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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology
It happens to all of us. One minute you're happily going about your
day and a few seconds later you're a snappy, illogical jerk. The
culprit? Hanger. We're living busier lives than ever before, and
when you forget to eat - or eat well - due to stress or
unhappiness, your extreme hunger can negatively affect your
emotional and psychological well-being. And the worst part is that
when you're overly hungry, you're more likely to make bad food
decisions (ever grabbed a big, greasy slice of pizza just because
it was the fastest, easiest thing?), which sets you up for another
hanger crash later on. Hanger Management is the book to break this
dangerous and unhealthy cycle. In Hanger Management, New York Times
bestselling author and clinical psychologist Susan Albers sheds
light on the causes of hanger and shares 45 of her best tips for
managing emotional eating. By learning to stay on top of your
hunger cues, cultivating a better understanding of your appetite
and creating a better overall relationship with food, you'll become
a happier - and healthier - person for life.
Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of
madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and
contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic
instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification
and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of
understanding 20th century madness.
An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to
focus specifically on the theoretical and clinical issues
associated with trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates
the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It
presents key developments in the conceptualization of trauma and
covers a wide range of clinical treatments. Trauma features
coverage of emerging therapeutic modalities and clinical themes,
focusing on the experiences of historically disenfranchised,
marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups. Clinical chapters
discuss populations and themes including cultural and historical
trauma among Native Americans, the impact of bullying on children
and adolescents, the use of art therapy with traumatically bereaved
children, historical and present-day trauma experiences of
incarcerated African American women, and the effects of trauma
treatment on the therapist. Other chapters examine trauma-related
interventions derived from diverse theoretical frameworks, such as
cognitive-behavioral theory, attachment theory, mindfulness theory,
and psychoanalytic theory.
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a
word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that
haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and
in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on
display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to
its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our
common sense assumptions; threatens the social order, both
symbolically and practically; creates almost unbearable disruptions
in the texture of daily living; and turns our experience and our
expectations upside down. Lunacy, insanity, psychosis, mental
illness - whatever term we prefer, its referents are disturbances
of reason, the passions, and human action that frighten, create
chaos, and yet sometimes amuse; that mark a gulf between the common
sense reality most of us embrace, and the discordant version some
humans appear to experience. Social responses to madness, our
interpretations of what madness is, and our notions of what is to
be done about it have varied remarkably over the centuries. In this
Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull provides a provocative and
entertaining examination of the social, cultural, medical, and
artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two
millennia, concluding with some observations on the contemporary
accounts of mental illness. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
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Multidisciplinary authors provide a holistic overview Details the
key principles and models of cancer-related distress Guides through
assessment and treatment Illustrated with case studies Printable
tools for clinical use Psychosocial oncology is a health psychology
specialty that focuses on the psychological, behavioral, emotional,
and social challenges faced by patients with cancer and their loved
ones. Cancer can cause significant distress, and psychosocial
interventions are known to be effective for helping patients and
families navigate the many issues that can arise at any stage of
the cancer continuum. This volume provides psychologists,
physicians, social workers, and other health care providers with
practical and evidence-based guidance on the delivery of
psychological interventions to patients with cancer. The
multidisciplinary team of authors succinctly present the key
principles, history, and theoretical models of cancer-related
distress. They then move on to explore clinical assessment and
interventions in cancer care, in particular psychological and
psychiatric treatments, multidisciplinary care management, and
complementary supportive interventions. Case vignettes give the
reader insight into diagnostic processes and effective treatment
planning. Practitioners will find the printable handout and
screening tool for clients invaluable in their daily work.
Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When
Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept
the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead
launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary,
immunological, and metabolic research available. "I certainly had
no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable," she
writes, "but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way,
that it would be." This spirited audacity gave her not only
courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating
diagnosis, but also a self-aware and darkly funny perspective on
her own faults and struggles over the next six years.With equal
parts defiance, tenacity, and wry humour, No Map to This Country
details one family's journey through the modern autism epidemic,
and the lengths to which a mother will go to heal her family.
Neither a medical manual nor a heartwarming tale of growth,
Noonan's ground-breaking yet profoundly relatable memoir seamlessly
combines cutting-edge research with a gripping and unapologetic
account of her family's fight for recovery.
Practical expert guidance on embitterment disorders Learn about the
evidence-base of PTED and wisdom therapy Teach clients skills to
overcome embitterment Tips on social, legal, and medical apsects
Includes printable handouts A companion book for clients is
available Feelings of embitterment and posttraumatic embitterment
disorder are common in our society and result from reactions to
injustices, humiliation, and breaches of trust. They can lead to
significant suffering in those affected and to those around them
although the clients may be otherwise psychopathologically
inconspicuous. The aggressiveness of this client group, as well as
their rejection of help, among other factors, is challenging for
practitioners and makes treatment complex. Help is at hand with
this practical evidence-based guide that provides models for the
development and continuation of such embitterment states as well as
outlines how to diagnose embitterment disorder. The reader is
guided through the state-of-the-art treatment approaches for
embitterment disorder: cognitive behavior therapy with wisdom
strategies. Teach your clients how to process their internalized
feelings of hurt and humiliation so that they can create the
conditions to reconcile themselves with the events that triggered
these difficult and long-lasting states. The book is full of
practice-oriented tips to help clients actively gain closure with
the past and enable a new orientation towards the future. One
method to reach this goal is the reevaluation of the critical
events and their consequences. Wisdom therapy provides various
tools for this, and these techniques are brought to life with
numerous case vignettes. The author also provides tips on the
social, medical, and legal aspects associated with this disorder,
for example, questions of work incapacity and criminal
responsibility. Helpful information for clients is provided in the
accompanying book, How to Overcome Embitterment With Wisdom.
