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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.
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.
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).
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.
A guide to doing what works in brief therapy - for whom, and when and how to use it. It integrates strategic and solution focused therapy and includes guidelines for tailoring technique and interventions to client characteristics and preferences. It offers applications for couples, including indications for individual or conjoint sessions.
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.
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.
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.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the emotional, behavioral and cognitive characteristics of adolescents who have attempted suicide. This book also include assessment measures to use when evaluating an adolescent who has attempted suicide. It presents descriptions of specific therapy techniques useful with adolescents who attempt suicide.
Practitioners seeking advances in the field of ADHD and LD must bridge the gap between research and practice. This book aims to provide this bridge. Intended to practitioners, it presents a translation of research to practice. It also provides practical forms, illustrations, and rating scales that can be incorporated into practice.
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.
The best health practices are a synthesis of science and art. Surgery is a case in point. Although all competent surgeons follow scientific protocols, the best surgeons are masters of the art of surgery. Psychotherapists are in exactly the same position. Psychotherapy is both a science and an art. This title deals with this topic.
Summarizes information for child behavioral assessment. This book includes such topics as child abuse assessment, classroom assessment, behavioral neuropsychology, academic skills problems, and ethical-legal issues. It is suitable for beginning and established clinicians in practice.
Presenting an overview of the major adjunctive modalities, this work focuses on a systematic description of their role in the treatment of a number of special populations while providing practical suggestions for the timing and coordination for the use of the adjunctive therapies.
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.
Describes the evidence-based approaches to preventing relapse of major mental and substance-related disorders. This work combines the theoretical rationale, empirical data, and the practical "how-to" for intervention programs. It also provides step-by-step strategies for implementing relapse prevention techniques.
Summarizes information on adaptive behavior and skills as well as general issues in adaptive behavior assessment with the goal of promoting sound assessment practice during uses, interpretations, and applications of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-II (ABAS-II). This book assists in the functional use of the ABAS-II.
Assessment and Culture challenges the classical approach to the assessment of minority populations by pointing out the deficiencies in this approach and offers instead a bio-cultural model of assessment. The principle objective of this book is to help mental health professionals to more accurately
Covers a range of topics and issues that relate to men and depression, including: assessment of male depression; statistics on depression in men; theories to explain depression in men; treating depression in men with both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy; the interrelation of grief, loss, trauma, and depression in men; and more.
Although educators are expected to bring about functional changes in the brain--the organ of human learning--they are given no formal training in the structure, function or development of the brain in formal or atypically developing children as part of their education. This book is organized around
Begins with a discussion of the pharmacology of specific drug classes and the epidemiology of abuse. This book presents psychological theories of substance abuse, the initiation and progression of substance abuse disorders, issues of prevention and early intervention, and screening and assessment for substance abuse including specific tests.
A treatment guide that is based on selected disorders taken from the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Diagnostic Classifications. It is suitable for therapists and for graduate students.
Deals with substance abuse intervention. This book discusses the social impact of substance abuse and provides a general overview of the physiological and psychological characteristics of abuse, DSM IV definition of abuse, and classifications of the varying types of drugs.
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