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Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychology Treatment Modules: Personalized Care in Behavior and Emotion provides clinicians with modularized treatment strategies for commonly occurring child and youth mental health disorders. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book translates basic science into clinical practice, reviewing predictors, mediators and moderators of change, and an overview of evidence for best practices in treating disorders. The second section guides clinicians on how to implement treatment strategies. Chapters instruct what therapy is, how to introduce it to clients, step-by-step implementation, worksheets for use in practice, homework to send home with clients, and more.

Discusses the assessment and treatment of problem gambling and those affected by it. This book takes an integrative approach with a special focus on cultural concerns and clinical applications for women and minorities. It covers integration of spirituality in treatment.

Offers information on adult behavioral assessment. This book includes such topics as computerized assessment, evaluating older adults, behavioral neuropsychology, ethical-legal issues, work-related issues, and value change in adults with acquired disabilities. It is suitable for beginning and established clinicians in practice.

While therapist is guided by protocols and manuals, psychotherapy remains an art. This book traces the common thread in various psychotherapy approaches such as behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, strategic, and humanistic and defines this essence as principles and objectives that must be preserved in the face of standardization in the field.

Presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies. This book covers a range of addictions in adolescents, including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, eating, gambling, internet and video games, and sex addiction.

Adolescent Addiction, Second Edition, offers researchers and clinicians a single-volume resource on the nature, extent and treatment of addictive problems in adolescents. The book is divided into three main parts. Part one addresses the foundations of addictive problems, including developmental, social, and neurobiologicl factors. Part two addresses common addictions among adolescents. New chapters include e-cigarette, smartphone, social networking, and exercise addiction. Part three discusses challenges and recommendations for future research in adolescent addiction. All chapters in part two follow a similar format to introduction and clinical characteristics, screening and clinical assessment methods, epidemiology, cormorbidity, course and outcome, protective and risk factors, evidence-based clinical strategies for prevention and treatment, and a concise summary of key clinical points.

A compilation of evidence-based practices in the assessment and treatment of elderly clients. Focusing on the research and evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, it covers difficulties including: social isolation/loneliness, elder abuse/neglect, depression and suicidal inclinations, and patients with terminal illnesses.

Much of clinical psychology relies upon cognitive behavior therapy to treat clinical disorders via attempting to change thinking and feeling in order to change behavior. Functional approaches differ in that they focus on context and the environmental influence on behavior, thoughts, and feelings. This second edition of Functional Analysis in Clinical Treatment updates the material in keeping with DSM-5 and ICD-10 and provides 40% new information, including updated literature reviews, greater detail in the functional analysis/assessment sections of each chapter, two new chapters on autism spectrum disorders and chronic health problems, and examples of worked assessments, such as interview transcripts, ABC charts, and observational data. Discusses functional analytic approaches to treat specific clinical disordersAppropriate for use with both adult and child populationsUpdated to reflect DSM-5Includes two new chapters on treatment for ADHD and chronic health problemsShows more examples of worked assessments and treatment plans

Authored by the creators of the WISC-V Describes the new subtests, revised test structure and test extensions Advises clinicians on test selection Provides test result interpretation Discusses clinical applications of test use

Assists practicing mental health professionals in expanding their knowledge about nutritional and herbal interventions that can be attempted as alternatives to prescription medications. This volume provides a comprehensive discussion of naturopathic solutions based on existing research.

Suitable for psychologists, and also to practitioners including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, alcohol counselors, rehabilitation, recreational, occupational, physical, and speech therapists, this book put together a one-stop source of every imaginable form for the early career therapist.

The WISC-III is the most frequently used IQ assessment technique in the United States. This book discusses the clinical use of the WISC-III with respect to specific clinical populations, and covers research findings on the validity and reliability of the test. It also includes standardization data from the Psychological Corporation.

Discusses how culture plays a role in specific disorders (depression, anxiety, eating and sexual disorders, substance abuse and schizophrenia), relevant sensitivities to keep in mind in treating specific patient populations (age groups, differing religions, and differing ethnicity's).

Psychologists receive several years of specialized study in mental health, but they receive no formal training in the skills necessary to be successful in these roles. This book targets the managerial and administrative skills necessary to the mental health professional.

Offers a systematic behavioral analysis of drinking and non drinking offspring of alcoholic families. This book identifies the functional and behavioral characteristics that make up the adult children of alcoholics (ACOA) syndrome.

Offers novel therapeutic strategies and formulations to use when all else is failing. This book provides provocative conceptualizations of self, personality and psychopathology. It includes case illustrations, and excerpts from actual psychotherapy sessions and supervision sessions.

Healthcare is practiced in a different financial and delivery system than it was earlier. This volume explores several issues, prospects and opportunities from the vantage of mental health/medical professionals and managed care executives who are in the very process of implementing changes to the existing system of managed care.

A group of international analytic clinicians and researchers all comment on three child analytic situations where the patient has returned to treatment in adulthood. They compare findings from the childhood analysis to the findings in the adult from the perspective of development and change.

Requirements for treatment planning in the mental health and addictions fields are long standing and embedded in the treatment system. This book features an approach relevant to mental health, addiction services and related fields in both private practice and public care settings.

Presents formulation as a process that can be taught systematically to trainee therapists. This book begins by discussing assorted theories of case formulation, and critiques their ability to be applied in real world situations.

Provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation. This book offers sophisticated users of the WAIS-IV and Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-IV).

In the current economy, companies are expected to turn on a dime in response to changing market needs to stay vibrant. What that means is that companies are constantly reorganizing. Employees are living in a constant state of change. This manual focuses on treating job-related issues, whether it's conflict in the workplace, stress, or burnout.

Summarizes evidence-based assessments and intervention for Autism across the life-span. This book begins with a discussion of what warrants a determination of being 'evidence based' and a description of the disorder from a life span perspective. It also provides a chapter on differential diagnosis of autism relative to other disorders.

Provides practical advice on scoring and administration. This book facilitates understanding WAIS-IV use with special populations including multicultural clients, in neuropsychological settings, with individuals experiencing psychological disorders, and with older adults. It describes use of the WAIS-IV with WMS-II.

Positive psychology is essentially the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. This book summarizes the applications of research from positive psychology to the practice of counseling and psychotherapy. It also provides a detailed view of how the research can be applied to patients.

This text offers practicing clinicians strategies, interventions, suggestions, guidance and ideas to work with adults struggling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and is intended as a reference to which clinicians will turn time and time again as issues or problems present themselves.