New scholarly and clinical titles on the most current topics in psychology are now available in APA PsycBooks, our essential database of more than 4,600 DRM-free, full-text ebooks. These new releases in the collection cover subjects such as decolonialism, hypnosis, trauma, and more.
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New and upcoming titles in APA PsycBooks
The following titles are available in APA PsycBooks and the 2025 APA Books® E-Collection*:
Therapeutic Relationship-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
By Amy Wenzel
This book describes a relationship-focused approach to the conduct of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) called therapeutic relationship-focused CBT, offering readers a broad conceptualization of the therapeutic relationship by integrating literature that cuts across theoretical frameworks. The author applies this conceptualization to illustrate how the therapeutic relationship can be used as both a facilitator of change as well as a central agent of change within the cognitive behavioral framework.
Decolonizing Trauma HealingBy Laura S. Brown
As trauma is a universal experience, a colonized paradigm for responding to trauma re-introduces problematic dynamics of domination and subjugation that are inimical to healing. Decolonizing Trauma Healing offers a new paradigm for how psychologists and other mental health providers can learn to properly understand and work with people whose lives, psyches, and souls have been damaged by exposure to trauma.
Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control, Second Edition
By David R. Patterson and M. Elena Mendoza
This comprehensive guide shows how integrating hypnosis with psychotherapy and mindful meditation can help clinicians treat patients who suffer from chronic and acute pain. The authors present hypnotic analgesia as a viable alternative to psychopharmacological interventions for pain resulting from physical injuries, nerve damage, surgery, neurological problems, and other sources. They review research elucidating the neurophysiological and biopsychosocial roots of pain and provide clinical strategies that can be applied in a variety of settings.
Psychological Assessment of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents
By Anthony D. Bram
This book will illuminate the process by which an assessment psychologist evaluates and reports the nature of emotional dysregulation. It will also serve as a reference book to tailor test batteries, interpret findings related to differential diagnosis, and link test findings with meaningful treatment implications. Topics explored include detailed case examples addressing real-world referral questions, challenges around differential diagnosis, and explanations of treatment implications.
Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Serious Mental Illness
By Kim T. Mueser and Jennifer D. Gottlieb
This practical, hands-on guide gives clinicians the tools they need for screening, detecting, and treating PTSD in their clients with serious mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and borderline personality disorder. Chapters summarize research and theory regarding the interaction between PTSD and SMI, provide nuts and bolts strategies for implementing the authors’ Cognitive Restructuring for PTSD program, and offer guidance for overcoming clinical challenges to trauma treatment such as psychotic symptoms, low distress tolerance, emotion dysregulation, hopelessness, and cognitive impairment.
Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD, Second Edition
By Denise M. Sloan and Brian P. Marx
In the authors’ unique approach, the client writes about a single traumatic event, and the therapist focuses on the client’s experiences while writing about the trauma, rather than the event itself. This comprehensive manual provides step-by-step instructions for conducting Written Exposure Therapy (WET) with clients who suffer from PTSD. It contains a scripted protocol for WET, along with detailed guidance for conducting each session.
Online Sexual Offending, Second Edition
By Michael C. Seto
This second edition of this title takes a multidisciplinary and practical approach to online sexual offending, providing psychologists and other professionals with the knowledge to understand this issue and the tools to solve it. The author keeps readers up with this ever-evolving problem as technology advances and presents new risks, particularly for children and adolescents.
Deliberate Practice in Interpersonal Psychotherapy
By Olga Belik, Jessica M. Schultz, Scott Fairhurst, Scott Stuart, Alexandre Vaz, and Tony Rousmaniere
*Note: this title is not included in the 2025 APA Books E-Collection
Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential interpersonal therapy skills while developing their own personal therapeutic style. The exercises in this book present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The clinician improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—that reflect common client questions and concerns.
Principles of Self-Talk in Sport Settings
Edited by Jordan Thibodeaux, Judy L. Van Raalte, and Yani Dickens
This book examines the theory and practice of self-talk in sports performance, with a special emphasis on approaches that move beyond linear, cognitively-focused understandings of self-talk. Chapters bring together authors from diverse theoretical backgrounds and fields, and offer tools for coaches and mental health providers to measure self-talk, and examine different approaches to self-talk, including ecological and embodied cognition, and draw important links between self-talk and other areas of cognitive functioning, such as emotion regulation.
Therapists’ Sexual Feelings and Fantasies
By Kenneth S. Pope, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, and Hector Y. Adames
This candid, practical book addresses three distinct areas related to therapists’ sexual feelings: sexual attractions to clients (including sexual fantasies, dreams, and arousal); the violation of sexual boundaries with clients (including consensual therapist-patient sexual involvement); and forensic issues, including therapists who testify in cases where therapist-patient sex is at issue. The authors offer an extensive review of widespread and changing approaches to this topic in the history of psychotherapy, alongside a comprehensive look at current standards and research findings.
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