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The authors of this book are searching for a language common to both mind and brain. This language will develop through innovative clinical activity and our reflections upon it.

Psychologist and family therapist Marcia Stern presents a playful and creative family-centered treatment for today's kids. She uses a biopsychosocial perspective to provide a framework for intervention not only across several therapeutic domains, but also across home and school environments.

All couples go through challenging times: some survive and thrive, others don't. How can we understand and use this distinction in the practical application of therapy?

A companion workbook for participants in the Go Girls program, or for therapists, parents, and educators working with girls.

While many adolescent girls in today's culture successfully navigate the transition to adulthood, many are not provided with adequate support and opportunity to achieve their potential.

The lack of sexual desire, known clinically as hypoactive sexual desire (HSD), is generally recognized as the most common sexual problem in America.

Since the publication of the DSM-IV Internet Companion in 1998, the Internet has grown and changed. Robert F. Stamps and his new coauthor, Peter M. Barach, have completely revised and updated the original directory of Web sites for mental health professionals.

This ground-breaking book applies the principles of energy psychology and medicine to mindbody healing.

Depression, a chronic, recurring illness, affects twenty percent of the population.

Clients and solution-focused therapists often accomplish remarkable results under seemingly hopeless economic/political/social conditions. In this book mental health and social service professionals worldwide reveal how small actions can yield big changes in people's lives.

This book brings psychotherapists and counselors into the personal dimension of learning disabilities and provides them with practical insights and guidelines for assessment and treatment.

Psychotherapy is a crucial element in the nation's healthcare system; yet there is no standard introduction to its practice.

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding and treating gender identity disorders.

Treating substance abuse in people who have schizophrenia is difficult even when hallucinations and delusions are under control.

An innovative approach to treatment of young clients who won't or can't respond to conversation-based therapy.

Professional and Ethical Issues in Psychology is an examination of the changing dynamics and ethics of psychology as a profession.

Counseling psychologists have a major role to play in medical settings; this book prepares them for that role.

Children with emotional and behavioral disorders are often adrift in our society, lacking adequate mental health care or caught between several child-serving systems, such as child welfare, juvenile justice, and the schools.

Infertility, which affects one in six couples--over ten million people, is at once a medical, psychological, and social problem. Infertility and Involuntary Childlessness shows therapists how to help individuals and couples cope with this crisis.

Depression tyrannizes a startling 17.4 million Americans today, irrespective of age, culture, or socioeconomic status.

Designed to help those suffering the lasting effects of accidents, assaults, injuries and disasters, this book guides trauma victims in getting medical, psychological and legal help, and instructs clinicians on how to treat these patients effectively.

Presents models for integrating medical and mental health services to best address patients' needs.

Children who have been traumatized but cannot talk about their experiences, either because they have pledged their silence or because they do not know the words, subconsciously call for help through their art.

Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) can be crippling.

Wedge's central argument, presented clearly and illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience, even the experience of one's own self, is a construction of signs. Symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual, and drama create and shape our realities and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change.

This book is about autobiographical memory and personal history, with a special focus on the impact of trauma on several levels of information-processing and memory organization.

Many happy and productive adults grew up under difficult conditions that they couldn't change, no matter how hard they tried. Some struggled with learning and attention problems and yet found a way to succeed. What were the secrets of their resiliency?

Provides a model of family therapy for working with families across cultures.

Long before the age of reliable psychodiagnosis (the last 200 years), a primitive vocabulary sprung up to address odd and unconventional people within the body social.

Speaking from the trenches, Richard Kagan offers hope to all those who want to help high-risk children and their families.