Quimby Memorial Library: Psychopathology: Psychopathology

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Welcome students of Psychopathology. This guide lists some example resources and/or starting points to assist with two assigned discussion posts in this course that require some additional research as well as recommended reading for the course from the syllabus.

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Discussion 2:
Research and choose an article that discusses possible treatment interventions for schizophrenia and/or psychosis that is in alignment with your developing theoretical stance. Upload or post a link to the article and your 3 key takeaways in your discussion post. (Due Week 4)

Journals:

Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches
Publication Date: 2009 - Present
Addresses two steadily developing fields: psychological treatments of psychosis and psycho-social causes of psychosis (e.g. drug abuse, child abuse and neglect, urban living, poverty, rape, war trauma, discrimination, etc.). The journal’s audience are practitioners and researchers with an interest in psychosis. The journal’s unique focus and multi-disciplinary approach renders it attractive to: psychiatrists, social workers, psychotherapists and counsellors, and other allied professionals.
The Journal of Personality Assessment
Publication Date: 1936 - Present
seeks to publish articles on the methods and applications related to the psychological assessment of psychopathology, maladaptive personality, and normative personality processes. JPA strives to publish cutting edge research, which can occur in a number of contexts and settings, including clinical/consulting, counseling, neuropsychological, forensic, health, social/community, multicultural, developmental/educational, industrial/organizational, and screening of candidates for public safety positions. The journal is interested in receiving manuscripts that consider development and validation of new assessment processes and tests, as well as advance the clinical utility and ecological validity of personality assessment in clinical and nonclinical populations.

Articles:

Psychosocial intervention for schizophrenia by Xiaoying Sun,Suping Yue; Mingjun Duan; Dezhong Yao; Cheng Luo
Publication Date: 2023
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness. The main treatment of schizophrenia is antipsychotic medications. Meanwhile, psychosocial treatment can be incorporated to improve the efficacy of treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive remediation therapy, family therapy, psychoeducation, social skill training, and vocational rehabilitation. This study aimed to summarize the efficacy of various psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia through a literature review.
Understanding the Treatment Preferences of People Living with Schizophrenia in Australia; A Patient Value Mapping Study by Simon Fifer; Brittany Keen; Richard Newton; Andrea Puig; Marija McGeachie
Publication Date: 2022
Sixty-six Australian adults, living with schizophrenia completed a novel online survey with six sections: Demographic characteristics; Disease history; Quality-of-life; Patient support programs; Discrete Choice Experiment, and Best-Worst Scaling exercise. Participants indicated that they preferred to be involved in treatment decisions with their doctor. Recent hospitalization influenced the relative importance of treatment attributes, with effectiveness on hearing voices being the most important treatment attribute.

Ebook:

Schizophrenia: Evolution and Synthesis by Steven M. Silverstein; Bita Moghaddam; Til Wykes
ISBN: 9780262019620
Publication Date: 2013
Leading researchers address conceptual and technical issues in schizophrenia and suggest novel strategies for advancing research and treatment.Despite major advances in methodology and thousands of published studies every year, treatment outcomes in schizophrenia have not improved over the last fifty years. Moreover, we still lack strategies for prevention and we do not yet understand how the interaction of genetic, developmental, and environmental factors contribute to the disorder. In this book, leading researchers consider conceptual and technical obstacles to progress in understanding schizophrenia and suggest novel strategies for advancing research and treatment.

Discussion 3:
Pick a disorder that you would like to know more about in terms of treatment. Research different treatments for the disorder you chose. (Initial post due Week 5, responses due Week 6)

Journals:

Journal of Mental Health
Publication Date: 1992 - Present
This journal is an international forum for the latest research in the mental health field. Reaching over 65 countries, the journal reports on the best in evidence-based practice around the world and provides a channel of communication between the many disciplines involved in mental health research and practice. The journal encourages multi-disciplinary research and welcomes contributions that have involved the users of mental health services. It not only reflects current good practice but also aims to influence policy by reporting on innovations that challenge traditional ways of working.
Cogent Mental Health
Publication Date: 2023
This journal is an open access and peer-reviewed journal that takes an innovative, broad, multidisciplinary perspective. The journal publishes research focusing on the breadth of subject domains that encompass mental health including the broad fields of psychiatry, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy. Sections are topic-based and bring together work from multiple perspectives of the disciplines and professions involved.

