This book provides evidence-based guidance for selecting or developing, implementing, and interpreting universal screening instruments in educational settings.
Psychology is becoming an increasingly specialized but fragmented field. Forces within psychology and society at-large have tended to push psychologists apart. It will take a concerted belief in the importance of unity to combat these forces. This book examines the opportunities for psychologists to come together and unify.
Mental health professionals have long debated what makes effective psychotherapy work. Is it a specific treatment modality, or a set of common factors such as a strong therapeutic relationship? J. Scott Fraser argues that both perspectives are correct. His transtheoretical, transdiagnostic framework identifies the process of change that underlies ......
Histories of the Divisions of the American Psychological Association, Volume II
This volume is the second in the series presenting the histories of the divisions of the American Psychological Association in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the division structure.
Updates clinical guidance and theory for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an approach that gives patients corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize changes in the brain. The authors demonstrate the power of relational work by sharing excerpts and analysis of clinical session transcripts.
Psychosocial Roots, Consequences and Interventions
An analysis of the psychosocial basis of terrorism, offering theory and interventions for understanding, intervening and preventing this challenge to international security. It includes strategies to eliminate the conditions that give rise to terrorism as well as ways to treat terrorism's victims.
Provides essential information to psychologists conducting evidence-based forensic consultation and other professionals who deal with sexual harassment cases in the era of #MeToo. The book presents a method for comprehensively evaluating sexual harassment claims and providing a science-based approach to causation and credibility.
Mardi Horowitz provides a simplified discussion of his empirically supported, integrative approach to case formulation. He traces the roots of this approach and its refinements; then illustrates how Configurational Analysis is applied.
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate damaging of one's own body tissue in the absence of any intent to die. This book provides answers to some key questions such as: How prevalent is NSSI? What is its history? Does it occur more frequently among youth? Among females? And, what influences its occurrence?
