People with Hyperactivity by Eric Taylor Hardcover - 260 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# JWB-PSY1 $150.85 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781898683469

• a practical, comprehensive and evidence-based approach to clinical work with ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder, and to similar problems in people with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities
• of relevance to professionals of all kinds who deal with hyperactive children and people with ADHD
• explains the science base of understanding hyperactivity and ADHD
• provides practical, step-by-step instructions on how to treat hyperactivity and ADHD - including informative leaflets for parents and teachers.

Child Neuropsychology Assessment and for Interventions Neurodevelopmental Disorders by Anne Teeter Ellison, and Margaret Semrud-Clikeman Softcover - 330 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY1 $ 88.15 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780387476704

Child Neuropsychology guides therapists and neurologists toward common goals: early, accurate
diagnosis and finely focused interventions across disciplines. By analyzing the affects of brain development on children and adolescents’ behavioral, cognitive, learning, and psychosocial abilities and deficits, this groundbreaking volume brings vital perspectives to assessment and treatment. Leading experts Ellison and Semrud-Clikeman start with the basics of child clinical neuropsychology and functional neuroanatomy, taking readers through examination protocols and assessment instruments to treatment planning and methods.

• Represents a unique turning point in the practice of clinical child neuropsychology as knowledge in the biological andbehavioral sciences merge.
• Addresses the many different medical, behavioral, and educational treatment approaches available.

In this volume, the authors address the full range of neurodevelopmental pathologies, from learning disabilities to autism, ADHD to CNS disorders, traumatic brain injury to fetal alcohol syndrome. Child Neuropsychology demonstrates an integrated transactional model of rehabilitation and intervention strategies, showing how families and school personnel can collaborate with mental health and medical professionals for effective therapy with lasting results.

Inside this volume, readers will discover:

• Comprehensive overviews of the effects of biogenic and environmental factors on brain development.
• An in-depth guide to assessment batteries and diagnostic procedures.
• An integrative framework modeling targeted collaborative intervention.
• Discussions of effective medical, behavioral, and social/educational treatments.
• Richly detailed case studies applying the authors’ methods to child and teen-aged clients with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, TBI, and seizure disorders.
• Valuable tables, charts, and reference lists.

Contents:
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction to Child Clinical Neuropsychology Functional Neuroanatomy. Electropyshiology and Neuroimaging Techniques in Neuropsychology. Integrating Neurological, Neurodiological, and Psychological Examiniations in Neuropsychological Assessment. Neuropsychological Assessment Approaches and Diagnostic Procedures. Severe Neuropsychiatric and Externalized Disorders of Adolescence and Childhood. Neuropsychological Correlates of Childhood and Adolescent Psychatric Disorders: Internalized Disorders. Language-Related and Learning Disorders. Metabolic, Biogenetic, Seizure, and Neuromotor Disorders of Childhood. Acquired Neurological Disorders and Diseases of Childhood. Neuropsychological Intervention and Treatment Approaches for Childhood and Adolescent Disorders. Clinical Case Studies.- Glossary. References.- Name Index. Subject Index.

The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan Softcover - 224 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY3 $ 36.30 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780765705075

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of defenses always desirable? And what is the analyst's role in the mourning process - should the analyst struggle to help patients relinquish defenses against pain and mourning, which they may experience as vital to their precarious psychic survival? Or should he or she accompany patients on their way to self-discovery, which may or may not result in the patients letting go of their defenses when faced with the pain and mourning inherent in trauma? the utilization of various defenses and the resulting unresolved mourning reflect the magnitude of the anxiety and pain that is found on the road to mourning. The ability to mourn and the capacity to bear some helplessness while still finding life meaningful are the objectives of the analytic work in this book.

The special contribution of this book is the provision of a detailed description of the analyses of patients who have employed an array of defenses in order to avoid facing the painful feelings inherent in mourning in specific life situations. Often, the cases are illustrated with verbatim exchanges from the sessions. The reader is invited to be "present" and follow the intimate patient-therapist dialogue from a close perspective, learning about the problems and dilemmas of both patient and therapist when confronted with loss.

Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships by Robert J. Kohlenberg, and Mavis Tsai Softcover - 230 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY4 $ 59.05 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780387708546

• Provides conceptual framework not isolated techniques
• Offers a psychotherapeutically useful version of radical behaviorism
• Contains ethical guidelines
• Covers borderline, narcissistic and multiple personality disorders

As cognitive behavior therapy becomes increasingly integrated, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) remains a rich therapeutic method. FAP synthesizes aspects of psychodynamic and object relations therapy with traditional CBT methods, and author/ practitioners Robert Kohlenberg and Mavis Tsai originally created this book to be more than a simple how-to manual. Rather it is a powerful framework for clinicians seeking to rethink their approach to the therapeutic relationship. Now in paperback, this classic work is more relevant than ever.

The book begins with the theory behind the therapy (including its roots in B. F. Skinner’s behavior-analytic work in the 1970s), explaining why clients’ unique needs may extend beyond well-mapped routes to change. From there, the authors present the clinical principles of FAP and their uses in treating diffuse, resistant problems. Case illustrations model the therapeutic dyad, show FAP techniques in action, and offer crucial caveats.

• The ground rules: how, and why, FAP works.
• Recognizing clinically relevant verbal behaviors.
• The role of the self in personality disorders.
• New roles for cognitions and beliefs in therapy.
• Memories and emotions: what they can and can’t do to promote change.
• How FAP fills the niche between psychodynamic and behavioral therapy.
• Key issues in ethics, research, and supervision.

Diagnostic Issues in Dementia, Advancing the Research Agenda for DSM-V by Trey Sunderland, M.D., Olusagun Baiyewu, M.D., Paul Sirovatka, M.S., and Darrel A. Regier Softcover - 192 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY5 $ 60.85 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780890422984

Part of the new series Advancing the Research Agenda for DSM-V, Diagnostic Issues in Dementia comprises nine chapters with research suggestions for consideration for the upcoming DSM-V process, reflecting the nascent effort toward a new diagnostic nomenclature in the still rapidly evolving field of dementia.

Here, 18 experts provide critical pieces of the dementia diagnostic story:

• The all-important neuropathological criteria of Alzheimer's disease and the aging brain;
  current epidemiologic literature and the challenges of making even minor changes in the
  general definition of dementia; and a scholarly review of the diagnostic nomenclature across
  the existing criteria, with numerous critiques and suggestion for future research
• The growing evidence for mild cognitive impairment as an identifiable entity suitable for
  inclusion in DSM-V; the current neuropsychological profiling that serves as the centerpiece of
  the diagnostic criteria for dementia and suggests that new instruments evaluating even broader
  aspects of cognition, including executive function, will be important in helping to identify
  dementia at an earlier stage of development
• The various behavioral syndromes associated with dementia, with emphasis on the need
  for great diagnostic clarity to help focus appropriate therapy in this area of increased burden for
  patients and family caregivers
• Biomarkers in dementia that may already be appropriate for inclusion in our diagnostic
  criteria; the current diagnostic utility of specific imaging modalities, which, combined with
  expanding ligand technology or markers of genetic predisposition, might further enhance
  diagnostic accuracy
• A review of the tremendous explosion of information in this field, asserting that, with the
  exception of the rare Mendelian disorders, genetic profiles are not yet ready to make substantial
  contributions to nosology

Despite all of these exciting findings, the editors state that we are still dealing with primarily clinical syndromes and therefore are still using clinical diagnostic criteria established at consensus conferences. In the spirit of scientific humility, they assert that these experts' views must be considered within the vast and expanding literature related to the dementias. Given the associated but still generally nonspecific biological mechanisms underlying these syndromes, new scientific developments might occur at any time and immediately affect the interpretations and considerations presented here.

Contents:
Contributors. Disclosure statement. Foreword. Preface: modern diagnostic approaches in dementia: on the cusp of change. Alzheimer's disease and the aging brain. Dementia: epidemiological considerations,
nomenclature, and a tacit consensus definition. Diagnostic criteria in dementia: a comparison of
current criteria, research challenges, and implications for DSM-V and ICD-11. Mild cognitive impairment
should be considered for DSM-V. Neuropsychological testing in the diagnosis of dementia. Diagnostic
categories and criteria for neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia: research agenda for DSM-V. Biomarkers in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: are we ready? Neuroimaging as a surrogate marker of disease. Genetics and dementia nosology. Index.

Diagnostic Issues in Substance Use Disorders, Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V by John B. Saunders, M.D., UQ, Marc A. Schuckit, M.D., Paul Sirovatka, M.S., and Darrel A. Regier, M.D. Softcover - 368 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY6 $ 89.95 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780890422991

Inviting the help of colleagues worldwide, the concise Diagnostic Issues in Substance Use Disorders is part of the new series Advancing the Research Agenda for DSM-V. Its 19 chapters by an international group of experts are designed to stimulate questions that will help guide research related to the development of the next editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), with the goal of ensuring that the major substance use diagnoses represent the same condition in both references.

