Clinical Psychology (eBook)

A Global Perspective

Stefan G. Hofmann (Herausgeber)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-96001-1 (ISBN)

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STEFAN G. HOFMANN, PHD, is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University, where he directs the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory. His main research focuses on the mechanism of treatment change, translating discoveries from neuroscience into clinical applications, emotion regulation strategies, and cultural expressions of psychopathology. He is the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and twenty books. He is a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters, and has many other awards.

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Gerhard Andersson is full professor of clinical psychology at Linköping University in the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, and an affiliated researcher at Karoliniska Institutet, Stockholm. He is clinically active as psychologist at the local hearing clinic. Andersson has a PhD in psychology and one in medicine and is trained as CBT therapist and supervisor. He is also interested in religion and atheism and has a BSc in theology. Professor Andersson is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cognitive‐behavior therapy delivered through information and communication technology as evidenced by his over 500 peer‐reviewed publications. His research spans somatic and psychiatric conditions; he is a leading researcher in the field of tinnitus and has published extensively on depression and anxiety disorders. Andersson is also the editor‐in‐chief for the journal Internet Interventions. In 2014 he was awarded the Nordic Prize in Medicine. For more information see www.gerhardandersson.se (retrieved April 3, 2017).

Martin M. Antony, PhD, is professor in the department of psychology at Ryerson University, in Toronto Canada. He has published more than 275 books, articles, and chapters, mostly in the area of anxiety and related disorders. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American and Canadian Psychological Associations, the Association for Psychological Science, and several other professional associations.

Elisabeth A. Arens received her PhD in clinical psychology from Heidelberg University in 2013. She currently holds a position as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Dr. Arens has a special research expertise in depressive disorders, with a particular focus on the assessment of emotion regulation deficits. Her clinical practice (cognitive behavioral therapy) includes a special consulting service for individuals with depressive disorders.

Borwin Bandelow, born in Göttingen, Germany, is Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Göttingen. As a specialist in psychiatry and neurology, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist, Dr. Bandelow specializes mainly in anxiety disorders, but also in schizophrenia, depression, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Göttingen.

Rosa M. Baños  is full professor in psychopathology at the Universitat de Valencia, Spain, and has been a Senior lecturer at Universitat Jaume I, in Spain. She is the director of the Master in Multidisciplinary Intervention in Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders and Emotional Disorders course at the University of Valencia. Her research activity has focused in the study of psychopathology and the treatment of various psychological disorders (emotional disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, etc.). She has also been working in recent years on the application of new technologies to clinical psychology for the understanding and treatment of mental disorders and the promotion of wellbeing.

Thomas Berger holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern, Switzerland and leads the research group investigating Internet interventions. He earned his PhD degree in clinical psychology and psychotherapy in 2005 from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since then he has received several grants and awards such as the Outstanding Early Achievement Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Susan M. Bögels is clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and mindfulness trainer, professor in developmental psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of academic treatment center for children and parents UvA minds. Her research interests concern the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, with a specific focus on the role of the father, and the effects of mindfulness‐based and cognitive‐behavioral family interventions on child and parental psychopathology. She was a member of the anxiety disorder workgroup preparing the DSM‐5.

Cristina Botella is full professor of clinical psychology at Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Spain, director of Labpsitec (www.labpsitec.es, retrieved April 3, 2017), and director of the doctorate program in psychology. She has been principal investigator in more than 40 research projects and has published over 200 papers. Her main line of research is the treatment of psychological disorders, and the use of information and communication technology (virtual reality, augmented reality, the Internet, and mobile apps) to promote health and wellbeing.

Michelle L. Bourgeois received her BA with Honors in psychology from Wellesley College and is currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Boston University (BU), where she works as a graduate student researcher and clinician at the BU Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. Under the mentorship of Timothy A. Brown Psy.D. she studies the classification, time course, and transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders.

Timothy A. Brown is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston University, and director of research at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. He has published extensively in the areas of the classification of anxiety and mood disorders, vulnerability to emotional disorders, psychometrics, and methodological advances in social sciences research. In addition to conducting his own grant‐supported research, Dr. Brown serves as a statistical investigator or consultant on numerous federally funded research projects. He has been on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including a longstanding appointment as associate editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Richard A. Bryant, DSc, is a Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is also an NHMRC senior principal research fellow and director of the UNSW Traumatic Stress Clinic. He has conducted extensive research into assessment, mechanisms, and treatment of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, and has conducted research trials in diverse settings across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Matthew Calamia, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Iowa and completed his predoctoral psychology internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry. His research interests include neuropsychological assessment and psychometrics.

Rachel N. Casas is an assistant professor of graduate psychology at California Lutheran University, and a licensed clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in cognitive assessment of ethnic and linguistic minority populations. Her research focuses on understanding how cultural factors influence brain functioning and behavior, and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Psychological Association, and the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR).

Brad Cini, BPsych (Hons), completed a research thesis at the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Research Unit, Monash University, Australia (http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/cbtru/, retrieved April 3, 2017) under the supervision of Dr. Nikolaos Kazantzis, on change processes in psychological therapy. Specifically, his research focused on the effects of collaboration between therapist and client on symptom reduction in cognitive behavior therapy. He has a keen interest in cognitive behavioral therapy and is currently pursuing a career in clinical practice.

Christopher C. Conway graduated with a B.S. in psychology from Duke University, and he earned his PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA in 2013. He went on to hold postdoctoral fellowships at the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Research Center and the Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. He joined the William & Mary faculty as an assistant professor in 2015. Along with his team, he studies the onset, time course, and classification of emotional disorders.

Robert J. Craig, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed and board certified clinical psychologist who attained fellow status in the American Psychological Association and in the Society for Personality Assessment, where he was the recipient of the Martin Mayman award for “distinguished contributions to the literature of personality assessment.” He has published 10 academic books, contributed over a hundred scientific papers in peer‐reviewed journals and served as consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment as well as for journals in psychology, psychiatry and substance abuse. He served as the director of the drug abuse treatment program at the VA Medical Center, Chicago.

Jan Christopher Cwik is postdoctoral researcher and licensed psychotherapist (cognitive behavior therapy) at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center of the Ruhr‐Universität Bochum (Germany). He received a postgraduate grant from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal while completing his PhD. His research focuses on diagnostics in clinical psychology, diagnostic decisions and processes, and psychophysiological...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Schlagworte: adolescents, and adults • classification systems across the globe • clinical psychological research methods • Clinical psychology • clinical psychology across cultures • clinical psychology cross-cultural interventions • clinical psychology cultural differences • clinical psychology in central america • clinical psychology in china • clinical psychology in eastern europe • clinical psychology in europe • clinical psychology in north america • clinical psychology in south america • clinical psychology interventions with children in china and the far east • clinical psychology interventions with children in the near east • clinical psychology interventions within children in the america • clinical psychology intervention with children in europe • clinical psychology in the far east • clinical psychology in the middle east • clinical psychology in the uk • clinical psychology national difference • clinical psychology regional variations • clinical psychology text • culturally-informed clinical interviews and psychological assessments • diagnosing and treating common mental disorders across the globe • Klinische Psychologie • mixed-culture clinical psychology • Psychologie • Psychology
• ISBN-10: 1-118-96001-7 / 1118960017
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-96001-1 / 9781118960011