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Book SynopsisA Step-by-Step Guide for Working with Violent Clients Renowned family therapist Cloe Madanes presents a therapy of socialaction, a proven model of therapeutic intervention developed forprofessionals who work with violent men. At the very heart of thisapproach is the conviction that the offAnder is fully responsiblefor his actions. As evidence of this core belief, a therapy ofsocial action requires the offAnder to acknowledge his violentactions, demonstrate authentic repentance, make amAnds to thevictim, and find acceptable alternative behaviors.Table of Contents1. A Therapy of Social Action. 2. The Elements of Social Action in Therapy. 3. The Caged Animal. 4. The Knife in Her Heart (with James P. Keim). 5. Steps in the Therapy of Adult Sex Offenders. 6. The Juvenile Sex Offender (with Dinah Smelser and James P.Keim). 7. Abusive Husbands. 8. Judges' and Therapists' Mistakes. 9. The Past.

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Book SynopsisHow do we position ourselves in relation to our patients? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathetic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's knowledge, to provide a corrective experience, or to work at the intimate edge?Trade ReviewMartha Stark has brought together the three fundamental theories about how therapy works that prevail in our field at present, and has shrewdly drawn out the virtues of each. Her own integrated conception is at once sophisticated and practical. Therapists of every level of experience will profit from it. Engaging and convincing clinical vignettes bring Stark's concepts alive, illustrating them in a way that resonates with a practitioner's experience. Modes of Therapeutic Action is a no-nonsense, deeply human, eminently useful study of what really thappens in a successful psychotherapy. -- Owen Renik, M.D.A remarkable book. Stark illustrates the therapeutic action of the major psychoanalytic theoretical paradigms with many vignettes that clinicians will readily be able to recognize from their own practices. The clinical moments are described with extraordinary candor and vividness. This integration of theory and practice makes the book both highly relevant clinically, and extremely instructive theoretically. -- Anna Ornstein, M.D. and Paul H. Ornstein, M.D.In a time of quick fixes, Martha Stark's book on the modes of therapeutic action is a treasure that examines the very soul of the healing process. Honoring and integrating the contributions of separate schools of psychoanalytic thought, she squarely places the shared humanness of therapist and patient at the center of all therapeutic change. I have never read a better book about the essential complexity and beauty of the therapeutic process. -- Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.With Modes of Therapeutic Action, Martha Stark has taken the fledgling field of comparative psychoanalysis into a new and important domain. She develops in great detail a framework for contrasting and exploring the major contemporary models of the analytic process. She takes us underneath the slogans and banners of the various schools so that we may compare their underlying concepts and presuppositions. And she demonstrates what different technical systems actually look like in live action by presenting a remarkably rich array of clinical examples. This book will contribute to the enrichment of both the thinking and clinical sensibility of clinicians at all levels of experience and sophistication. -- Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D.

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Book SynopsisExploring the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent treatment, this book illustrates the expanded range of clinical techniques used with parents to establish an alliance at various phases of treatment.Trade ReviewA comprehensive, reader friendly and exceptionally informative guide for properly identifying and contributing to a healthy parent-child relationship for the potential and long-lasting benefit of the child in a therapeutic pursuit. Supplying an expansively illustrative content of examples, studies, in-depth detailing, Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work covers diverse but common situations. Vitally important reading for counselors and psychotherapists working with families in clinical settings, Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work is also very highly recommended for the struggling parents of struggling children and teens for its invaluable and accessible contribution of helpful insights and general content. * The Bookwatch *Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a book on a subject that is almost never written about in psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head. For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and consider its message. This book has an interesting mix of practical advice and theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all levels of experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with the families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians.. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *For far too long parents have been denied their rightful place as partners in therapeutic work on behalf of their children. The Novicks advocate unequivocally for their inclusion when working with children of every age and in every phase of development. There is much to be learned from their model and the many clinical illustrations they provide in this invaluable contribution to a neglected area of practice. -- Denia Barrett, Editor, Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and AppliedWorking with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Kerry and Jack Novick is an extraordinarily important contribution. Their work effectively counters the decades-old resistance to caring work with parents by child and adolescent psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Their work underscores the inevitable ongoing interaction between parent functioning and child development. -- Leon Hoffman M.D.The book is a highly practical treatise on techniques to involve parents meaningfully in their child's therapy. -- Elissa P. Benedek M.D., author of How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce * Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Fall 2007) *In Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work, psychoanalysts Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick offer a theoretically rigorous yet highly practical and intuitively appealing framework for involving parents meaningfully in their children's therapy. One of this volume's many strengths lies in its use of numerous salient and well-crafted clinical illustrations derived from the authors' extensive clinical and supervisory experience. It also offers further elaboration and new applications of the Novicks' earlier research on the "two-systems" model. Indeed, because the work is so well written, one nearly loses sight of the fact that it represents a bold new vision of the role of parents in the psychoanalytic treatment of child and adolescent patients. -- Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., Wayne State University School of Social Work; author of Psychodynamic Social WorkWorking With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a book on a subject that is almost never written about in psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head. For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and consider its message. This book has an interesting mix of practical advice and theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all levels of experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with the families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *This book represents a turning point in our child psychiatry practice which legitimizes a shift that many of us have adopted clinically several years ago. It should be read, discussed and improved upon by all child and adolescent practictioners. -- 2008, Vol 17 No. 2, pp97-99 * Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry *The Novicks have offered us a significant volume....This book is an important addition to the literature and can be a resource for child therapists at all levels of experience. * Psychologist - Psychoanalyst, Fall 2008 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Parent Work—Introduction and History Chapter 2 Our Assumption When We Work with Parents Chapter 3 Evaluation Chapter 4 Recommendation, Setting the Frame, and Working Conditions Chapter 5 The Beginning Phase of Treatment Chapter 6 The Middle Phase of Treatment Chapter 7 The Pretermination Phase of Treatment Chapter 8 The Termination Phase of Treatment Chapter 9 Posttermination Chapter 10 The Application of Our Model of Parent Work to Individual Treatment of Adults Chapter 11 Summary and Further Questions

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Book SynopsisThe imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive psychologists, happiness economists and self-development gurus at the forefront. With the support of influential institutions and multinational corporations, these self-proclaimed experts now tell us what governmental policies to apply, what educational interventions to make and what changes we must undertake in order to lead more successful, more meaningful and healthier lives. With a healthy scepticism, this book documents the powerful social impact of the science and industry of happiness, arguing that the neoliberal alliance between psychologists, economists and self-development gurus has given rise to a new and oppressive form of government and control in which happiness has been woven into the very fabric of power.Trade Review"excellent... a clear-sighted critique of capitalism's current obsession with happiness and of the shaky science allowing a well-meaning ideal to be so easily subverted by governments and companies."—New Scientist "This brilliantly researched and beautifully argued book offers a devastating critique of the contemporary obsession with happiness. Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz interrogate the flaws, inconsistencies and generalizations of happiness 'science' and positive psychology, showing how it has become central to a blame culture in which structural inequalities are made over as psychological deficits. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the way that neoliberalism increasingly operates through psychological modes promoting confidence, resilience and 'positive' feelings."—Rosalind Gill, City, University of London "How have the science and industry of happiness transformed our expectations about what a good life means, and at what cost? In their critical inquiry, Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz powerfully demonstrate the pervasive neoliberal logics and pernicious social consequences of the contemporary politics of happiness."—Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "This book provides insight into how neoliberal society causes us to become servants to the pursuit of happiness."—Psychologist MagazineTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Experts on your well-being 2. Rekindling individualism 3. Positivity at work 4. Happy selves in the market shelves 5. Happy is the new normal Conclusion Notes References

