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Offers detailed guidance to help practitioners understand and implement the treatments recommended in the APA's Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adults. The authors describe the unique factors involved in PTSD treatment, and core competencies necessary for providers.

Emerging researchers are often surprised to learn that instrument selection is a complex and important step in the process of research design. This concise guide explains how to identify appropriate instruments, select the best ones for the job, and properly describe the instruments so that others will know how and why they were chosen.

Examines the impact of ubiquitous information technology, with discussions about what makes these technologies so addictive, and their effect on emotional well-being, memory, learning, driving, and cognitive reserves.

Liberation psychology challenges traditional Western-based psychology by offering an emancipatory approach to understanding and addressing oppression. This book explores the origins, development, and key concepts of liberation psychology; its methods; its potential future applications; and its relation to social activism and social justice.

Researchers in group psychology and group psychotherapy rarely consider each other's work, despite their clear areas of common interest. This book demonstrates how these separate but related lines of research can be used to inform and enrich each other.

Povides an introduction for psychologists to screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment, an evidence based approach to identifying and treating substance use across a variety of behavioural health care settings and client populations.

In this innovative book, cognitive psychologist Shelia Kennison presents an overview of research on how the human brain works when processing humour, drawing on the new and sophisticated brain imaging technologies that have enabled researchers and health professionals to expand their knowledge about how the brain works under different conditions.

Spiritual and existential struggles tell a story about the quality of clients' lives, beyond what clinicians can learn from their mental health symptoms alone. This book presents the relational spirituality model of psychotherapy, a creative clinical process that engages existential themes to help people make sense of profound suffering or trauma.

Renowned experts in adult development and aging, Manfred Diehl and HansWerner Wahl synthesize decades of psychological research into a comprehensive volume that considers later life in the context of lifespan development, social and physical environmental factors, and historicalcultural influences.

With hate crimes on the rise, it is more important than ever to understand how hate originates, develops, manifests, and spreads - and how it can be counteracted. In this book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg assembles a diverse group of experts to examine these central issues from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.

In this era of increasing economic and social inequality, more and more children are being denied their fair chance at life. This book examines the impact of inequality on children's health and education, and offers a blueprint for addressing the impact of inequality among children in economic, sociological, and psychological domains.

Layla is a ladybug with a lucky charm for every occasion. When she enters a baking competition, she tries to use all of her lucky charms to help her win first place. Her friend, Beatrice baked a delicious cake without any lucky charms! A lovely tale of a ladybug who finds out that she doesn't need luck when she uses her skills and know-how!

Shows how to develop assessments that undergraduate psychology faculty and administrators can use when designing pedagogies, courses, and curricula around student learning goals, including those identified by APA's Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major.

Doug has trouble lifting heavy balls of dung. He just doesn't feel as strong as the other dung beetles. When Doug feels down that he isn't tough enough, a passing butterfly helps him see things in a different light and he realizes that strength comes in many forms.

By integrating existing knowledge about dverse childhood experiences with developmental research on preventing, buffering, and treating the effects of adversity, stress, and trauma on child development and subsequent health and functioning, this book identifies the most important positive childhood experiences.

Weaves together clinical insights, research findings, a cohesive theoretical model, and a detailed account of how to implement the components of contextual trauma therapy, a form of treatment specifically designed for survivors of complex traumatization.

Therapists perform under pressure daily when encountering clients who arouse challenging emotions. J. Christopher Muran and Catherine Eubanks synthesize decades of clinical knowledge and experience to provide psychotherapists, supervisors, and trainees with strategies for assessing and repairing emotion-based ruptures.

Deliberate practice is a systematic approach for improving psychotherapy outcomes one clinician at a time. This step-by-step guide to deliberate practice demonstrates how to collect and use client outcome data to create an individualized professional development plan to improve the quality of your service.

Sadie, a young girl who daydreams of clouds and ponies and bubbles and ice cream, just can't seem to pay attention to what she is supposed to be doing! Sadie has trouble keeping track of all the things heaped on a kid her age. So her mom comes up with a clever plan to bolster her confidence and keep her spirits up.

The authors of this bestselling book are highly-respected experts on pain management who have successfully treated thousands of patients. Their 10 lesson self management program offers clinically-proven strategies for making simple, gradual adjustments to daily patterns so you can take cope with chronic pain and take charge of your life.

Technological advances have led to an abundance of widely-available data on every aspect of life today. Psychologists today have more information than ever before on human cognition, emotion, attitudes, and behaviour. This book addresses the opportunities and challenges that this data presents to psychological researchers.

A clinical guide that shows practitioners how to transform family interactions from conflictive to collaborative, from habitual to proactive, so that the love trapped behind the anger can flourish, and family members can rebond in loving and mutually caring relationships.

Demonstrates how to address practical and ethical challenges when assessing older adults with neurocognitive disorders, like dementia. The contributors are expert clinicians who draw on real life experiences conducting clinical capacity assessments in civil matters, illustrating best practices.

Reviews the theoretical underpinnings and practice of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), a treatment developed by Marsha Linehan to treat borderline personality disorder. DBT has proven to be effective with a range of mental health problems, including selfharm, suicidality, substance abuse, and eating disorders that are often difficult to treat.

Based on a comprehensive review and analysis of the research, Craig Haney offers a carefully framed and psychologically based blueprint for making the criminal justice system fairer, with strategies to reduce crime through proactive prevention instead of reactive punishment.

A self-help text for people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression and resentment. Robert D. Enright shows how forgiveness can reduce anxiety and depression, and encourages readers to confront and let go of their pain in order to regain their lives.

Explores common unspoken assumptions and attitudes in academia, and use them to prepare for different work cultures. You will also learn to build your network, as you identify a career path that matches your interests.

Empathy is fundamental to therapeutic change. This text teaches students the clinical skills they will need as therapists to communicate empathy and help clients change. This second edition features new case studies, research, and clinical applications, and a streamlined presentation that better mirrors the process of mental health treatment.

A young girl named Sarah misses her big brother who died. But with a little help from her cat Buttons and a lot of support from her parents, Sarah finds a way to always remember him and keep him close to her heart.

This charming and clever family tale blends two cultures into one family. The story follows a young boy with a grandfather of Mexican heritage and a grandfather of Swiss origin who find common ground and connection through their shared passion of music (an accordion).