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Children with siblings may naturally compare their own behaviours to those of their sisters and brothers, and feel that they are not living up to their parents' expectations. This book serves as a fun reminder about the concept of unconditional love. You may not always love the ways your child behaves, but you will always love your child for who he or she is as an individual.

This is loaded with tips and advice for taking on everyday challenges and for building up confidence and self-esteem. Take a peek inside and find lots of ways to explore your strengths and feel more confident in school, with your friends...with everything!

Spirituality and religion influence the way many clients interpret their life experience. Recognizing this reality, this book offers mental health professionals with an in-depth look at how to integrate both Western and Eastern spiritually-oriented interventions into clinical practice.

Leading scholars and practitioners examine the construct of self through vocational psychology and career development topics centered on theory, assessment, and intervention.

In clear, accessible language, this book introduces readers to the most widely researched and broadly used personality assessment instrument.

Rather than explain each of the 80 standards of the APA Ethics Code, this examines the code's underlying principles. It begins with a basic introduction to the code, including a brief history and an overview of general concepts. Next, it explores in depth four ethical concepts applicable to all psychologists - competence, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and avoiding harm and exploitation. Finally, it shows how these key concepts apply to specific psychologist roles.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy provides an introduction to the theory, history, research, and practice of this effective, empirically validated approach.

This comprehensive book assembles chapters from international experts to provide a broad-based and multidisciplinary analysis of aggression and violence, their negative consequences, and promising interventions. Five sections examine major theoretical perspectives, genetic and environmental determinants, and the psychological and relational processes underlying human violence and aggression.

Addresses the many quandaries encountered by mental health professionals who practice in the field of reproductive medicine. This book sets the standard for psychologists who work with donors and recipients of gametes and embryos, gestational surrogates, intended parents, and children conceived through assisted reproduction.

Published in 1992, the first edition of History of Psychotherapy is still considered the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on the subject. Building on the success of its predecessor, this new edition provides timely updates to reflect both the continuity and change in psychotherapy.

This is a drawing book for kids to help them get in touch with and learn to express their emotions. The book is divided up into different fun doodle activities such as `name your feelings', `what do you feel when', and `how does it feel when', to help readers start thinking about what they experience when they are feeling an emotion.

This book explains how humans process, retain, and learn from sensory information. Citing recent research and using new computational models and methodologies, cognitive experts describe how vision, memory, and attention interconnect to influence human information processing.

Amy Wenzel describes the main types of perinatal anxiety and the various ways in which they are expressed in women, as well as approaches for assessment and treatment.

The author¿s lively examination of the mind-body split moves from classical ideas all the way up through Western history to modern psychology and the intriguing findings of neuropsychology.

Although no single therapeutic model claims a majority of practitioners, the most frequently endorsed approach is integrative or eclectic therapy. In this book, the author presents and explores psychotherapy integration, its theory, history, the therapy process, primary change mechanisms, empirical basis, and future developments.

Hypnosis has always captured the attention of some of the most creative thinkers in the field of psychology. Today, hypnosis and hypnotic phenomena are studied with neuroimaging techniques, and hypnosis has informed cognitive science in meaningful ways. This title is suitable for those interested in the theory and practice of clinical hypnosis.

Covers various areas in a kid's life that AD/HD can affect: school (homework, test-taking, planning for projects, time management, making friends and proofreading); home (organizing, taking medication and doing things step-by-step); and behavior and emotion control/regulation (anger management, conflict resolution and learning from mistakes).

Anxiety can make everything seem unmanageable - from dealing with family and friends to managing schoolwork and extracurricular activities. This book helps teens take control of their anxious feelings by providing cognitive - behavioral strategies to tackle anxiety and to feel confident and empowered in the process.

An interactive self-help book that guides 6- to 12-year-old children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat negative thinking. This ""What to Do"" guidebook aims to empower children to work toward change.

Guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat a variety of habits. This interactive self-help book includes engaging examples, illustrations, and instructions that teach children a set of habit-busting strategies in the form of 'keys' to unlock the chains holding their habits in place.

Guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with sleep. This book tackles fears, busy brains, restless bodies, and overdependence on parents.

Forgiveness has been found to be a pivotal process in helping clients resolve anger over betrayals, relieve depression and anxiety, and restore peace of mind. For 30 years, the authors have pioneered these techniques, and here explain the process of forgiveness in psychotherapy in a way that can be applied by clinicians regardless of their theoretical orientation.

Guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger. This interactive self-help book teaches children a set of "anger dousing" methods aimed at cooling angry thoughts and controlling angry actions, resulting in calmer, more effective kids.

An interactive self-help book designed to guide 6-12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of generalised anxiety. This book educates and motivates children to work towards change. It includes a note to parents by psychologist and author Dawn Huebner, PhD.

This third edition of reflects changes in understanding of ADHD and in our approach to its treatment.. While the majority of what's written about ADHD emphasizes behaviors that bother adults, this book emphasises those aspects of ADHD that are troublesome to the children, trying to look at the world more from their point of view.