Books in the Wiley Series on Personality Processes series

This comprehensive volume provides an up-to-date review of both research and clinical data about how people cope.

Providing essential background information and thorough overviews of our current knowledge about children's behavioral, emotional, developmental, and learning problems, Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior, Second Edition addresses the concept of temperament and its impact on children's behavior and personality.

Approaches the psychopathology of this disorder focusing on the symptoms that comprise the global syndrome.

Examines those pathological conditions constituting internalizing disorders as a special class of psychological problems in children and adolescents. Looking at these aliments as a related group helps clarify their dynamics and the prospects for intervention.

This volume deals with the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Method in the clinical assessment of children and adolescents. It has been updated to reflect developments in the Rorschach Comprehensive System, and to describe advances in the formulation and understanding of developmental psychopathology.

Intended as the group therapy equivalent to Bergin and Garfield's The Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change. Renowned contributors offer a comprehensive survey of all empirical evidence concerned with process and outcome in group therapy.

This is the first comprehensive work devoted to control theory and the use of control-based techniques in psychotherapy, addressing issues of control and self-control as they apply to various families of therapy approaches.

Offers an evolutionary theory of personality, connecting the conceptual structures of personology with its foundations in the natural sciences. The author presents a unified approach to personality theory, addresses personality disorders and considers therapeutic interventions.

An integrated approach to the psychology of underachievement, unifying theory and practice. Examines different types of underachievers, explores the relationship between personality and underachievement, and provides useful guidelines for clinical practice.

Updated with new chapters on borderline disorder and substance abuse as well as new sections on bipolar and obsessive--compulsive disorders. First, it covers theoretical issues in adolescent psychology, normality and abnormality in adolescence and patterns of adolescent psychopathology.

Presents new ways in which art therapy is being used. Describes a wealth of cases where art therapy has been used with bereaved children, refugees, psychotics, psychosomatic patients, and many others. Discusses a variety of methods employed by art therapists, including the creative use of photography, video, computers, and psychodrama.

This edition has been revised to include updated knowledge on the effect of separation and divorce on young children. It examines different types of therapeutic intervention, arguing that proper intervention should begin at the point of the divorce itself.

Of related interest... SOCIAL ORIGINS OF MENTAL ABILITY --Gary Collier This volume is the first comprehensive, systematic survey of research into the non-hereditary influences on intelligence. Focusing on the cultural, environmental, and social influences on the development of mental abilities, Dr. Collier helps to advance the nurture side of the "nature vs. nurture" debate. He also offers a viable synthesis of supporting facts and ideas from the worlds of psychology, the psychology of personality, and cognitive psychology. This book will have a profound influence upon academe, the psychological community, educators, and policymakers. 1993 (0-471-30407-7) 320 pp. EGO DEFENSES: Theory and Measurement --Edited by Hope R. Conte and Robert Plutchik This book explores the nature and manifestations of defense mechanisms and traces ego defense theory and research from Freud's initial conceptualization through recent work in object-relations theory and other psychoanalytically oriented approaches. It provides clinical guidelines for diagnosing, assessing, and dealing with defenses, reviews empirical research techniques, and indicates their value in development and in psychotherapy. This volume should be of value to theoreticians, clinicians, and researchers interested in finding appropriate tools for measurement of defense mechanisms. 1994 (0-471-05233-7) 352 pp. A THEORY OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT --Luciano L'Abate with Charles H. Bryson Luciano L'Abate's theories are rooted in social interactions and life experiences, unlike the more traditional, somewhat metaphysical theories of personality development. In this groundbreaking work, he brings to light the heart of his theory, that the ability to love and to negotiate are the sine qua non of personal competence, with the family as the major determinant of both. This book is essential reading for personality researchers, students, and all psychologists in clinical, developmental, abnormal, and social psychology. 1993 (0-471-30303-8) 336 pp. Handbook of Self-Concept "If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot." --E. M. Cioran It is one of the most intimate of realities and the slipperiest of abstractions. For Sartre it was a double negative and for B. F. Skinner, a set of learned responses. Among exponents of artificial intelligence it is the Oz at the end of the rainbow, while for Voltaire it was an unavoidable pathology. And, ever since William James first identified consciousness of self as a discrete psychological phenomenon, more than a century ago, it has been the source of intense speculation and debate among psychologists. In the past twenty years alone, over 11,000 studies have been conducted on various aspects of self-concept. Much progress has been made, and a general consensus has been reached about many of its aspects, yet, many fundamental questions remain unanswered, such as: What exactly do we mean when we say "self"? Is self-concept an aspect of a broader cognitive self-system, or is it best defined in behavioral terms? How valuable is self-concept to clinical practice? What roles do age, race, gender, and sociocultural variables play in self-concept? Bringing together contributions from leading researchers and clinicians from a broad range of psychological disciplines, this book provides answers to these and other important questions concerning self-concept. It explores all theoretical and applied aspects of self-concept, offering a balanced synthesis of the vast body of information on the subject that has accumulated since the 1970s. Chapters address each of the six primary self-concept domains (competence, social, affect, academic, family, and physical) with an emphasis on the clinical significance of each. In the chapter on clinical assessment, existing self-concept scales are subjected to in-depth quantitative and qualitative review, and readers are provided with standardized tables for organizing the principal characteristics reviewed and comparing individual test results. In the concluding chapter, Dr. Bracken describes the clinical applications of a multidimensional, context-dependent model that facilitates the synthesis of information across instruments (including more than 70 psychoeducational tests and scales provided in an appendix) and informants. Providing practical answers to many of the most important questions about self-concept, Handbook of Self-Concept is essential reading for personality psychologists as well as researchers and educators in developmental, clinical, and social psychology.

Describes a practical approach to the psychotherapeutic process. This title outlines the approach that integrates ideas common to a wide array of psychotherapeutic systems and incorporates modalities that have been shown to be effective in treating specific disorders. It reflects the advances in psychotherapy.

Offers information on significant advances in sand play diagnosis, theraplay, group play, and other well-known approaches, covering important adaptations of play therapy to client populations such as the elderly, and various applications of play therapeutic methods such as in the assessment of sexually abused children.

Deals with the classification systems for personality disorders and why/how they are in disarray. The simple, but elegant, taxonomy described in this book will provide clinicians with net insight into the assessment and treatment of complex personality disorders.

Exploring the rationale, methods and objectives of art therapy, this text offers a penetrating look at the application of this technique. Topics discussed include attention to space, materials and art activities; the dynamics of group art therapy; phases of art therapy; and art therapy training.

Provides a comprehensive history and critical account of sleep mentation research since the introduction of electrographic techniques. The book examines the activity of the mind during sleep, and also scrutinizes methodological issues of importance to the field.

The fully revised edition of the premier guidebook to the Rorschach test For the last three decades, Dr. John Exner's Comprehensive System has been the leading approach worldwide to administering and interpreting the Rorschach test.

In the past decade, the working alliance has emerged as possibly the most important conceptualization of the common elements in diverse therapy modalities.