Published April, 2006
By Susan Stefan
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: American Psychology-Law Society Series
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Explores the pressures on emergency departments and identifies the burdens and conflicts that undermine their efforts to provide compassionate care to people in psychiatric crisis. This book is for those working in a hospital emergency department, as well as health care policy makers and advocates for people with psychiatric disabilities.

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Published April, 2006
By Michael E. Thase and Susan S. Lang
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Shows how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative and distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. This book reveals that a combination of medication and therapy has been shown to be the most effective treatment for mild depression.

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Published April, 2006
By Charles Patrick Ewing and Joseph T. McCann
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Details 20 court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. This casebook also includes cases involved in psychological issues such as: insanity, criminal profiling, capital punishment, competence to stand trial, infanticide, domestic violence, false confessions and psychological autopsies.

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Published April, 2006
By Linda Wasmer Andrews and Edna B. Foa
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Adolescent Mental Health Initiative
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A guide to understanding and helping a teenager with an anxiety disorder. It explains the four anxiety disorders especially common among adolescents - social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Published April, 2006
By Bernard Golden
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? answering these questions, this title offers strategies for helping children and teens manage their anger. It is for those who have helplessly confronted a child's rage or a teenager's defiant fury.

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Published April, 2006
By Ian McDowell
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This is the third edition of a reference text that provides in-depth reviews of the quality of over 100 health measurement instruments. It guides the reader in choosing among rival methods, showing how to administer and score them. It also includes a historical and technical introduction to the field of health measurement.

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Published April, 2006
By Raquel E. Gur, Raquel Gur and Ann Braden Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Adolescent Mental Health Initiative
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Presents a guide to understanding and helping a teenager with schizophrenia. This work is designed for parents of teens who have been diagnosed with this complicated illness, or who are at risk of developing it, and for other adults such as teachers and guidance counsellors who are in contact with at-risk adolescents.

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Published March, 2006
By Lawrence J. Sanna and Edward C. Chang
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This volume presents the two main ways of looking at judgments over time: looking at how people's thoughts about the future and the past affect their present states, and looking at the interplay over time among people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

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Published March, 2006
By Giorgio Ganis, Stephen M. Kosslyn and William L. Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Mental imagery has been a controversial topic in psychology. The major problem has been the inherently private nature of mental images. This book summarizes the arguments and positions, puts them in context, and shows how modern neuroscientific methods can illustrate the representational nature of mental imagery.

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Published March, 2006
By Gerald P. Koocher and Steven N. Sparta
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This volume provides essential knowledge and practical suggestions for conducting forensic mental health evaluations of children and adolescents. A wide range of assessment problems are described, along with discussions about measurement techniques and forensic issues related to minors.

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