“…Counseling psychologists have always been vitally involved in promoting good health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. This volume focuses on how their efforts can foster and build optimal human strength and well-being. …”

“…The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior. …”

“…A book specific Web site contains a free online study guide and a variety of teaching tools. An Instructor's Manual/Test Bank and a Computerized Test Bank…”

“…This clinician-friendly guide presents a model for engaging the most challenging children and families who are served by the child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and special educations systems. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From change to accepting what cannot be changed; Final words: A new beginning; Key points to remember; Further reading; 7 For relatives and friends; What can you do now?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copy Right; About the Author; Series Editors Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The cultural inheritance of Project for a Scientific Psychology; CHAPTER TWO: Recent progress in the field of neuroscience; CHAPTER THREE: The current idea of a child's mental development; CHAPTER FOUR: A new model of brain development; CHAPTER FIVE: Drive dynamics and maternal modulation; CHAPTER SIX: Normal and pathogenic development of mother-child interaction; CHAPTER SEVEN: Defence structures and the development of consciousness; CHAPTER EIGHT: The origin of language…”

“…In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are also guided by what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman call Mating Intelligence--a range of mental abilities that have evolved to help us find the right partner. …”

“…Of special utility for clinicians, the book includes a manual for delivering an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol. …”

“…Although not written as a training manual per se , the book offers photocopiable ex…”

“…Edited by leading relational frame theory (RFT) scholars, Simon Dymond, PhD, and Bryan Roche, PhD, Advances in Relational Frame Theory presents advances in all aspects of RFT research over the last decade, and provides mental health professionals a greater understanding of the core principals of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). …”

“…Addressing a growing need among mental health practitioners, this authoritative book brings together experts in both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). …”

“…And while an 'us v. them' mentality persists, a growing sense of empathy, of connection, with those in remote parts of the world has caught hold and is spreading. …”

“…Anxiety disorders are significant mental health illnesses that impair lives and cost society millions of dollars in health care expenses and lost productivity. …”

“…Studies reported on include: the Stroop effect; mental calculation; vocabulary retention; contextual interference effects; autobiographical memory; target detection; and specificity and transfer in choice reaction time tasks. …”

“…Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. …”

“…Couples Therapy in Managed Care: Facing the Crisis provides social workers, psychologists, and counselors with an overview of the negative effects of the managed care industry on the quality of mental health care. Within this book, you will discover the paradoxes that occur with the mixing of business principals and service principles and find valuable suggestions on how you can creatively cope within the managed care context. …”

“…Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to end of life care for mental health professionals / Julia E. Kasl-Godley -- Trajectories of chronic illnesses / Michelle S. …”

“…The model of expressive arts therapy is used to explore the questions that arise from the cases, which range from issues of war trauma, to anger, grief, and the impact of mental illn…”

“…In addition, the analysis of cerebro-cerebellar interactions strongly supports the concept of the close functional unity and harmonization of the brain and the cerebellum, underlining the important role that the cerebellar cortex plays in the performance of higher mental faculties, creativity, emotional processes, and homeostatic equilibrium of the human body…”