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Book Synopsis'Powerful and poignant, this book is for anyone who has struggled with mental health challenges' Lori Gottlieb'[An] invaluable book' Andrew Solomon'A unique, hopeful, essential guide. You Are Not Alone is a treasure' Bruce D. PerryThis singular book is a powerful reminder that help is here, and you are never alone.Millions of people across the world are affected by mental illness every year. Yet the mental healthcare industry remains chaotic, underfunded and often inaccessible, with many people asking themselves the same questions: What does it mean when different doctors give me different diagnoses? Will I be on medication my whole life? Will I ever feel better?You Are Not Alone is here to offer help and compassion. Written by Dr Ken Duckworth, whose own entry into psychiatry was inspired by his father's lifelong battle with bipolar disorder, this comprehensive guide pairs medical expertise with the empathy of someone who gets it.

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Book SynopsisUnconditional helps those experiencing the challenges of intense emotional issues to let them know they are not alone. Unconditional takes readers through Allison Garner’s own journey with her daughter as they face her daughter’s emotional, mental, and behavioral struggles. With bracingly honest reflection, Allison shares her own struggles learning how to parent a child with major emotional and mental struggles, from multiple suicide attempts to cutting school. She openly admits to the thoughts most mothers never have the courage to say out loud and tackles her own growth head-on to show parents that it’s okay not to have all the answers—and they don’t have to be a “normal” parent or “good” mother. Including excerpts from her daughter’s journal, Unconditional, while not shying away from reality, paints a beautiful picture of hope and growth on an imperfect journey and reassures parents that there is nothing wrong with them or their children.Trade Review"Allison (Think Possible) and her daughter, Piper, deliver an insightful dual memoir of their experiences with teenage mental illness... Honest and raw... (Piper’s) perspective on her own mental illness is profound... This will benefit any parent whose child suffers from mental illness." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisEfficiently target all dimensions of your clients'' emotion dysregulation for improved treatment outcomes.There is extensive evidence highlighting the role of emotion dysregulation in numerous forms of psychopathology and maladaptive behaviors including depression, anxiety, PTSD, personality disorders, self-injury, disordered eating behaviors, and substance use, among others. Originally developed for treating self-injury among women with borderline personality disorder, research shows that acceptance-based emotion regulation therapy is powerfully effective in treating emotion dysregulation and related psychiatric symptoms and self-destructive behaviors in a wide range of clients.Acceptance-Based Emotion Regulation Therapy offers an empirically supported protocol that addresses all key dimensions of emotion regulation using evidence-based strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emotion-focused therapy (EFT), as well as basic behavioral principles-resulting in a treatment that is more targeted and far briefer than comprehensive DBT. After providing an overview of the conceptual and empirical underpinnings of this therapy, as well as the therapeutic stance underlying this treatment, this step-by-step guide will walk you through each of the fourteen sessions of this therapy, reviewing key concepts and specific strategies for teaching clients key emotion regulation skills.Each chapter includes handouts and outside-of-session practice exercises and monitoring forms to help clients practice the skills and integrate them into their lives. Chapters also include discussion of common sticking points or challenges that can arise when teaching clients these skills, as well as tips for addressing these in an effective, treatment consistent manner. You''ll also learn strategies for helping clients maintain treatment gains and prevent relapse. With this comprehensive protocol, you''ll be fully equipped to treat psychiatric symptoms stemming from emotion dysregulation, self-destructive behaviors serving an emotion-regulating function, and emotion dysregulation more broadly.If you''ve been searching for an emotion regulation therapy that efficiently and effectively targets all the core dimensions of emotion dysregulation driving your clients'' symptoms and clinical difficulties, this comprehensive guide has everything you need to help your clients improve their emotion regulation, maintain treatment gains, prevent relapse, and build meaningful lives.

