A Comprehensive Resource from Intake to Termination
Demonstrates that it is possible to honor clients' spiritual experience from the beginning to the end of the therapeutic process whether or not the therapist has a spiritual background. This book presents sample treatment plans that address various encounters with clients' spirituality.
Examines the role of disgust in psychopathology by highlighting important theoretical and methodological developments and discussing research on behavioral patterns that can be provoked by disgust. This title demonstrates that disgust plays an important role in a wide range of psychopathology, including sexual dysfunction, and eating disorders.
New Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Contains articles that describe a wide range of biological, psychological, and social approaches to researching and treating addictive behaviors. This book is of interest to clinical health psychologists and other mental health professionals from graduate students to seasoned clinicians and researchers.
Meeting a crucial need, this book offers recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities.
A Personality Disorder Reader offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders.This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address the impact that working with personality disorder patients ......
Helps practicing psychologists and professional graduate students in developing expertise in clinical health psychology. This volume provides an overview of the roles and functions of clinical health psychologists as well as the education, training, personal, and professional issues involved. It includes discussion of psychometric instruments.
Integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a conceptual framework. This work - on the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment - comprehensively examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom areas: delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and formal thought disorder.
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings. It offers practical guidance on how practitioners can take positive steps to improve the quality of their work and their relationships with BME service ......
