Bøger udgivet af American Psychological Association

This book examines the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on an everyday basis, highlights their impact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can help clients process and address microaggressions.

Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are common clinical experiences. If left unresolved, they can lead patients to drop out and to other poor outcomes.

This book presents a sustainable approach to self-care for therapists that is integrative, holistic, and developmentally flexible.

This expanded and updated new edition offers realistic, proven strategies to help adults with ADHD lead more fulfilling and productive lives.

This book is a step-by-step guide to conducting qualitative meta-analysis (QMA).

This book details the scientific evidence for and the clinical practice of hypnosis for a range of problems and symptoms, including anxiety, depression, acute pain, chronic pain, and other behavioral problems.

This book presents parenthood as a developmental process that can be supported by a mentalization-based model of intervention.

Coaching Psychology offers a science-based approach for nurturing personal and professional growth. This guide helps prepare psychologists to work with individuals in an organizational setting to develop their leadership skills.

Deliberate practice exercises facilitate the rehearsal of fundamental motivational interviewing skills so clinicians can better help clients with change goals, like quitting addictive behaviors and developing healthier habits.

This volume presents the latest theory and research on the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders.

The Mother of a Movement tells the story of Jeanne Manford, the founder of PFLAG. When her son Morty was beaten by New York City officials for handing out pro-gay leaflets, Manford wrote a powerful letter to the New York Post to complain about how Morty was treated. Morty invited his mother to march with him in the June 1972 Christopher Street Parade. While marching, she had the idea to form a group to help parents and families of LGBTQ+ people. That was the beginning of PFLAG.

This engaging, student-friendly book debunks major myths about studying and provides practical tips for studying smarter, not harder.

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse foundational schema therapy skills so that they can build competence and hone their own personal therapeutic styles.

This book integrates the basic and applied literature to provide mental health providers with concrete, evidence-based strategies for building and strengthening the parent-child relationship and addresses challenges typically neglected by intervention manuals.

This book offers guidance for undergraduate and graduate students in conducting a research project that involves personal interviews or focus groups.

Backed by years of psychological research, this common-sense, practical guide reveals which parenting strategies promote truthfulness in children—and which ones don’t.

This book argues that the client is the main protagonist in psychotherapy. It focuses on the client's perspectives and contributions to treatment.

This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental skills in child and adolescent psychotherapy until they become natural and automatic.

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse systemic family therapy (SFT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.

This book is an authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-read guide to parenthood and family building for LGBTQ people.

This book pioneers the study of bilingualism across the lifespan and in all its diverse forms. In framing the newest research within a lifespan perspective, the editors highlight the importance of considering an individual's age - from infancy to late adulthood - when researching how bilingualism affects language acquisition and cognitive development.

Introduces a structured decision-making process that draws heavily from principle-based and positive ethics and provides practical applications of the APA Ethics Code while also accounting for federal laws and regulations. Detailed case examples illustrate how to apply this process in a variety of treatment contexts, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, and hospice care.

Every year, numerous crimes occur involving child eyewitnesses. But how reliable is child eyewitness evidence? This book summarises the research on how well children can describe an event and perpetrator and how well they can identify the perpetrator. It shows that although children may be less advanced in these skills than adults, they nonetheless can provide invaluable evidence.

Max, Rusty, Ginger, and Tanner assume without question that their new classmate is just like them - a DOG. Guest what? Samantha is NOT a dog, which leads to whole heap of questions. But in little time, all the tails in Miss Biscuit's classroom start wagging, and Samantha is celebrated for the CAT she is, just in time for another new student!

A Carmen le encanta hacer trucos de magia con su Papi. El puede hacer volar los sarapes. El puede hacer desaparecer los conejos! Pero un dia, su Papi desaparece. Ella se siente triste y asustada cuando se entera que el ha sido detenido porque es un inmigrante indocumentado de Mexico.

Ellie feels like she is disappointing people if she says 'no'. One way or another, she thinks she is hurting someone's feelings. Or she puts other people's wants or needs in front of her own. With help from her parents and her teacher, Ellie finds the strength to be honest with people and do the right thing for herself by learning how to say 'no'.

Drives home the message that it doesn't take a person with power to make a difference. More often, it takes determination. When confronted with injustice, regular people can effect change.