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Book SynopsisWritten by a former professional baseball player whose career was ended with an injury to his pitching arm in the middle of his third season, Focus on the Good Stuff is filled with passion, authenticity, and humor. Author Mike Robbins offers a step-by-step program with exercises for overcoming negative influence and obstacles, creating a truly grateful approach to life, and establishing an environment that can support success and peace of mind.Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Carlson vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One Our Obsession with Bad Stuff 19 1 What’s Wrong out There? 21 2 What’s Wrong with Me? 49 Part Two The Five Principles of Appreciation 73 3 Principle 1: Be Grateful 75 4 Principle 2: Choose Positive Thoughts and Feelings 95 5 Principle 3: Use Positive Words 117 6 Principle 4: Acknowledge Others 139 7 Principle 5: Appreciate Yourself 169 Part Three Appreciation in Action 193 8 It’s Not What We Know, but What We Do That Matters 195 Resources 207 About the Author 211

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference when treating borderline patients. Using detailed accounts of clinical experiences, the authors demonstrate how their own thoughts, feelings, and fantasies enable them to understand their patients' internal worlds.Trade ReviewThere have been many fine books on the borderline personality, but this is the first work that intelligently addresses the effect of borderline patients on the psychotherapist or psychoanalyst who works with them. It is a profoundly informative, vivid, and compelling read, because the authors have skillfully inserted riveting clinical vignettes that evoke the presence of the personality they address, thereby establishing a rather remarkable triangular drama: this extraordinary patient, contemporary psychoanalytic theories on the borderline patient, and the clinician who must carry his patient and his own beset-upon self to psychic change and well-being. -- Christopher Bollas, PhD, author of "China on the Mind"Gabbard and Wilkinson have written a book of such lucidity, clinical soundness, and highly readable scholarliness that it deserves to become a standard and enduring textbook for anyone involved in doing individual psychotherapy with borderline patients. The variety of individual therapy that they portray is psychoanalytic therapy, but the lucidity with which they write is such that the reader need not be a psychoanalyst, nor a candidate in an analytic institute, to make good use of their teaching. Furthermore, practitioners of even many years of experience in this field will find, here, illumination and enrichment. I personally have learned much from reading this book. -- Harold F. Searles, M.D.Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients is a masterful work. Gabbard and Wilkinson write with elegant simplicity and yet with great clinical and theoretical sophistication, bringing to bear the most advanced conceptions of primitive mental processes and intersubjective phenomena. It is a rare event indeed to find clinical accounts of the richness of those included in this volume. Gabbard and Wilkinson present the details of their moment-to-moment experience with the patient and their methods of attempting to make sense of their own thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and sensations in the service of developing an understanding of the internal world of the patient. This book is a major contribution to the development of our understanding of the treatment of borderline patients. It will be of great interest to all clinicians working with borderline patients, whether the therapist is a beginning student or an experienced practitioner. -- Thomas H. Ogden, M.D.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dr. Naranjo has produced a major work that deserves to be studied, debated, and utilized by professionals and non-professionals alike." --Stanley Krippner, Ph.D."Claudio has recreated the enneagram of personality types for the practice of inner explorers in this culture, and I consider him to be the premier teacher of this particular scientific tool for the study of consciousness." --John C. Lilly, M.D., author, Center of the Cyclone

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Book SynopsisThe essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updated ASQ:SE-2™trade User's Guide gives your program all the information and guidance you need to use the screener accurately and effectively. You'll get thorough, step-by-step instructions on screening with ASQ:SE-2, including planning and managing your screening program, administering and scoring the questionnaires, and evaluating your program's effectiveness a complete technical report with psychometric data, including validity, sensitivity, and specificity guidance on using ASQ:SE-2 in a wide variety of settings sample letters and forms that increase family engagement, including a welcome letter, parent feedback survey, and parent conference sheet handouts and activities families can use to help promote children's social-emotional development between screenings, plus a list of resources to support professionals With this clear, comprehensive guide, professionals will be sure they're making the most of this highly reliable, accurate, and parent-friendly screener so they can catch social-emotional issues early and help improve child outcomes.The ASQ:SE-2 User's Guide is part of the ASQ:SE-2 screening system. ASQ:SE-2 is the NEW edition of the bestselling screener trusted to pinpoint social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 6 years of life. The 9 age-appropriate ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires effectively screen 7 key developmental areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. The second edition of ASQ:SE-2 has been revised and updated with invaluable new features, including a NEW 2 month questionnaire, an expanded age range, updated cutoff scores, new behavior and communication items, and more updates to help you better support families and promote social-emotional development.Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures About the Authors Preface Acknowledgments Photocopying Release Frequently Asked Questions I Overview of ASQ 1 Introduction to ASQ:SE-2 2 The Need for ASQ:SE-2 3 The ASQ:SE-2 System II Implementation of ASQ:SE-2 4 Phase I: Planning the Screening/Monitoring Program Using ASQ:SE-2 5 Phase II: Preparing, Organizing, and Managing the Screening Program 6 Phase III: Administering and Scoring ASQ:SE-2 and Following Up 7 Phase IV: Evaluating the Screening and Monitoring Program III ASQ:SE-2 in Practice 8 ASQ:SE-2 Completion Methods 9 ASQ:SE-2 Settings 10 ASQ:SE-2 Case Examples References Appendixes A Suggested Readings B Glossary C ASQ:SE-2 Technical Report D Letters and Forms Parent Letters/Forms (in English) Parent Letters/Forms (in Spanish) Physician/Professional Letters (in English) Screening/Monitoring Program Forms (in English) E Activities and Behavior List F Social-Emotional Resources

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Book SynopsisThis new book presents topical research in the study of antisocial behaviour. Topics discussed include preventive and therapeutic interventions targeting antisociality; antisocial behaviour in children with ADHD; vicious dog ownership and antisocial personality; cocaine-dependent patients with antisocial personality disorder and delinquency and antisocial behaviour among at risk adolescents.

