'thought provoking'Gwen AdsheadShocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career spent treating mentally disordered offenders.As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtro...
Circumplex Models of Personality and Emotions
During the past few decades, two major approaches have been used in efforts to define the structure of personality traits and emotions. One is the five factor analytic model. The other is a circumplex. The circumplex approach focuses on determining the similarity structure of all traits and emotions, and its underlying assumption is that a relatively seamless circular ordering (or circumplex) is an economical description of the relations among traits and among emotions. This volume is designed t...
Viewed up close social psychology can seem like a jumble - a hodgepodge of disparate ideas and concepts. Students may well ask, what are the principles that unite these areas of study? Even from a distance, it integrates pieces and parts from all of the social sciences into a recognizable and unified whole. In "A New Outline of Social Psychology", senior social scientist Martin Gold presents an integrated model of social psychology, that brings the field into sharp focus by exploring the recipro...
Behavioral Science (Blackwell Underground Clinical Vignettes S.)
by Vikas Bhushan, Tao Le, and Vishal Pall
"Blackwell Underground Clinical Vignettes: Behavioral Science, Fourth Edition" is your primary source for clinically relevant, case-based material essential for USMLE Step 1 review. Each Clinical Vignette simulates USMLE format, and includes classic buzzwords in history taking, physical examination, lab, imaging, and pathology. This revised edition contains: carefully selected cases templated to fit the way you are tested and taught to think; valuable links to Step 1 and 2; atlases for emphasis...
Does infantile amnesia exist? Can children accurately recall traumatic events? Do memory's organizing, storage and retrieval mechanisms change during childhood development? Through a thorough examination of recent scientific evidence, "The Fate of Early Memories" divorces fact from fiction regarding the nature, durability and fallibility of memory. Beginning with a tour of the strengths and frailties of infant memory and the landmark achievements that lead to more mature functioning in early chi...
Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research
by Raymond S. Nickerson
In this part memoir, part mental health resource and how-to guide, Jo Love throws opens the door of her therapist's office and shines a light on what exactly goes on in the therapy room. With the help of experts, including her very own therapist, Jo opens a rare window into the real world of therapy, unpicking the magical powers that enabled her to re-find her own voice, restored her resilience through the cloudiest days and ultimately saved her from her own mind. Each chapter includes:- A thera...
The Anti-Anxiety Program, Second Edition (The Guilford Self-Help Workbook)
by Peter J. Norton and Martin M. Antony
A lifeline for anxiety sufferers, this expertly crafted workbook has been revised and updated to be even more user-friendly. Readers discover a new sense of freedom as they work through this comprehensive program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Step by step, the book provides skills for changing anxiety-provoking ways of thinking and for confronting feared situations safely and gradually. Updated with over a decade's worth of research advances, the second edition includes more de...
Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice
This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Contributions cover an impressive range of material including how neurobiology interfaces with clinical work with children, individuals with substance abuse issues, couples and clients with trauma histories. Leading mental health clinician-scholars describe path-breaking explorations at the neurobiological frontiers of 21st century clinical theory and practice. Represe...
Signs of Sanity and the Principles of Mental Hygiene (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Stewart Paton
Setting the subject in its historical, social and political context, this text provides a concise but comprehensive guide to current knowledge about child abuse. In recognizing the volume of recent literature on child abuse, the author seeks to cut through the rhetoric and examine the knowledge base that can help us understand the ways in which we respond to the phenomenon of child abuse. The book aims to enable practitioners and students who are working or intending to work in the child protect...
Setting Standards in Graduate Education
This volume traces the history of accreditation of programmes in psychology, from the late 1940s to the turn of the century. In doing so, the book puts accreditation into focus, examining the challenges of coming to consensus with a variety of groups, each one having its own definition of excellence. This comprehensive work highlights the developmental stages of accreditation in psychology from its initiation to its current status, while also suggesting potential changes and challenges in its fu...
Cognition provides readers with a clear, balanced, and highly engaging coverage of the field, along with extensive pedagogical support and numerous applications to everyday life. The seventh edition includes a new Individual Difference in Cognition feature that shows the relevance of cognitive psychology in their careers. Readers will find up-to-date discussions of important research and theories. It arms psychologists with the latest and most comprehensive overview of cognition on the market to...
Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly "a tour de force," which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.
This work offers a broad perspective of the field and unifying theoretical framework. It emphases recent work linking personality to brain, biological-genetic, and evolutionary processes.
As cognitive therapy has developed over the past decade, its model has been adapted to treat a wide variety of clinical problems and populations. This volume provides an integrated approach to the use of cognitive therapy in dealing with the clinical syndromes and personality disorders that are most
The Neuropsychology Casebook
by Donna L. Orsini, Wilfred G. Van Gorp, and Kyle B. Boone
The Neuropsychology Casebook was developed to fill the existing gap in the cur- rent body of literature on clinical neuropsychology. Although texts are available that describe neuropsychological tests and others provide information on syn- dromes, this volume provides descriptions of neuropsychological test perform- ance for individuals with various syndromes. It was designed to illustrate the process of clinical interpretation of test findings and report writing for the individual case. Our aim...
The National Autistic Society estimates that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) now affects 500,000 families in the UK alone, while one in 86 children have an ASD-related special educational need. Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential one-stop reference guide introducing the reader to an understanding of this complex disorder, touching on all aspects related to ASD (including Asperger's Syndrome), with a detailed resource section for those wanting more in-depth information on specific areas. Th...
This introduction to psychology is brimming with interesting examples that are inclusive with regard to gender and culture. With a strong historical context and an emphasis on the research that defines psychology, Sdorow provides faculty and students with a winning combination of content, readability and interest. The text promotes critical thinking and an appreciation of psychology as a science by exploring the research that defines the discipline. Research processes are examined in depth in th...
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Recovering from Trauma (Compassion Focused Therapy)
by Deborah Lee and Sophie James
Terrible events are very hard to deal with and those who go through a trauma often feel permanently changed by it. Grief, numbness, anger, anxiety and shame are all very common emotional reactions to traumatic incidents such as an accident or death of a loved one, and ongoing traumatic events such as domestic abuse. How we deal with the aftermath of trauma and our own emotional response can determine how quickly we are able to 'move on' and get back to 'normality' once more. An integral part of...