Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult Books

New and Published Books

1. Managing Depression, Growing Older

   A guide for professionals and carers

   By Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, Henry Brodaty

   Even when he’s grey around the muzzle, the black dog of depression can still deliver a ferocious bite. Depression can strike at any age, and it may appear for the first time as we get older, as a result of life circumstances or our genetic makeup. While older people face the same kinds of mental...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Multisensory Handbook

   A guide for children and adults with sensory learning disabilities

   By Paul Pagliano

   Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Clinical Psychology

   An Introduction

   By Alan Carr

   Clinical Psychology is for students studying clinical psychology as part of an undergraduate programme in psychology, nursing, sociology or social and behavioural sciences. Undergraduate students who wish to know if postgraduate study in clinical psychology would be of interest to them will find...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

   Distinctive Features

   By Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter, Gareth I. Holman, Mary Plummer Loudon

   Series: CBT Distinctive Features

   How can I supercharge the therapy I currently use? This volume distils the core principles, methods, and vision of the approach. Each Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) principle is presented in terms of its intended purpose and is clearly linked to the underlying theory, thus providing...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Tough Guys and True Believers

   Managing Authoritarian Men in the Psychotherapy Room

   By John M. Robertson

   Series: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men

   Some men are especially difficult to manage in the psychotherapy room. They are controlling, exploitive, rigid, aggressive, and prejudiced. In a word, they are Authoritarian. This book is a guide for therapists and counselors who work with these men, offering an understanding of their psychological...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gender in the Therapy Hour

   Voices of Female Clinicians Working with Men

   Edited by Holly Barlow Sweet

   Series: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men

   There is no shortage of literature about working with men in counseling and psychotherapy, but almost none of it addresses the unique issues that a female clinician can face with a male client. These women do not have a basis for a complete understanding of the impact our society’s ideas about...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trancework

   An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, 4th Edition

   By Michael D. Yapko

   For three decades, Trancework has been the fundamental textbook for guiding professionals in learning hypnosis. Now in its fourth edition, this classic text continues to be the most comprehensive book for learning the fundamental skills of the field. This edition accommodates new studies and topics...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Bipolar Spectrum

   Diagnosis or Fad?

   By Joel Paris

   In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Psychopathology

    Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding, 3rd Edition

    Edited by James Maddux E, James E. Maddux, Barbara A. Winstead, Barbara Winstead

    This is the most up-to-date text about the etiology and treatment of the most important psychological disorders. Intended for first-year graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, the third edition of Psychopathology continues to focus on research and empirically supported information...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge