Voices of the Chronically Ill
This book describes what it is like to embody the chaos of chronic illness and the related loss and remaking of one’s sense of self. Through first-person narratives, it reveals vulnerability, suffering, and brokenness, yet also endurance and fortitude.
Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This book shares the incisive narratives of parents of a struggling child in adolescent mental health services. Though often under-consulted, their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a valued resource for the child’s recovery.
A New Perspective on Sexual Orientation
Common perspectives on sexual orientation are inaccurate. This book establishes criteria for a robust theory, evaluates major perspectives, and proposes the first novel theory in decades: a four-component approach that explains many fascinating sexual orientation occurrences.
This book provides vital information on loss and trauma for counselors and therapists. It fills a critical gap in graduate training by offering conceptual frameworks, rich descriptive cases, and a review of interventions for working with traumatized and bereaved clients.
The Psychology of People, Power and Politics
We view the world in increasingly psychological terms, yet the discipline itself has been largely overlooked. In a series of essays covering issues from mental health to war, this book reflects on psychology, questions its relationship to power, and offers new perspectives.
A first-hand perspective on Traditional Indigenous Medicine and ayahuasca, based on teachings from the Asháninka, Mazatec, Cocama, & Navajo. This book explores spirituality and healing past traumas, while analyzing the psychedelic world’s potential, contradictions, and dangers.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
This book uncovers the forgotten battle over eugenic sterilization in New Jersey. Between 1910 and 1942, reform-minded feminists clashed with a powerful Catholic bloc that skillfully rendered the controversial legislation political suicide for any who dared to support it.
A positive school climate is central to student success. The Psychology of School Climate is the most comprehensive study on the topic, an essential compendium of global research. This book offers the gateway to understanding the vital bond between students and school climate.
The Origins of the Love Song
This book offers a new perspective on the origins of human sexuality. It reveals that romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not our original evolutionary features. Early humans practiced multiple-partner relations until culture restrained their innate sexual nature.
Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics
How do we know if someone else is conscious? This book offers a compelling bioethical analysis of one of neuroscience’s most intriguing topics: states of consciousness, bringing together contributions from international experts in neuroscience, philosophy, law, and ethics.
This book develops an integrative view of individuality by combining it with the systems of intelligence and creativity. It unifies key theories, revealing a new understanding of the integral individual.
Learning and Long-Term Illness
Nearly 40 years after it was written, Susan Sapsed’s diary was rediscovered. It told a story of personal illness, practitioner misunderstanding, and patient frustration. Using psychoanalytic frameworks, this book invites a mature Susan to reflect on her younger self.
This volume addresses emerging trends in curriculum and technology at the intersection of national and international challenges. It shows how curriculum influences schooling, society, and global changes, making it vital for scholars and educators in an era of remote teaching.
Psychological Evaluations after Motor Vehicle Accidents
This book systematically reviews the steps in preparing psychological assessments of individuals after a motor vehicle accident. It outlines common mental disorders and causation, assisting psychologists, lawyers, and insurers in determining fair compensation and rehabilitation.
Preventing Child Maltreatment and Traumas
Drawing from experiences in Italy and Japan, this book shares successful clinical cases, new diagnostic techniques, and screening tools for early detecting and treating child maltreatment. An essential resource for clinicians, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and paediatricians.
Intentional Parenting
This book offers a multi-cultural, global perspective on parenting. It combines cultural wisdom with the latest scientific research to guide you in raising a healthy child through every stage, from connecting with an infant to communicating with an adolescent.
This book discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working environments, learning, and personal lives. It considers policy making, workplace changes, and the pandemic’s impact on specific groups such as LGBT individuals, people in romantic relationships, and victims of abuse.
This volume explores the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives, covering meaning creation, language development, and contemporary discourse. A must-read for anyone interested in a broader overview of the field, it offers seminal approaches for future research.