Course Adoption Books on Clinical Resources

• 14 Ounces of Prevention

  This volume identifies well-documented model programs that exemplify promotion, prevention, and emergent intervention alternatives for people suffering from some form of psychological disorder or distress.

• Abused Women and Survivor Therapy

  This state-of-the art treatment manual contends that traditional psychotherapies for trauma victims have been insufficient in treating abused women. The author describes critical modifications to traditional practice that will allow practitioners to work more effectively with female victims of abuse.

• Action Therapy With Families and Groups

  This book introduces clinicians to innovative therapeutic options for use with families and groups that involve physical movement and expressive arts techniques.

• Acute Stress Disorder

  This book is the first comprehensive clinical text on acute stress disorder since its 1994 introduction into DSM-IV as a diagnostic category.

• Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice

  This book offers the ADDRESSING framework for recognizing and working with cultural influences—helping readers understand identity as a multidimensional combination of age, developmental and acquired disabilities, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender.

• Adlerian Therapy

  This book demonstrates the relevance of Adlerian therapy by illustrating how Adler's ideas influenced current practice and emphasizing the short-term nature of its interventions. In addition, the authors show how Adlerian therapy works in practice with individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as in educational settings.

• Adolescent Suicide

  This second edition incorporates almost 15 years of new research on adolescent suicide and critical thinking about clinical assessment and intervention in addition to an expanded focus on prevention.

• Advances in Clinical Cognitive Science

  The essays in this anthology feature findings from studies of specific clinical samples and a variety of disorders, but also present quantitative techniques and associated data-acquisition methods that have general application.

• The Anatomy of Psychotherapy

  This book offers a critical analysis of the psychotherapy systems and techniques presented in the video series.

• Beyond Talk Therapy

  This APA book is a comprehensive guide to expressive techniques, with each chapter focusing on a different technique, describing its theoretical underpinnings, and summarizing research on its effectiveness.

• Biological Substrates of Human Sexuality

  This book explores some of the past decade's explosion of research on the neuroscience and endocrinology of sexuality and presents the latest findings in this field.

• Boundaries in Psychotherapy

  Written for professionals to help them understand and navigate boundary issues such as exchange of gifts, nonsexual touch, therapist’s self-disclosure, dual relationships, bartering, home visits, home office practice, and telehealth.

• Bullying Prevention

  In this book, the authors bring together years of experience in research and applied behavioral sciences to show how educators, school psychologists, counselors, and other professionals can address the problem of bullying and aggression in schools.

• Career Counseling of College Students

  This APA book offers over 200 practical career counseling strategies and is the most comprehensive guide in the field for career counselors advising college students.

• Caring for Ourselves

  This book demonstrates a way to balance personal and professional lives by tending physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and the need to feel connected.

• Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy

  APA published book for family therapists focusing on strategies for integrating various modalities and schools of intervention in practice.

• The Causes of Rape

  This book examines why some men seem prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex.

• Children of Depressed Parents

  This APA book provides an integrated framework for understanding the risks children of depressed parents face in developing depression themselves.

• Clinical Dilemmas in Psychotherapy

  This book describes the process of psychotherapy from the standpoint of managing the fundamental dilemmas that confront all psychotherapists, regardless of theoretical approach or treatment modality used.

• Clinical Geropsychology

  This APA book provides invaluable guidance for working with aging populations.

• Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings

  This book provides an overview of the roles and functions of clinical health psychologists as well as the education, training, personal, and professional issues involved.

• Clinical Neuropsychology

  This book provides cutting-edge information on how to use and interpret neuroimaging technologies and how to integrate pharmacological approaches into treatment.

• Clinical Supervision

  This book guides readers through a science-informed process of clinical supervision that clearly delineates the competencies required for good practice.

• Cognition and Suicide

  This book is a compilation of theory, research, and intervention practices focused on cognition and suicide.

• Cognitive–Behavioral Group Therapy for Specific Problems and Populations

  This APA book provides practical techniques for conducting cognitive-behavioral therapy in group settings, focusing on ways to enhance group cohesiveness and keep the group on task.

• Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research

  This book discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks.

• Combined Treatments for Mental Disorders

  This book focuses on ways to integrate psychotherapy and pharmacological treatments for various mental disorders. The book also discusses issues regarding prescriptive authority for psychologists.

• Comprehending Suicide

  This volume gathers in one book 13 of the most thought-provoking works of the century that offer invaluable insights on suicide and on responses to it.

