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Since the debut of the original edition, the Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing has been an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. The new Fourth Edition continues in that tradition, taking the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful. As with the previous editions, authors Kellerman and Burry offer a systematic framework for choosing the most relevant material from seemingly overwhelming amounts of test data. Separate chapters offer clear rationales for each component of the report (e.g., cognitive functioning, interpersonal behavior, control mechanisms), and how they relate to one another. Helpful summaries follow each chapter, and tables and charts provide salient facts and findings at a glance. Features of the updated Fourth Edition: A clear blueprint for writing effective, clinically integrative psychological reports. Emerging areas of interest in testing, including ethnic and language issues. Guidelines for assessing strengths and potential as well as pathology. Review of current diagnostic nomenclature, with discussion of evolving DSM categories and recognized clinical entities outside the DSM system. Brand-new sections on the major standardized intelligence tests. Expanded chapter devoted to testing counselors, teachers and parents. Help for writing-anxiety: overcoming blocks, getting past role conflicts, resisting speculation, and more. The Handbook makes an elegant student resource by showing how reports can reflect not just the subject's individuality, but the tester's as well. All professionals who engage in psychological assessment will find it an invaluable resource as well.

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Trichotillomania has been described in the literature for at least a hundred years, but has only in the past decade received serious clinical attention. Although now a "higher profile" disorder, there is still scant clinical information on trichotillomania. A full-length cognitive-behavioral treatment manual, Treating Trichotillomania (TTM) fills that need. Designing the book for maximum usefulness, authors Franklin and Tolin share their considerable expertise in treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (not only hair-pulling but skin-picking and nail-biting as well) in an accessible, clinically valid reference. Treating Trichotillomania carefully defines TTM, differentiating the disorder from other conditions such as OCD, reviewing the varied clinical forms it can take, and setting out its diagnostic criteria. Treatment chapters are not one-size-fits-all, but offer an evidence-based framework to help practitioners in designing the most appropriate course of treatment across the developmental spectrum, from toddlers to elders. The authors give the reader: Comprehensive discussion of assessment and treatment methods. Key elements of treatment, including awareness training, habit reversal, and maintenance techniques. Helpful ideas for treating clients with other disorders in addition to TTM. "What Do We Need to Know?" chapter, addressing clients' and families' frequently asked questions. Adjunctive cognitive-behavioral strategies, including family and group interventions. Resources for clinicians, clients, and families. With the increasing recognition of body-focused repetitive behavior disorders and their negative impact upon the lives of sufferers, the clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker, counselor, or school practitioner needs the broadest understanding of the problem, which can be found in this reader-friendly volume.

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Empathy has long been recognized as a key element of the healing professions. Yet it is not always clear how to define the concept, how to measure it, whether there are effective methods to enhance empathy , or whether empathy really helps make treatment more effective. Drawing on evolutionary research, neurological findings, developmental and psychodynamic perspectives, and systems theory, Empathy in Patient Care explains why this human quality is essential to positive health outcomes and how it can be measured and how professionals can benefit from its enhancement. Dr. Hojat proceeds from theoretical constructs of empathy as a core ingredient of human relationships to analyze the nuanced roles it plays in the therapeutic dyad. Twelve insightful chapters define empathy as it develops during the crucial early months of life, relate it to specific biopsychosocial aspects of health, and place empathy firmly in the context of patient care: -Findings linking higher levels of clinician empathy to a more accurate diagnosis, more positive treatment outcomes, and better patient compliance -The World Health Organization's definition of health linked to empathy in patient care -Descriptions of effective science-based empathy-building programs -Salient discussion of empathy-related gender and career choice issues as reflected in clinicians' practice styles -Training issues, from obstacles to empathy in medical school to whether empathy should be considered in admissions decisions -An in-depth grounding in the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, complete with specific versions of this measure for practitioners, students, and patients. Written with great professional and personal vision, Empathy in Patient Care opens its readers physicians and nurses, psychologists, therapists and social workers, students and the faculty who work with them to emerging, creative uses for this most basic human attribute. "This book is unique in combining an encyclopedic overview of empathy with a fine-grained, precise way of measuring it. Clinicians, researchers, students, and educators will find in this book both a resource for work already done and a blueprint for what still needs to be done." Herbert Adler, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College.

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