Improving Psychological Science and Legal Practice
This comprehensive text describes the science and practice of child forensic interviewing, with an emphasis on child abuse cases. For the forensic interviewer, eliciting descriptions of childhood assaults, at any age, is no easy task. Over the last several decades, research on children and the law has greatly expanded, especially on the topics ......
This practical guide provides clinicians with evidence-based tools and strategies to assess and treat children and adolescents with serious behavior problems who exhibit limited prosocial emotions (LPEs). Extreme behavior problems in youth, while rare overall, have an outsized impact. These youth can cause tremendous harm to themselves, their ......
This second edition offers a session-by-session guide to discernment counseling, a specialized five-session intervention to help couples leaning different ways about divorce or separation find the best path forward for their troubled relationships. The authors have added new case examples that reflect different kinds of couples, as well as an ......
A fresh approach to understanding and engaging men in therapy Why do so many men avoid therapy-or never return after the first session? And how can clinicians better connect with them? In Clinical Work With Men, psychologist Andrew P. Smiler offers a groundbreaking guide for therapists seeking to better understand and engage with male ......
A guide to evaluating minors in personal injury cases that describes the relevant legal framework, applicable psychological principles, and pertinent methodology. This clear and comprehensive resource provides readers with the essential knowledge and skills they need to become effective personal injury evaluators for cases involving minors. ......
The study of adult development and aging is a rapidly growing field, as the older adult population continues to increase. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of adult development and aging, including theory and methods, biological factors and health, personality and individual differences, cognition, mental health and clinical issues, ......
This revised volume offers the latest in the theory, research, and practice of person-centered psychotherapies. This new edition presents an updated overview of person-centered therapies, with an emphasis on theory, history, primary change mechanisms, empirical support, and contemporary developments. The authors walk readers through the ......
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 ......