• Couple Power Therapy

  In this unique book, Drs. Sheras and Koch-Sheras introduce the Couple Power Therapy model, an exciting new approach in which partners cocreate a unified vision for their relationship.

• Couples Coping With Stress

  This book presents an in-depth look at original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and stress caused by physical and mental illnesses

• Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion

  This book offers a comprehensive guide for helping professionals and other people who are interested in their personal development, deepening their friendships, sustaining intimacy in their couple relationships, achieving success in the workplace, and developing healthy child-rearing practices.

• Creating High-Tech Teams

  In this book, leaders in science and industry explore the state-of-the-art in technology and teamwork and how to translate this information into the best possible guidance for industrial–organizational practitioners.

• Critical Events in Psychotherapy Supervision

  This book helps supervisors understand the dilemmas they most frequently encounter when supervising psychotherapist trainees.

• Critical Thinking About Psychology

  This book challenges psychologists to re-examine basic assumptions of psychology so as to debunk myths and false assumptions.

• The Dependent Patient

  This book presents an integrated, empirically based framework for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of dependent psychotherapy patients.

• Dialogues on Difference

  In this series of creative scholarly essays arranged in eight "dialogues," leading clinicians wrestle with questions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality as they apply to the therapeutic relationship.

• Dream Work in Therapy

  This APA book discusses a cognitive-experiential model for working with dreams and provides clear instructions for implementing it in practice.

• EMDR as an Integrative Psychotherapy Approach

  This APA book explores the latest developments and clinical applications of EMDR, the complex psychotherapy approach originally developed to treat posttraumatic stress disorder.

• Emotion-Focused Therapy

  This APA book offers therapists a new approach for to help clients express their emotions appropriately rather than suppressing or avoiding their feelings.

• Emotions in the Practice of Psychotherapy

  This APA book explores the relevance of emotion for psychotherapy, theory, and practice and provides 26 strategies that psychotherapists may use to help uncover and understand emotions in their clients.

• Empathy Reconsidered

  Although there are many unanswered questions about the role of empathy in psychotherapy, this book brings the reader up to date by comparing different operational definitions and by discussing the varieties of empathy and their hypothesized relationships to therapy process and outcome.

• Empirically Based Play Interventions for Children

  This book is a compilation of innovative, well-designed play interventions, presented for the first time in one text.

• Essential Components of Cognitive–Behavior Therapy for Depression

  This APA book details the 5 basic components of cognitive–behavior in practice: individualized case formulation, session structuring, activity scheduling, using the thought record, and the schema change method.

• Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis

  This book was born out of a desire to bridge the gap between research and practice, and to bring hypnosis into the mainstream of science-based clinical psychotherapy by introducing a wide readership to the benefits of incorporating hypnotic methods into clinical work.

• Ethics in HIV-Related Psychotherapy

  This book offers an overview and decision making model for handling ethical, legal and moral dilemmas for clinicians serving HIV positive clients and for use in graduate ethics courses.

• Ethnocultural Aspects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

  This book is a first systematic examination of ethnocultural aspects of PTSD.

• Evaluating Outcomes

  This book provides psychologists and related service providers with the empirical tools needed to evaluate outcomes effectively in everyday practice with clients, whether those clients are individuals, families, groups, or organizations.

• Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health

  This book, designed for mental health practitioners, trainers, and graduate students, addresses nine fundamental questions in the debate on evidence-based practices.

• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

  This book offers distinctive perspectives, seeks common ground, and reveals legitimate differences, unanswered questions, and promising avenues for improving psychotherapy.

• Exploring Sport and Exercise Psychology, Second Edition

  This APA book provides an indispensable overview of applications, interventions, and practice issues in the field of sport and exercise psychology.

• Family Psychology

  This book presents innovative perspectives on the science of family intervention. The editors provide a thorough and concise historical overview of this emerging field, which is considered the applied branch of family psychology.

• Fear and Learning

  This book brings together the most recent empirical developments in learning theory for understanding the etiology and treatment of fears and phobias.

• Fear of Intimacy

  This APA book was written for therapists as well as couples working to improve their interpersonal intimate relationships and is packed with various case studies and personal accounts.

• Feminist Family Therapy

  This APA book offers case-based discussions that address race, gender, and class as they effect the personal problems of individual families.

• Forgiveness Is a Choice

  By demonstrating how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven this self-help book benefits people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment.

• A Guide to Psychotherapy and Aging

  A comprehensive overview of clinical interventions with older adults, backed by research and illustrated with case examples, this volume explores the challenges as well as the rewards of working with the growing elderly population.

• Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients, Second Edition

  This second edition focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, the provision of psychotherapy to LGBT clients across a range of presenting concerns, and emerging socio/political issues.

• Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity

  This APA handbook provides practitioners with the information to increase their competency in working sensitively with members of each of the major faith communities in North America.

• The Heart and Soul of Change

  This book proposes that the efficacy of therapy lies in pantheoretical, or common factors of different camps--the ingredients of effective therapy shared by all orientations.

• Helping Others Help Children

  The book recontextualizes child therapy for contemporary demands by presenting a cross-section of supervision practices in child psychotherapy, which include some of the most promising new child therapies.

• The Hidden Disorder

  This APA guide book helps practitioners recognize and treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, offering relief and hope for distressed relationships and careers.

• History of Psychotherapy

  This book addresses the history, evolution, current trends, and future prospects of psychotherapy.

• HIV+ Sex

  This book illuminates the struggles faced by HIV-positive gay and bisexual men as sexual beings, but also describes the myriad ways in which many of these men are able to celebrate their sexuality.

• How Clients Make Therapy Work

  In this APA book, the authors show how different schools of therapy have unique ways of mobilizing clients and share tips for dealing with client resistance, passivity, and maladaptive behavior.

• How Psychotherapists Develop

  This book documents an ambitious, multinational survey that systematically looks at therapists' own personal and professional development.

• How Therapists Change

  APA book offers a glimpse into how therapists from various theoretical orientations evolve (expanded professional horizons, changed intervention styles, etc) professionally.

• How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

  This APA book is a clinically based and clinically illustrated manual that walks the reader through the development of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT).

• How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist

  This book is a nuts-and-bolts guide to starting, growing, or improving a psychotherapy practice.

• Humanistic Psychotherapies

  This APA handbook offers readers an outstanding compendium of the latest research and practice techniques in humanistic psychotherapies.

• Identity and Story

  This book examines the way the stories we tell create our identities.

• Imagery in Psychotherapy

  This book is a comprehensive survey of the research evidence for our capacity to generate images, and the processes involved.

• In the Room With Men

  This book explores theories of masculinities, current research on the psychology of men, and how these ideas are applied in clinical practice.

• Insight in Psychotherapy

  Delineates and integrates what is currently known about insight, and discusses new directions that could help clinicians and researchers better understand this rich and complex process.

• Integrating Family Therapy

  This book brings together family psychology and systems thinking to explore the ways systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems.

• Integrating Spirituality Into Treatment

  This book re-establishes the importance of spirituality while integrating it into the mainstream of sound psychological practice.

• The Interactional Nature of Depression

  This APA book brings together interpersonal, cognitive, stress and coping, developmental, and social psychology perspectives into a comprehensive approach to depression theory and research.

• Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Older Adults

  This book is the first clinical book on how to conduct Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with persons 65 years of age and older.

• Interpretive and Supportive Psychotherapies

  This APA book offers a framework for making short-term psychodynamic therapy easier, quicker, and more effective, based on the interpretive-supportive therapy continuum for each individual client.

• Intervening in Children's Lives

  The authors of this book describe a family-centered approach that engages children, adolescents, and their families, leveraging their motivation to change.

• Investigative Interviews of Children

  Principles outlined in this APA book can be generalized to a variety of situations in which the interviewer wishes to gather information untainted by the dynamics of adult~child questioning.

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  APA book that provides relevant information to successfully treat irritable bowel syndrome including discussion and treatment plans using the three psychotherapeutic modalities shown to be most effective.

• Laws Affecting Clinical Practice

  This book is an essential introduction to clinically relevant laws for mental health professionals.

• Making Diagnosis Meaningful

  This book explores criticisms of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and proposes new ways of looking at the diagnostic and treatment activities of therapists.

• Making Good

  This book offers a narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who turned their lives around, a literature review on personal reform and a guide to the use of narratives in offender counseling.

• Mandated Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse

  The second edition of this APA book contains an extensive set of guidelines and recommendations on how to respond to mandated reporting laws in a variety of settings.

• Marital and Family Processes in Depression

  APA book offers a cross disciplinary approach to synthesize the data and offer original research on depression and its relationship to marital problems with implications for marital and family therapy.

• Mastering Relationship Conflicts

  This APA book demonstrates how the process of mastery works and how it can significantly reduce clients' symptoms and help them respond to emotional conflicts with greater flexibility.

• Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss

  This APA book offers new paradigms for approaching loss, based on the tenets that symptoms in the bereaved have meaning and that its reconstruction in response to loss is the central process of grieving.

