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Trauma Practice - A Cognitive Behavioral Somatic Therapy (Paperback, 4th edition): Anna B. Baranowsky, J. Eric Gentry Trauma Practice - A Cognitive Behavioral Somatic Therapy (Paperback, 4th edition)
Anna B. Baranowsky, J. Eric Gentry
R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This popular, practical resource for clinicians caring for trauma survivors has been fully updated and expanded. It remains a key toolkit of cognitive behavioral somatic therapy (CBST) techniques for clinicians who want to enhance their skills in treating trauma. Baranowsky and Gentry help practitioners find the right tools to guide trauma survivors toward growth and healing. Reinforcing this powerful intervention is the addition of a deeper emphasis on the preparatory phase for therapists, including the therapists' own ability to self-regulate their autonomic system during client encounters. Throughout the acclaimed book, an effective tri-phasic model for trauma treatment is constructed (safety and stabilization; working through trauma; reconnection with a meaningful life) as guiding principle, enabling a phased delivery that is fitted to the survivor's relational and processing style. The authors present, clearly and in detail, an array of techniques, protocols, and interventions for treating trauma survivors (cognitive, behavioral, somatic, and emotional/relational). These include popular and effective CBST techniques, approaches inspired by research on neuroplasticity, and interventions informed by polyvagal theory. Many techniques include links to video or audio material demonstrating how to carry-out the intervention. Further sections are devoted to forward-facing trauma therapy, a safe, effective, and accelerated method of treating trauma, and to clinician self-care. Over 40 video and audio demonstrations of many of the techniques are available for download. There are also 36 handouts for clients that can be downloaded and printed for clinical use.

Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions - A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Paperback): Belinda S. Mackie Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions - A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Paperback)
Belinda S. Mackie
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the priority that psychoanalysis places on the individual, how the treatment is conceived theoretically and the ways it can be incorporated in the overall organisation of an institution. It brings together the histories of a number of psychoanalytically informed hospitals.

The Mindful Interview Method - Retrieving Cognitive Evidence (Paperback): Gil Zamora The Mindful Interview Method - Retrieving Cognitive Evidence (Paperback)
Gil Zamora
R1,775 Discovery Miles 17 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Defines the term "cognitive evidence" and describes the process for retrieving reliable evidence in a way that maintains integrity throughout the interviewing process Outlines guidance on developing a mindful—rather than prescriptive or rote—approaches to conducting eyewitness interviews Provides guidance for analyzing interviews and improving the interview process Presents specific procedures to interview an eyewitness for a criminal event for both victims and witnesses

Statistical Methods in Psychiatry Research and SPSS (Hardcover): M. Venkataswamy Reddy Statistical Methods in Psychiatry Research and SPSS (Hardcover)
M. Venkataswamy Reddy
R3,480 Discovery Miles 34 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book has been prepared to help psychiatrists expand their knowledge of statistical methods and fills the gaps in their applications as well as introduces data analysis software. The book emphasizes the classification of fundamental statistical methods in psychiatry research that are precise and simple. Professionals in the field of mental health and allied subjects without any mathematical background can easily understand all the relevant statistical methods and carry out the analysis and interpret the results in their respective fields without consulting a statistician.

The sequence of the chapters, the sections within the chapters, the subsections within the sections, and the points within the subsections have all been arranged to help professionals in classification refine their knowledge in statistical methods and fill the gaps, if any.

Emphasizing simplicity, the fundamental statistical methods are demonstrated by means of arithmetical examples that may be reworked with pencil and paper in a matter of minutes. The results of the rework have to be checked by using SPSS, and in this way professionals are introduced to this psychiatrist-friendly data analysis software.

Topics covered include:

An overview of psychiatry research

The organization and collection of data

Descriptive statistics

The basis of statistical inference

Tests of significance

Correlational data analysis

Multivariate data analysis

Meta-analysis

Reporting the results

Statistical software

The language of the book is very simple and covers all aspects of statistical methods starting from organization and collection of data to descriptive statistics, statistical inference, multivariate analysis, and meta-analysis. Two chapters on computer applications deal with the most popular data analysis software: SPSS.

