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APA offers a variety of Independent Study Programs for credit. The programs are developed from books published by APA and from other APA-published materials.
To find out more information about each book, including the amount of CE credits awarded for each program, the cost, and how to order the book and exam, click on the title links below. Please note that books and exams must be purchased separately.
- Abused Women and Survivor Therapy: A Practical Guide for the Psychotherapist
This book examines the major forms of abuse experienced by women and discusses various treatment approaches. (Softcover)
- Acute Stress Disorder: A Handbook of Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
This APA handbook is the first comprehensive clinical text on acute stress disorder (ASD) and outlines the rationale and techniques to prevent the development of PTSD. (Hardcover)
- Behavioral Interventions in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Practical Guidance for Putting Theory Into Action
This book provides a detailed, step-by-step illustration and guide to behavioral interventions in cognitive-behavioral therapy. (Hardcover)
- Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls
This APA book assesses research on adolescent girls from different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to present a view of them that emphasizes their strengths as well as their challenges. (Hardcover)
- Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls
This APA assesses research on adolescent girls from a variety of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to present a view of them that emphasizes their strengths as well as their challenges. (Softcover)
- Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach
APA book on the use of cognitive therapy to treat bipolar disorder, the interface between cognitive therapy and pharmacotherapy, and guidelines for addressing patients’ misgivings about medication. (Hardcover)
- Caring for Ourselves: A Therapist's Guide to Personal and Professional Well-Being
This book demonstrates a way to balance personal and professional lives by tending physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and the need to feel connected. (Hardcover)
- Casebook for Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
This companion book to Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach makes the leap from theory and research to the real-life, hands-on implementation of the elements of successful supervision. (Hardcover)
- Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
This book presents a classification system for human virtues and psychological strengths. (Hardcover)
- Childhood Mental Health Disorders: Evidence Base and Contextual Factors for Psychosocial, Psychopharmacological, and Combined Interventions
Addresses attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism and schizophrenia, and other disorders. (Hardcover)
- Chronic Depression: Interpersonal Sources, Therapeutic Solutions
This book surveys the interpersonal sources of chronic depression and discusses interpersonal processes that lead to the maintenance of depression. (Hardcover)
- Clinical Essentials of Pain Management
This book gives mental health practitioners guidance on how to assess and treat pain patients. (Hardcover)
- Clinical Health Psychology and Primary Care: Practical Advice and Clinical Guidance for Successful Collaboration
This book offers practical guidance on establishing an integrated primary care health psychology practice. (Hardcover)
- Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings: A Practitioner’s Guidebook, Second Edition
Practicing psychologists and professional graduate students will find this classic guide invaluable in developing specialized expertise in clinical health psychology. (Hardcover)
- Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives
This APA book presents a cognitive-behavioral perspective on the use of hypnotic suggestion in psychotherapy and attempts to break down barriers that inhibit clinicians use of this powerful clinical tool. (Hardcover)
- Clinical Supervision: A Competency-Based Approach
A comprehensive, up-to-date scholarly resource for training and supervising mental health practitioners. (Hardcover)
- Cognitive Schemas and Core Beliefs in Psychological Problems: A Scientist–Practitioner Guide
Provides up-to-date information on the evaluation and utility of the schema concept and core beliefs as they apply to the research and treatment of a variety of clinical problems. (Hardcover)
- The Collaborative Psychotherapist: Creating Reciprocal Relationships With Medical Professionals
This book provides step-by-step guidance on how psychotherapists can work with their medical colleagues on a routine basis. (Hardcover)
- Coping Strategies Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa
This APA book, a first-of-its-kind manual, provides an effective, integrated treatment approach for working with clients struggling with bulimia nervosa in today's managed care environment. (Hardcover)
- Couple Power Therapy: Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relationships
This book introduces the Couple Power Therapy model, an approach in which partners cocreate a unified vision for their relationship. (Hardcover)
- Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice
This book aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation. (Hardcover)
- Culturally Responsive Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision
This is the first book to integrate cultural influences into cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT). (Hardcover)
- Deepening Psychotherapy With Men
This APA book is a rich source of theoretical and clinical guidance for helping male clients look inward to resolve the core conflicts in their lives. (Hardcover)
- Ethics in HIV-Related Psychotherapy: Clinical Decision Making in Complex Cases
This APA book offers an overview and decision making model for handling ethical, legal and moral dilemmas for clinicians serving HIV positive clients and for use in graduate ethics courses. (Hardcover)
