Books in the Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology series

A comprehensive guide that integrates theory, research, and treatment guidelines for using state-of-the-art methods for treating both routine and challenging cases of panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia).

Attachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Clinician s Guide to Practice and Research is the first book to explore the clinical difficulties associated with attachment relationships in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Cognitive behavior therapy has become an established treatment for psychosis over the past five years, but many mental health workers need assistance in planning and implementing treatment. This book shows how CBT programs can be compatible with service delivery and mental health provision in an organizational context.

Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Clinical Psychology and People with Intellectual Disabilities covers introductory and background issues, general clinical issues, and working with specific client groups, including offenders with intellectual disabilities and parents with intellectual disabilities.

This book provides an opportunity for clinicians, researchers, and service providers to become informed about the most important clinical and research issues related to people with psychosis and substance abuse. It updates and outlines practical treatment interventions and approaches that can be used with these individuals and their families.

NEW IN PAPERBACK How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective.

NEW IN PAPERBACK How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive, analytical overview of research on marriage and marital interventions. The unifying theme is the concept of healthy marriage, which promotes the individual well-being of the partners and any offspring, while providing protection against adverse effects of outside stresses.

Research results reported in scientific articles support the view that negative parental rearing behaviour is a major contributing factor to the development of individual vulnerability and, thus, to the development of psychopathological disorders. This study examines this line of argument.

Behavioural Case Formulation and Intervention in Clinical Psychology: A Functional Analytic Approach provides a complete update on developments in functional analysis over the last 10 years.

Addictions are responsible for vast and growing morbidity, mortality, and misery in society. Until now, not only has the theoretical underpinning of the most commonly practised treatment approaches in the addictions field been scant, but the evidence for the effectiveness of these methods has also been generally lacking.

Anxiety-based disorders are among the most common mental health problems experienced in the population today. Worry is an important feature of most anxiety disorders, in particular Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD),phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Anxiety-based disorders are among the most common mental health problems experienced in the population today. Worry is an important feature of most anxiety disorders, in particular Generalized Anxiety Disorders (GAD), phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology, The Trauma of Sexual Assault is essential reading for the wide range of professionals who become involved in the care and treatment of survivors of sexual assault. This much-needed reference is the first text to consider the psychological impact of sexual assault on women and men.

This volume brings together the major advances in the psychological and pharmacological treatments of health anxiety - the preoccupation with the fear of having a serious disease or illness - and relates it to a conceptual framework that provides a basis for assessment, treatment, and ongoing research.

This fully revised and updated edition of Clinical Child Psychology now incorporates a fuller account of the range of clinical problems of adolescence, together with an expanded account of the major developmental and psychosocial disorders, such as autism, ADHD, and conduct disorder.

This book responds to the explosion of interest in using the methods of experimental cognitive psychology to help understand emotional disorders, especially common anxiety and depressive disorders.

This title offers a unique general introduction to methods and clinical experience of CBT for a wide range of medical conditions, specifically focusing on chronic illness. A concise, accessible clinical text which assumes basic knowledge of CBT using clinical examples and vignettes to illustrate assessment and therapy.

Demonstrates how entrenched negative thinking patterns and ongoing avoidance can be addressed to achieve significant change in many people's lives. This book is essential reading for any therapist working with these hard to help patients, such as clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and counsellors.

The early recognition and treatment of psychosis--particularly in adolescents and young adults--is increasingly accepted as an important factor in the individual experience of mental illness, which can have major implications for mental health care and treatment. This book is one of the first books available on the treatment of psychosis.

Clinical psychologists and counsellors increasingly work with doctors, nurses, and medical therapists to implement psychological measures that increase the effectiveness, or mediate the ill effects, of medical treatment. This is a clear and concise guide to the body of knowledge in this field and to best practice in the clinical context.

Patients with complex problems, including co-morbidity, chronic conditions, enduring vulnerabilities, psychotic conditions, persistent difficulties with social relationships and destabilising social environments, are increasingly recognised as the reality of the therapist's case load.

This volume is a collection of original chapters by a group of authors at the leading UK research and treatment centre on PTSD dealing with the diagnosis and context of PTSD, psychological mechanisms and behaviour, and strategies for therapy and prevention.

The book draws upon the exciting and illuminating understanding of trauma and dissociation that has developed within the last decade and shows how this can transform our view of many severe personality disorders. MPD is presented as a disorder based upon trauma and pretence - a pretence which structures the personality.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCDs) involve habitual, repetitive behaviours that can be bizarre, disruptive and eventually disabling. They can destroy lives and relationships and are one of the most common of the emotional disorders.

The main principle behind cognitive behaviour therapy is that a client's emotional and behavioural disturbances are not determined by events, but by the way he or she views them. This book describes the clinical guidelines and detailed therapy procedures used in the practice of cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with schizophrenic disorders.

Internationally respected authors, actively working in this area, establish theoretical reasons for extending cognitive therapy to these symptoms.

Taken from published reviews: " Dr Blackburn has written a remarkably good book; indeed, the best book on the topic from either side of the Atlantic I have read. the breadth of the author s knowledge is nothing short of encyclopaedic.