The book will be very valuable to professionals and post-graduate students in psychiatry and allied fields, such as psychiatric social work, clinical psychology, psychiatric nursing, and mental health education and administration.

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What is a Child? - Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse (Paperback): Michael Gerard Plastow What is a Child? - Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse (Paperback)
Michael Gerard Plastow
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is a child? For Freud, the child was never a category or concept of any theoretical value. Instead he proposed the notion of the infantile as a time outside of history. Thus there are different notions of time and history at play in the psychoanalysis of a child, as well as in the history of the field itself. In clinical practice, in society, and in law, however, childhood is defined in reference to age and development.Within psychoanalysis there has been a confusion of childhood as construed through the retrospective memories of adults, with the child who is observed and educated. This conflation marked the early history of psychoanalysis of the child, a field which began as a family affair. It was Hermine Hug-Hellmuth who first declared that it was impossible for anyone to analyze his own child. This foundational statement also enabled her to theorize the place of the parents in the analysis of the child.Our modern notion of the child emerged historically since the decline of the Middle Ages and through the Enlightenment. The child became a subject of Church and State, coinciding with a new repression of sexuality and death in childhood. This produced an idealized notion of the child to which Freud referred as "His Majesty the baby." Despite this, the emergence of the modern notion of the child made possible Freud s discovery of infantile sexuality and of the unconscious.Each child must also uncover his or her own sexuality and find a means to appropriate it in order to come to the place of subject, in the necessary detachment from parental authority. To do so is not, as is usually asserted, a process of continuous development. Rather, it is an act of destruction in which the subject must break the mold in which he or she has been conceived."

The Clozapine Clinic - Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions (Hardcover): Julia Brown The Clozapine Clinic - Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions (Hardcover)
Julia Brown
R3,846 Discovery Miles 38 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Draws on 18 months of the author's fieldwork. Demonstrates how service users can work creatively with the clinical circuitries, biomedical imaginaries and temporal underpinnings of clozapine treatment to personalise their experiences and to exert subtle personal power over their health and future prospects. The first ethnography to examine clozapine treatment in the UK and Australia.

Psychological Interventions from Six Continents - Culture, Collaboration, and Community (Paperback): Barbara L. Mercer, Heather... Psychological Interventions from Six Continents - Culture, Collaboration, and Community (Paperback)
Barbara L. Mercer, Heather MacDonald, Caroline Purves
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book presents psychological assessment and intervention in a cultural and relational context. A diverse range of contributors representing six continents and eleven countries write about their therapeutic interventions, all of which break the traditional assessor-as-expert-oriented framework and offer a creative adaptation in service delivery. A Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment model, including work with immigrant communities, and Indigenous modalities underscore individual and collective case illustrations highlighting equality in the roles of the provider and the receiver of services. The universality and uniqueness of culture are explored as a construct and through case material. Some chapters describe a partnership with a Eurocentric scientific model, while others adopt a purely community method, preserved with Indigenous language and subjective methodology. This volume brings together diverse therapeutic collaborative ideas, and recognizes relational, community, and cultural psychologies as integral to mainstream assessment and intervention literature. This book is essential for psychologists and clinicians internationally and graduate students.

Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients - Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space (Paperback): Margaret Boyle Spelman Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients - Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space (Paperback)
Margaret Boyle Spelman
R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winnicott's thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial understanding of his thinking, Margaret Boyle Spelman aims to help others develop their own 'Winnicott' to assist with their clinical thinking. This book makes explicit the parallel in Winnicott's thinking between the situation of the baby and the 'nursing couple', and the patient and the 'analytic couple'. There are two helpful baby observation pieces which are aimed at first giving something of the experience of completing a baby observation and then of the reporting of it. In addition to these, there are chapters that treat Winnicott's thinking and the comparison of the original baby with the one who appears in the course of an adult therapy. Winnicott's thinking is first situated historically. Then each of his three stages of dependence are explored in detail: absolute dependence, relative dependence, and going towards independence. These are looked at from the viewpoint of the patient/baby and the mother/therapist in both developmental and clinical situations.

Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems - A Handbook for Practitioners... Working with Autistic People in the Criminal Justice and Forensic Mental Health Systems - A Handbook for Practitioners (Paperback)
Nichola Tyler, Anne Sheeran
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. At present there are no edited books dedicated to understanding and working with individuals with Autism in secure settings. 2. Likely to appeal to a wide audience including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, and criminal justice staff. 3. Will be the first of its kind to combine theory, research and practice in the area of ASC and offending. 4. This is a growing area and a much-needed text in this arena.

Betrayal - Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms (Paperback, New): Salman Akhtar Betrayal - Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms (Paperback, New)
Salman Akhtar
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us. When others betray us, they pierce the veil of our innocent reliance. Betraying and feeling betrayed are ubiquitous to the scenarios of trauma and yet surprisingly neglected as a topic of specific attention by psychoanalysis.This book fills this gap. Its first part deals with developmental aspects and notes that while the experience of betrayal might be ubiquitous in childhood, its lack of recognition by the parents is what leads to fixation upon it. The second part of the book deals with literature and elucidates the myriad ways in which the theme of betrayal appears in Shakespeare s writings and in Oscar Wilde s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Its final part pertains to clinical matters and has chapters on the compulsion to betray others and the unconscious need to be betrayed, the betrayal of a sacred trust in the form of childhood sexual abuse, extra-marital affairs, and the betrayal of patients by their analysts in the form of boundary violations."

Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health (Paperback): Panteleimon Ekkekakis Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health (Paperback)
Panteleimon Ekkekakis; Edited by (associates) Dane B. Cook, Lynette L. Craft, S. Nicole Culos-Reed, Jennifer L Etnier, …
R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems. As researchers and clinicians around the world look for evidence-supported alternatives and complements to established forms of therapy (medication and psychotherapy), interest in physical activity mounts. The Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health offers the most comprehensive review of the research evidence on the effects of physical activity on multiple facets of mental health. Written by a team of world-leading international experts, the book covers ten thematic areas: physical activity and the 'feel good' effect anxiety disorders depression and mood disorders self-perceptions and self-evaluations cognitive function across the lifespan psychosocial stress pain energy and fatigue addictions quality of life in special populations. This volume presents a balanced assessment of the research evidence, highlights important directions for future work, and draws clear links between theory, research, and clinical practice. As the most complete and authoritative resource on the topic of physical activity and mental health, this is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners in a wide range of fields, including clinical and health psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, behavioural and preventive medicine, gerontology, nursing, public health and primary care.

Another Kind of Evidence - Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the... Another Kind of Evidence - Studies on Internalization, Annihilation Anxiety, and Progressive Symbolization in the Psychoanalytic Process (Paperback)
Norbert Freedman, Jesse D Geller, Joan Hoffenberg, Marvin Hurvich, Rhonda Ward
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the current professional climate, the calls for evidenced-based treatment and the prestige accorded to this emblem, mental health professionals are asking: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and self-definition, that is, establishing a sense of legitimacy. The three parts of this volume are directed toward the goal of affirming a public and private sense of the legitimacy of psychoanalysis, thereby shaping professional identity. Each contribution adheres to the precepts of scientific inquiry, with a commitment to affirming or disconfirming clinical propositions, utilizing consensually agreed upon methods of observation, and arriving at inferences that are persuasive and have the potential to move the field forward. Beyond this, each part of this book describes distinct methodologies that generate evidence pertaining to public health policy, the persuasiveness and integrity of our psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered in daily clinical practice.

Burnout in Women Physicians - Prevention, Treatment, and Management (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Cynthia M. Stonnington, Julia A... Burnout in Women Physicians - Prevention, Treatment, and Management (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Cynthia M. Stonnington, Julia A Files
R1,726 Discovery Miles 17 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues. The book begins by establishing the differences in epidemiology between female physicians and their male counterparts, including rates of burnout, depression and suicide, chosen fields, caregiving responsibilities at home, career tradeoffs in dual physician marriages, patient satisfaction and outcomes, academic rank, leadership positions, salary, and turnover. The second part of the book explores the drivers of physician burnout that disproportionately affect women, each chapter beginning with a case vignette. This section covers many issues that often go unrecognized including unconscious bias, sexual harassment, gender role conflicts, domestic responsibilities, depression, addiction, financial stress, and the impact related to reproductive health such as pregnancy and breastfeeding. The book concludes by focusing on strategies to prevent and/or mitigate burnout among individual women physicians across the career lifespan.This section also includes recommendations to change the culture of medicine and the systems that contribute to burnout. Burnout in Women Physicians is an excellent resource for physicians across all specialties who are concerned with physician wellness and burnout, including students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians.