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Book SynopsisThis fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama.Cindy B. Schneider explains how the central processes in acting - including making and interpreting inferences from non-verbal cues, taking another's perspective, and formulating language - can be highly effective ways of addressing social cognition deficits in children with AS. Acting Antics contains a wide repertoire of activities and ideas for immediate application at home, in the classroom, in therapy workshops or social groups, ranging from initial warm up techniques, through paired activities, to larger group scenes and staging a show. Helpful appendices provide questionnaire forms to enable both the child and the program leader to assess and monitor the child's understanding of their roles, along with reproducible scripts and suitable scene designs.This complete, practical program provides a wealth of enjoyable educational ideas for parents, teachers, and therapists of children with Asperger Syndrome.Trade ReviewAs the use of 'kids' and 'teens' in the title might suggest, it is a fun book. It briefly explains how the central processes in acting - including making and interpreting inferences from non-verbal cues, taking another's perspective, and formulating language - can be highly effective ways of addressing social cognition deficits in children with Asperger's syndrome. -- NAPLICThe ideas are excellent and well laid out. This is an innovative approach to social skills training for students with Asperger's Syndrome who will tolerate acting, and for a group leader with energy and commitment to drama. -- Speech and Language Therapy in PracticeSchneider's enthusiasm for the subject and her passion to improve life skills of young people is very evident and encourages the reader to progress. As a catalogue of practical ideas with built-in resources, this is a useful book for support groups and families wishing to create a theatre group. Acting Antics has an easy-to-read format and includes activities that can be initiated with minimum preparation and resources. -- Children Now MagazineIf you're interested in implementing a drama therapy program for tweens and teens with Asperger Syndrome, this is the book to buy. -- About.comTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. 1: Introduction. 2: Who? What? Where? 3: Getting Started. 4: Paired Activities. 5: Scripted Partner and Group Scenes. 6: Whose Line Is It Anyhow? 7: Starting Your Own Troupe. 8: Ready or Not, Here They Come! 9: Antics Summer Camp. 10: The `Really Big Show'. 11: It's a Wrap! Appendices: A. Sample Schedules and Activity Lists. B. Photocopiable Forms. C. Photocopiable Partner Scripts. D. Group Scripts. References. Resources. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisPsychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides a critical perspective on debates and controversies that have divided opinion within psychology both past and present. Explores the history of psychology through examples of classic and contemporary debates that have split the discipline and sparked change, including race and IQ, psychology and gender, ethical issues in psychology, parapsychology and the nature-nurture debate Represents a unique approach to studying the nature of psychology by combining historical controversies with contemporary debates within the discipline Sets out a clear view of psychology as a reflexive human science, embedded in and shaped by particular socio-historical contexts Written in an accessible style using a range of pedagogical features - such as set learning outcomes, self-test questions, and further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter Trade Review"These issues aside, this is a compelling and wide-ranging book that encourages the reader to look for the moral values and cultural assumptions at the heart of the apparently unbiased science that is psychology." (The Psychologist, 1 November 2011) "Presenting important ideas about the ways that psychologists view the knowledge they generate, this book would be a good companion to a textbook based on the conventional hypothetical-deductive model of research. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October 2011)Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. Preface. 1 The Nature of Psychology. 2 Psychology and Society. 3 Psychology, Intelligence, and IQ. 4 Psychology and Race. 5 Psychology and Women. 6 Beyond Nature Versus Nurture. 7 Psychology in Service to the State. 8 Ethical Standards in Psychology. 9 Personality and Personality Tests. 10 Psychology and Mental Health. 11 Freud and Psychology. 12 Parapsychology. 13 Psychology in Everyday Life. 14 Further Issues in Psychology. 15 Psychology at Issue? Selected Glossary. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisBeyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explores how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years. Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual. He examines mental and behavioral issues from all sides, including the possibility that nurturing rather than trying toTrade ReviewMisdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder after a suicide attempt, Emmerson devotes his book and his life to asking good questions about how to prevent and best treat the condition. With veteran coauthor Yehling, he explains why he thinks the ADHD label should be retired and how he thinks people with it should be treated. He believes prescriptions should be used only as a last resort (his own experiences with them were not good). He identifies a major problem: doctors base their subjective diagnosis on observed behaviors, which is one reason 13-percent of kids are now diagnosed with it. 'We need to nail down and laser in on what ADHD is and what it isn’t,' he says. It’s hard to argue with recommendations like drinking plenty of water and avoiding high-fructose corn syrup, though Emmerson isn’t an M.D. Overall his enthusiasm for his topic and his general good advice, including promoting self-esteem and trying to create a 'gentler world,' will resonate with everyone concerned about ADHD, including his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. * Booklist *Courageous, tenacious, smart, and full of a hockey goalie's all-star heart, Jeff Emmerson probes behind the slogans and labels to get at the truth. A man on a mission, Jeff does the world of ADHD a great service with this book. -- Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction and many other books; Founder of The Hallowell Centers; host of the weekly podcast DistractionA beautiful amalgam of lived experience and first rate science writing. Helpful and inspiring for those who suffer with ADHD; essential for those who need protection from misdiagnosis and careless drug prescriptions. -- Allen Frances, MD, DSM-IV Task Force; author of author of Saving Normal; professor emeritus, Duke University School of MedicineTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE 1.In the Doctor’s Office 2.Peeking Behind the ADHD Curtain 3.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part One) 4.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part Two) 5.So Easy to Diagnose, So Tricky to Understand 6.Why Personal History Matters in Diagnosing 7.The Larger Problem of Misdiagnosis 8.Prescribing in An Open Ocean 9.What We’re Up Against 10.The ADHD Buy-In 11.What About Our Boys? PART TWO 12.What Is With My Brain? 13.Exploring the Deeper Causes 14.New Ways of Working with ADHD 15.Towards Collaborative Diagnosing & Care 16.Problem Child? Or Gifted Child? 17.Nutrition’s Necessary Place 18.Shaking off the Label 19.The World Beyond ADHD

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Book SynopsisCoaching Psychology: A Practitioner''s Guide takes an in-depth look at the applications and everyday challenges faced by real-world practitioners of coaching and mentoring psychology. Developed as a companion to The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning, the practitioner's guide delves more deeply into the applications of coaching and mentoring. This is the first book to harness the Universal Integrated Framework (UIF) for coaching and mentoring in a guide for practice, and is ideal for coaches, mentors, psychologists, and other professionals interested in this rapidly growing field.Table of ContentsAbout the Author vii Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv 1 Introduction 1 2 Current State of Coaching and Coaching Psychology: Where are you now? 5 3 The Foundation of Coaching Psychology: Being positive and learning how to learn 21 4 Definitions: Coaching psychology, coaching, mentoring and learning 43 5 Becoming a Learning Organization through Coaching and Mentoring: How do you introduce a coaching/mentoring programme into an organization? 51 6 GROW Model and Universal Integrative Framework: Build your own model and apply it 77 7 Techniques and Tools: What is in your tool box? 99 8 Practical Exercises: Time to practise 137 9 Collecting Your Own Successful Stories: Building a database of good practice 161 10 Evaluation and Evidence-based Coaching: Why is it important? And how to … 177 11 Reflection and Resources: Where can I get further training, support and information? 191 Appendix: Writing Your Own Reflective Log 199 References 203 Index 223

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Book SynopsisAttachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Skillfully introduced and edited by Helen Fletcher and her colleagues, this long-needed collection of excellent chapters on attachment and disability reveals the vast wellspring of resilience that persons with disability possess or can be helped to achieve. Readers will discover how best to support a family member, client or friend with a disability'. A definitive resource for multiple disciplines, this book is surely required reading for all those working in the health professions aimed at addressing the needs of those with severe physical, mental or emotional impairments. Professor Howard Steele, New School for Social Research This informative, comprehensive text is unique, and is destined to become an invaluable national and international resource on attachment issues in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Given the breadth and depth of this book, practitioners can use itTable of ContentsAbout the Contributors vii Foreword xiv Acknowledgements xvi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Dougal Julian Hare, Helen K. Fletcher and Andrea Flood Chapter 2 An Overview of Attachment Theory: Bowlby and Beyond 8 Helen K. Fletcher and Deanna J. Gallichan Chapter 3 Attachment Relationships Between Parents and Their Children: The Impact of ‘The Loss of the Healthy Child’ 33 Helen K. Fletcher Chapter 4 Assessing Attachment Relationships in People with Intellectual Disabilities 59 Samantha Walker, Victoria Penketh, Hazel Lewis and Dougal Julian Hare Chapter 5 Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attachment: A Clinician’s Perspective 79 Ewan Perry and Andrea Flood Chapter 6 Maintaining the Bond: Working with People who are Described as Showing Challenging Behaviour Using a Framework Based on Attachment Theory 104 Allan Skelly Chapter 7 Psychotherapy and Attachment Dynamics in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Personal View 130 Pat Frankish Chapter 8 Adult Attachment and Care Staff Functioning 151 Carlo Schuengel, Jennifer Clegg, J. Clasien de Schipper and Sabina Kef Chapter 9 Have a Heart: Helping Services to Provide Emotionally Aware Support 172 Amanda Shackleton Chapter 10 Attachment Trauma and Pathological Mourning in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities 197 Deanna J. Gallichan and Carol George Chapter 11 Attachment, Personality Disorder and Offending: Clinical Implications 223 Lesley Steptoe, William R. Lindsay, Caroline Finlay and Sandra Miller Chapter 12 Getting Intimate: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Intimate Relationships in our Work with People with Intellectual Disabilities 244 Nancy Sheppard and Myooran Canagaratnam Index 266

