A Historical Analysis of Science, Practice, and Policy
An historical analysis of the reciprocal relationship of psychology and the NIMH. As a history, the book reveals insights into the remarkable of psychology since World War II and illuminates the role of government in shaping the lives and practices of its citizens through its funding of psychological research, training, and service.
Empirically Based Strategies for Clinical Practice
This second edition amplifies and refines the material presented in the first. This volume was written for practitioners, treatment researchers, professors and students, health care administrators, and others who make decisions about mental health treatment services for children and adolescents.
This resource shows psychologists how to apply the principles of APA's Ethics Code to the ethical dilemmas that they encounter in their daily lives. This second edition has been rewritten and updated to make it consistent with the revised standards of the APA Ethics Code (2002).
In Spiritual Awareness Psychotherapy, Dr. Lisa J. Miller illustrates her spiritual approach to working with clients. Using her spiritually informed Rogerian approach, Dr. Miller listens to a client to help discern his or her life journey and growth along an individual spiritual path.
Theistic Integrative Psychology shows an approach for incorporating belief in God into therapy. An important aspect of this therapy is the assumption that spirituality and faith are central to many people's lives, and therefore therapists should be open to including religious beliefs in their work with clients.
The study of cognition has experienced rapid growth in the last decade. This topic is fundamental both to the science of psychology and to its applications in real world problems. Here, experimental psychologists show how their findings can be applied in daily life.
Studies have shown that heavy drinkers who begin meditating show a decrease in the amount they drink. Here, the author demonstrates his meditative technique for helping clients with substance addictions.
This volume discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks.
In ""Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression"", Dr. Zindel V. Segal demonstrates a mind-body approach to helping clients who have experienced depression to prevent a relapse into depressive symptoms. Depression poses an ongoing challenge to staying well because certain thought patterns, usually involving rumination or self-criticism, ......
