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.
Contains essays which show clinical applications of quantitative cognitive science in charting abnormalities among groups and individuals, and discuss ways in which readers can apply these techniques in their own research and potentially in clinical assessment and practice.
Demonstrates and discusses the use of the thought record in cognitive - behavioral therapy. The thought record helps show the client how his or her negative thoughts lead to negative feelings and maladaptive behaviors and helps promote a change in this pattern. This video provides a foundation for these two uses of the thought record.
Activity scheduling is a powerful intervention and is more complicated than it may seem at first. This video provides guidelines for successful activity scheduling, a demonstration with a client who is depressed, and a discussion of the theory and practice of this technique. It features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of case material.
Provides an empirical account of the early development of attention and self regulation in infants and young children. This book examines the brain areas involved in regulatory networks, their connectivity, and how their development is influenced by genes and experience. It is useful for neuroscientists as well as educational psychologists.
A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy
A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.
Groups personality disorders into 3 patterns: those that center on combating devitalization, forestalling fragmentation, or seeking alternative pathways to a cohesive self. This book outlines the descriptive psychopathology and presents a self psychological reformulation of how the behavior and symptom patterns represent deficits in self-cohesion.
Features chapters that are based on a systematic meta-analysis of the international literature by 40 German scientists who convened to evaluate the research and discarded all but the highest quality data on psychological aspects of CHD. This book is useful for health psychologists who work with CHD patients, researchers, and cardiologists.
Demonstrates a narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a ""novel being written,"" and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.
