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Presents a comprehensive systemic approach to treating difficult divorce. Drawing on the integrative tradition that considers both individual and systemic processes, Dr Lebow describes strategies for intervention that show therapists how to calm individuals, couples, and families in distress, and help ease the transition to a new family structure.

Soothing and empowering, You Are Your Strong reassures kids that they can handle big emotions and highlights the benefit of developing inner strength and confidence. With diverse characters and scenes featuring a range of different family relationships, this book shows kids that they will have help along the way to being strong and in control.

The best source of information related to graduate programmes in psychology, providing information related to approximately 600 graduate programmes in psychology in the US and Canada. Full of up-to-date information, the latest edition also a features a new table format for better readability.

This authoritative, hands-on book provides doctoral-level psychology students with all the resources necessary to successfully navigate the internship application process. In addition to general guidance, the book provides numerous helpful checklists and samples, including several sample essays.

While many graduates go on to pursue academic careers, academia isn't for everyone. This career guide examines the rewarding opportunities that await social and behavioural science doctorates in non-academic sectors, including government, consulting, think tanks, forprofit corporations, and nonprofit associations.

Provides a comprehensive overview of treating patients with chronic pain, using evidence-based therapies. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, Darnall shows mental health professionals how to utilize mindfulness interventions, hypnosis, and biofeedback, and also address comorbid problems such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia.

Presents a datadriven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. With concrete methods for promoting safety educational settings, this book will engage and enable school faculty, counsellors, administrators, and other partners to better understand areas of common interest and learn how to work together more effectively.

Ava, Kai, and JoJo are playing with their toys at school, but must learn how to share. All Mine! is a book written for toddlers about taking ownership of their things, so they better understand how to take turns. Includes a "Note to Parents and Caregivers" written by the authors about supporting toddlers' needs for ownership.

It's hard for toddlers to say goodbye sometimes, especially to Mom and Dad! Even if it's for a short amount of time, Mom and Dad reassure them not to worry because they will always come back. Bye-Bye! is a book written for toddlers about separation. Includes a "Note to Parents and Caregivers" about helping toddlers with saying goodbye.

When JoJo falls down and hurts her chin, her dad tries to help her boo-boo. But JoJo is scared! Her dad helps her understand that boo-boos aren't so scary. Boo-Boo! is a book for toddlers about small cuts and scrapes. Includes a ""Note to Parents and Caregivers"" about helping toddlers with minor injuries.

Provides a comprehensive working knowledge of basic pharmacology and psychopharmacology, examines the utility of pharmacotherapy for addressing different dimensions of human suffering, and highlights the broader professional and social issues surrounding this work in a language that is suitable for a broad readership.

Explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapid globalization. By understanding the psychological foundations of the surge in populism and authoritarian leadership, we can better develop ways to nurture and safeguard democracy.

Describes psychotherapeutic strategies for treating adolescent girls of colour. This book provides clinicians with a framework for offering culturally congruent care from a multicultural, feminist, strengths-based perspective, and helps them to better understand the contextual lives and developmental pathways of adolescent girls of colour.

Psychology is a popular major in college today, yet it's possible that you chose it without realizing how very broad and technical the field is. Not to worry. In this book, you'll get a bird's eye view of the whole curriculum, from rat mazes and statistics to abnormal psychology and psychotherapy.

Offers a conceptual framework for working with men - the Deepening framework - along with practical guidance for conducting group therapy with men. This book helps clinicians find ways to break down the barriers that keep many men from seeking help, and shows them how to explore men's inner psychological workings.

Aimed to aid student writers through practical, logistical, and emotional stages of writing dissertations and theses, this book offers guidance to students through such important steps as: defining topics; selecting faculty advisers; scheduling time to accommodate projects; and, conducting, analyzing, writing, presenting, and publishing research.

This multidisciplinary volume examines structural and related functional changes in the aging brain; the neural mechanisms underlying such changes; age-related changes in learning and episodic memory; risk and protective factors, as well as assessment and prevention of different kinds of cognitive decline.

Presents new areas of research and links theory with emerging practice to reflect the latest developments in this constantly changing field. The 77 chapters provide extensive coverage of conceptual frameworks and models, empirical findings, and practical interventions.

Examines the nature of lies and concealment in everyday life and in therapy, with a focus on the process by which patients keep secrets and lie to their therapists. The authors discuss common lies told by therapy clients about a wide range of issues including sex, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, trauma, and the progress of therapy.

Provides a comprehensive review of the many valuable roles that psychologists can play in courts-martial and how they can collaborate with military attorneys to make effective trial teams. The volume offers much-needed guidance for civilian psychologists and military counsel alike.

Investigates the role of emotion in the development and maintenance of psychological problems, and in effecting psychological change. The authors examine emotion as it is conceptualized and used in three of the most widely practiced approaches today - psychodynamic, cognitive behaviour, and emotion-focused psychotherapy.

Presents and explores this influential, practical, and compassionate approach, its theory, history, therapy process, primary change mechanisms, and the empirical basis for its effectiveness. It also examines developments that have refined the theory and expanded how it may be practiced.

Includes new chapters on screening and diagnosis of ASD, discrete trials training, pivotal response training, verbal behaviour interventions, and structured teaching approaches. Contributors also describe interventions for using cognitive behavior therapy with children and families to treat a variety of symptoms and behaviours.

Provides instructors with practical guidance for incorporating multicultural perspectives into their courses and creating more welcoming and inclusive classrooms. Chapters examine specific sociocultural groups based on gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic and ability status.

Brings the study of cognitive dissonance into the 21st century. Contributors survey discoveries about the role dissonance plays in a variety of information processes, as well as connections between dissonance processes and other motivational processes. Mathematical and action-based models that summarize how dissonance works are also presented.

Examines the scientific underpinnings and practical applications of measures of hope, optimism, self-efficacy, problem-solving, locus of control, creativity, wisdom, courage, positive emotion, self-esteem, love, emotional intelligence, empathy, attachment, forgiveness, humour, gratitude, faith, morality, coping, well-being, and quality of life.

Explores the opportunities that await psychologists in national security settings. The authors are experienced consulting psychologists who provide a richly detailed introduction for psychologists and graduate students. Their insider knowledge offers a glimpse into the workplace culture and group dynamics of national security organisations.

Widely adopted as a textbook in graduate psychology courses, this innovative volume presents over 100 different perspectives on crucial and tricky ethical issues, including the duty to protect, multiple relationships, privacy, privileged communication, testifying as an expert witness, and practicing ethically within the boundaries of managed care.

The field of rehabilitation has undergone major change, shifting toward an emphasis on health outcomes and understanding multiple determinants of health. Person-centered care and evidence-based medicine have become central considerations. This handbook has been significantly updated to reflect these new developments.

Explores embodied cognition from an experimental psychology perspective. Rebecca-Fincher Kiefer examines a wealth of evidence, including behavioural studies supported by neuroscientific findings, that suggest that our knowledge of the world is grounded in the neural pathways that were used when we initially experienced those concepts.