Despite the critical role of psychology in pain, psychologists and mental health professionals commonly receive little or no pain training. In this program, Dr. Beth Darnall works with a woman suffering from debilitating pain and posttraumatic stress disorder caused by injuries sustained in an auto collision.
Cognitive theories of posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, assert that traumatized individuals make problematic appraisals about their experiences that potentially impede recovery from trauma. Individuals with PTSD develop over-generalized and negative conclusions based on traumatic events in areas such as safety, trust, and intimacy. Unlike ......
A one-stop resource for core discipline practitioners who provide mental health services to the geriatric population, Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Older Adults presents strategies for integrating cognitive behavioral therapy skills and therapies into various healthcare settings for aging patients.
Aims to assist and train social workers in the use of cognitive behavior therapies to treat psychological disorders. This reference provides a critical educational tool and synthesizes the foundations of social work, cognitive behavior therapy, and evidence-based developmental characteristics.
Provides mental health professionals with an adaptable, evidence-based model that uses cognitive behavior therapy to treat pediatric OCD. The authors present well-tested, empirically-validated strategies that encourage clinical flexibility and creativity.
Contains chapters that include a description of the empirically supported cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) interventions, factors that would limit outcome in therapy, a case illustration that highlights the prognostic indicators that would interfere with treatment outcome, and guidelines on managing these specific limiting conditions.
This state-of-the-art guide provides a powerful transdiagnostic approach for treating adolescent eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and others) in either outpatient or inpatient settings.
Although peer pressure, stress and self-esteem issues are not new, and have been generally accepted as normal growing pains for adolescents, an increasing issue among today's adolescents is depression. Fortunately, adolescent depression is a treatable condition: Evidence-based approaches are available and, by sharpening the skills needed to ......
Presents a comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. This book describes how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for adolescents and patients who require hospitalization.
