Mental Health & Clinical Psychology News & Updates – Page 3

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    From Trauma to Healing

    From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker’s Guide for Working With Survivors is the next significant publication on trauma in the field of social work. Since September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, social workers have come together increasingly to consider how traumatic events impact practice. From Trauma to Healing is designed to provide direction in this process, supporting both the field’s movement towards evidence-based practice and social workers’ growing need to be equipped to work with trauma.  

22. 

    Your Dieting Daughter

    Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman’s development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first edition of this book to reflect her 15 additional years of expertise on dealing with the tricky issues of body image, food, and weight in a culture that places an unhealthy emphasis on being thin. From aiding a young girl to lose weight for health reasons; to encouraging a young woman to accept her natural body size; to helping detect, prevent, and understand eating disorders, this second edition is full of practical and invaluable information. 

23. 

    Anxiety Disorders

    Anxiety Disorders: A Guide for Integrating Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference for the psychology and psychiatry student, intern, or resident, early career psychologist or psychiatrist, and the busy clinician. It distills the most important information regarding combined treatments for anxiety and presents the material in an easily accessible, understandable, and readable format. 

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    Author Mo Wang wins APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology

    Routledge author Mo Wang has recently been selected as a recipient of the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of applied research.

    Dr. Wang will be presented with a formal personalized award citation along with a $1,000 prize to be shared with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes of the University of Maryland at the APA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 31-August 4, 2013. An announcement of all APA award recipients will also be printed in the May 2013 APA Monitor.

    We congratulate Dr.Wang on this great honor!

    For more information on the APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, click here 

25. 

    New Online Catalog! Psychotherapy and Counseling Textbooks

    This Online Catalog is filled with the latest Psychotherapy, Counseling and Clinical Psychology textbooks from Routledge.

    For more information on the range of books produced by Routledge, visit our Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Arenas.

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    Congratulations to author Raymond M. Scurfield on winning the 2012 NASW Lifetime Achievement Award!

    Routledge author Raymond Monsour Scurfield has won a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for his "extraordinary contributions to the profession and society" and for his work and research on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We congratulate Dr.Scurfield on this great honor! 

    For more information on the NASW National Achievement Awards, click here. 

27. 

    Group Counseling - New Textbook and Workbook

    Berg, Landreth, and Fall present a thorough discussion of the rationale for using group counseling with an emphasis on the group’s role as a preventive environment and as a setting for self-discovery. The video and workbook are designed to work seamlessly with the Berg, Landreth, and Fall text, but they can also be used alongside any other group counseling textbook. The book and workbook are also available as a discounted bundle!

28. 

    Author Jon MIlls featured on New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast

    In this interview, Canadian philosopher, psychologist, and psychoanalyst Jon Mills speaks with Tracy Morgan about his book Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In the book he discusses current tenets in North American psychoanalytic thinking and practice that he finds to be concerning and problematic. 

    To listen to the podcast, click here.

29. 

    Introduction to the Counseling Profession

    New textbook! Introduction to the Counseling Profession is a comprehensive overview of the history and foundational concepts of counseling, offering the most current and relevant breadth of coverage available. Students will gain insight into the myriad issues that surround not only the process of counseling and its many populations but also the personal dynamics that have an impact on this process. The contributed-author format provides state-of-the-art information from experts in their respective fields while maintaining a consistent structure and message.

30. 

    See what PsychCentral has to say about The Self Under Siege

    Check out this great review of our book 'The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation' by Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone and Joyce Catlett here.

    And until 1/11/2013, get a 20% discount when you order your copy! Just enter FIRES at online checkout.