Medical / Psychiatry

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition

by Zindel V. Segal & J. Mark G. Williams

This bestselling work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an eight-week program with proven effectiveness. Step...

Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition: Helping People Change

by William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick

This bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes...

Clinical Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology: An Evidence-Based Approach

by Kyle Brauer Boone

Written by a foremost expert in the field, this hands-on, evidence-based guide describes how to conduct a comprehensive forensic neuropsychological evaluation and provide expert testimony. All steps are covered--from...

Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach

by Christine A. Courtois & Julian D. Ford

This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping...

Treating Sex Offenders: An Evidence-Based Manual

by Jill D. Stinson & Judith V. Becker

This structured yet flexible manual presents an innovative group treatment approach that targets deficits in self-regulation a central problem for sex offenders. Safe Offender Strategies (SOS) comprises 10 evidence-based...

FOCUS Patient Management Exercises in Psychiatry

by B. Harrison Levine & Ronald C. Albucher

FOCUS Patient Management Exercises in Psychiatry is a practical and accessible self-study workbook designed for practicing psychiatrists who want to improve their knowledge of clinical psychiatry and patient...

Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-5 and ICD-11

by Shekhar Saxena, Patricia Esparza & Darrel A. Regier

Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders provides mental health service planners, clinicians and researchers with a better understanding of how the current state...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR®)

by American Psychiatric Association

Since the DSM-IV® was published in 1994, we've seen many advances in our knowledge of psychiatric illness. This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research...

Transforming Mental Health Services: Implementing the Federal Agenda for Change

by Howard H. Goldman, Jeffrey A. Buck & Kenneth S. Thompson

This book contains updates of papers written by the Commission's subcommittees, including those related to housing and employment for the mentally ill as well as recommendations for change.This is an excellent...

Deconstructing Psychosis: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V

by Carol A. Tamminga, Paul J. Sirovatka & Darrel A. Regier

For the many psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians and researchers striving to bring symptom relief to patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychoses, this volume provides an...

Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment

by Frederick J. Stoddard, Anand Pandya & Craig L. Katz

Experts in disaster psychiatry from two organizations -- the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO) -- have collaborated to create this manual, which provides in-depth...

The Dark Threads

by Jean Davison

A vivid memoir of one young woman's psychiatric treatment in the Sixties which raises questions, that are still relevant today.

Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry

by Russell F. Lim

Representing the clinical state of the art in culturally competent assessment and treatment, and providing important information on African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Americans...

Tackling Mental Health Crises

by David Kingdon & Marie Finn

Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems.

David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual...

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

by Antonio Damasio

In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots...

Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa, Second Edition: A Family-Based Approach

by James Lock & Daniel Le Grange

This indispensable manual presents the leading empirically supported treatment approach for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). What sets family-based treatment apart is the central role played by parents...

Encyclopedia of Toxicology

by Bruce Anderson, Ann de Peyster & Shayne C. Gad

The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology continues its comprehensive survey of toxicology. This new edition continues to present entries devoted to key concepts and specific chemicals. There has...

Gap Junctions in the Brain: Physiological and Pathological Roles

by Ekrem Dere

Gap junctions between glial cells or neurons are ubiquitously expressed in the mammalian brain and play a role in brain development including cell differentiation, cell migration and survival, and tissue homeostasis,...

Night Eating Syndrome: Research, Assessment, and Treatment

by Jennifer Lundgren & Kelly C. Allison

In one indispensable volume, this book combines a complete overview of night eating syndrome (NES) with evidence-based treatment guidelines and clinical tools. Experts in the field review the biological underpinnings...

Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Poverty: Research Implications for Early Child Care

by Samuel Odom & Elizabeth P. Pungello

Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and...