psychiatric health is a quick reference for identifying and intervening with a person experiencing a first psychotic episode. It guides non-medical helping professionals in how to identify a possible psychotic episode, how to interact effectively with the individual, and how ......