Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry News & Updates – Page 1

Recent Articles

1. 

   Progressive Counting Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment

   Clinicians recognize trauma and loss as a prominent source of clients' problems. Progressive counting is a significant advance in trauma treatment because it is about as efficient, effective, and well-tolerated as EMDR while being far simpler for therapists to master and do well. PC's value has already been supported by two open trials and a controlled study. Are you ready to provide therapy that routinely affects profound healing and lasting change? This book will show you how. 

2. Overcoming Masculine Depression

   In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men’s behaviors. This unique book does not portray men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal of depression in men is misunderstood and quite oftentimes misdiagnosed. Many men "act out" their symptoms through anger, workaholism, and relationship conflict.  

3. 

   Webinar - The Self Under Siege

   Earn 3 CE Credits in the upcoming Webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone:

   The Self Under Siege: A New Model of Differentiation
   May 21, 2013 - 4pm to 5:30pm PST
   3 CE Credits - $35
   Learn more or register here
    

4. 

   Elements of the Helping Process

   Elements of the Helping Process: A Guide for Clinicians takes a humanistic approach to guiding clinicians, emphasizing that professional practice involves a deliberate, conscious, and disciplined use of self with clients participating in a forum that is steady, safe, and consistent. As with the previous editions, it is directed personally to clinicians and students and contains illustrative case material and instructive excerpts from actual practice experience.  

5. 

   A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults

   For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions. This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model. 

6. 

   How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

   In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
   
   Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

7. 

   Textbook - New Edition: Prescribing Mental Health Medication

   Already used by providers and training institutions throughout the world, the newly revised second edition of Prescribing Mental Health Medication is the text of choice for explaining the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up. Instructors can request an exam copy.
    

8. 

   Anxiety, 3rd Edition

   Unique in combining an introduction to the subject with comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in research and practice, this textbook provides excellent breadth and depth of coverage for practicing and trainee clinical psychologists, and students of clinical psychology.

9. 

   Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family

   The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don’t know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining phobias, obsessive-compulsions, eating disorders, and depression in the context of the family, using an intersubjective approach to personality. 

10. 

    Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)

    Originally published in 1990, this very accessible and readable book will interest not only all those who have to deal with bizarre behavior in the course of their work, but also the general reader who is interested in the origins and the infinite variety of human behaviours.