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Book SynopsisNewly updated, this is a comprehensive guide to ODD and conduct disorder (CD) in children aged 3-14 for professionals, students, and researchers. Summarizes the most important empirical knowledge across a broad array of topics, with a focus on the latest research and meta-analyses, as well as high-quality older studies Includes revised diagnostic conceptualizations for ODD and CD from DSM-V and the upcoming ICD-11 classification systems, with particular attention to similarities, differences, and information about an angry-irritable subtype for ODD Provides updated reviews of biological and social-cognitive risk and protective factors and the evidence base for relevant treatment and prevention procedures Describes best practices for assessment, treatment, and prevention for children and their families, based on the clinical and research work of the well-respected author team Table of ContentsAbout the Authors ix Foreword xi Preface xv 1 Behaviors and Disorders 1 2 Developmental Perspectives 13 3 Basic Issues on Etiology 29 4 Individual Characteristics 37 5 Environmental Characteristics 67 6 Clinical Assessment 101 7 Intervention and Intervention Development 125 8 Behavioral Parent Training 139 9 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 153 10 Pharmacotherapy 173 11 Multicomponent Intervention 183 12 Factors which Influence Intervention Delivery and Outcomes 201 References 227 Index 311

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Book SynopsisDespite ongoing criticism of strict beauty ideals, cosmetic surgeons and diet pill manufacturers continue to thrive and tolerance for body flaws seems to lessen every day. More and more people have begun to internalize a need for physical perfection. And the psychological distress that accompanies body image dissatisfaction leaves many individuals in a long-term struggle. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction is a manual for practitioners seeking to help clients let go of self-judgment and preoccupation with body image. Mindfulness and acceptance approaches target the underlying anxiety and perfectionism that keep many trapped in destructive relationships with their bodies. This book presents a clear plan for showing clients how to clarify their values to help broaden their lives and refocus on what is most meaningful and vital to them. It presents a clear ACT protocol, complete with sample scripts, therapy exercises, case studies, and worksheets, for treating body image dissatisfaction. You'll learn from a wide range of clinical examples of body image dissatisfaction, some of which explore manifestations in medical populations. The treatment protocol in this book can be effectively applied to both men and women, across a wide age range.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of Erich Fromm, capturing the personal, social, clinical, philosophic, and political aspects of an influential figure.Trade ReviewIn mid-century America, a peak era for public intellectuals, Erich Fromm's psychological and sociological writings were required reading among the intelligentsia. What's more, his ideas were widely discussed by others, ranging from the millions who devoured The Art of Loving to U.S. Senators and even President John Kennedy. In this compelling biography, historian Lawrence Friedman, author of the definitive biography of psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, details the cornucopia of ideas that issued from Fromm's fertile mind as well as the fascinating and little known details of his lengthy, controversial and exceedingly full life. -- Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Through this thorough portrait, Love's Prophet emerges as an exemplar of enjoying an examined life to its fullest potential. Publishers Weekly The brilliantly comprehensive study of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm's (1900-1980) many 'lives' as a clinician, philosopher, social critic and political activist... Academic biography at its best. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Accessible to general readers - a sympathetic, stimulating biography of one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. Library Journal (starred review) A thoroughly absorbing history of the cultural and political context within which Fromm's life was lived. -- Vivian Gornick Boston Review Friedman is a consummate intellectual biographer. -- Michael M. Canaris America Meticulous, detailed... A model of intellectual biography. -- Alan Ryan New York Review of Books A valuable contribution to Fromm scholarship and to American political and social history. -- Daniel Burston PsycCritiques A deep, insightful, and very human portrait of one of the great public intellectuals of the 20th century. Choice Friedman's biography tracks Fromm through the various phases of his life in detail, providing a thickness of description that hasn't been available before. -- Paul Reitter Times Literary Supplement The most thoroughly, well-researched, and balanced biography so far of Erich Fromm... A clear and richly detailed overview of Fromm's life and work. American Historical Review An intellectual biography of the first order. Journal of American History An outstanding intellectual and biographical study... Lawrence Friedman effectively helps us understand the lives and transformations of Erich Fromm as analyzed in this lucid book. SocietyTable of ContentsForeword, by Gerald N. Grob Acknowledgments Prologue: Writing Lives Part 1: Germany 1. The Unsteady Apprentice 2. Frankfurt Scholar Part 2: The Americas 3. The Americanization of a European Intellectual 4. Escape from Freedom 5. Clinician and Ethicist 6. To Love and to Mentor 7. Politics and Prose Part 3: Global Citizenship 8. Prophecies for a Troubled World 9. A Third Way 10. "Life Is Extravagance": Almost 11. Hope and Stasis 12. Love and Death A Bibliographical Note Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLearn how to achieve the happiness you deserveA guide to sustaining your newfound contentment. —Psychology TodayLyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it. —The New York Review of BooksYou see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives. Drawing upon years of pioneering research with thousands of men and women, The

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Book SynopsisMeet the inhabitants of the brain in this reader-friendly introduction to what it is and how it works.Residents include Frederick Foresight (the frontal cortex), Mayor of Cephalton-upon-Ridge, who is the `big picture' person responsible for planning and decision-making; Sage Seahorse (the hippocampus), who has an astonishing memory for times, names and places; Annie Almond (the amygdala), the community's alarm system who is always on the alert; and many other fellow citizens. Each character is introduced and their appearance, role and key functions in the brain explained. The authors also show what happens when things go wrong in the brain, and illustrate the work using examples of classic clinical cases.This book provides an immediate and entertaining way for anyone to gain a basic understanding or to refresh their knowledge of the inside workings of the brain.Trade ReviewThis book is absolutely magnificent. The authors have tackled a difficult domain with a lateral arabesque strategy... and have pulled it off. I highly recommend it. -- Professor Gordon Parker, School of Psychiatry, University of New South WalesThe authors have successfully linked structures and their respective functions and by using such a creative concept have made this difficult subject matter more comprehensive. As such, this book should appeal to those from a broad range of areas and disciplines for those starting out with little to no knowledge of the brain, this book is a fascinating introduction. -- Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Book BashTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part One: A Community called Cephalton-upon-Ridge. 1. Introducing the Community and Characters of Cephalton-upon-Ridge. Part Two: The Cerebral Cortex. 2. Fredrick Foresight: the Frontal Lobes. 3. Rochelle Ringbond: the Cingulate Gyrus. 4. Dudley Doit: The Motor Cortex. 5. Cherry and Charles Chatterley: Broca's and Wernicke's Areas. 6. Melissa Mirrorwood: the Somatosensory Cortex. 7. Maurice Mapply: the Parietal Lobes. 8. Penelope Panorama: the Occipital Lobes. 9. Lilly Listentale: the Temporal Lobes. 10. Brenda Bridgehead: the Insula. Part Three: The Subcortex. 11. Chris Crosstalk: the Corpus Callosum. 12. Sage Seahorse: the Hippocampus. 13. Annie Almond: the Amygdala. 14. Priscilla Prizeman and Olivia Orgasma: the Nucleus Accumbens and Septal Nuclei. 15. Corrie O'Graphie: the Basal Ganglia. 16. Felicity Feelall: the Thalamus. 17. Uma Underbride and Horace Hormone: the Hypothalamus and Pituitary. Part Four: The Brain Stem, Cerebellum and Beyond. 18. Fay Faceandear and Sam Swallowtalk: the Pons and Medulla. 19. Frank Finesse: the Cerebellum. 20. Rosie Reaction and the Downtown Dream Team: the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and the Reticular Formation (RF). Part Five: The Community as a Whole. 21.Cephalton in Action: The Annual Ball. Glossary. The Authors. Index.

