Current Issues in Clinical Psychology | Volume 2. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Current Issues in Clinical Psychology | Volume 2

This book is the second volume in the series "Current Issues in Clinical Psychology", which is designed to build into a composite text of the field of clinical psychology. The contents of the series are based on the post-qualification training conferences held each autumn in Merseyside. These events, organised by a sub-group of the training committee of the Mersey Regional Group of Clinical Psychologists, are unique in that they are the only annual psychology conferences in Britain focussing exclusively on clinical areas. The opening paper of Volume 1 of the series emphasised the impor­ tance of the present disposition towards sustained clinical training for practising psychologists. The series "Current Issues in Clinical Psychology" represents a contribution to this trend by offering practitioners an opportunity to assimilate innovations in clinical theory and practice, in the young but vigorously developing discipline of clinical psychology. In order to provide a forum for contemporary issues and also to produce complementary texts of lasting value, it has been necessary to carefully select both the theme of each symposium and contributors able to fulfill these aims.

Psychological Contributions to Problems of Chronic Pain.- Psychological Contributions to Problems of Chronic Pain – An Introduction.- The Communication of Pain and Distress in Chronic Orthopaedic Conditions.- The Role of the Spouse in Pain Management.- Theories of Chronic Pain Phenomena.- Psychological Treatments for Chronic Pain.- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain.- Mental Handicap: The Feasibility of Normalization.- Mental Handicap: The Feasibility of Normalization – An Introduction, Normalization as an Influence on the Development of Services for People with Mental Handicap.- The Nature and Foundations of the Concept of Normalization.- Sexuality and Mental Handicap: A Review.- The Implications of the Mental Health Act 1983 for the Treatment of Mentally Handicapped People.- Putting Normalization into Practice.- Approaches to Anxiety based Problems.- Approaches to Anxiety Based Problems – An Introduction.- The Role of the Adrenals in the Psychophysiology of Stress.- Cognitive-behavioral Models of Anxiety.- Cognitive Invalidation and the Enigma of Exposure.- A Psycho-dynamic Perspective on Anxiety.- The Free-floating Concept of Anxiety.- Psychological Approaches to Problems of Aggression and Violence.- Psychological Approaches to Problems of Aggression and Violence – An Introduction.- Clinical Aspects of Sexual Violence.- Patterns of Aggression – Not Unnaturally.- First Steps in the Functional Analysis of Aggression.- The Control of Anger in the ‘Mentally Abnormal’ Offender.- Issues in Community Psychology.- Issues in Community Psychology – An Introduction Community Psychology: A Challenge for the Practitioner.- The Systems Approach to Educational Psychology: A Case History and Some Possible Implications for the Clinical Psychologist.- Setting up a Community Alcohol Service: An Example of Community Psychology.- Community Psychology: Some Alternative Models of Organization and Practice.