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Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology - for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. This uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children's screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous films that have been released since the last edition. Downloadable tools for teachers include critical questions, topics for discussion, and fabricated case histories based on movie characters.
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Danny Wedding, PhD, MPH, retired from the University of Missouri School of Medicine to become the Associate Dean for Management and International Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco. In this role, he had oversight responsibility for psychology graduate programs in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mexico City. He subsequently chaired the Department of Behavioral Science and Neuroscience for the American University of Antigua School of Medicine and served in a variety of roles for the American University of the Caribbean in Sint Maarten. Danny is a retired navy captain who was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working in the Senate, and an APA Congressional Science Fellow, working in the House of Representatives. He is the former editor of PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology - APA Review of Books, the senior editor for Hogrefe's book series on Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence-Based Practice, and the coauthor of Positive Psychology at the Movies. Danny's best-known book is Current Psychotherapies, now in its 11th edition. He lives in West Linn, Oregon, where he continues to write and lecture on the portrayal of mental illness in contemporary cinema.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The popular, critically acclaimed text on psychopathology in movies - now including the latest movies and moreExplores films according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 and ICD-11Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 filmsIncludes downloadable teaching materialsFilms can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology - for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Watching films relevant to mental health can actually help you become a more productive therapist and a more astute diagnostician. Movies and Mental Illness, written by an eminent clinical psychologist (who is also a movie aficionado), has established a reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology.This new edition has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children's screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous films that have been released since the last edition. The core clinical chapters raise provocative questions about differential diagnosis (according to the DSM-5 and ICD-11) for the primary characters portrayed in the films. Included are also a full index of films; sample course syllabus; ratings of close to 1,500 films; fascinating appendices, such as 'Top 50 Heroes and Villains,' psychotherapists in movies, and misconceptions about mental illness in movies.Accompanying the new edition are downloadable resources for teachers that include critical questions and topics for discussion, as well as fabricated case histories based on movie characters with Mini-Mental State Examinations that help explain, teach, and encourage discussion about important mentalhealth disorders.In addition, the author plans a regular series of online 'Spotlights' articles that will critically examine the psychological content of new movies as they are released. 514 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780889375536
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The popular, critically acclaimed text on psychopathology in movies - now including the latest movies and more- Explores films according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 and ICD-11- Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 films- Includes downloadable teaching materialsFilms can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology - for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Watching films relevant to mental health can actually help you become a more productive therapist and a more astute diagnostician. Movies and Mental Illness, written by an eminent clinical psychologist (who is also a movie aficionado), has established a reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology.This new edition has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children's screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous films that have been released since the last edition. The core clinical chapters raise provocative questions about differential diagnosis (according to the DSM-5 and ICD-11) for the primary characters portrayed in the films. Included are also a full index of films; sample course syllabus; ratings of close to 1,500 films; fascinating appendices, such as 'Top 50 Heroes and Villains,' psychotherapists in movies, and misconceptions about mental illness in movies.Accompanying the new edition are downloadable resources for teachers that include critical questions and topics for discussion, as well as fabricated case histories based on movie characters with Mini-Mental State Examinations that help explain, teach, and encourage discussion about important mental health disorders.In addition, the author plans a regular series of online 'Spotlights' articles that will critically examine the psychological content of new movies as they are released. Seller Inventory # 9780889375536