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Book SynopsisPsychosis, an invasion of mind and body from without, creates an enigma about what is happening and thrusts the individual into radical isolation. What are the subjective details of such experiences? This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. Delusion is a new language made of 'incandescent alphabets' that the psychotic adopts from imposed voices. The psychotic uses language in a singular way to found and explain a strange experience that he or she cannot exit. Through the exegesis of language in psychosis based on first person accounts, the book orients readers to an enigmatic Other, pervasive and inescapable, that will come to inhabit every aspect of the psychotic's being, thought and bodily experience. The book deploys a poetics as a form of inquiry to give a nuanced picture of delusion as a repair of language itself, following Freud and Lacan-in historic and contemporary forms of psychotic art, writing and speech. Drawing on the author's own experience of psychosis and psychoanalysis, as well as conversations with analyst colleagues, Dr Rogers offers ways to listen to language in delusion, and argues for the promise of a modified psychoanalytic treatment with psychosis.Trade Review'This extraordinary book about psychosis as an encounter and relationship with language draws the reader in through a narrative that shows us how lacking mainstream psychiatric and psychoanalytic diagnostic categories are. Incandescent Alphabets is an amazing conceptual and poetic alternative that makes of the experience of psychosis an illuminated manuscript from which readers learn about the author, the people she works with, and about themselves.'- Ian Parker, psychoanalyst and author of Psychology after Psychoanalysis: Psychosocial Studies and Beyond'This is a wonderfully written book with a wealth of clinical, literary, and artistic first-person accounts of psychosis that lead the author to an exploration of the meaning and structure of psychosis as a significantly human form of subjectivity.'- Raul Moncayo, psychoanalyst, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco Bay Area, and author of The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism'This prism-like account of psychosis filters first-hand accounts of psychotic experience through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis and produces one of the most readable and important texts of our generation. Annie Rogers depathologises psychosis by showing that it is not a deficit or a failure but is a different relationship to language, the body and the social world. Her deeply personal and humanising account shows that it is our fears, inexperience and unwillingness to collaborate together that erect barriers to living and working with the myriad vicissitudes and possibilities of psychosis.'- Eve Watson, PhD, psychoanalyst, Dublin'This exciting compendium is an ABC of psychosis, from Artaud to Yessir. Her gallery of portraits includes self-taught or outsider artists as well as recognisable figures like Joyce, Walser, and Woolf. Skilfully blending research, insight, stories, literary and visual arts examples, Rogers offers a compelling, empathetic narrative. This engrossing book, beautifully written, is not only an illuminating read, but also a poetic meditation on the variegated forms taken by madness.'- Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst, author, and co-editor of Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can'tTable of ContentsNote to readers -- Encounters with a ghastly, enigmatic Other -- Psychosis: what is it, this strangenss? -- Hallucinated bodies: art and its alphabets in psychosis -- Infinite code: clocks, calendars, numbers, music, scripts -- After the disaster: six sketches and a short play -- Beyond psychosis: returning, remaining traces -- Psychosis and the address: new alphabets and the enigmatic Other -- Psychoanalysis remade: a way through psychosis

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Book SynopsisAn updated edition of a perennial bestseller--the "illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experience of having killed." - Washington Post

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Book SynopsisA revision of the leading textbook on personality disorders by renowned expert Theodore Millon Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is ''all of a piece''; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives. -Theodore Millon Exploring the continuum from normal personality traits to the diagnosis and treatment of severe cases of personality disorders, Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition is unique in its coverage of both important historical figures and contemporary theorists in the field. Its content spans all the major disorders-Antisocial, Avoidant, Depressive, Compulsive, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Paranoid, Schizoid, and Borderline-as well as their many subtypes. Attention to detail and in-depth discussion of the subtleties involved in these debilitating personality disorders make this book an ideal companion to the DSM-IV(TM). Fully updated with the latest research and thTable of ContentsCHAPTER1 PERSONALITY DISORDERS: CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS 1 Abnormal Behavior and Personality 3 Early Perspectives on the Personality Disorders 14 The Biological Perspective 17 The Psychodynamic Perspective 22 Summary 35 CHAPTER2 PERSONALITY DISORDERS: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES 38 The Interpersonal Perspective 39 The Cognitive Perspective 48 Trait and Factorial Perspectives 54 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 57 Summary 72 CHAPTER3 DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS 74 On the Interactive Nature of Developmental Pathogenesis 77 Pathogenic Biological Factors 78 Pathogenic Experiential History 88 Sources of Pathogenic Learning 90 Continuity of Early Learnings 101 Sociocultural Influences 112 Summary 116 CHAPTER4 ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY OF THE PERSONALITY DISORDERS 117 The Assessment of Personality 118 Psychotherapy of the Personality Disorders 134 Summary 147 CHAPTER5 THE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 150 From Normality to Abnormality 155 Variations of the Antisocial Personality 158 Early Historical Forerunners 161 The Biological Perspective 162 The Psychodynamic Perspective 166 The Interpersonal Perspective 168 The Cognitive Perspective 172 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 175 Therapy 182 Summary 184 CHAPTER6 THE AVOIDANT PERSONALITY 187 From Normality to Abnormality 191 Variations of the Avoidant Personality 193 Early Historical Forerunners 198 The Biological Perspective 198 The Psychodynamic Perspective 201 The Interpersonal Perspective 203 The Cognitive Perspective 206 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 210 Therapy 217 Summary 220 CHAPTER7 THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY 223 From Normality to Abnormality 227 Variations of the Compulsive Personality 229 Early Historical Forerunners 235 The Psychodynamic Perspective 236 The Interpersonal Perspective 240 The Cognitive Perspective 244 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 247 Therapy 255 Summary 257 CHAPTER8 THE DEPENDENT PERSONALITY 259 From Normality to Abnormality 263 Variations of the Dependent Personality 265 Early Historical Forerunners 268 The Psychodynamic Perspective 270 The Interpersonal Perspective 273 The Cognitive Perspective 275 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 278 Therapy 284 Summary 289 CHAPTER9 THE HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY 292 From Normality to Abnormality 295 Variations of the Histrionic Personality 297 Early Historical Forerunners 301 The Biological Perspective 302 The Psychodynamic Perspective 304 The Interpersonal Perspective 311 The Cognitive Perspective 315 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 318 Therapy 324 Summary 327 CHAPTER 10 THE NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY 330 From Normality to Abnormality 333 Variations of the Narcissistic Personality 337 Early Historical Forerunners 342 The Biological Perspective 343 The Psychodynamic Perspective 343 The Interpersonal Perspective 349 The Cognitive Perspective 355 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 358 Therapy 366 Summary 369 CHAPTER 11 THE SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 371 From Normality to Abnormality 376 Variations of the Schizoid Personality 377 The Biological Perspective 380 The Psychodynamic Perspective 383 The Interpersonal Perspective 386 The Cognitive Perspective 390 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 392 Therapy 398 Summary 401 CHAPTER 12 THE SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY 403 From Normality to Abnormality 408 Variations of the Schizotypal Personality 409 Early Historical Forerunners 412 The Biological Perspective 414 The Psychodynamic Perspective 416 The Interpersonal Perspective 419 The Cognitive Perspective 423 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 425 Therapy 430 Summary 433 CHAPTER 13 THE PARANOID PERSONALITY 435 From Normality to Abnormality 439 Variations of the Paranoid Personality 442 Early Historical Forerunners 445 The Biological Perspective 448 The Psychodynamic Perspective 449 The Interpersonal Perspective 455 The Cognitive Perspective 458 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 463 Therapy 471 Summary 475 CHAPTER 14 THE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY 477 From Normality to Abnormality 481 Variations of the Borderline Personality 482 The Biological Perspective 488 The Psychodynamic Perspective 490 The Interpersonal Perspective 495 The Cognitive Perspective 502 The Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Perspective 505 Therapy 511 Summary 516 CHAPTER 15 PERSONALITY DISORDERS FROM THE APPENDICES OF DSM-III-R AND DSM-IV 519 The Self-Defeating (Masochistic) Personality 520 The Sadistic Personality 530 The Depressive Personality 539 The Negativistic (Passive-Aggressive) Personality 548 Summary 558 References 561 Author Index 583 Subject Index 593