The Biological Basis of Mental Health (Paperback, 4th edition): William T Blows The Biological Basis of Mental Health (Paperback, 4th edition)
William T Blows
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the underlying biology and neuroscience associated with mental health and wellbeing. This fully revised fourth edition includes new chapters on behavioural science, and brain-gut and brain-gender connections, as well as expanded content on memory and genetics. Integrating up-to-date pharmacological and genetic research with an understanding of environmental factors that impact on human biology, The Biological Basis of Mental Health covers topics including brain development, neural communication, neurotransmitters and receptors, hormones and behaviour, genetic disorders, pharmacology, substance misuse, anxiety, schizophrenia, depression, epilepsy, subcortical degenerative diseases of the brain, dementia, developmental disorders and sleep. This unique textbook is an essential read for all healthcare students, practitioners and educators with an interest in mental health and neuroscience.

The Injured Self - The Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Developmental Deviations (Paperback, New): Dov. R. Aleksandrowicz The Injured Self - The Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Developmental Deviations (Paperback, New)
Dov. R. Aleksandrowicz
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ideas presented in this book are the outcome of years of conducting psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with adults and children, working with mother infant groups, and studying infant development. Working with mother infant pairs as an observer, rather than as a therapist, is for a psychoanalyst what time travel would be for an archeologist, albeit infinitely more accessible. One is privileged to observe the early relationship "in statu nascendi," as it unfolds, whereas reconstructing it in psychoanalysis is a slow, complex process, burdened by false starts, doubts and painstaking (sometimes painful) examination of the counter-transference. Observing normal infants in their natural environment allows one also to appreciate the rich variety of infant personalities and their impact on the caregivers.The book examines the clinical implications of innate developmental individuality. The authors present an outline of the interdependence of the developmental sequences: perceptual, motor, cognitive and emotional. The book examines the clinical and theoretical issues, as well as examining some recent advances in neuro-behavioral sciences."

Happiness and Well-being (Hardcover): Felicia A. Huppert, P. Alex Linley Happiness and Well-being (Hardcover)
Felicia A. Huppert, P. Alex Linley
R20,127 Discovery Miles 201 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Questions about the meaning, purpose, and pursuit of happiness and well-being have been addressed by thinkers since ancient times but over the past decade or so there has been a tremendous upsurge of scholarly interest in the subject. This renewed interest has come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, and economics. The field has, in particular, been galvanized by the advent of the positive psychology movement at the turn of the century. Especially in the United States, but also in the UK and on continental Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia, research and courses in positive psychology are thriving. Harvard University 's positive psychology course, for example, is currently the most popular offering in the college 's history.

Governments and international organizations are also increasingly engaged by notions of well-being and happiness. The World Health Organization has recently redefined health to include psychological well-being and many national policy-makers have begun to recognize that measuring a nation 's success by traditional economic values alone no longer suffices and that we need also urgently to understand how people experience the quality of their lives.

Beyond the academy and government, there is also immense interest in the promotion and examination of happiness and well-being in many professional disciplines such as coaching, education, clinical psychology, and community-building.

As work on happiness and well-being flourishes as never before, this new title in Psychology Press 's Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject 's vast literature and the continuing explosion in research output. Co-edited by two leading scholars, Happiness and Well-being is a four-volume collection of classic and contemporary contributions. Together, the four volumes provide a one-stop resource for all interested researchers, students, and policy-makers to gain a thorough understanding of the field, the variety of approaches, and where thinking on happiness and well-being is today. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editors, which place the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and practical context, Happiness and Well-being is an essential work of reference and a vital research tool.

Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis (Paperback): Thomas Dalzell Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis (Paperback)
Thomas Dalzell
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thomas Dalzell investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis which Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. He argues that Freud's Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late 19th century conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis the objective-biological and subjective-biographical to privilege subjective disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the paradigms of early 19th century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating hereditary disposition. The book takes the psychotic judge Daniel Paul Schreber as its reference point, but it is not a general treatment of Schreber, or of Freud's reading of the Schreber case. It focuses rather on what was new in Freud's thinking on the disposition to psychosis, what he learned from his psychiatrist contemporaries and what he did not, and whether or not psychoanalysts have fully received his aetiology. It situates Freud's Schreber text within the evolution of his thought on psychosis, and, as a new element, it highlights his isolating a developmental fixation at infantile narcissism as the decisive moment in his aetiological chain."

The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry (Hardcover): Steven Kaplan The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry (Hardcover)
Steven Kaplan
R2,356 Discovery Miles 23 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry contains over 100,000 entries making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind.

The Dictionary provides concise, comprehensive and current coverage of every word or phrase used in the study and practice of psychiatry and psychology. This valuable reference tool covers all disciplines and sub-disciplines, both research-based and clinical.

This is a vital resource to those in the healthcare professions, to academicians and to those who work in translation and/or interpretation, healthcare and the law who are in contact with the English and Spanish speaking communities.

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing - A Personality-focused Approach (Hardcover): Craig N. Ackley, Shannon M Mack, Kristen... Investigative and Forensic Interviewing - A Personality-focused Approach (Hardcover)
Craig N. Ackley, Shannon M Mack, Kristen Beyer, Philip Erdberg
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing: A Personality-Focused Approach provides a look at the personality styles most commonly encountered in the criminal justice system and demonstrates how to use this insight to plan and conduct a productive interview. Organized by those personality styles, the book includes chapters on narcissistic, antisocial, psychopathic, borderline, inadequate/immature, paranoid, and schizotypal personalities. Written by forensic psychologists and former FBI investigators, each chapter begins with a vignette that displays the personality of an interviewee you might encounter in a forensic setting and then covers: * Descriptions of how each personality style views him or herself and the world, and how these views lead to problematic behavior * Ways to indirectly assess a subject through interviews with associated others, and through review of records * Behaviors you are likely to encounter during the interview, and responses those behaviors may provoke in you * Clues garnered from nonverbal behavior, including eye contact, facial expressions, and posture * What type of questions to ask, and how to ask them Finally, each chapter applies all of this information to an actual interview based on the opening vignette. This book is not for diagnosing personality disorders, but rather exists to help forensic interviewers understand the core traits that influence people's responsiveness. This personality-focused approach is helpful for professionals in a variety of areas including police, attorneys, parole officers, mental health workers, and others who interview witnesses, suspects, and offenders throughout the criminal justice system.

Fostering Independence - Helping and Caring in Psychodynamic Therapies (Paperback): A.H. Brafman Fostering Independence - Helping and Caring in Psychodynamic Therapies (Paperback)
A.H. Brafman
R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freud's psychoanalysis and its original representative in the UK, the British Psychoanalytic Society, have gone through unavoidable developments over the decades of their existence. We now have innumerable organizations training professionals in very diverse forms of psychodynamic therapies and it can be difficult to recognize the original sources of their theories and practices. This multiplication of trainings has led to an ever-increasing number of theoretical postulates that have come to be adopted as dogmas. Examples are transference and counter-transference, negative impulses, separation anxiety, the importance of the setting and the importance given to the patient's past and present life outside the consulting room. The present application of the new definitions of old concepts has led to a concept of therapy where the analyst/therapist/counselor comes to be seen as the central figure in the patient's life and which creates and fosters a situation of dependence on the availability of the professional. The papers in this book consider some of these issues and stress the importance of considering analysis/therapy/counseling as means of enabling the patient to lead an independent life."

Psychiatry at a Glance 6e (Paperback, 6th Edition): C. L. E Katona Psychiatry at a Glance 6e (Paperback, 6th Edition)
C. L. E Katona
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Psychiatry at a Glance is an up-to-date, accessible introductory and study text for all students of psychiatry. It presents need-to-know information on the basic science, treatment, and management of the major disorders, and helps you develop your skills in history taking and performing the Mental State Examination (MSE). This new edition features: Thoroughly updated content to reflect new research, the DSM 5 classification and NICE guidelines All the information required, including practice questions, for the written Psychiatry exams Extensive self-assessment material, including Extending Matching Questions, Single Best Answer questions, and sample OSCE stations, to reinforce knowledge learnt A companion website at ataglanceseries.com/psychiatry featuring interactive case studies and downloadable illustrations Psychiatry at a Glance will appeal to medical students, junior doctors and psychiatry trainees, as well as nursing students and other health professionals and is the ideal companion for anyone about to start a psychiatric attachment or module.

