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Book: Personality: Theory and Research

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Book Title:

Personality: Theory and Research.

Author(s): Daniel Cervone and Lawrence A. Pervin.

Year: 2019.

Edition: Fourteenth (14th).

Publisher: Wiley.

Type(s): Hardcover and ebook (from Wiley).

Synopsis:

An invaluable resource for over four decades, Personality examines the fundamental theories and concepts of personality psychology while exploring contemporary research, new methodologies, and the latest technological advancements.

Through a well-rounded blend of theory, case studies, and the latest research, this text identifies the structures and processes of personality, traces personality development, and highlights the value of therapeutic change.

An effective pedagogical structure enhances student interest while strengthening objectivity and critical-thinking skills.

Psychodynamic, social-cognitive, phenomenological, and trait-theoretic perspectives are presented in an unbiased – yet critical – fashion that encourages students to compare theories, evaluate evidence, analyse data, and form their own conclusions.

Thorough historical coverage is balanced with discussions of the current state of the field, providing a solid understanding of theory and methods as relevant to practice today.

Suitable for introductory coursework, this text also serves as a valuable resource for advanced studies and as a reference for professionals in psychology and related fields.

Book: Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety

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Book Title:

Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety: A Complete Guide to Your Child’s Stressed, Depressed, Expanded, Amazing Adolescence.

Author(s): Dr. John Duffy.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Mango.

Type(s): Paperback, Kindle, and Audiobook.

Synopsis:

Learn about the “New Teen” and how to adjust your parenting approach. Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typical “teen parenting” strategies for thirteen-year-olds is now years too late.

Urgent advice for parents of teens. Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a new and necessary guide that addresses this hidden phenomenon of the changing teenage brain. Dr. Duffy, a nationally recognised expert in parenting for nearly twenty-five years, offers this book as a guide for parents raising children who are growing up quickly and dealing with unresolved adolescent issues that can lead to anxiety and depression.

Unprecedented psychological suffering among our young and why it is occurring. A shift has taken place in how and when children develop. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age, often continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties. Paradoxically, Dr. Duffy recognises the good that comes with these challenges, such as the sense of justice instilled in teenagers starting at a young age.

Readers of this book will:

Sort through the overwhelming circumstances of today’s teens and better understand the changing landscape of adolescence.
Come away with a revised, conscious parenting plan more suited to addressing the current needs of the New Teen.
Discover the joy in parenting again by reclaiming the role of your teen’s ally, guide, and consultant.

Book: The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

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Book Title:

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood.

Part of the Oxford Library of Psychology.

Author(s): Paul Verhaegen and Christopher Hertzog (Editors).

Year: 2014.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and ageing has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical findings emerging. This trend is consistent with the broader movement in psychology to consider social, motivational, and emotional influences on cognition and behaviour.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood provides the first overview of a new field of adult development that has emerged out of conceptualisations and research at the intersections between socio-emotional development, social cognition, emotion, coping, and everyday problem solving.

This field roundly rejects a universal deficit model of ageing, highlighting instead the dynamic nature of socio-emotional development and the differentiation of individual trajectories of development as a function of variation in contextual and experiential influences.

It emphasises the need for a cross-level examination (from biology and neuroscience to cognitive and social psychology) of the determinants of emotional and socio-emotional behaviour.

This volume also serves as a tribute to the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields, whose thinking and empirical research contributed extensively to a life-span developmental view of emotion, problem solving, and social cognition.

Its chapters cover multiple aspects of adulthood and ageing, presenting developmental perspectives on emotion; antecedents and consequences of emotion in context; everyday problem solving; social cognition; goals and goal-related behaviours; and wisdom.

The landmark volume in this new field, The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood is an important resource for cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists, as well as researchers and graduate students in the field of ageing, emotion studies, and social psychology.

Book: Overcoming Depression

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Book Title:

Overcoming Depression: The CBT Program to Overcoming Psychological Blockages Due to Depression, Anxiety, Phobias and Eliminating Negative Thoughts. Retraining Your Brain, Resolve the Eating Disorder. (Emotional Intelligence Book 4).

Author(s): George Wiseman.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Do you ever cry for a long time?Can’t stand to keep having to take antidepressants or tranquilisers anymore?

One out of three patients who often go to primary care physician would have depression. Millions of people regularly take antidepressants. Being labelled as depressed is not a cure. It could even demoralise you and give you a longer bitter suffering.

We are now used to see negative emotions as disorders or diseases. Our modern therapeutic culture has gone too far in labelling people for their anxieties – such labels make them feel mentally abnormal and unable to help themselves.With my studies and by all my experience, I realised that the secret is developing resilience in adversity; dealing with problems and being deeply changed by such experiences.