- Ethics in Plain English: An Illustrative Casebook for Psychologists, Second Edition
This book is a practical and engaging resource that shows psychologists how to apply the principles of APA's Ethics Code to the ethical dilemmas that they encounter in their daily lives. (Softcover)
- The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court
This book describes court work and the legal context in a yarn-spinning style that is friendly, informal, and more explanatory than adversarial, bringing gentleness and humor to a potentially combative arena. (Softcover)
- Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should Be Said in Court
In this APA book, eminent psychologists, lawyers, and social workers discuss aspects of testimony and provide recommendations for proper role of the expert witness in child abuse cases. (Softcover)
- Exploring Sport and Exercise Psychology, Second Edition
This APA book provides an indispensable overview of applications, interventions, and practice issues in the field of sport and exercise psychology. (Softcover)
- Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions
This book explores the latest research and practices in family intervention therapy. (Hardcover)
- Fear of Intimacy
This APA book was written for therapists as well as couples working to improve their interpersonal intimate relationships and is packed with various case studies and personal accounts. (Hardcover)
- Fear of Intimacy
This APA book was written for therapists as well as couples working to improve their interpersonal intimate relationships and is packed with various case studies and personal accounts. (Softcover)
- From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk: Trauma, Revictimization, and Intervention
This APA book examines the relation between child sexual abuse and adult sexual health outcomes in men and women. (Hardcover)
- Gender, Work Stress, and Health
This book examines how socially defined gender roles affect individuals' experience of stress and health at work. (Hardcover)
- Healing From Within: The Use of Hypnosis in Women's Health Care
This APA book presents the first comprehensive guidance on the use of hypnosis and guided imagery to enhance women's health. (Hardcover)
- Health Care Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook
This book explores the ethical questions encountered most often by practitioners in health care settings. (Hardcover)
- The Heart and Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy
This book proposes that the efficacy of therapy lies in pantheoretical, or common factors of different camps--the ingredients of effective therapy shared by all orientations. (Hardcover)
- How Psychotherapists Develop: A Study of Therapeutic Work and Professional Growth
This book documents an ambitious, multinational survey that systematically looks at therapists' own personal and professional development. (Hardcover)
- How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist: Information, Ideas, and Resources for Psychologists in Practice
This book is a nuts-and-bolts guide to starting, growing, or improving a psychotherapy practice. (Softcover)
- Inclusive Cultural Empathy: Making Relationships Central in Counseling and Psychotherapy
This book shows readers how to reach beyond the comfort zone of an individualistic perspective and increase competence in a relationship-centered context. (Hardcover)
- Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory
This book brings together family psychology and systems thinking to explore the ways systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems. (Hardcover)
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Older Adults
This book is the first clinical book on how to conduct Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with persons 65 years of age and older. (Hardcover)
- Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony
Using rigorous techniques of analysis, the authors of this APA book examine real-life cases in which children were key witnesses in criminal child abuse trials. (Softcover)
- Life and Death Decisions: Psychological and Ethical Considerations in End-of-Life Care
This APA book provides invaluable information for mental health professionals about the choices that people must make regarding how they will die and the ethics involved. (Hardcover)
- Measuring Suicidal Behavior and Risk in Children and Adolescents
This book offers practitioners and researchers practical, up-to-date information on a wide range of instruments used to evaluate suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents. (Hardcover)
- MMPI–2: A Practitioner's Guide
This book is a compendium of original contributions that focus on new developments and applications for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI–2), the most widely researched and broadly used personality assessment instrument. (Hardcover)
- The MMPI, MMPI–2, and MMPI–A in Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys, Third Edition
The 3rd edition of this book is an expanded edition to the previous volume, and provides a comprehensive empirical research approach to using the test in personal injury, family custody, and criminal assessment. (Hardcover)
- Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context
Author Fathali M. Moghaddam applies current psychological theories on intergroup relations to a variety of cultures and conflicts across the globe. (Hardcover)
- Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia and Depression in Older Adults: A Clinician's Guide
This book reviews the most up-to-date research on the diagnosis of dementia and depression. (Softcover)
- Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
Author Michael C. Seto addresses key concerns and questions in dealing with sex offenders who target children and pedophiles. (Hardcover)
- Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality, Second Edition
This APA book, an update of the 1994 edition, is a definitive resource for researchers and clinicians interested in the applications of the five-factor model to personality disorders. (Hardcover)
- Personality-Guided Behavior Therapy
This book shows how behavioral views of personality can be applied to produce effective assessment and treatment. (Hardcover)
