To help address the suicide public health crisis, this book presents deliberate practice exercises to reduce clinicians' fears of talking about suicide and self-injury with clients and assessing for risk with skill and empathy. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back ......
A Clinician's Guide to Assessment, Formulation, and Intervention
This book provides a holistic and nuanced metatheoretical perspective to working with trauma in the family system. The authors use a systemic lens, conceptualizing mental health as inextricably intertwined with the dynamics of family relationships, environment, and social context. Here, the authors explore how these interactions can both ......
How does emotion arise in everyday settings? How can it be studied in the real world? In this book, authors Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn offer their distinctive approach to the clinical study of emotion. Emotionography explores emotion as it happens in natural interactions, rather than through scales, experiments, or interviews. Emotion is ......
Deliberate Practice to Develop and Enhance Skills in ACT
This book empowers both new and seasoned clinicians to enhance their proficiency in acceptance and commitment therapy. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is rooted in a behavioral and contextual understanding of human suffering, with language and cognition playing a central role. While the capacity for language enables creativity, planning, ......
Transform the way children understand themselves and others. Mentalization-the ability to make sense of one's own mind and the minds of others-is fundamental to developing emotional resilience, self-regulation, and successful relationships. Now in its second edition, this book presents mentalization-based treatment for children (MBT-C), a ......
This thoroughly revised edition uses an intersectional, social justice lens to teach practitioners how to competently and compassionately work with trans and nonbinary (TNB) clients and help them flourish. Research and clinical knowledge have been significantly updated to reflect emerging knowledge of gender diversity, including an expanded ......
An essential, sensitive overview on the current and future use of AI tools in the behavioral health care context. Advances in AI are making possible more personalized, precise, efficient, predictive, and portable behavioral health care. This overview offers an important resource for practitioners who want to understand how AI can be used to ......
This timely volume focuses on confessions and guilty pleas of youth, providing authoritative, integrated coverage of the developmental science relevant to decisions to self-incriminate and the implications for practice and policy. In recent years there has been a surge in empirical research on confessions and pleas in general, and among youth ......
Volume 1: History, Research, Philosophy, and Theory; Volume 2: Clinicaland Social Applications
The 2-volume APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the rich history, diverse theoretical perspectives, clinical and social applications, and important emerging issues and directions in the field. The chapters in this Handbook comprise a broad spectrum of coverage from the earliest ......
