Mental Health & Clinical Psychology News & Updates

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   Free Access to the Archives of Suicide Research Paper of the Year

   In 2013, the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) launches its annual ASR Paper of the Year Award in recognition of exceptional work published in Archives of Suicide Research. Routledge is proud to offer free online access to the inaugural award-winner:

   Parental Intoxication and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior, Ingeborg Rossow and Inger Synnøve Moan
   
   

    

    

    

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   Listen to an interview with Donald Moss

   Psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, has been, albeit perhaps implicitly, a theory of masculinity. Nevertheless, according to Donald Moss, contemporary psychoanalysis has many glaring blind spots when it comes to thinking about men.

   Click here to listen to an interview with Donald Moss, author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man.

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   How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?

   Testing is a ubiquitous tool for day-to-day decision making in schools, communicating learning goals and evaluating progress. Testing also brings unintended consequences.

   This major, free Special Issue of Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives explores the ramifications of testing in the classroom, with a view to maximizing the benefits and minimizing possible drawbacks of current educational testing applications.

   Click here to read How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling? for free, in full.

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   Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition

   Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the field.

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   Models of Madness, Second Edition

   This second edition of Models of Madness challenges the simplistic, pessimistic and oftentimes damaging theories and treatments of the ‘medical model’ of madness. Psychiatric diagnoses and medications are based on the false premise that human misery and distress are caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions, and ignore the social causes of psychosis and what psychiatrists call ‘schizophrenia’.

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   How and Why We Still Read Jung

   How relevant is Jung’s work today?

   How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and oftentimes personal readings of various works by Jung.

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   Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy

   Look beyond behavioral treatments, pharmaceutical interventions, and performance goals to a more comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when they enter sex therapy. Gina Ogden is a master therapist, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and author with four decades of helping clients and training health professionals. Her ISIS Wheel of Sexual Experience is an innovative template that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy offers you new language to discuss sexual issues and creative ways to engage clients in their own therapeutic process–whether or not you are trained as a sex therapist. 

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   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. 

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   Journal of Neurotherapy Seeking Editor-in-Chief for 2014

   Call for New Editor of Journal of Neurotherapy
   Deadline for letter of application: July 1, 2013
   Taylor & Francis is now requesting applications for the editorship of the Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience. The new editorship will commence from the first issue of the 2014 volume and will run for three consecutive years. The next editor is expected to begin reviewing manuscripts by September 1, 2013.

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    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.