They cover 10 major issues in three main sections:

1. Overarching issues relevant for the development of international diagnostic systems - statistical modeling techniques and whether DSM-V should use categorical and/or dimensional diagnostic approaches; methods review, emphasizing new hybrid techniques for developing and testing diagnostic concepts; the need for separate clinical and research-oriented diagnostic criteria, incorporating both categorical and dimensional attributes; neurobiological changes characterizing substance dependence; the importance of cultural attributes in developing definitions of substance use disorders; and the history of the development of diagnostic systems and how to optimize the "crosswalk" between DSM and ICD.

2. Research questions more specific to the substance use disorders section of DSM - comorbidity between substance use disorders and other psychiatric conditions, the relatively unique clinical course of substance-induced mental disorders and appropriate treatment approaches; the precision of the criteria and threshold for a diagnosis and how to improve them; the subtypes of substance use disorder, including how they have been derived and the extent to which they relate to neurobiological processes; the seemingly high prevalence of alcohol dependence in young people; suggested research questions to evaluate the application of diagnostic criteria to adolescents; and the specific psychoactive substances cannabis and nicotine.

3. Whether substance use disorders should be included in a broader section termed “addictive disorders” - impulse-control disorders (especially pathological gambling and the advantages and disadvantages of adding it to the current substance use disorders section), identifying research opportunities regarding their assessment and neurocognitive and physiological bases, discussing the specifics of the research agenda and how it might be implemented, and presenting questions generated by the research agenda developmental process.

Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology by Eve Caligor, M.D., Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., and John F. Clarkin, Ph.D Hardcover - 284 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY7 $ 81.75 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781585622122

Offering a sophisticated introduction to a contemporary psychodynamic model of the mind and treatment, this book provides an approach to understanding and treating higher level personality pathology. It describes a specific form of treatment called "dynamic psychotherapy for higher level personality pathology" (DPHP), which was designed specifically to treat the rigidity that characterizes that condition. Based on psychodynamic object relations theory, DPHP is an outgrowth of transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) and is part of an integrated approach to psychodynamic treatment of personality pathology across the spectrum of severity - from higher level personality pathology, described in this volume, to severe personality pathology, described in a companion volume, Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations. Together, they provide a comprehensive description of an object relations theory-based approach to treatment of personality disorders, embedded in an integrated model of personality.

As a guide to treatment, Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology provides a clear, specific, and comprehensive description of how to practice DPHP from beginning to end, presented in jargon-free exposition using extensive clinical illustrations.

The authors offer a comprehensive description of psychodynamic consultation that includes sharing the diagnostic impression, establishing treatment goals, discussing treatment options, obtaining informed consent, and establishing treatment frame.

Among the book's benefits:

• Takes a diagnosis-driven approach, presenting a clear model of both the psychopathology and its treatment;
• Explains underlying theory and basic elements of DPHP for those first learning dynamic therapy;
• Offers an integrated, innovative synthesis of contemporary psychodynamic approaches to personality pathology and psychodynamic psychotherapy;
• Describes goals, strategies, tactics, and techniques of the treatment to demonstrate its flexibility over a relatively long course of treatment;
• Provides sophisticated discussion of integrating dynamic psychotherapy with medication management and other forms of treatment.

DPHP offers a broad range of patients the opportunity to modify maladaptive personality functioning in ways that can permanently enhance their quality of life. Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy for Higher Level Personality Pathology provides experienced clinicians with a hands-on approach to that method, and is also useful as a primary textbook in courses focusing on the technique of dynamic psychotherapy or in courses on psychodynamics.

Contents:
Preface. Introduction and overview. Part I: Theoretical Understanding of Higher Level Personality Pathology. A psychodynamic approach to personality pathology. Internal object relations, mental organization, and subjective experience in personality pathology. Part II: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Higher Level Personality Pathology. Introduction. The basic elements of DPHP. The strategies of DPHP and the treatment setting. The techniques of DPHP, part 1: listening to the patient. The techniques of DPHP, part 2: intervening. The tactics of DPHP. Part III: Patient Assessment, Phases of Treatment, and Combining DPHP With Other Treatments. Patient assessment and differential treatment planning. The phases of treatment. Combining DPHP with medication management and other forms of treatment. Concluding comments. References. Index.

