Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Clinical Psychology

This book on evidence-based practice with children and adolescents focuses on best evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adolescents with a range of emotional problems including ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Asperger's Syndrome; substance abuse; loneliness and social isolation; school related problems including underachievement; sexual acting out; Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders; Childhood Schizophrenia; gender issues; prolonged grief; school violence; cyber bullying; gang involvement, and a number of...

This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. It is unique in that it features different aspects of the interviewer-interviewee relationship. The contributions are personal as well as analytical in nature, and the narrative is an informed psychological analysis. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.

This volume focuses on the cultural aspects of learning and cognitive processes, examining the theory, methods, findings, and applications in this area. The chapter authors cover such topics as family context, peer interaction and formal education.

Using the acronym BEAST, treatment modules address biology, emotions, activity, situations, and thoughts. Each module comes complete with step-by-step instructions for delivering treatment including outlines and lists of materials...

Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature-based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the...

Diese Bande sind Bestandteil einer kombinierten Gedachtnis- und Psychomotorikaktivierung, mit dem Ziel des Erhaltes und der Forderung von Selbstandigkeit und Wohlbefinden bei Pflegeheimbewohnern. Sie sind in der Praxis erprobte Leitfaden fur die Durchfuhrung von kognitiver, biographieorientierter und psychomotorischer Aktivierung und richten sich in erster Linie an Personen, die beruflich oder ehrenamtlich im Bereich der Altenhilfe tatig sind. Neben einem kurzen allgemeinen Teil werden gezielte Ubungen vorgestellt. Konkrete Ablaufplane und Arbeitsmaterialien fur die Gruppenarbeit...

That children are capable of pathology not only such conditions as ADHD and learning disabilities, but also such "adult" disorders as anxiety and depression stands as a defining moment in psychology s recent history. Within this recognition is the understanding that the social skills deficits that accompany these disorders must be targeted for assessment and treatment to ensure optimal functioning in school, with peers, and in later transitions to puberty and adulthood.

Social Behavior and Skills in Children cuts across disciplinary lines to clarify the scope of...

This is the book I've been waiting for. The field has needed a clear and thorough review of anxiety, and now it exists.

Anxiety 101, written by two prominent figures in the field of anxiety research, provides a thorough introduction to the concept of anxiety, placing it in the broad matrix of human concerns. The authors address evolutionary origins of anxiety, functions that anxiety and fear play in maintaining life, and ways in which these...