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January 2012
Using Tools: From Movements to Environmental Effects
Among the most complex and fascinating abilities of humans is their skill in manufacturing and using various kinds of tools, which involves a multitude of cognitive, behavioral, and biomechanical aspects. Tool use is characterized by enormous complex...
December 2011
Antisocial Behavior and Crime
Contributions of Developmental and Evaluation Research to Prevention and Intervention
Leading experts review the latest findings and recommendations concerning the roots and prevention of antisocial behavior and crime
The developmental perspective is becoming increasingly significant in criminology and in research on antisocial and ...
The developmental perspective is becoming increasingly significant in criminology and in research on antisocial and ...
Rorschachiana
Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach
Thought-provoking contributions from the world of the Rorschach - including a special section on studies with children and adolescents that shows the rich potential of the Rorschach test in performing psychological assessment with this age group.
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November 2011
Consumer Behavior and Economic Decisions
Consumer behavior is one of the most prominent fields of research, development, and application of economic decision theories. These are decisions about the use of scarce resources, such as money, time, or effort, and they are subject to many influen...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A practical book outlining a new, evidence-based treatment protocol for this debilitating and difficult-to-treat disorderGeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a debilitating disorder that has often proved difficult to treat. Advances in conceptualiza...
Drug-Induced Neurological Disorders
Now in its third edition, this book remains the only source of comprehensive information about drug-induced neurological disorders. The introduction of new drugs and biological therapies have led to new adverse reactions affecting the nervous system...
October 2011
Torture
Torture has a devastating impact on individual as well as on public health, as it causes serious damage to mental and physical health. However, research on this topic is rare, and seldom empirical. This volume brings together promising work on behavi...
August 2011
Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs
The Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs has become a standard reference and practical tool for psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, physicians, and all mental health professionals. The new and fully updated 19th edition ...
Growing Up with Domestic Violence
This compact and easy-to-read text by leading experts shows practitioners and students how to recognize the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children and youth and to provide effective clinical interventions and school-based prevention pr...
The Psychology of Talent
Exploring and Exploding the Myths
The core concepts in this book are the idea of talent, how it can be assessed, and how it can be nurtured and put to effective use in the workplace. Line managers, HR professionals, business or industrial/organizational psychologists, and consultants...
July 2011
Suicide Movies
Social Patterns 1900-2009
How is suicide portrayed in the cinema and what does it mean for suicide prevention? The first-ever comprehensive study of film suicide analyzes more than 1,500 film suicides. The portrayal of suicide in cinema can impact public understanding and eff...
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a baffling, troubling, and hard to treat phenomenon that has increased markedly in recent years. Key issues in diagnosing and treating NSSI adequately include differentiating it from attempted suicide and other menta...
Narrative Exposure Therapy
A Short-Term Treatment for Traumatic Stress Disorders
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a successful and culturally universal intervention for the treatment of survivors of multiple and severe traumatic events. Field tests in contexts of ongoing adversity and disaster areas, as well as controlled tria...
Prospective Memory
This issue highlights the current breadth and depth of research questions and approaches in the field of prospective memory. The reported studies explore applied questions, methodological and analytic issues, and the effects of working memory, person...
June 2011
The Art and Science of Health Care
Psychology and Human Factors for Practitioners
Technological innovations and new drugs have led to an explosion in the costs of medical care, and also to the realization among both medical and allied practitioners and patients that such innovation has not necessarily led to more effective care. A...
May 2011
Multi-Digit Number Processing
Most everyday number processing involves multi-digit numbers (e.g., money, prices, times, dates). However, much of the research in the field has so far focussed on single-digit number processing. Whilst some basic cognitive effects obtained this way ...
April 2011
When Psychopharmacology Is Not Enough
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques for Persons with Persistent Psychosis
An exclusive focus on biological models of schizophrenia and on antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia or other psychoses is increasingly being recognized as a barrier to effective treatment. Written by an expert team of psychiatrists...
