This book provides a comprehensive guide to the clinical treatment of narcissistic clients. Above all, the chapter authors demonstate that narcissism is an eminently treatable disorder that can be approached using a variety of therapeutic models.
This clinical reference offers an advanced discussion of the neuropsychological impact and features of the various forms of psychopathology. Focus is on the neuropathological and pathophysiological bases of these disorders, although psychosocial and environmental contributions will also be highlighted. In addition, this text discusses the ......
This is a unique empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behaviour change processes to produce psychological flexibility. Steven C. Hayes, who helped develop ACT, and co-author Jason Lillis provide an overview of ACT's main influences and its basic principles.
This is a quick-access clinical guide to the range of mental health issues and diagnoses that commonly affect women across the lifespan. Key stressors specific to women are emphasised as precursors to mental illness. As part of the Compact Clinical Guide series, the book uses frequent headings and bulleted, concise presentation of information for ......
Presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression. It offers a practical and culturally sensitive approach to mental health education which can be adapted by service programs seeking to identify clinical depression among their older ......
Animal abuse as a predictor of abuse against humans has been documented extensively. Society's ever-rising violence has prompted experts to ask what alternatives are available to identify the early signs and stop the cycle. The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty: Theory, Research, and Application is the authoritative, up-to-date ......
Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the "Prozac Age" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful ......
This book is the only clinical guide exclusively on the treatment of medical comorbidities among patients with schizophrenia. Like its best-selling predecessor, this new, expanded edition compiles the latest research and clinical information regarding the crucial task of integrating medical and psychiatric care for the schizophrenic patient.
Evidence Base and Contextual Factors for Psychosocial, Psychopharmacological, and Combined Interventions
A comprehensive report, based on a review of the literature, on the effective use, sequencing, comparative risks/benefits, and integration of psychotropic medications and psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents.
