Routledge Mental Health News
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How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?
Testing is a ubiquitous tool for day-to-day decision making in schools, communicating learning goals and evaluating progress. Testing also brings unintended consequences.
This major, free Special Issue of Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives explores the ramifications of testing in the classroom, with a view to maximizing the benefits and minimizing possible drawbacks of current educational testing applications.
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Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition
Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the field.
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Models of Madness, Second Edition
This second edition of Models of Madness challenges the simplistic, pessimistic and oftentimes damaging theories and treatments of the ‘medical model’ of madness. Psychiatric diagnoses and medications are based on the false premise that human misery and distress are caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions, and ignore the social causes of psychosis and what psychiatrists call ‘schizophrenia’.
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How and Why We Still Read Jung
How relevant is Jung’s work today?
How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and oftentimes personal readings of various works by Jung.
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Celebrate Mental Health Awareness with 20% off
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month in the US and Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK we are offering customers a 20% discount on all of our Mental Health titles purchased through www.routledgementalhealth.com.
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Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy
Look beyond behavioral treatments, pharmaceutical interventions, and performance goals to a more comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when they enter sex therapy. Gina Ogden is a master therapist, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and author with four decades of helping clients and training health professionals. Her ISIS Wheel of Sexual Experience is an innovative template that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy offers you new language to discuss sexual issues and creative ways to engage clients in their own therapeutic process–whether or not you are trained as a sex therapist.
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A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults
For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions. This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model.
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Journal of Neurotherapy Seeking Editor-in-Chief for 2014
Call for New Editor of Journal of Neurotherapy
Deadline for letter of application: July 1, 2013
Taylor & Francis is now requesting applications for the editorship of the Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience. The new editorship will commence from the first issue of the 2014 volume and will run for three consecutive years. The next editor is expected to begin reviewing manuscripts by September 1, 2013. -
How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences
In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
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Textbook - New Edition: Prescribing Mental Health Medication
Already used by providers and training institutions throughout the world, the newly revised second edition of Prescribing Mental Health Medication is the text of choice for explaining the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up. Instructors can request an exam copy.
