Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A strengths-based approach
Nancy Boyd Webb    Wiley    $97.95

Many practitioners lack the training to deal competently with acute and chronic health issues presented by their young clients and students. This edited work provides an innovative inter-professional model so that practitioners from a diverse range of helping fields working in hospitals, out-patient clinics, agencies and schools may be better equipped to foster childrens' resilience and build on their emotional strengths. This book presents selected helping approaches that encourage positive attitudes and stimulate family and individual strengths as well as developmental considerations that impact patients, their siblings, and parents. In addition, this book covers counseling and therapy approaches that will assist families in helping their children to achieve the best quality of life possible in their specific circumstances.

Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment    Lichtenberger/Kaufman
Wiley    $77.95

The WAIS-IV (published by Pearson), which is the latest revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, is the top-selling measure of cognitive ability in adults and is widely used around the world. Designed for use with adults over 16, the WAIS-IV is correlated with the other Wechsler instruments, making it an even more useful tool for comprehensive assessments. New users, as well as existing WAIS-III users know to turn to the Essentials book for a definitive guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting the WAIS as well as its important clinical applications.

Essentials of Neuopsychological Assessment: Second Edition
Hebben/Milberg/Kaufman    Wiley    $59.95

Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment provides comprehensive instruction on neuropsychological test administration, scoring, and interpretation. It addresses practical and conceptual issues related to neuropsychological  assessment in geriatric, pediatric, forensic, and other specialized settings, as well as the essentials of report writing and common neuropsychological syndromes.

Psychiatric Drugs: Key Issues and Service User Perspectives    Jim Reid     Palgrave    $48

Over 60 million psychiatric drugs are prescribed in England every year.This lively and provocative overview provides the most complete examination to date of the lived experience of taking psychiatric drugs. The book examines the consequences of long-term psychiatric drug use from the perspectives of people who have taken them and tried coming off them. It draws out the tensions between patients and professionals about medication and offers examples of how to resolve these constructively.

Psychiatry in Prisons    Wilson/Cumming
Jessica Kingsley    $69

Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors
tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health
screening to complex legal, moral and philosophical dilemmas.

Vulnerability to Psychopathology: risk across the lifespan: Second Edition    Ingram/Price    Guilford    $119

This state-of-the-art work has been highly praised for bridging the divide between adult and developmental psychopathology. The volume illuminates the interplay of biological, cognitive, affective, and social environmental factors that place individuals at risk for psychological disturbance throughout development.

Prime Time: Maximizing the Therapeutic Experience : A Primer for Psychiatric Clinicians    Frederick G Guggenheim    Routledge    $140

One of the difficulties that all psychiatrists encounter when they see patients for less than fifty minutes is how to be empathic while on the run. Nowadays the psychiatrist, often behind schedule, has but a Twenty Minute Hour to evaluate a patient’s level of functioning and current symptoms and side effects; to judge their responsiveness to medication; to do some teaching about medication and/or disease management; and finally to complete the chart.

Neuroanatomy for Students of Behavioral Disorders
Green/Ostrander    Norton    $110

Research proves that brain architecture is directly related to psychiatric disorders, but brain regions specifically affiliated with
behavior are not adequately addressed in psychiatric training. Ronald Green and Robyn Ostrander do just that, examining a range of psychiatric conditions and the corresponding parts of the brain that are affected.

Emotion regulation and Psychopathology: A transdiagnostic approach to etiology and treatment    Krigg/Sloan
Guilford     $102

This state-of-the-art volume explores how emotion regulation mechanisms are implicated in the etiology, development,
and maintenance of psychopathology. Leading experts present current findings on emotion regulation difficulties that cut
across diagnostic boundaries and present psychotherapeutic approaches in which emotion regulation is a primary target of
treatment. Building crucial bridges between research and practice, chapters describe cutting-edge assessment and intervention models with broad clinical utility, such as acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, and behavioural activation treatment.

Computation Modeling Methods for Neuroscientists   
Erik De Schutter    MIT Press    $92

This book offers an introduction to current methods in
computational modelling in neuroscience. The book describes
realistic modelling methods at levels of complexity ranging
from molecular interactions to large neural networks. A “how
to” book rather than an analytical account, it focuses on the
presentation of methodological approaches, including the
selection of the appropriate method and its potential pitfalls.

Pediatric Neuropsychology: Research, theory, and practice: Second Edition    Yeates/Ris/Taylor/Pennington    Guilford    $129

The most comprehensive, authoritative reference of its kind, this successful work examines a wide range of acquired, congenital, and developmental brain disorders and their impact on children’s neuropsychological functioning. Leading experts present state-of-the-art knowledge about how each condition affects the developing brain; the nature and severity of associated cognitive, behavioural, and psychosocial impairments; and effective approaches to clinical evaluation and treatment planning.

Evidence-based Practice in the Field of Substance Abuse: A book of readings    Van Wormer/Thyer    Sage    $73

This interdisciplinary book of readings organises current
knowledge and exposes readers to “what works” in substance
abuse treatment today. Evidence-Based Practice in the
Field of Substance Abuse is organised according to the
process of evidence-based practice: introduction to evidence based practice, assessment, gender-based and culturally
sensitive interventions, treatment issues and innovations, and
policy considerations. As such, this publication serves to meet
a growing need within the treatment field to incorporate the
latest research on evidence-based practice into one resource.

Eating Disorders: A guide to medical are and complications: Second edition    Mehler/Andersen   John Hopkins    $54.95

Eating disorders present diagnostic and treatment challenges to clinicians. While such disorders need both medical and
psychological treatment, patients may be too medically ill for a thorough psychiatric evaluation and may be misunderstood
by many primary care physicians. In this revised and updated edition of Eating Disorders, Philip S. Mehler and Arnold E. Andersen provide a hands-on, userfriendly, and comprehensive guide for both primary care doctors and mental health professionals.

The Rise ad Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Eclectic Psychiatry examined    S Nassir Ghaemi    John Hopkins    $88

This is the first book-length historical critique of psychiatry’s mainstream ideology, the biopsychosocial (BPS) model.
Developed in the twentieth century as an outgrowth of psychosomatic medicine, the biopsychosocial model is seen as an antidote to the constraints of the medical model of psychiatry. Nassir Ghaemi details the origins and evolution of the BPS model and explains how, where, and why it fails to live up to its promises. He analyses the works of its founders, George Engel and Roy Grinker, Sr., traces its rise in acceptance, and discusses its relation to the thought of William Osler and Karl Jaspers.

Provider's Handbook for Assessing Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Clients: Progress and change evaluation (PACE) monitor     Wanberg/Milkman    Sage    $133

Provider’s Handbook for Assessing Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Clients is an instructive guide that helps agencies and providers assess, monitor and evaluate the
change and progress made by criminal justice clients at the beginning, during and after treatment. The guide contains dozens of instruments used to assess and evaluate clients,
along with a description of each item and instructions on how to score and interpret it. The tools provided in this book will be highly useful for anyone working with clients with cooccurring
issues of substance abuse and criminal conduct.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Childhood    Matthys/Lochman    Wiley    $77.95

Focusing on children aged 3 to 14 years, this book offers a concise and comprehensive overview of empirical knowledge and associated clinical information on ODD and CD; it does so with respect to aetiology, assessment and treatment, and to
neurobiological factors in these disorders. In reviewing the literature, the authors pay particular attention to recently published studies
and meta-analyses, without neglecting older high quality studies.