Sexual obsessions are a common symptom of OCD, but addressing them
in treatment is uniquely challenging due to feelings of shame,
prior misdiagnosis, and the covert nature of ritualizing behaviors.
These complicating factors make it difficult for clients to
disclose their symptoms and for clinicians to know how to approach
treatment. Sexual Obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
provides clinicians with the information and guidance needed to
help clients experiencing unwanted and intrusive thoughts of a
sexual nature. Opening with background information on sexual
obsessions and OCD, including assessment and differential
diagnosis, Williams and Wetterneck then offer a complete,
step-by-step manual describing treatment using a combination of
empirically-supported CBT strategies, such as exposure and response
prevention, cognitive therapy, and acceptance and commitment
therapy, as well as useful mindfulness techniques. Accompanying
these practical, step-by-step instructions are educational handouts
and diagrams for clients designed to promote learning. The book
concludes with a discussion of relationship issues that commonly
result from sexually-themed OCD, and how therapists can tackle
these problems. Sexual Obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
is an essential resource for clinicians who treat OCD, as well as
students and trainees from across the mental health professions.
"It's a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think
twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of
a lifetime." -Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White City Think
you can't get conned? Think again. The New York Times bestselling
author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes explains
how to spot the con before they spot you. "[An] excellent study of
Con Artists, stories & the human need to believe" -Neil Gaiman,
via Twitter A compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and
methods of con artists-and the people who fall for their cons over
and over again. While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen,
true conmen-the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim Bakkers, the Lance
Armstrongs-are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of
persuasion and exploiters of trust. How do they do it? Why are they
successful? And what keeps us falling for it, over and over again?
These are the questions that journalist and psychologist Maria
Konnikova tackles in her mesmerizing new book. From
multimillion-dollar Ponzi schemes to small-time frauds, Konnikova
pulls together a selection of fascinating stories to demonstrate
what all cons share in common, drawing on scientific, dramatic, and
psychological perspectives. Insightful and gripping, the book
brings readers into the world of the con, examining the
relationship between artist and victim. The Confidence Game asks
not only why we believe con artists, but also examines the very act
of believing and how our sense of truth can be manipulated by those
around us.
This book presents a new paradigm for distinguishing psychotic and
mystical religious experiences. In order to explore how
Presbyterian pastors differentiate such events, Susan L. DeHoff
draws from Reformed theology, psychological theory, and robust
qualitative research. Following a conversation among
multidisciplinary voices, she presents a new paradigm considering
the similarities, differences, and possible overlap of psychotic
and mystical religious experiences.
I'm So Glad You're Here is the story of a family disrupted by
ramifications of a father's mental illness. The memoir opens with a
riveting account of Gay, age eighteen, witnessing her father being
bound in a straitjacket and carried out of the house on a
stretcher. The trauma she experiences escalates when, after her
father has had electroshock treatments at a state mental hospital,
her parents leave her in a college dorm room and move from
Massachusetts to Florida without her. She feels abandoned. Both her
parents have gone missing. Decades later, when Gay and her three
much-older siblings show up for their father's funeral, she
witnesses her sundered family's inability to gather together.
Eventually, she is diagnosed with PTSD of abandonment and treated
with EMDR therapy-and finally begins to heal. Poignant and
powerful, I'm So Glad You're Here is Gay's exploration of the idea
that while the wounds we carry from growing up in fractured
families stay with us, they do not have to control us-a reflective
journey that will inspire readers to think about their own
relational lives.
Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide
- however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented.
While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction
to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular
situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to
explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is
caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen
describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using
various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging.
Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic
characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a
specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering
life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that
provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop;
ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented.
Working Alliance Skills for Mental Health Professionals provides
expert guidance to mental health providers who wish to develop and
augment their skills and competence in this area of practice. Each
chapter deconstructs a dimension of the working alliance in
psychotherapy, defining and describing specific mechanisms and
interventions that can help professionals establish an alliance
with their clients. The book includes skills in nonverbal
communication, ways to foster the working bond with diverse
clients, goal and task setting strategies, and verbal and
interpersonal therapeutic skills, as well as mechanisms for
repairing ruptures and for fostering the working alliance through
supervision. The authors provide "in session" examples of how each
skill may be implemented, and highlight the use of interventions
through clinical vignettes and masked clinical cases. Working
Alliance Skills for Mental Health Professionals is ideal for use in
training programs in counseling, clinical psychology, and social
work. It may also be valuable to professional-level practitioners
interested in honing their skills in optimizing the working
alliance.
"[A] fascinating read... Contrary to what the title might suggest,
this is an upbeat exploration of suicide with a positive message."
--Jeanine Connor, Therapy Today, December, 2018 This
thought-provoking volume offers a distinctly human evolutionary
analysis of a distinctly human phenomenon: suicide. Its 'pain and
brain' model posits animal adaptations as the motivator for
suicidal escape, and specific human cognitive adaptations as
supplying the means , while also providing a plausible explanation
for why only a relatively small number of humans actually take
their own lives. The author hypothesizes two types of anti-suicide
responses, active and reactive mechanisms prompted by the brain as
suicide deterrents. Proposed as well is the intriguing prospect
that mental disorders such as depression and addiction, long
associated with suicidality, may serve as survival measures. Among
the topics covered: * Suicide as an evolutionary puzzle. * The
protection against suicide afforded to animals and young children.
* Suicide as a by-product of pain and human cognition. * Why
psychodynamic defenses regulate the experiencing of painful events.
* Links between suicidality and positive psychology. * The
anti-suicide role of spiritual and religious belief. In raising and
considering key questions regarding this most controversial act,
The Evolution of Suicide will appeal to researchers across a range
of behavioral science disciplines. At the same time, the book's
implications for clinical intervention and prevention will make it
useful among mental health professionals and those involved with
mental health policy.
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