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Reviews the scientific support for popular advocacy recommendations. It first summarises trial commentators' recommendations, then reviews the scientific support for these recommendations, and finally evaluates the recommendations in light of the scientific support. Topics include attorney demeanour, verbal and nonverbal communications, the attorney-client relationship, and storytelling.

A practical guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation. It covers the nuts-and-bolts of public speaking: preparing a talk, submitting an abstract, developing your slides, managing anxiety, handling questions, and preventing public-speaking disasters. It also applies these tips to common presentations, such as research talks.

The first book to describe empirically-supported early intervention with children aged 2-5 years who have or are at risk for ADHD.

Provides an introduction to the theory, historical evolution, research, and practice of this process-oriented approach to psychotherapy. This essential primer, amply illustrated with case examples featuring diverse clients, is perfect for graduate students studying theories of therapy and counselling, as well as for seasoned practitioners interested in understanding how this approach has evolved and how it might be used in their own practice.

The ambitious goal of this book is to transform how mental health practitioners understand and treat diverse groups of women. Doing so involves thinking in more nuanced ways about women's multiple identities that are formed from the complex interplay of ethnic and racial background, social class, sexual orientation, ability/disability status, religion, age, and other factors.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.