Provides therapists with detailed information on how to treat sexual abuse survivors more effectively. This work offers an integrated theory of postabuse symptom development and suggests certain core phenomena that account for many of the psychosocial difficulties associated with childhood sexual abuse.
Amy Wenzel describes the main types of perinatal anxiety and the various ways in which they are expressed in women, as well as approaches for assessment and treatment.
Spirituality is increasingly accepted as integral to human psychology, vital for physical and mental health.The Psychology of Spirituality is an accessible book that introduces the relationship between spirituality and psychology. The author sets out what spirituality is, the values it represents and how it can contribute to mental health and ......
Psychotherapy Is Worth It: A Comprehensive Review of Its Cost-Effectiveness is a multi-authored systematic review of the medical literature from 1984 to 2007 relevant to the cost-effectiveness of all kinds of psychotherapy. It also reviews the stigma associated with psychiatric illness and its true cost to society. Mental illness is the leading ......
Sure to become the standard text for all student and practicing psychotherapists, whatever their background -- psychiatry, psychology, or social work -- the Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments addresses all the major psychotherapeutic modalities in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.
This book describes a technology that allows physicians to focally stimulate the brain in awake adults through a non-invasive procedure. It is an accessible and authoritative review of TMS, explaining how the procedure works and then outlining its use in a wide range of situations -- notably in depression, but also in other conditions ranging.
This collection of papers renews long-standing proposals for incorporating a dimensional model of personality disorder within the next DSM. It describes alternative models, addresses questions regarding their clinical application and utility, and suggests that future research seek to integrate such models within a common hierarchical structure.
Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond
''Asylum to Action'' offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. The author's account of the ......
Assessment and Treatment of the Angry, Aggressive Driver
Explores the phenomenon of road rage, the etiology of driving anger, and the study of the inter-relations of anger, hostility, and aggression. This book provides literature on aggressive driving, assessment information on aggressive drivers from a variety of perspectives such as psychological tests, diagnoses, and psychophysiological measurement.