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Book SynopsisWhen first published in 1997 this ground-breaking work on the science of mood both redefined the field and,with compassion, understanding, and scientific rigor,made it accessible to those who would most benefit from the latest findings. Now, Peter Whybrow, one of the world''s most distinguished psychiatrists, has updated his definitive account of mood disorders. In A Mood Apart he argues that disorders such as depression constitute afflictions of the self, exploring the human experience of manic depressive illness, and rediscovering the human being behind the diagnosis. Drawing on cutting-edge research and his experience as a clinician, he shows how the science and culture surrounding mood disorders have changed since the first edition. Nearly two decades since its original publication, A Mood Apart remains an essential book for anyone who has been affected by depression.Trade ReviewContemporary Psychology "A terrific book for professionals and the public... A Mood Apart represents a literary achievement as well as a scientific accomplishment. It is not a self- help manual with simple lists and prescriptions, nor a compendium without conclusion of every scientific study. Rather, it is a seamless product resulting from a career of research and clinical practice expressed in lucid, moving style, but not at the expense of integrative complexity." British Journal of Psychiatry "This is a masterly and highly readable discourse... Whybrow has really attempted to enter into the soul of manic depression and has succeeded to a remarkable extent." Literary Review "Dr. Whybrow has succeeded in presenting a balanced, well-written account of mood disorders and their treatment which will inform the general reader and which also contains much of interest to the professional." Kirkus "The most thorough and wide- ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating, and the case histories demonstrate his sensitivity and skill as a clinician... Whybrow's presentation offers a deeper understanding of, along with a humane and wise approach to these very troubling illnesses." Publishers Weekly "Seldom has the inner emotional landscape of melancholic depression, mania and manic- depressive illness been mapped with so much clarity, empathy and sensitivity." William Styron, author of Darkness Visible "A Mood Apart is informative, compassionate and, not the least, thoroughly engrossing." Maggie Scarf, author of Unfinished Business and Intimate Worlds "Dr. Peter Whybrow explains everything you ever wanted to know about moods and their vicissitudes, and he does so in wonderfully elegant, highly readable prose." Irvin D. Yalom, author of Love's Executioner and Lying on the Couch "Dr. Whybrow has written a wise and graceful book that should be helpful and consoling to patients and their loved ones." Aaron T. Beck, MD, university professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy of Depression "A Mood Apart is a beautifully crafted volume that probes into the recesses of the brain and mind to reveal the secrets of depression. Dr. Whybrow distills a lifetime of experience as a master clinician and scientist... I highly recommend this definitive work to the nonprofessional as well as the professional."Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2015 Edition Prologue: The Masks of the Human Carnival 1. A Glimpse of Melancholy 2. Darkness Visible 3. A Different Drummer 4. A Mind of One's Own 5. Unique and Similar to Others 6. The Legacy of the Lizard 7. The Vital Balance 8. Of Human Bondage 9. Pills to Purge Melancholy 10. Thoughtful Reconstruction Epilogue The Human Carnival Acknowledgments Appendix: The Pharmacology of Mood Disorders: A Glossary and Brief Guide Notes Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisDesigned for the generalist practice course, this book uses students'' own experiences rather than abstract discussion to build competency and professional identity. Full of rich case examples and exercises, the book lets students visualize and carry out skills in an applied, experimental way. It breaks down each practice skill into subcomponents, allowing students to consciously build up their capabilities as part of a lifelong learning process. Social work students will benefit from this presentation of the core knowledge, techniques, and values essential to the effective practice of social work.