Committed - Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training (Paperback): Adam Stern Committed - Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training (Paperback)
Adam Stern
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Trauma and Physical Health - Understanding the effects of extreme stress and of psychological harm (Hardcover): Victoria L.... Trauma and Physical Health - Understanding the effects of extreme stress and of psychological harm (Hardcover)
Victoria L. Banyard, Valerie J. Edwards, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trauma research and clinical practice have taught us much about the widespread problems of child maltreatment, partner violence, and sexual assault. Numerous investigations have documented links between such trauma exposure and long-term negative mental health consequences. As we learn more about traumatic stress, however, increasing attention has been drawn to the less studied physical health effects of maltreatment and trauma.

Trauma and Physical Health describes both the negative physical health effects of victimization in childhood as well as exploring theoretical models that explains these links. By bringing together new and current studies on the relationship between trauma and physical health, this edited collection assesses the clinical implications of these links. At a time when the mental health field is becoming increasingly cognizant of the value of collaboration with professionals in the physical health arena, this book suggests ways in which clinicians can work with primary care professionals to better meet the needs of trauma survivors across the lifespan. A key focus of the text is to clarify the relationship between the current knowledge base in trauma and physical health and directions for future research in primary care health settings.

With contributors from a wide range of clinical and psychological disciplines, it will be of interest to researchers, clinicians and professionals in the trauma field and to primary care professionals concerned with compassionate care for the traumatized.

But at the Same Time and on Another Level - Clinical Applications in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode (Paperback): James S. Grotstein But at the Same Time and on Another Level - Clinical Applications in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode (Paperback)
James S. Grotstein
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

James Grotstein describes in detail how to understand and to interpret in an analytic session. Clinical sessions are described in stenographic detail and display complete sessions. The author goes to great lengths to detail his private observations, reveries, and countertransferences as well as his thinking about how, when, and what should be interpreted.

Psychotherapeutic Change Through the Group Process (Paperback): Leonard Blank Psychotherapeutic Change Through the Group Process (Paperback)
Leonard Blank
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Psychotherapeutic Change through the Group Process" discusses the relation between the properties of groups and therapeutic change. The purpose is to develop a view of groups that accounts for the diversity, complexity, and fluidity of the group situation. The view examines the group in depth, attending not only to overt events, but also to covert aspects of specific situations. The work addresses manifest behaviors, underlying motivations; and the cognitive, rational aspects of the group. It explores the intense affect which may be generated under conditions of group interaction; not merely to the group or individual, but to the individual in the group and to the group as the context for personal experience and change.

The research presented here was initially explored in small group studies. Separate investigations considered the ways in which patients and therapists view group events, the nature of deviation, and the development of group standards. They consider factors associated with therapeutic improvement and therapeutic failure; and characteristic concerns of early sessions. These, plus several discussions of theory and methodology have been published separately.

The authors' working procedure has been to study intensively a relatively small number of groups, relying upon careful observation of natural groups rather than upon laboratory experimentation. The overall effort has been to understand the processes of therapy groups in all their clinical richness and intricacy and yet to impose a scientific discipline and control on our analyses. This has meant a continuing attempt to develop appropriate analytic procedures so that clinical analyses can be as firmly rooted as possible in concrete data and reproducible methods. This book is a unique effort at the scientific grounding of social work practice.

"Dorothy Stock Whitaker" is professor of social work at York University. She is author of "Emotional Dynamics and Group Culture: Experimental Studies of Individual and Group Behavior" and "Using Groups to Help People."

"Morton A. Lieberman" is professor of psychiatry and director of the Aging and Mental Health Program at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also director of the Alzheimer's Center at the university and is regarded as a leading expert in the fields of psychology of aging and group therapy.

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