Is It Right for Me and What Can I Do With My Degree?
Offers a comprehensive strategy aimed at helping undergraduates use self-exploration tools to decide if psychology is the right major for them. This title offers an explanation of psychology and its subfields and an examination of the importance of diversity and multiculturalism.
Considers courtroom modifications such as allowing supportive adults in the witness box and allowing hearsay exemptions. This book is intended for mental health professionals who perform forensic evaluations of child witnesses in cases of alleged maltreatment in order to determine whether to recommend courtroom modifications.
Empathy, as defined in the Western context, centers on an individualistic interpretation of human desires, pain, and reasons for seeking help. This video discusses and demonstrates ways to reach beyond this individualistic perspective toward a relationship-centered context.
In Relapse Prevention Over Time, G. Alan Marlatt demonstrates his approach to helping clients with substance addictions prevent or cope with relapses during efforts to change addictive behavior. Relapse prevention is a cognitive-behavioral, maintenance stage approach taken only after a client commits to either abstinence or moderation, and it is ......
In Sleep and Sleep Disorders Dr. Edward J. Stepanski describes and demonstrates his approach to treating clients with sleep problems. His multidisciplinary approach involves an understanding of the nature of sleep; the pharmacological treatments available for sleep disorders; and how medical, nutritional, behavioral, and cognitive components all ......
Synthesizing theoretical and methodological developments in affective science and highlighting their potential application to psychopathology, this edited volume illustrates the importance of transferring basic research into the clinical area and considers the potential payoffs of using affective science to conceptualize and treat major mental ......
In older adults, negative health events occur not because cures for diseases are not available or because proper treatment was not applied, but because patients fail to follow the medical instructions or regimens that maintain their health. This book examines the research on nonadherence using a cognitive, social, and developmental framework.
Science-Based Programs for Children and Adolescents
CSAP identified four critical predictors from childhood for substance use that could be valuable targets for prevention of adolescent substance use management of and involvement with the child, and the child's social competence, and school achievement. This book shows how seven selected prevention programs address these.
Describes a session the author had with a couple who have been stuck in an impasse for several months. This session demonstrates the four stages of therapy - engagement, assessment, insight, and reorientation, using confrontation to help the couple to understand how they contribute to their own misery and guiding them to help realize satisfaction.
