How the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today

Comer’s textbook shows students where the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today. Focussed on psychopathology in the modern day this title uses visuals to help explain perspectives on psychological disorders and technologies. This thoroughly updated edition employs extraordinary interactive tools bringing students face to face with the realities of psychological dysfunction, whilst remaining carefully org...

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

Helps you master the basics of psychopharmacology. Concise yet comprehensive, this counseling text covers the basic principles of psychopharmacology, commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs for adults, and psychotropic medications prescribed to children. It also addresses psychological, cultural, and social issues related to psychopharmacology.

A guide for students through their dissertation helping them to feel confident at every stage of their independent psychology research projects.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these...

Tens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma.

The new masterwork by one of the most influential psychologists and thinkers of our time!

How do otherwise considerate human beings do cruel things and still live in peace with themselves? Drawing on his agentic theory, Dr. Bandura provides a definitive exposition of the psychosocial mechanism by which people selectively disengage their moral self-sanctions from their harmful conduct. They do so by sanctifying their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes; they absolve themselves of blame f...

An interdisciplinary introduction to the biological and medical underpinnings of health psychology from the cell to population level. It uses cross-cultural, real-world examples to create a readable and understandable guide to the biopsychosocial determinants of personal and public health for students of psychology.

Packed with learning features, this book helps you get your psychology research off the ground, confidently collect and analyse qualitative data, and write up your project or dissertation.

This fully revised edition of the popular textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language.