Supporting Families

William Yule

How can we best understand PTSD? Why do the majority of people who are exposed to traumatic stress fail to develop PTSD? Is PTSD best regarded as a failure or delay in the natural processes of protection and recovery? This book represents the fruits of ten years? experience of working with the survivors of accidents and disasters. The contributors have all worked at the world–famous University of London Institute of Psychiatry?s unit for the study and treatment of PTSD, and thus combine here to present a coherent account of PTSD and its treatment, based largely on a social learning and cognitive behavioural framework. Perspectives from cognitive psychology and information processing, social psychology, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology are brought together to enlighten our understanding of PTSD, individual reactions, and treatment approaches. Cross–cultural issues and issues of disaster planning and emergency response are also covered. Academics, researchers and...

J. Mark G. Williams

An explosion of interest in the application of cognitive psychology to the understanding of emotional disorders has prompted a second edition of this highly regarded book. Reviewing the work of the last decade, it looks at how emotion affects the following processes, and how they in turn contribute to emotional disorder: conscious and nonconscious processing; memory bias and memory deficits; attentional bias; schematic processing; judgements; and thoughts and images. The second edition provides in particular: An exploration of abnormalities in cognitive processing Reviews of key papers that use experimental cognitive psychology to understand emotional disorders Descriptions of the authors’ own research in this area A theoretical model to explain the phenomena described The book has been written for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate psychologists interested in cognitive models in abnormal psychology, for clinical psychologists using cognitive therapies, and...

Fay Fransella

First published in 1977, this now classic manual has been completely revised and updated to reflect the enormous changes that have taken place both in the popularity of repertory grid methods and in the study of the methods themselves. Aimed at novices as well as those already knowledgeable about grid usage, this manual provides an overview of George Kelly’s personal construct theory, which underpins repertory grid methods. The reader will learn how to design a grid, with guidance on how to choose elements and ways of eliciting personal constructs that can influence the results obtained. The second edition includes multiple examples of grids, as well as: new chapters on the main computer methods of analysis available a supporting website with grid analysis programs available to download an extended annotated bibliography of the many examples of grid usage This book will appeal to psychology students, practitioners and academics....

J. William Worden

Dr. Worden presents the highly anticipated fourth edition of "Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner", the gold standard of grief therapy handbooks. The previous editions received worldwide acclaim for their sensitive, insightful, and practical approach to grief counseling. In this updated and revised fourth edition, Dr. Worden presents his most recent thinking on bereavement drawn from extensive research, clinical work, and the best of the new literature. Key Features: New chapter, The Mourning Process: Mediators of Mourning, includes discussion on the personal and social variables that shape individual mourning processes, Detailed guidelines and models for approaching special types of mourning, including suicide, sudden death, and miscarriage, A new version of the "Task Model" to help the bereaved accomplish their "tasks of mourning", Guidelines to help therapists understand...

Kenneth J. Doka

A hands–on guide for patients, families, and caregivers to living an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritual traumas of life–threatening illness.