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 ......
Drawing on findings from the cognitive and organizational sciences, this title tackles such questions as the difference between distributed and collocated learning and performance, the effect of learner control in automated training, and the power of narrative in debriefing at a distance.
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.
Covers cognition, from attention and performance through memory and language, from development and aging through pathology and psychopathology. This book is suitable for those striving to better understand the nature of and interactions among the mechanisms responsible for executive control and implementation of real-time cognitive performance.
Demonstrating a research-directed approach to therapy, the author uses data gathered in a presession assessment to tailor his approach to working with the client; in this session, a young man suffering with depression who wants to be able to enjoy life again. The author looks for relationship themes and at the client's family systems for insights.
