Psychology for Psychiatrists

Gupta, Deepa S. (EDT); Gupta, Rajinder M. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1861561407 / ISBN 13: 9781861561404

Verlag: Wiley, 2000

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 896711-n

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Psychology for Psychiatrists
• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1861561407
• ISBN-13: 9781861561404
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

One of the strengths of this book is that each chapter is written by a prominent specialist in their field. They particularly highlight points of clinical relevance and come from both academic and clinical psychology backgrounds. Many have worked with psychiatrists or have been involved in teaching psychology to psychiatrists in training.Contents ? Part One Basic Psychology ? Behaviourism and Learning Theory ? Sensation and Perception ? Information Processing and Attention ? Remembering and Forgetting ? The Development of Cognition, Moral Reasoning and Language ? Understanding the Psychology of Personality ? Motivation ? Stress and Emotion: Physiology, Cognition and Health ? Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy ? Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Sleepiness, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep Neurophysiology, Sleep Disorders and Dreaming ? Neuro-psychology: Studying Behaviour following Brain Damage ? Intelligence and its Measurement ? Some Empirical Approaches to Individual Differences Part Two Human Development ? Human Development ? The Development of Sociability and Fears ? Psychological Aspects of Adolescence and the Development of Identities ? Psychological Development in Adult LIfe ? Normal Ageing Part Three Social Psychology

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Rajinder M. Gupta studied psychology at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. He did his professional training as an educational psychologist at Exeter University and PhD at Aston. Following his training, he worked as an educational psychologist for nearly two decades. In the last 15 years, he has worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychologist in the clinical psychology departments of several NHS trusts in the Midlands and has also helped train a number of clinical psychology trainees studying for their doctorate programme at Birmingham University. His current main area of interest, both from a clinical and academic standpoint, is the study of families with interactional diffi culties with their children and effective and effi cient ways of helping them.