- Personality-Guided Forensic Psychology
This book discusses the hot area of forensic psychology – the crossroads of law and psychology -- and illustrates how personality-guided assessment is a useful tool in the multiple arenas. (Hardcover)
- Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach
This book helps psychologists clarify what they value, consider how they should behave, and determine what constitutes proper professional conduct. (Softcover)
- Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology
This APA book is the first to comprehensively examine how feminist values and principles illuminate ethical dilemmas commonly faced by psychologists. (Hardcover)
- Preventing Violence in Relationships: Interventions Across the Life Span
This book takes a developmental approach to examining violence prevention in intimate relationships and families. (Hardcover)
- Preventing Youth Violence in a Multicultural Society
This book highlights the importance of creating culturally compatible interventions to stop violence among the youngest members of diverse populations. (Hardcover)
- Psychological Assessment of Adult Posttraumatic States: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Measurement, Second Edition
This updated book presents a detailed, yet practical summary of the major issues and instruments involved in the assessment of posttraumatic disturbance. (Softcover)
- Psychological Treatment of Chronic Illness: The Biopsychosocial Therapy Approach
This book emphasizes the biopsychosocial perspective and describes a biopsychosocially-oriented treatment approach known as Biopsychosocial Therapy. (Hardcover)
- Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics
This book helps researchers, students, and other readers of research to understand the purpose and presentation of multivariate techniques. (Softcover)
- Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology
This book presents a comprehensive treatment of religion as a variable in mental health and psychological treatment. (Hardcover)
- Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships
This book shows how clients can be helped to overcome psychological challenges and become physically and emotionally closer to their partners. (Hardcover)
- Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships
This book shows how clients can be helped to overcome psychological challenges and become physically and emotionally closer to their partners. (Softcover)
- Sex Offending: Causal Theories to Inform Research, Prevention, and Treatment
In this book, the authors review and critique existing theories and the supporting literature on why adolescent and adult males commit sex offenses against adults and children. (Hardcover)
- Shy Children, Phobic Adults: Nature and Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder, Second Edition
includes information from new studies differentiating patterns of distress characteristic of social anxiety disorder vs. social phobia. (Hardcover)
- A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition
This book shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an integral part of their lives. (Hardcover)
- Substance Abuse Treatment for Criminal Offenders: An Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners
This book covers traditional and cutting-edge treatments for offenders, including women, juveniles, and those with the dual diagnoses of substance abuse and a mental disorder. (Hardcover)
- The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care, Second Edition
This APA book, which updates a classic text in the field of suicidology, provides relevant empirical information on the clinical and legal standards of care for this high-risk population. (Hardcover)
- Therapy With Difficult Clients: Using the Precursors Model to Awaken Change
APA book offers seven factors that are necessary for therapeutic change and offers a tool for assessing clients’ readiness for change and practical guidelines for working with difficult clients. (Hardcover)
- Trauma and Substance Abuse: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment of Comorbid Disorders
This book explores the underrecognized connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse. (Hardcover)
- Treating Patients With Neuropsychological Disorders: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Referral
This APA book is an essential guide for the general practitioner who comes across a patient with a neuropsychological disorder. (Softcover)
- Understanding Depression in Women: Applying Empirical Research to Practice and Policy
The book surveys the findings of experts in depression in women and explores the latest findings on treatment, prevention, and service delivery. (Hardcover)
- Understanding Sleep: The Evaluation and Treatment of Sleep Disorders
This book brings to health care professionals the latest developments from the burgeoning field of sleep study and outlines methods for the evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders. (Softcover)
- Understanding Terrorism: Psychosocial Roots, Consequences, and Interventions
This APA book provides theory and interventions for understanding, intervening, and preventing the challenge of terrorism. (Hardcover)
- Unlocking the Potential of Patients With ADHD: A Model for Clinical Practice
This volume provides a foundation for translating the complex scientific literature on ADHD into a model for community-based care. (Hardcover)
- Women and Victimization: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications
This book is the first book to comprehensively examine and integrate a vast and diverse literature base, drawing from divergent findings to reveal a picture of complexity and of intertwining risk and resilience factors. (Hardcover)
- Working With Parents of Aggressive Children: A Practitioner's Guide
This book discusses the Responsive Parent Therapy, which is designed for families with aggressive school-age children. (Hardcover)
- You're On! Consulting for Peak Performance
This book describes how to mentor professionals who want to achieve peak performance. (Hardcover)
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