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NEW IN PAPERBACK How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective.

Anxiety-based disorders are among the most common mental health problems experienced in the population today. Worry is an important feature of most anxiety disorders, in particular Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD), phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Anxiety-based disorders are among the most common mental health problems experienced in the population today. Worry is an important feature of most anxiety disorders, in particular Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD),phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Addictions are responsible for vast and growing morbidity, mortality, and misery in society. Until now, not only has the theoretical underpinning of the most commonly practised treatment approaches in the addictions field been scant, but the evidence for the effectiveness of these methods has also been generally lacking.

Person Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis provides a practical framework for using a person based cognitive therapy approach for addressing the range of problems experienced by people with psychosis. The book begins with a context for the approach and then goes on to cover the clinical application of the approach.

Behavioural Case Formulation and Intervention in Clinical Psychology: A Functional Analytic Approach provides a complete update on developments in functional analysis over the last 10 years.

Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities covers introductory and background issues, general clinical issues, and working with specific client groups, including offenders with intellectual disabilities and parents with intellectual disabilities.

Research results reported in scientific articles support the view that negative parental rearing behaviour is a major contributing factor to the development of individual vulnerability and, thus, to the development of psychopathological disorders. This study examines this line of argument.

This book provides a comprehensive, analytical overview of research on marriage and marital interventions. The unifying theme is the concept of healthy marriage, which promotes the individual well-being of the partners and any offspring, while providing protection against adverse effects of outside stresses.

This book provides an opportunity for clinicians, researchers, and service providers to become informed about the most important clinical and research issues related to people with psychosis and substance abuse. It updates and outlines practical treatment interventions and approaches that can be used with these individuals and their families.

NEW IN PAPERBACK How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective.

This book provides an opportunity for clinicians, researchers, and service providers to become informed about the most important clinical and research issues related to people with psychosis and substance abuse. It updates and outlines practical treatment interventions and approaches that can be used with these individuals and their families.

Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities covers introductory and background issues, general clinical issues, and working with specific client groups, including offenders with intellectual disabilities and parents with intellectual disabilities.

Targeted to clinicians, training clinicians, and researchers, Psychobiological Approaches for Anxiety Disorders is the first book to focus on enhancing CBT with pharmacological agents. Contributors include leading authors in the fields of psychiatry, pharmacology, clinical psychology, neuroscience, and emotion research.

Cognitive behavior therapy has become an established treatment for psychosis over the past five years, but many mental health workers need assistance in planning and implementing treatment. This book shows how CBT programs can be compatible with service delivery and mental health provision in an organizational context.

Eating and its Disorders features contributions by international experts in the field of eating disorders which represent an overview of the most current knowledge relating to the assessment, treatment, and future research directions of the study of eating-related disorders.

Attachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Clinician s Guide to Practice and Research is the first book to explore the clinical difficulties associated with attachment relationships in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Patients with complex problems, including co-morbidity, chronic conditions, enduring vulnerabilities, psychotic conditions, persistent difficulties with social relationships and destabilising social environments, are increasingly recognised as the reality of the therapist's case load.

Thoroughly updated version of a key practitioner text now includes a Randomised Control Trial-verified treatmentmanual Includes pre- and post-therapy assessment instruments Covers the psychological techniques recommended by the 2006NICE treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder .

Now in its third edition, this highly regarded and well-established textbook includes up-to-date coverage of recent advances in family therapy practice and reviews of latest research, whilst retaining the popular structure and chapter features of previous editions.

Taken from published reviews: " Dr Blackburn has written a remarkably good book; indeed, the best book on the topic from either side of the Atlantic I have read. the breadth of the author s knowledge is nothing short of encyclopaedic.

Internationally respected authors, actively working in this area, establish theoretical reasons for extending cognitive therapy to these symptoms.

The main principle behind cognitive behaviour therapy is that a client's emotional and behavioural disturbances are not determined by events, but by the way he or she views them. This book describes the clinical guidelines and detailed therapy procedures used in the practice of cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with schizophrenic disorders.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCDs) involve habitual, repetitive behaviours that can be bizarre, disruptive and eventually disabling. They can destroy lives and relationships and are one of the most common of the emotional disorders.

The book draws upon the exciting and illuminating understanding of trauma and dissociation that has developed within the last decade and shows how this can transform our view of many severe personality disorders. MPD is presented as a disorder based upon trauma and pretence - a pretence which structures the personality.

This volume is a collection of original chapters by a group of authors at the leading UK research and treatment centre on PTSD dealing with the diagnosis and context of PTSD, psychological mechanisms and behaviour, and strategies for therapy and prevention.

This fully revised and updated edition of Clinical Child Psychology now incorporates a fuller account of the range of clinical problems of adolescence, together with an expanded account of the major developmental and psychosocial disorders, such as autism, ADHD, and conduct disorder.

Clinical psychologists and counsellors increasingly work with doctors, nurses, and medical therapists to implement psychological measures that increase the effectiveness, or mediate the ill effects, of medical treatment. This is a clear and concise guide to the body of knowledge in this field and to best practice in the clinical context.

The early recognition and treatment of psychosis--particularly in adolescents and young adults--is increasingly accepted as an important factor in the individual experience of mental illness, which can have major implications for mental health care and treatment. This book is one of the first books available on the treatment of psychosis.