Ebooks:

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach; An Integration of Phenomenology and Cognitive Neuroscience by Eric Yu-Hai Chen
ISBN: 9789888754250
Publication Date: 2022
This book retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framework and provide fresh insights. This book explores how the scientific concepts of ‘information and representation' can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them in empathic clinical dialogues during interactions with patients. It explores key issues in clinical psychopathology coherently and systematically, illustrates advanced topics in an accessible manner using clinical case examples, metaphors and clarifying diagrams, and directly links advanced conceptual frameworks with pragmatic skills in the clinical dialogue process.
Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders by Monica L. Gonzalez; Adrienne Stith Butler; Mary Jane England
ISBN: 9780309316941
Publication Date: 2015
Mental health and substance use disorders affect approximately 20 percent of Americans and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although a wide range of evidence-based psychosocial interventions are currently in use, most consumers of mental health care find it difficult to know whether they are receiving high-quality care. Although the current evidence base for the effects of psychosocial interventions is sizable, subsequent steps in the process of bringing a psychosocial intervention into routine clinical care are less well defined. Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders details the reasons for the gap between what is known to be effective and current practice and offers recommendations for how best to address this gap by applying a framework that can be used to establish standards for psychosocial interventions. The framework described in Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders can be used to chart a path toward the ultimate goal of improving the outcomes.

RECOMMENDED READING

AS A REMINDER: All required reading for this course will either be provided in Populi directly, or will have a link to EBSCOhost for textbooks that are available on that platform.

What follows is a list of recommended or related readings from the course syllabus. Note that not all items from the original list may be immediately available. However, please contact the library for additional access options or with any other questions.

Online Articles:

Bystritsky, A., Khalsa, S.S., Cameron, M.E. & Schiffman, J. (2013). Current diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders. P&T, 38(1). 30-57. https://swc.populiweb.com/router/folders/253685/show

Jones, K.D. (2010). The unstructured clinical interview. The Journal of Counseling and Development, 88. 221-226. https://swc.populiweb.com/router/folders/253686/show

van der Kolk, B. (1994). The body keeps score: Memory & the evolving psychobiology of post-traumatic stress. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1(5). 253-65. https://swc.populiweb.com/router/folders/253687/show

Ebooks:

Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma by Jerome S. Bernstein
Call Number: BF175.4.R44 B457 2005
ISBN: 9781583917572
Publication Date: 2005
Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the ‘Borderland,'a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and developmental enigmas. There are many people whose experiences of reality is outside the mainstream of Western culture; often they see themselves as abnormal because they have no articulated frame of reference for their experience. The concept of the Borderland personality explains much of their experience. In three sections, this book examines the psychological and clinical implications of the evolution of consciousness and looks at how the new Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide.

Print Books from QML (click link to place on hold):

Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma by Jerome S. Bernstein
Call Number: BF175.4.R44 B457 2005
ISBN: 1583917578
Publication Date: 2005
Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the ‘Borderland,'a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and developmental enigmas. There are many people whose experiences of reality is outside the mainstream of Western culture; often they see themselves as abnormal because they have no articulated frame of reference for their experience. The concept of the Borderland personality explains much of their experience. In three sections, this book examines the psychological and clinical implications of the evolution of consciousness and looks at how the new Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
Call Number: RC552. P67 L48 1997
ISBN: 9781556432330
Publication Date: 1997
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. This book normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan
Call Number: RC569.5 .B67 L56 1993
ISBN: 0898621836
Publication Date: 1993
For the average clinician, individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often represent the most challenging, seemingly insoluble cases. This volume is the authoritative presentation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehan's comprehensive, integrated approach to treating individuals with BPD. DBT was the first psychotherapy shown in controlled trials to be effective with BPD. It has since been adapted and tested for a wide range of other difficult-to-treat disorders involving emotion dysregulation. While focusing on BPD, this book is essential reading for clinicians delivering DBT to any clients with complex, multiple problems.
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey; Bruce D. Perry
Call Number: RC552.T7 P47 2021
ISBN: 9781250223180
Publication Date: 2021
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand. Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question. This book offers a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”
Spirituality in Clinical Practice: Theory and Practice of Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy by Len Sperry
Call Number: RC489.R46 S66 2012
ISBN: 9780415957243
Publication Date: 2011
Psychotherapists are increasingly expected to incorporate the spiritual as well as the psychological dimension in their professional work. Therapists also are increasingly required to utilize evidence-based practices and demonstrate the effectiveness of their practice. An ever-increasing number of spiritually-oriented psychotherapy books attest to its importance but, unlike these books that primarily focus on the therapist's spiritual awareness, the second edition of Spirituality in Clinical Practice addresses the actual practice of spiritually oriented psychotherapy from the beginning to end. Dr. Len Sperry, master therapist and researcher, emphasizes the therapeutic processes in spiritually oriented psychotherapy with individual chapters on: the therapeutic relationship assessment and case conceptualization intervention evaluation and termination and culturally and ethically sensitive interventions.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Call Number: RC552 .P67 2014
ISBN: 0670785938
Publication Date: 2014
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

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