• Mental Health Care for Urban Indians

  This book provides the reader with a basic understanding of the historical impact of colonization, the ensuing results of urban migration and boarding schools, and the effects that these events have had on the Native community.

• MMPI–2

  This book is a compendium of original contributions that focus on new developments and applications for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI–2), the most widely researched and broadly used personality assessment instrument.

• Mom, Dad. I'm Gay. How Families Negotiate Coming Out

  This APA book illustrates family reactions to teenagers’ disclosures of gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual identities and discusses factors that determine how parents cope with such disclosures.

• Motivational Styles in Everyday Life

  APA book offers a unique perspective of motivational styles and a definitive statement of reversal theory with research support from a wide variety of areas.

• Neuropsychology for Clinical Practice

  The book's broad scope makes it an invaluable resource for clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, family counselors, or advanced students in any of these areas.

• Nicotine Dependence

  This book synthesizes current theoretical and clinical research about nicotine dependence.

• On the Stigma of Mental Illness

  This book explores the causes and ramifications of mental illness stigma and possible means to eliminate it.

• Pathological Gambling

  This book reviews the prevalence, consequences, correlates, and treatments of pathological gambling.

• Pediatric Psychopharmacology

  APA book providing essential information to practitioners wishing to optimize their treatment of childhood and adolescent mental disorders through a better understanding of psychopharmacological agents.

• Personality-Guided Behavior Therapy

  This book shows how behavioral views of personality can be applied to produce effective assessment and treatment.

• Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy

  This book offers a new biopsychosocial model of therapy that reconciles and integrates several theoretical viewpoints of personality.

• Phobic Disorders and Panic in Adults

  This APA book is a complete resource on the three main phobic disorders -- providing handouts and forms to use with patients, sources for assessment materials and referral sources.

• A Place to Call Home

  This book demonstrates that after-school clubs offer critical resources to urban youth in their passage to adulthood.

• Positive Psychological Assessment

  This book is a primer for practitioners and researchers striving to incorporate assessment of human strengths, resources, and fulfillments into their work.

• Practical Ethics for Psychologists

  This second edition features new material on the positive impact of continuing education programs; consideration of emotional problems and non-rational decision making on professional competence; and discussion of the challenges of delivering psychological services using electronic media.

• Preventing Sexual Violence

  This book critiques the current treatment of sex offenders in an effort to determine how best to prevent reoffending without infringing on the rights of citizens.

• Preventing Violence

  This is the only book available that offers current data-based analyses from leaders in violence prevention with a strong scientific perspective.

• Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society

  This book highlights the importance of creating culturally compatible interventions to stop violence among the youngest members of diverse populations.

• The Primary Care Consultant

  This book surveys innovative programs that integrate health psychology into primary health care in the Department of Defense, VA hospitals, and selected specialty settings, offering a view of the future for psychologists.

• Psychological Interventions in Childhood Chronic Illness

  This book is designed to advance scientific understanding of interventions that promote psychological adaptation and adherence to treatment for children and adolescents with chronic health conditions.

• Psychological Treatment of Chronic Illness

  This book emphasizes the biopsychosocial perspective and describes a biopsychosocially-oriented treatment approach known as Biopsychosocial Therapy.

• Psychological Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

  This book provide practical, step-by-step descriptions of psychological approaches to treating OCD.

• Psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health

  As a history, this book reveals important insights into the remarkable expansion of psychology since World War II and illuminates the role of government in shaping the lives and practices of its citizens through its funding.

• The Psychology of Hate

  This ground-breaking book brings together experts on the psychology of hate to present their diverse viewpoints in a single volume.

• Psychosocial Interventions for Cancer

  This APA book examines the impact psychologists can have on cancer patients in coping with the disease.

• Psychosocial Issues Near the End of Life

  This book provides a model for the important role that psychologists can play in ensuring that end-of-life care balances physical care with psychosocial and spiritual care.

• Reading and Understanding MORE Multivariate Statistics

  This APA book provides easy-to-understand explanations of more multivariate statistics not covered in Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics.

• Recovered Memories of Abuse

  This book contains an even-handed account of the social, scientific, and legal context of the debate about recovered memories.

• Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology

  This book presents a comprehensive treatment of religion as a variable in mental health and psychological treatment.

• Resolution of Inner Conflict

  This book gives readers a thorough course on how to do psychoanalytic therapy.

• Road Rage

  This book provides detailed, step-by-step information on implementing a successful, brief (4 session) cognitive-behavioral treatment program for angry, aggressive drivers.

• Schizophrenia in Late Life

  This volume presents a uniquely comprehensive picture of the current research about older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia.