Recognition and Prevention of Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders by Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., William S. Stone, Ph.D., and Michael J. Lyons, Ph.D. Hardcover - 429 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY8 $ 92.70 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781585623082

Recognizing that favorable clinical outcomes are associated with earlier initiation of treatment - and even more ideally with prevention - this volume addresses the current status of early intervention in, and prevention of, major mental and substance use disorders. A team of distinguished participants addresses this problem at many levels - from the DNA molecule to public policy - in order to show how prevention efforts should be informed by a better understanding of etiology and by a knowledge of indicators of vulnerability.

In considering the current standing of etiological knowledge, Recognition and Prevention of Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders addresses issues that are critical precursors to the prevention of mental disorders and offers an understanding of factors that contribute to the disorders' development. The contributors review genetic methodologies and current findings in mental disorders, with an emphasis on schizophrenia, and then show how biological and psychosocial environmental variables may affect vulnerability. Chapters devoted specifically to lessons in prevention drawn from recent research into schizophrenia discuss the implications of prodromal studies and relationships between stress, critical periods, and the development of the disorder. The book includes contributions from NIH representatives on how basic scientific understanding of mental disorders can be translated into public policy. It also features chapters that describe cutting-edge projects in prevention research for Alzheimer's disease, drug dependence, antisocial behavior, and posttraumatic stress disorder - each providing compelling
accounts of how existing knowledge can be adapted to promising prevention efforts.

Among the volume's contributions:

• New data on the role of substance abuse - particularly marijuana and psychostimulants - in
  increasing vulnerability to schizophrenia
• Review of vulnerability factors for several relevant disorders, examining stress and its
  concomitant psychobiological responses and the contribution of cognitive factors to
  vulnerability to depression
• Intriguing approach for translating successful treatment methods for schizophrenia into
  efforts to prevent the transition from the prodrome of the disorder to the full-blown illness
• Program for prevention of antisocial behavior that can be implemented as early as the first
  grade
• Secondary prevention efforts for posttraumatic stress disorder, with a focus on
  pharmacological interventions

Contents:
Introduction. Etiology of Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders. Genetic risk factors for mental
disorders: general principles and state of the science. Environmental determinants of psychosis: a focus on drug abuse. Social environment and psychiatric disorders: a historical review presented on receipt of
the Paul H. Hoch Award. Vulnerability to Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders. Psychobiology of
resilience to stress: implications for prevention of anxiety. Cognitive vulnerability to depression:
implications for prevention. Vulnerability to alcohol and substance use disorders. Prevention: Lessons from Schizophrenia. Treatment of the schizophrenia prodrome. Adolescent neurodevelopment: a critical
period for preventive intervention. Toward prevention of schizophrenia: early detection and intervention. NIH Perspectives on Prevention. Prospects for the prevention of mental illness: integrating neuroscience and behavior. Drugs and alcohol: treating and preventing abuse, addiction and their medical consequences. Alcoholism: developmental patterns of drinking and prevention of alcohol use disorders. Challenges for the Near Future. Prevention of Alzheimer's disease: principles and prospects. Five facts about preventing drug dependence. Prevention of aggressive behavior through middle school using a first-grade classroom-based intervention. Conceptually driven pharmacological approaches to acute trauma. Index.

Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, 4e by Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. Hardcover - 1,056 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE Cat.# DA-PSY9 $259.05 BUY Published:  2007   ISBN:  9781585622160

First published in 1989 and already a staple of psychiatric practice through three editions, Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders has been thoroughly revised to reflect modern clinical expertise in a more accessible volume. More than 160 authorities share insights gained from firsthand experience in a state-of-the-art text that covers all major treatments in psychiatry linked to specific disorders, with a pluralistic approach that includes all major treatment modalities without focusing exclusively on favorite approaches. Not only has each chapter been completely updated, the text has been reorganized to facilitate its publication in a single volume that cuts directly to the heart of disorder-based treatments.

Scrupulously reviewed to consolidate treatment information most needed by readers, the book is organized along the lines of DSM-IV-TR to cover the entire spectrum of conditions: disorders of childhood; cognitive disorders; substance-related disorders; psychotic disorders; mood disorders; anxiety, dissociative, and adjustment disorders; somatoform and factitious disorders; eating disorders; personality disorders; sleep disorders; and disorders of impulse control. Empirically validated treatments for each disorder are summarize