El proceso de evaluación psicológica clínica se configura como uno de los componentes clave de la intervención en Psicología Clínica, necesario en todas las intervenciones del psicólogo. El presente manual, por su conjugación de teoría y práctica, se convierte en un texto ideal para estudiantes y profesionales de la Psicología y campos afines que quieran tener un conocimiento aplicado de la evaluación clínica y el diagnóstico sin perder una visión seria, completa, fundamentada en la evidencia y, principalmente, práctica de cada una de las etapas y actividades del proceso de evaluación clínica. A lo largo del texto el lector encontrará las conexiones entre el necesario rigor metodológico que asegure la calidad de la evaluación y sus implicaciones prácticas en cada caso. Esta segunda edición se ha adaptado a las clasificaciones diagnósticas DSM-5 y CIE-11, además de incluir otras alternativas actuales de diagnóstico. Se pone un énfasis especial en la integración de la información en una formulación clínica que permita diseñar tratamientos que combinen los datos provenientes de los estudios empíricos y modelos teóricos, con aquellos otros propios de la subjetividad y la situación específica de cada persona.

This handbook shows the wide perspective cognitive-behavioural treatment can offer to health professionals, the vast majority of whom now recognize that cognitive behavioural procedures are very useful in treating many 'mental' disorders, even if certain disciplines continue to favour other kinds of treatment. This book offers a wide range of structured programmes for the treatment of various psychological/psychiatric disorders as classified by the DSM-IV. The layout will be familiar to the majority of health professionals in the description of mental disorders and their later treatment. It is divided into seven sections, covering anxiety disorders, sexual disorders, dissociative, somatoform, impulse control disorders, emotional disorders and psychotic and organic disorders. Throughout the twenty-three chapters, this book offers the health professional a structured guide with which to start tackling a whole series of 'mental' disorders and offers pointers as to where to find more detailed information. The programmes outlined should, it is hoped, prove more effective than previous approaches with lower economic costs and time investment for the patient and therapist.

Manual práctico, editado en origen por la American Psychiatric Association, para uso de consulta diaria en la práctica psiquiátrica. Recoge en un compendio de tablas todos los datos necesarios en la práctica psiquiátrica moderna, para lo que se basa en la experiencia clínica de los autores en la prestigiosa Clínica Mayo. Incluye, entre otra información relevante, listas de comprobación para la evaluación diagnóstica, modelos para informes, la clasificación de los trastornos mentales del DSM-IV revisado y últimos avances y novedades en psicofármacos y revisa desde los datos clave en la evaluación e historia del paciente hasta los últimos avances en tratamiento psicofarmacológico y especialidades psiquiátricas como urgencias o psiquiatría de enlace. Manual práctico, editado en origen por la American Psychiatric Association, para uso de consulta diaria en la práctica psiquiátrica. Incluye, entre otra información relevante, listas de comprobación para la evaluación diagnóstica, modelos para informes, la clasificación de los trastornos mentales del DSM-IV revisado y últimos avances y novedades en psicofármacos.

Originally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made available in English for the first time. This unique work is highly illustrated with full-color images, providing a medico-legal examination of forensic pathology as it relates to cases of forensic psychological interest. The book begins with a historical perspective and includes images of patients to familiarize the reader with symptoms, the hazard-risk criteria, lethality, and suicidal rescue—research that Dr. Tiffon has addressed in his previous publications. Chapters present photographic records of cases to deepen forensic, psychologist, and medico-legal professionals’ insight into thoughts, behaviors, and mechanisms of self- and hetero-aggressiveness. Such cases illustrate the outcomes of various disorders manifested in individuals and victims; as such, they provide an understanding of the psychological-legal conclusions reached in such cases in order to adapt the legal and preventative measures for specific situations. Coverage includes affective, schizophrenic, and personality disorders as contributing elements in diagnostic judgments, noting the great difficulty such examples present to experts performing psychopathological evaluations after criminal, and often violent, events have occurred. Various psychopathological disorders are addressed as well as the technical treatment that should occur in each case from a psychological-forensic perspective. Features: • Presents a provocative look at various syndromes familiar to forensic psychologists, as applied to criminal cases and the pathology of suicide victims and homicide perpetrators • Combines the work of world-renowned expert contributors to examine the criminal, legal, and psychological facets of various diagnoses and case examples • Offers insight into the psychological state of suicide victims, considering their state of mind as a "psychological autopsy" In his previous books published in Spanish, Manual of Consulting in Psychology and Clinical, Legal, Legal, Criminal, and Forensic Psychopathology (2008), Manual of Professional Performance in Clinical, Criminal, and Forensic Psychopathology (2009), and the 4-volume Practical Criminological Atlas of Forensic Psychometry (2019-2020), Tiffon approached forensic psychology and psychopathology from a theoretical perspective. In the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology, his first book translated into English, Tiffon expands on these prior works, serving to provide a visual reference and guide to medical pathologists and consulting psychologists in cases of disorders in which psychopathological mutilation, injury, and self-injury occur.