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Book SynopsisA thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text, this new edition includes a treatment manual of cognitive-behavioural therapy for Bipolar Disorder which incorporates the very latest understanding of the psycho-social aspects of bipolar illness. Updated to reflect treatment packages developed by the authors over the last decade, and the successful completion of a large randomized controlled study which shows the efficacy of CBT for relapse prevention in Bipolar Disorder Demonstrates the positive results of a combined approach of cognitive behavioural therapy and medication Provides readers with a basic knowledge of bipolar disorders and its psycho-social aspects, treatments, and the authors' model for psychological intervention Includes numerous clinical examples and case studies Trade Review“This book is a helpful treatment manual of cognitive behavioural therapy for BD patients written for professionals. It provides a basic knowledge of BD, including the latest studies. The book offers easy-to-follow guidance and illustrates the process of the therapy with many case examples.” (European Journal of Mental Health, 1 November 2012) "Clinical psychologists Lam (U. of Hull), Steven H. Jones (U. of Lancaster), and Peter Hayward, in private practice, update their 1999 guide to incorporate subsequent literature and their own experience working with bipolar patients using a form of prophylactic psychotherapy in conjunction with medication. The treatment package they describe contains elements from traditional cognitive therapy for depression, but also some elements they have devised for treating the particular difficulties experienced by people with bipolar illness. The early chapters provide readers with a basic knowledge about bipolar disorders, treatments available so far, the psycho-social aspects of bipolar disorders, and their model for psychological intervention. Then they explain the treatment package itself, and how therapists can integrate it into their practice." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface. Acknowledgement. Chapter 1 Introduction to Bipolar Disorder. Chapter 2 Review of Current Treatment. Chapter 3 Psycho-Social Models in Bipolar Disorder. Chapter 4 Our Model of Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Bipolar Disorder. Chapter 5 Pre-Therapy Assessment. Chapter 6 Introducing the Model to the Patient. Chapter 7 Goal Setting. Chapter 8 Cognitive Techniques. Chapter 9 Behavioural Techniques. Chapter 10 Self-Management and Coping with Prodromes. Chapter 11 Long-Term Issues, Bipolar Disorders and the Self. Chapter 12 Family and Social Aspects. Chapter 13 Interpersonal Issues in Therapy and Issues Related to Services. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisCYBERPSYCHOLOGY An important new textbook for an exciting area of contemporary psychological study and research... The field of cyberpsychology examines the psychology of interactions between individuals, societies and digital technologies. This engaging and accessible textbook offers a complete introduction to the subject. The authors outline key theories, provide critical assessments, identify areas in need of further research, and discuss ways to use digital technologies as a research tool. They also include a wealth of real life examples, activities and discussion questions for students at undergraduate and graduate levels. Cyberpsychology provides up-to-date coverage of a wide range of topics relating to online behaviour, and considers the potential impact of these interactions offline: online identity online dating and relationships pornography cyberbullying children''s use of the InterTable of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Boxes x Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The 'Self' in Cyberspace 9 2.1 Defining the 'Self' 9 2.2 The self in cyberspace 13 2.3 Disembodied selves in cyberspace 13 2.4 The cyborg self 16 2.5 Goffman: Performing self online 17 2.6 Possible selves in cyberspace 18 2.7 Social identities in cyberspace 19 2.8 Visually anonymous? 20 2.9 Conclusions 21 Chapter 3 Online Relationships 23 3.1 Traditional relationships: Offline realm 23 3.2 Applying old theories to online relationships 25 3.3 New theories to explain online relating 27 3.4 A brief history of online relating 30 3.5 Contemporary online spaces 33 3.6 Interacting in various spaces 36 3.7 Future development in the field 37 3.8 Conclusions 37 Chapter 4 Online Dating 39 4.1 What is an online dating site? 39 4.2 Motivations for using an online dating site 40 4.3 Psychological characteristics of online daters 41 4.4 Comparing online dating sites with personal ads 42 4.5 Presenting oneself on an online dating site 43 4.6 Dating deception 44 4.7 A perfect match or a numbers game? 45 4.8 Stages in the online dating process 46 4.9 Conclusions 49 Chapter 5 Online Sexual Activities 51 5.1 The beginnings of Internet sex 51 5.2 The Triple A Engine 52 5.3 Cybersex: debilitating or liberating? 53 5.4 Interactive sex entertainment 54 5.5 Cybersex addiction 54 5.6 The Internet as an enabler of risky offline sexual encounters 55 5.7 The Internet and sexual health information 56 5.8 Social support and exploring sexuality 57 5.9 Teens and risky sexual online behaviour 58 5.10 Teledildonics and the future of sex in cyberspace 60 5.11 Conclusions 60 Chapter 6 Internet Infidelity 62 6.1 Defining Internet infidelity 63 6.2 Unfaithful online sexual activities 63 6.3 Virtual or real? 65 6.4 Emotional infidelity 65 6.5 Gender differences: Which is worse – sex or love? 66 6.6 Qualitative differences between online and offline affairs 68 6.7 Virtual affairs with an avatar 70 6.8 Conclusions 71 Chapter 7 Children's and Teens' Use of Digital Technologies 73 7.1 Internet usage 73 7.2 The digital divide 74 7.3 Digital technologies: Harmful or empowering for young people? 75 7.4 Illegal content and illegal activities 76 7.5 Cyberbullying and cyberharassment 77 7.6 Scams, children and teens 79 7.7 Identity development 80 7.8 Activism 81 7.9 Radicalization 82 7.10 Conclusions 84 Chapter 8 Online Education 86 8.1 Technology and learning 86 8.2 E-learning 87 8.3 E-learning versus face-to-face learning 89 8.4 Synchronous and asynchronous communication within e-learning 90 8.5 Media richness theory 93 8.6 Salmon's stage model of e-learning 95 8.7 3-D learning environments 96 8.8 Conclusions 99 Chapter 9 Leisure and Entertainment 101 9.1 What is leisure and what motivates our pursuit of it? 101 9.2 Online family leisure 103 9.3 Older adults 103 9.4 Technoference: Encroaching on leisure time within relationships 104 9.5 Telecommunication 105 9.6 Time and functional displacement effects 106 9.7 Twitter 110 9.8 Conclusions 112 Chapter 10 Online Gaming and Gambling 114 10.1 Internet addiction 114 10.2 Internet gambling addiction 116 10.3 Internet gaming addiction 117 10.4 Aggressive video games 118 10.5 Transcending taboos: video games 123 10.6 Games for learning 124 10.7 Conclusions 126 Chapter 11 Online Deception 128 11.1 Defining deception 128 11.2 Deception in cyberspace 129 11.3 Do we lie more online? 133 11.4 Detecting deception 137 11.5 Conclusions 138 Chapter 12 Online Crimes: Scams, Fraud and Illegal Downloads 141 12.1 Phishing 142 12.2 Vishing 143 12.3 Why are people tricked by phishing? 144 12.4 Improving detection 146 12.5 Mass-marketing fraud 146 12.6 Awareness campaigns 149 12.7 Cognitive and motivational errors 150 12.8 What type of person tends to be susceptible to MMF? 151 12.9 Stages involved in the online dating romance scam 152 12.10 Illegal downloads 152 12.11 Conclusions 154 Chapter 13 Online Crimes: Cyberharassment, Hate Crimes and Cyberwarfare 156 13.1 Online harassment and stalking 156 13.2 Cyberstalking and the law 158 13.3 Psychologically profiling criminals and victims 159 13.4 Hate crimes 160 13.5 Cyberwarfare 162 13.6 Surveillance and monitoring 165 13.7 Conclusions 168 Chapter 14 Online Crimes: Child Pornography and Paedophilia 170 14.1 The internet and the increase in child pornography 171 14.2 Child pornography and the law 172 14.3 Pseudo-photographs 174 14.4 Types of child pornography offenders 176 14.5 Characteristics of child pornography offenders 179 14.6 The relationship between child pornography and hands-on offending 180 14.7 Theoretical approaches to child pornography offending 181 14.8 Conclusions 185 Chapter 15 Online Support and Health Care 187 15.1 The internet and health 187 15.2 Characteristics and motivations 188 15.3 Online health searching and cyberchondria 189 15.4 Social media, group forums and support sites 191 15.5 E-therapy 193 15.6 Assessing the effectiveness of e-therapies 196 15.7 Immersive virtual environments as aids to treatment 197 15.8 Conclusions 198 Chapter 16 Concluding Thoughts 200 References 203 Index 240

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition of a textbook that has met with enthusiastic acclaim since its publication in 1988. It explores in detail theories and discussions of how children think and learn. It also looks at the practical implications of research and acknowledges some of the difficult problems teachers face when trying to put theory and research into practice in the classroom. Discusses important new research in developmental psychology that has taken place since the first edition was published in 1988 Provides an excellent resource for both psychology students and educationalists Includes substantially revised chapters on mathematics and classroom education Trade Review"Wood's treatment of these perplexing issues is straightforward. He does not burden readers with philosophical jargon, does not bore readers with esoteric details, and does not offer simplistic answers...Wood brings the analytic mind of a psychologist to his book without the cluttering style of academic psychologese which undergraduates generally abhor" Scott G. Paris, APA Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction: From Pavlov to Piaget. 1. Images of Childhood and their Reflection in Teaching. 2. A Decade of Development. 3. Are there Stages of Development?. 4. Learning how to Think and Learn. 5. Language and Learning. 6. Making Sense. 7. The Literate Mind. 8. The Mathematical Mind. 9. Education and Educatability. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIf children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round—never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.Trade ReviewIn Trusting What You’re Told, Harris argues that the longstanding idea that kids should be self-learners who gain knowledge mainly from their own explorations and observations is flawed. In the book’s introduction, Harris notes that we adults could barely get through the day without information from other people. It’s the same with kids, he says… Harris’ book explores lots of interesting ideas, including the impact of a mother’s level of education on a child’s inquisitiveness and why kids trust what they learn from their parents. -- Julie Rasicot * Education Week blog *Harris provides an important contribution by emphasizing that children, contrary to the view of thinkers like Piaget, do not develop only into a fixed rationality. Rather, children, from a very young age, are able to negotiate the empirical world alongside the supernatural, as well as develop through the tension created by attempting to balance truth and fantasy. Harris emphasizes the notion of testimony as a means to demonstrate the agency of the child and as a central tool through which a child is able to engage in thinking about the world. -- J. A. Helfer * Choice *The importance of learning from others was oddly neglected by too many of the twentieth-century pioneers of child psychology. In Trusting What You’re Told, Paul Harris reviews his and his colleagues’ beautiful work demonstrating just how entwined culture is with children’s development. -- Peter J. Richerson, author of Not by Genes AlonePaul Harris has given us an intricate and beautifully detailed picture of children as budding anthropologists. They don’t just learn about the world on their own, but rather from and through ‘informants’ who provide testimony—which naturally raises issues of trustworthiness. This is a really terrific book from a researcher acutely attuned to children’s inner lives. -- Michael Tomasello, author of Why We Cooperate

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mate Choice represents an ambitious synthesis of our current understanding of sexual selection in a broad range of life forms. . . . The book provides a clear synthesis of the state of affairs in the study of mate choice and related fields." * Science *"Rosenthal does an admirable job refocusing decades of work mostly concerned with the effects of (primarily female) mate choice on (primarily male) behavior, physiology, and morphology."---David A. Gray, Quarterly Review of Biology

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Book SynopsisHealth psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This book presents topical research gathered from across the globe in the study of health psychology, including leisure and depression in midlife; the benefits of humor on health and pain; hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain; benefit finding relating to better emotional health in heart patients; blaming parents for their children''s weight issues.