I realised that our current way to approach depression and despair often makes things even worse than what they are.We live in an overprotective society, which believes the way to help weak and vulnerable people is to assist them as kids and to prevent their bad experiences.With these habits, you will have a clear view on how you can best guide your community and give priority to what is most important to achieve your goals.

This is it what you will learn in “Overcoming Depression”, which is part of the “Emotional Intelligence” series.

The goal of this books’ series is simple: we will teach you habits, mentality and actions to better recognise, feel better emotions and use them to improve yourself and others.You will learn:

How to develop resilience in adversity.
How to get through difficult times.
How to eliminate Negative Thoughts.
How to Develop an Unbeatable Mind.
To improve Focus and Concentration.

How to Manage Yourself”Overcoming Depression” is a book full of content with exercises that will have an immediate and positive impact on your mentality and on your working environment.

We are looking for practical actions that can create real and lasting changes if you practice regularly.Would you like to know more?Download now to Retrain Your Brain and Solve Any Behavioural Disorder.

Book: Overcome Anxiety

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Book Title:

Overcome Anxiety: How to manage anxiety disorder, manage worry, stop panic attack for an happy life with joy and happiness.

Author(s): Jamie Peace.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

ANXIETY IN ONE SHOT: DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK.

Are you afraid of fear? Do you know that today there are new simple therapies? Did they ever talk to you about the diary of change?

We all feel anxious all the time. Without anxiety, we would have been eaten out of existence. It is what helps us determine the danger and get out of it in time. When your heart begins to race, you then know that you need to get your flight or fight on.

When one finds themselves on the cusps of anxiety and depression, it often feels like the world is coming to an end. You lose energy of what you want to do when depression sets in. When anxiety sets in, you almost feel as though the world is a raging enemy, charging at you in full speed. Desperately, you look round for a solution, or at least, guidelines for finding solutions. You find, them, but they are laded with medical jargon.

However, there is another situation where your body begins to act out anxiously even in the absence of a threat? So what do you do in this case? Well, you chose this book, and we are here to help you find a guide on how to live with it.

Well, guess what? This book is here to provide you with material that you won’t find around -easy to follow steps and guides to identify if you suffer from anxiety or depression, or a potent combination of both. You will then be run through a series of steps on what you can do to improve your condition, how to find the motivation to go through with exercises, medically proven remedies for anxiety and depression, the kind of exercises that will help you recover better.

YOU WILL LEARN:

What are the problem of Anxiety, Depression, Worry, Panic attack
How Identifying them in different situation
Simple helpful Exercise
Put the teachings into practice
What is a diary of change

This book is full of simple, easy to follow exercises, instructions, and guides written in a straightforward language. Instead of telling you that you have anxiety or depression, we give you concrete pointers on identifying the issue and then follow through with descriptive guideline that you can follow towards recovery. We have written this book in a way that even a child would pick it up and go through it and emerge at the back end of the page enlightened, bolder, more courageous and with a bigger desire to fight the monster that is depression and its deadly brother-in-crime anxiety. Trust us, these are bad conditions to live with, but in this book, you will learn how to manage them.

Book: Overcome Anxiety

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Book Title:

Overcome Anxiety: A Guide For Introvert People. Learn To Handle Negative Emotions, Overcome Social Fear And Panic Attacks, Improve Your Conversations, Stop Worrying And Eliminate Negative Thinking.

Author(s): Brandon Harris.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First.

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback, Kindle and Audiobook.

Synopsis:

Are you searching for a complete approach to overcome Social Anxiety? Or Have you ever experienced extreme anxiety in public places, in dialogue with significant or strange people? Then keep reading…

Perhaps you felt anxiety when speaking to the audience, preparing for a meeting, an interview? Social anxiety can be illustrated with countless examples. Hence, How to Overcome Anxiety Without Expensive Drugs remain your best option.

Anxiety, fear, panic are phenomena that are often present in our mental life. They can be different in intensity, duration, structure from slight short-term anxiety to paralysing horror, making up a diverse range of experiences that accompany a variety of life events: illnesses, conflicts, unpleasant and unexpected events.

An emotion of anxiety is one of the most frequent experiences of people in critical situations and during extreme impacts, which can perform various functions, both adaptive and disorganising mental activity.

We have all experienced embarrassment, even anguish, when speaking in public, making a declaration of love, meeting an important person. Fear of others is common and often overlooked. When it is serious, however, it can lead to depression, alcoholism, or simply to miss the opportunities of one’s life. When does the fear of others become pathological? What forms does it take? How to evaluate his fear? From shyness to freaks, to avoidable personalities, to the mechanisms that come into play when choosing medications or psychotherapy, two psychiatrists help you concretely to live your social relationships better. A classic updated and increased.