March 2011
Autism Spectrum Conditions
FAQs on Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and Atypical Autism Answered by International Experts
In this unique book, leading clinical and research authorities help explode myths and answer frequently asked questions on ASC: What are ASC? What are their causes? How prevalent are they? How are ASC diagnosed and by whom? What are the first signs? ...
Urban Diversities – Environmental and Social Issues
Managing diversities in urban contexts, where more than half of the world's population currently live, represents a fundamental aim for sustainable urban development. If this is to be achieved it requires collaboration among different scientific and ...
Helping Children and Adolescents
Evidence-Based Strategies from Developmental and Social Psychology
This book informs mental health professionals about how to guide parents, families, and other community professionals to better serve children and adolescents. Relying on empirical and evidence-based research, the author sets forth specific strategie...
December 2010
Ethics and Economic Success
The purpose of this volume out of the series Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology is to highlight recent research and theory development pertaining to the relation between ethics and economic success on various levels (individual, gro...
Nicotine and Tobacco Dependence
This volume provides health care providers with practical and evidence-based guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of nicotine and tobacco dependence. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the world, and it is the only legally av...
November 2010
Public Health Tools for Practicing Psychologists
Essential public health techniques to make psychological and behavioral health practices more effective. Many people in need of behavioral health measures or psychotherapy do not seek clinical care and are simply not being "reached" by current practi...
Rorschachiana
Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach
This latest volume of Rorschachiana illustrates the diversity of ideas and the many possibilities that projective methods can offer. The general section includes a blend of research papers, innovative methods, and complex theoretical ideas; a special...
October 2010
Trauma Practice
Tools for Stabilization and Recovery
This highly regarded handbook is designed to help guide clinicians through the dense forest of trauma treatment. Now in its 2nd revised and substantially expanded edition, it is full of techniques and protocols to assist therapists in their challengi...
Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT)
for the Treatment of Neurocognition, Social Cognition, and Social Competency in Schizophrenia Patients
A practical, comprehensive guide to using Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT) for Schizophrenia Patients – the highly successful empirically supported approach that has fast become a standard treatment in many psychiatric clinics around the worl...
September 2010
Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety
The focus of the book is a highly practical guide to implementing treatment, packed with helpful clinical pearls, therapist-patient dialogues, illustrative case vignettes, and sample forms and handouts. Readers are equipped with skills for engaging r...
Person-Oriented Research Methods
The latest findings from person-oriented research.
Research has shown that statements at the aggregate level rarely apply at the level of smaller numbers of cases or individuals. The first tenet of person-oriented research is therefore that structur...
Research has shown that statements at the aggregate level rarely apply at the level of smaller numbers of cases or individuals. The first tenet of person-oriented research is therefore that structur...
Trauma and Memory
In the last decade, theories on the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have highlighted the important role of changes in the trauma memory, in that traumatic memories seem to be qualitatively different from other, non...
August 2010
Evidence-Based Practice in Suicidology
A Source Book
An innovative and long overdue book by the world’s leading researchers and practitioners, describing what really works in suicide prevention, the evidence for particular approaches, where the gaps are in our knowledge, and how we can fill them....
July 2010
Handbook of Solution-Focused Conflict Management
This book is essential reading for all those who need to manage conflicts. It provides a detailed description of the highly successful solution-focused model, its theoretical background, and practical applications in conflict management practice: div...
June 2010
Depression
This book takes the reader through the central issues of diagnosis and treatment of depression. It begins with definitions and instruments for assessing depression as a diagnosis and as a dimension. This book identifies the basic and common component...
May 2010
The Dynamics of Autobiographical Memory
Using the LIM | Life-line Interview Method
Based upon a 5-year longitudinal research study using the LIM | Life-line Interview Method, in which young, middle-aged, and older men and women were interviewed three times, this book provides a completely new perspective on the dynamics of both ret...
Behavior and Medicine
This new edition of one of the most popular and highly regarded texts on behavioral and social science in medicine has been fully revised and updated. It is structured to reflect the latest Institute of Medicine recommendations on the teaching of beh...
