Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult
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Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology and Counseling
- By Sharon K. Anderson, and Karen Strohm Kitchener.
Published December 2010
In Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology and Counseling, Kitchener and Anderson lay a conceptual foundation for thinking well about ethical problems.
Whereas the first edition focused mainly on ethical reasoning and decision making, this new edition draws more…
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Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings
The Oxford House Model
- Edited by Leonard Jason, and Joseph R Ferrari.
Published December 2010
Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting sustained recovery. This book suggests…
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CBT for Psychosis
A symptom-based approach
- Edited by Roger Hagen, Douglas Turkington, Torkil Berge and Rolf W Gråwe.
Published November 2010
This book offers a new approach to understanding and treating psychotic symptoms using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT for Psychosis shows how this approach clears the way for a shift away from a biological understanding and towards a psychological understanding of psychosis.
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Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare
Clinical mindlines
- By John Gabbay, and Andrée le May.
Published November 2010
This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge.
Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the…
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Women, Children, and Addiction
- Edited by Loretta Finnegan, and Stephen Kandall.
Published November 2010
This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children. The volume begins by placing current attitudes towards addicted women…
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Problematic and Risk Behaviours in Psychosis
A shared formulation approach
- By Alan Meaden, and David Hacker.
Published November 2010
In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery. This book investigates risk and problem behaviours in psychosis including staff and service factors that can impede…
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Mental Health and Social Problems
A Social Work Perspective
- Edited by Nina Rovinelli Heller, and Alex Gitterman.
Published October 2010
Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental…
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Distinctive Features
- By Paul E. Flaxman, J.T. Blackledge and Frank W. Bond.
Published October 2010
What are the distinctive theoretical and practical features of acceptance and commitment therapy?
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a modern behaviour therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness interventions alongside commitment and behaviour change strategies to enhance psychological…
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Depression and the Soul
A Guide to Spiritually Integrated Treatment
- By John R. Peteet.
Published August 2010
In Depression and the Soul, John Peteet proves the old adage that the best physician is also a philosopher. He considers how to approach the problem of depression within a larger context, and reviews current concepts of successful living relative to the heart (emotion and volition), the mind (…
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On Delusion
- By Jennifer Radden.
Published July 2010
Delusions play a fundamental role in the history of psychology, philosophy and culture, dividing not only the mad from the sane but reason from unreason. Yet the very nature and extent of delusions are poorly understood. What are delusions? How do they differ from everyday errors or mistaken…
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