In this book, the author meticulously will expose you to:

Comprehensive understanding of Social anxiety.
How to learn to understand others and understand the motives of their actions.
How do our mind, subconscious, and habits work?
A practical approach to build relationships, set goals, and deal with bad habits, and many more.

If you have at least once in your lifetime, limited your behaviour due to anxiety, stress, or feeling unwell in situations that were related to other people. The book is professionally written to increase sensitivity to the social context and search for resources to change the quality of life.

Why do we get anxious? What are the most intimidating social situations for most of us? When does shyness become social anxiety? How to Overcome Anxiety Without Expensive Drugs has detailed explanation to that social anxiety that comes your way, as well as its psychological and behavioural mechanisms. The book helps you to differentiate between what is normal and what is less; it offers you a pragmatic approach to overcome your anxieties in social relationship. This book has been an enormous success.

If you are serious about overcoming anxiety and be the happiest even if you think that it is impossible? Surely, this book is for you for the reason that this book has identified a lot of practice and little theory.

This is the right time to take that decision and be among those who are ready to take action in overcoming anxiety

Training Community Mental Health: Local Trainers vs Master Trainers

Published on 03/05/202003/01/2020 by Andrew MarshallLeave a comment

Research Paper Title

Evaluating a Train-the-Trainer Approach for Increasing EBP Training Capacity in Community Mental Health.

Background

Research suggests the train-the-trainer (TtT) model may be an effective approach to training community mental health providers in evidence-based practice (EBP).

Methods

This study compared pre- and post-training consultation outcomes as well as standardised measures of trainer attributes and behaviours between university-based master trainers and experienced community-based supervisors, trained under the TtT approach.

Results

Findings suggest local and master trainers are equivalent in terms of clinical teaching effectiveness and trainee-perceived charisma.

Conclusions

Master trainers may have higher trainee-perceived credibility, but training and consultation outcomes are equivalent across the types of trainers, with the exception of behavioural problems where clinicians trained by local trainers and master trainers saw significantly greater growth than those who received training and consultation by master trainers.

Reference

Triplett, N.S., Sedlar, G., Berliner, L., Jungbluth, N., Boyd, M. & Dorsey, S. (2020) Evaluating a Train-the-Trainer Approach for Increasing EBP Training Capacity in Community Mental Health. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. doi: 10.1007/s11414-019-09676-2. [Epub ahead of print].

Book: The Mind-Gut Connection

Published on 03/04/2020 by Andrew MarshallLeave a comment

Book Title:

The Mind-Gut Connection – How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health.

Author(s): Emeran Mayer (MD).

Year: 2016.

Edition: First.

Publisher: HarperWave.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of The Second Brain, and The Good Gut that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between mind and the digestive system.

We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut – the decision we made because it “felt right”; the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting; the anxious stomach rumbling we get when we are stressed out.

While the dialogue between the gut and the brain has been recognised by ancient healing traditions, including Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, Western medicine has by and large failed to appreciate the complexity of how the brain, gut, and more recently, the gut microbiota – the microorganisms that live inside our digestive tract – communicate with one another.

In The Mind-Gut Connection, Dr. Emeran Mayer, professor of medicine and executive director of the UCLA Centre for Neurobiology of Stress, offers a revolutionary and provocative look at this developing science, teaching us how to harness the power of the mind-gut connection to take charge of our health and listen to the innate wisdom of our bodies.

Book: The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions

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Book Title:

The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT.

Author(s): Cedar R. Koons.

Year: 2016.

Edition: First.

Publisher: New Harbinger.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

If you suffer from intense emotions, you are not alone. Millions of Americans are diagnosed with emotion regulation disorders, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and other co-morbid conditions like post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and severe depression.

Developed by Marsha Linehan, DBT is a clinically proven, evidence-based treatment for intense emotions that can help you start feeling better right away.

This is the first consumer-friendly book to offer Linehan’s new mindfulness skills to help you take control of your emotions, once and for all.

In this book, you will learn seven powerful skills that highlight the unique connection between mindfulness and emotion regulation.

Each skill is designed to help you find focus in the present moment, reduce impulsive behaviour, and increase a sense of connection to your true self, even during times of extreme stress or difficulty.

You can feel calmer, more grounded, and centred. If you are ready, the mindfulness practices in this book will help you move away from a chaotic, emotion-driven life and cultivate a focused, intentional one.