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Book SynopsisThe psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom...Trade ReviewEngstrom... reveals how the various dimensions of academic psychiatry—its cognitive content, its treatment and research practices, its curriculum, its tools, its workspaces (clinics, laboratories, lecture halls), and its institutional (medical departments, universities, mental health care in general) and political and social contexts—were all closely interrelated.... Engstrom's interpretations are... nicely detailed. -- Harry Oosterhuis, University of Maastricht * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Engstrom... has produced a fascinating history of the professionalizing of psychiatric practice in modern Germany in this extensively researched book. * Choice *Here we get a detailed look at the beginnings of the professionalization of psychiatry in Germany in the nineteenth century, a concomitant of the medicalization of madness that took place at the same time. -- Michale Beldoch * Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, 2003-2004 *The nineteenth century can rightly be called the century of medicine and biology. With the support of national and provincial governments, clinical medicine and the human sciences flourished in Germany. By century's end, scholars in fields such as pathology, neurology, epidemiology, and experimental psychology could lay claim to being the best in the world. In no other field was the influence of German medicine and science more palpable than in psychiatry.... Eric Engstrom's book is the first to explore this important moment in the intellectual and social history of Germany. With Engstrom, this rather daunting venture is in able hands. To those scholars working in the field of the history of German psychiatry, Engstrom is well-known as a thoughtful and insightful historian, particularly well-informed about the scope of archival materials available to scholars. -- Greg Eghigian, Penn State University * H-Soz-u-Kult *The primary focus of Eric J. Engstrom's book on psychiatry in Germany from roughly the mid nineteenth century to the First World War is the tension between alienists—clinicians whom Engstrom defines as 'an ambiguous blend of physician, judge, father and teacher,' resident with their 'family' of staff and patients in large isolated rural asylums—and the new breed of 'scientific' psychiatrists based in urban clinics affiliated to university medical schools. This tension—never entirely resolved—led to a fundamental shift in asylum culture.... Engstrom must be given credit for achieving what he set out to do. He is a very thorough, undogmatic historian and the book is formidably footnoted and referenced. The prose is serviceable and straightforward, and, while it features much jargon from the social sciences, is never deformed by it. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisIt''s been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt -- the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find -- created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the conscious marriage introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly effective form of couples therapy. This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner''s feelings, validating the partner''s point of view, and the expressing empathy toward the partner''s feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT''s history and Table of ContentsForeword: My View of Imago (Randall C. Mason, Ph.D.). Acknowledgments. Introduction: A Theory of Relationality (Wade Luquet, Ph.D.). Part One: Perspectives of the Founders. 1. The Evolution of Imago Relationship Therapy: A Personal and Professional Journey (Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.). 2. Relationship as a Living Laboratory (Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.). 3. Conscious Marriage as Covenant (Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.). Part Two: Perspectives on Comparisons with Other Models. 4. Family Systems Theory and Imago Therapy: A Theoretical Interpretation (Randy Gerson, Ph.D.). 5. An Exploration of Imago Relationship Therapy and Affect Theory (Joseph Zielinski, Ph.D.). 6. Relationship Knowing: Imago and Object Relations (Stephen R. Plumlee, M.Div., Ph.D.). 7. Contemporary Psychoanalytic Relational Theories and Imago: Concepts for Relational Healing (Mona R. Barbera, Ph.D.). Part Three: Perspectives on Clinical Theory. 8. Imago, Relationships, and Empathy (Randall C. Mason, Ph.D.). 9. Imago, Relationships, and Empathy: A Response to Mason (Ted Smith, D.Min.). 10. Imago: A Theory and Therapy of Connectivity (Randall C. Mason, Ph.D.). 11. The Relationship Nightmare as an Expression of Disconnection (Randall C. Mason, Ph.D., Margaret Mason, Ph.D., and Mo Therese Hannah, Ph.D.). 12. Envy’s Manifestation in Individuals and Couples: Implications for Imago Therapy (Bernard J. Baca, Ph.D.). 13. The Conscious Self in a Creational Paradigm (Sophie Slade, Ph.D.). About the Editors. About the Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisHuman interaction depends on what has been called 'a theory of mind.' If we cannot understand what will upset or delight another person, we cannot fully participate in social life. This book traces the development of that understanding in the child, highlighting the child's increasing insight into the complexity and subtlety of our mental life.Trade Review"In this lucidly written book Paul Harris changes how we think about children and emotion. No one who looks with or studies either should miss this book."–Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco "This is a superb book on all counts. First, it is exceptionally lucid and easy to read. Second, it is serious, responsible, and thought-provoking in its presentation of the material. Finally, Harris offers the scientist in this area a number of important creative insights about how development might proceed. In sum, this is a truly outstanding volume, one that combines lucidly with real depth and substance to an unusual degree."–John H. Flavell, Stanford University "I know of no other book in which theory and evidence on emotions and their relation to children’s social understanding is presented as well as in this book by Paul Harris."–Keith Oatley, The Psychologist "Harris' book should be the first point of reference for any student of the development of emotional understanding."–Simon Baron-Cohen, British Journal of Developmental PsychologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgemtns. Series Editor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Facial expression in infancy. 2. Hurting and Comforting. 3. Beliefs, Desires and Emotions. 4. Pride, Shame and Guilt. 5. Mixed Feelings. 6. Hiding Emotion. 7. The Control of Emotion. 8. The Experience of Emotion. 9. Autism. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this brilliant and provocative book Pascal Bruckner argues that the old tension between love and marriage has not been resolved in favour of love, it has simply been displaced onto other levels. In the past, marriage was sacred, and love, if it existed at all, was a consequence of marriage; today, love is sacred and marriage is secondary.Trade Review"In this excellent little book, French philosopher Pascal Bruckner suggests that the very terms in which the argument against traditional marriage was made have served to undermine modern marriage."—The Australian "This small, wise book takes on a very large question: why has modern marriage failed so catastrophically, so dramatically? With his usual eloquence, irony and taste for paradox, Pascal Bruckner carefully exposes the roots of the problem and argues that despite our modern 'realism' about love and sexuality, we have idealized and overburdened the institution and practice of marriage to an impossible extent. To be married today, Bruckner tells us, is nothing short of a Promethean task. For those interested in the cultural history of the institution and a meditation on our current malaise - our current crisis? - Has Marriage for Love Failed? is a must- read."—Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University "For forty years, historians and sociologists have gradually been uncovering the history of private life, and especially of marriage for love. Pascal Bruckner examines their work, beginning with the key question 'Is marriage for love finished?' - on which he casts a penetrating eye."—Luc Ferry, author of On Love and Learning to Live: A User's Manual "Pascal Bruckner puts his finger on the social and existential question of the moment: can marriage be combined with enduring love? This is not a self-help book but rather the work of an astute writer and philosopher, written with elegance and style."—HebdoTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 The Catastrophe of the Wedding Night 1 2 Divorce, a ‘Judaic Poison’ 8 3 The Nuptial Utopia 15 4 From Forbidden Love to Obligatory Love 21 5 The Pathologies of the Ideal 28 6 Honey and Hemlock 35 7 The Round of Disappointed Lovers 40 8 Towards Separation in a State of Euphoria? 44 9 A Ministry of Broken Hearts? 50 10 An Agony Amidst Glory 57 11 The Liberating Tradition 62 12 Restoring Reason to Sentiment 68 13 Together, Separated 75 14 The Defeat of Prometheus 79 The Sweetness of Life 85

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