Understanding the Dynamics of Typical People
An Introduction to Jungian Type Theory
Understanding the Dynamics of Typical People is a humorous, and at the same time clear, systematic, and well-founded introduction to C. G. Jung’s Type Theory. Written in an easy-to-understand conversational style, with examples, stories, vignettes,...
Practicing Psychology in Primary Care
This book equips mental health professionals, students, interns, and post-graduate trainees to work effectively in a primary care setting – which today is the principal site for psychiatric care, behavioral health risk reduction, and psychological ...
April 2010
Implicit Attitude Measures
The development and application of implicit attitude measures has been one of the most thriving research areas in psychology over the last few decades. This compilation brings together contributions that focus either on the comparison of different im...
March 2010
Sexual Violence
This book presents both a compact summary of the voluminous research on sexual violence and a practical, evidence-based "how-to" treatment guide for mental health practitioners working in clinics and institutions that treat men who are sexually coerc...
February 2010
Environment, Health, and Sustainable Development
The planning, design, and management of sustainable and healthy environments are the key themes addressed in the papers in this book, selected from the IAPS 19 Conference held in Alexandria (Egypt)....
Cyberbullying: Abusive Relationships in Cyberspace
Cyberbullying is a major and growing phenomenon that may take place by means of mobile devices, websites such as social networking sites or virtual worlds, videos, e-mails, or other means. This monograph brings you up to date with the latest research...
January 2010
Elimination Disorders in Children and Adolescents
The aim of this book is to provide readers with a practical overview of the definitions, characteristics, theories and models, diagnostic and treatment recommendations, and relevant aspects and methods of evidence-based psychosocial treatments for en...
December 2009
Resource Activation
Using Clients’ Own Strengths in Psychotherapy and Counseling
This concise practice-oriented manual shows how psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, supervisors, and counselors can quickly identify and put to therapeutic use an individual’s own talents and resources. Written in an easy and relaxed styl...
Enhancing Couples
The Shape of Couple Therapy to Come
In this volume, reputable and internationally known researchers and clinicians describe the steps necessary to disseminate a public health model of couple therapy and prevention, including knowledge of risk and protective factors, “ready to use” ...
Movies and Mental Illness
Using Films to Understand Psychopathology
Films are a powerful medium for teaching students of psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, and even literature or media studies about mental illness and psychopathology. Movies and Mental Illness, now available in an updated edition...
November 2009
Rorschachiana
Includes a special section on use of projective methods in psychotherapy research and outcome studies....
Understanding Suicide
Why We Don't and How We Might
The book discusses the contributions that each of the major disciplines have made to suicidology and provides an overview of research and theories in some typical areas. Drawing from this, specific recommendations as to what researchers and theorists...
October 2009
New Directions in Multinomial Modeling
This monograph provides an overview of recent developments in and new applications for multinomial processing tree (MPT) modeling in cognitive psychology and related fields....
June 2009
Substance Use Problems
Health professionals in a range of settings are bound to meet clients with troubles related to drugs. This text provides trainees and professionals with a handy, concise guide for helping problem drug users build enjoyable, multifaceted lives using a...
May 2009
Contemporary Motivation Research
From Global to Local Perspectives
This book showcases both applied and more basic theory-based enquiries that provide a global picture of contemporary motivation research and its applications. A stellar group of international scholars discuss different theoretical perspectives in div...
Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs
Now in its 18th edition, this handbook has become a standard reference for thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and indeed virtually all categories of mental health professionals. This book is a must for everyon...
April 2009
Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine
This textbook, now appearing in its 5th, fully updated, and expanded edition, has become widely recognized as the best exposition available on the topic of hyperbaric medicine and the wide range of applications of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO). In addition...
March 2009
Practical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Pediatrics and Primary Care
Pediatricians and primary care providers commonly encounter youth with mental health problems in their practice. The aim of this practical handbook is to facilitate the triage, differential diagnosis, treatment, and referral of youth in an efficaciou...
Suicidal Behavior
This book aims to increase clinicians' access to empirically supported interventions for suicidal behavior, with the hope that these methods will become the standard in clinical practice....