Dr. Susan H. McDaniel demonstrates her biopsychosocial systems approach to working with clients experiencing health issues. In this form of therapy, the focus is on the role medical illness plays in the client's emotional life and in the client's relationships with family members and with health professionals. In this session, Dr. McDaniel works ......
Dr. Andrea Farkas Patenaude demonstrates her approach to counseling clients who are facing the possibility of inheriting an illness or disorder from a parent or grandparent. Many disorders, such as cancer or Alzheimer's disease, may have a genetic component, making it likely that someone will inherit them. Dr. Patenaude works with clients on ......
In Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder, Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin shows her approach to working with clients who exhibit this disorder. Interpersonal reconstructive therapy assumes that maladaptive personality patterns such as passive-aggressive behavior are a repetition of behavior that was once ......
In Short-Term Dynamic Therapy, Dr. Donald K. Freedheim demonstrates this brief form of psychotherapy. Short-term dynamic therapy focuses on troubling feelings that stem from repressed or unresolved painful events. The aim is to provide insight as to the source of the feelings that inhibit healthy functioning. In this session, Dr. Freedheim works ......
Dr Bonnie Spring demonstrates her behavioral approach to helping clients quit smoking. Nicotine addiction is a psychological as well as a physical phenomenon, so this approach focuses on recognizing the triggers for smoking and learning new ways to react to those triggers by replacing smoking with other behaviors. In this session, Dr Spring works ......
Dr. Francine Shapiro demonstrates her approach to working with clients still experiencing the effects of past traumatic experiences. EMDR is an integrative psychotherapy designated by the American Psychiatric Association as highly effective and empirically supported. The approach is based on an information-processing model of pathology, directly ......
The muscular ideal is increasingly becoming the preferred body type for men, adolescent boys and even some women. This book draws on research to provide an overview of the muscular ideal, including historical and socioeconomic trends, assessment and measurement issues, and clinical presentation of disorders such as muscle dysmorphia.
Written by experts in the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), this book discusses the utility of psychological tests based on US norms in making clinical decisions for clients from different cultural backgrounds.
The Search for Truth and Agency in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Presents an argument that any philosophy of psychology that in principle precludes the possibility of objective psychological knowledge and truth also undermines an agency founded on rational interpretive grounds. This work offers a critique concerning psychology's fragmentation mount and attempts at unification proliferate.
