In Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents With Multiple Problems, Alec L. Miller demonstrates this compassionate, principle-based therapy for clients who have difficulty regulating emotions and behaviors. Emotional dysregulation is common among adolescents, often leading them to self-injurious behavior, including suicide. Studies have shown ......
A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice
Presents a multidisciplinary look at society's responses to domestic violence. Though substantial reforms have been made in the services available to battered women since the 1970s, this book shows how the public and private systems available to victims of domestic violence are still failing to meet the needs of the women who seek help.
In Adolescent Boys Who Are Suicidal, David A. Jobes demonstrates his integrative, problem-solving approach to working with male adolescents who have contemplated or attempted suicide. Preliminary research suggests that although men and male adolescents are more likely to complete suicide compared to females, there is evidence to suggest clinical ......
Presented by an interdisciplinary group of eminent thinkers and writers, this collection of essays offer their thoughts on how embracing creativity - tapping into the ""originality of everyday life"" - can lead to improved physical and mental health, to new ways of thinking, of experiencing the world and ourselves.
Evidence Base and Contextual Factors for Psychosocial, Psychopharmacological, and Combined Interventions
A comprehensive report, based on a review of the literature, on the effective use, sequencing, comparative risks/benefits, and integration of psychotropic medications and psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents.
With a variety of concepts and vocabulary used in the psychological literature, search and retrieval of records about specific concepts is virtually impossible without the controlled vocabulary of a thesaurus. This controlled vocabulary provides a way of structuring matter in a way that is consistent among users.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy With Donald Meichenbaum is a demonstration of arguably the most frequently used therapeutic approach by one of its cofounders. Dr. Donald Meichenbaum uses cognitive-behavioral therapy with a constructive-narrative perspective in which he looks at the stories clients tell about themselves and considers ways that the ......
Includes over 25 psychologists and scholars who present the pros and cons of regarding self-criticism as either ""good"" or ""bad."" This book illustrates the benefits of evaluating these concepts to demonstrate how negative and positive psychological variables may function as a virtue in one situation and as a vice in another situation.
Surveys the research on how psychological, social, and physiological factors may interact and contribute to the development of symptoms. This volume is of interest to both psychologists and health care professionals interested. It helps them understand the interaction between mind and body in medically unexplained illness.