• School-Based Prevention for Children at Risk

  This book describes how to establish, maintain and evaluate a successful school-based prevention program for at-risk children.

• Second-Order Change in Psychotherapy

  This fascinating and rich book illustrates how second-order change is at the core of all effective treatments and demonstrates how to creatively employ specific, targeted approaches in an interpersonal context of shared respect, empathy, and compassion.

• Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process

  APA book elucidating the paradox of the self in the psychotherapeutic process that also examines the major tenets of postmodernism in relation to psychotherapy practice.

• Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships

  This book shows how clients can be helped to overcome psychological challenges and become physically and emotionally closer to their partners.

• Sexual Feelings in Psychotherapy

  This volume helps prepare therapists and therapists-in-training of all theoretical orientations to acknowledge, accept, and understand their own and their clients' sexual feelings that can occur during therapy.

• Spiritual Approaches in the Treatment of Women With Eating Disorders

  This book is for the practitioner who is curious about how to incorporate therapy that draws on clients' spirituality or religious background as a resource for recovery from eating disorders.

• A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition

  This book shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an integral part of their lives.

• Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy

  This book is the first to critically and coherently survey how spirituality can be incorporated into a range of psychotherapeutic approaches.

• Studying the Clinician

  This APA book addresses the accuracy of the judgment of most clinicians in therapy and other clinical settings and provides recommendations for improving the accuracy of psychological assessment.

• The Suicidal Patient

  This APA book, which updates a classic text in the field of suicidology, provides relevant empirical information on the clinical and legal standards of care for this high-risk population.

• Teaching and Social Justice

  This book provides psychologists and educators with a foundation to create their own multicultural feminist pedagogy.

• Termination in Psychotherapy

  Developed in the context of longer-term, dynamically-oriented psychotherapy, the book’s general model provides a useful framework for understanding the termination phase across theoretical orientations and treatment modalities and structures.

• Theories of Behavior Therapy

  This APA book covers the spectrum of major theories relevant to contemporary behavior therapy, with contributions from the leading proponents of the theories described.

• Therapeutic Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy

  This book demonstrates the crucial importance of healthy working relationships with clients in couple and family therapy.

• Therapy With Difficult Clients

  This book offers seven factors that are necessary for therapeutic change and offers a tool for assessing clients' readiness for change and practical guidelines for working with difficult clients.

• Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms^®, Tenth Edition

  This 10th edition of APA's popular thesaurus provides a well-organized compilation of psychological index terms.

• Trauma and Substance Abuse

  This book explores the underrecognized connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse.

• Treating Adult and Juvenile Offenders With Special Needs

  This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to mental health services exploring the history, rights, standards and treatment of offenders with special needs in correction environments.

• Treating Patients With Memories of Abuse

  This APA volume is essential reading for any practicing psychologist, social worker, or psychiatrist who works with patients struggling with recovered memories of abuse.

• Treating Patients With Neuropsychological Disorders

  This book is an essential guide for the general practitioner who comes across a patient with a neuropsychological disorder.

• Treatments That Work With Children

  This APA book helps readers assess available treatments for childhood problems that have documented records of success.

• Turns in the Road

  This book offers analysis of personal narratives reflecting on how individuals make meaning out life transitions.

• Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders

  This book provides an effective new way to treat anxiety disorders.

• Understanding Psychotherapy Change

  This book provides a simplied discussion of an integrative approach to case formulation.

• Virtue and Psychology

  This book describes an alternative framework that not only acknowledges virtue, but also shows how values that we already hold in common may be incorporated into psychological practice, and into our lives as a whole.

• What Therapists Don't Talk About and Why

  This book helps therapists and therapists-in-training explore the myths and taboo topics that weaken their practice and cause anxiety, discomfort, and confusion.

• Women and Victimization

  This book is the first book to comprehensively examine and integrate a vast and diverse literature base, drawing from divergent findings to reveal a picture of complexity and of intertwining risk and resilience factors.

• Working It Out

  This APA book describes how exercise can benefit a wide range of clients, from those acutely stressed to those with chronic distress, by alleviating stress and improving clarity and self-esteem.

• Working With Parents of Aggressive Children

  This book discusses the Responsive Parent Therapy, which is designed for families with aggressive school-age children.

• The Writing Cure

  This book presents groundbreaking research on the cognitive, emotional, and biological pathways through which disclosure and expressive writing influences mental and physical health.

• Your Practicum in Psychology

  This book prepares students for field placement in mental health settings by providing a wide range of both practical and theoretical information.

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