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Book SynopsisAn unpredictable exploration of how media is sparking grassroots cultural campaignsTrade ReviewThe standard convergence narrative of recent years presents media concentration as a threat both to the diversity of communication channels and to individuals' opportunities to engage in public discourse. A respected and well-established media scholar, Jenkins here counters such pessimistic perspectives on the brave new media world with theoretical and evidentiary attestations to the growing power of individuals and grassroots groups to affect the larger media landscape. * Choice *I thought I knew twenty-first century pop media until I read Henry Jenkins. The fresh research and radical insights in Convergence Culture deserve a wide and thoughtful readership. Bring on the monolithic block of eyeballs. -- Bruce Sterling, author, blogger, visionaryJenkins offers crucial insight into an unexpected and unforeseen future. Unlike most predictions about how New Media will shape the world in which we live, the reality is turning out far stranger and more interesting than we might have imagined. The social implications of this change could be staggering. -- Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The SimsOne of those rare works that is closer to an operating system than a traditional book: it's a platform that people will be building on for years to come. What's more, the book happens to be a briskly entertaining read—as startling, inventive, and witty as the culture it documents. It should be mandatory reading for anyone trying to make sense of todays popular culture but thankfully, a book this fun to read doesn’t need a mandate. -- Steven Johnson, author of the national bestseller, Everything Bad Is Good For YouFor any Sony PS3 execs out there wondering why their technological masterpiece is being ridiculed by customers before its even released . . . Convergence Culture is a must read . . . Jenkins offers numerous insights on how technology and media professionals can forge better relationships with their customers. * Slashdot *Remarkable . . . Jenkins insights are gripping and his prose is surprisingly entertaining and lucid for a book that is, at its core, intellectually rigorous . . . Jenkins impressive ability to break down complex concepts into readable prose makes this study vital and engaging. * Publishers Weekly *Jenkins is an astute observer of media culture and his insights are spot-on. * The Los Angeles Times *Jenkins tries to bring clarity to cultural changes that are melting and morphing into new shapes on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly basis. Convergence Culture provides a view that looks at the restless ocean and tracks the currents rather than just looking at the individual rocks on the beach. * The McClatchy Newspapers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Worship at the Altar of Convergence": A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change 1 Spoiling Survivor: The Anatomy of a Knowledge Community 2 Buying into American Idol: How We are Being Sold on Reality TV 3 Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling 4 Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry 5 Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Potter Wars 6 Photoshop for Democracy: The New Relationship between Politics and Popular CultureConclusion: Democratizing Television?The Politics of ParticipationNotes Glossary Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe verb declutter has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. The author finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our culture, and that there is a fine line between clutter and deviance in America.Trade Review"My high expectations were fulfilled and indeed exceeded by Herring's brilliant, groundbreaking, fascinating, and lucid book. In traversing his rich and well-researched archive in the series of case studies that make up the book, Herring examines how and why hoarders have been stigmatized in a number of different contexts through the twentieth century. In doing so, he mounts a sustained and significant challenge to the pathologizing discourses about hoarding." (Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University)"

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Book SynopsisThe verb declutter has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. The author finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our culture, and that there is a fine line between clutter and deviance in America.Trade Review"My high expectations were fulfilled and indeed exceeded by Herring's brilliant, groundbreaking, fascinating, and lucid book. In traversing his rich and well-researched archive in the series of case studies that make up the book, Herring examines how and why hoarders have been stigmatized in a number of different contexts through the twentieth century. In doing so, he mounts a sustained and significant challenge to the pathologizing discourses about hoarding." (Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University)"

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Book SynopsisExploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders, this book details a secular ritual process aimed not only at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating an almost entirely new self.Trade Review"Cruel Attachments is wholly absorbing, in the sense that it is unputdownable, but also in the sense that it provides numerous occasions for what can feel like utterly contaminating, destabilizing emotional identifications: with victims, family members, therapists, prison guards, the anthropologist himself-and, however unnervingly, also perpetrators. It is no small feat to bring readers inside the emotional worlds of all these players. To have done so, and with such subtlety and nuance, is remarkable and unprecedented." (Dagmar Herzog, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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Book SynopsisMice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science todaybut it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves that animal experiments are a good way of producing knowledge about the genetics of human behavior? In Model Behavior, Nicole C. Nelson takes us inside an animal behavior genetics laboratory to examine how scientists create and manage the foundational knowledge of their field. Behavior genetics is a particularly challenging field for making a clear-cut case that mouse experiments work, because researchers believe that both the phenomena they are studying and the animal models they are using are complex. These assumptions of complexity change the nature of what laboratory work produces. Whereas historical and ethnographic studies traditionally portray the laboratory as a place where scientists control, simplify, and stabilize nature in the service of producing durable facts, the laboratory that emerges from Nelson's extensive interviews and fieldwork is a place where stable findings are always just out of reach. The ongoing work of managing precarious experimental systems means that researchers learn as muchif not moreabout the impact of the environment on behavior as they do about genetics. Model Behavior offers a compelling portrait of life in a twenty-first-century laboratory, where partial, provisional answers to complex scientific questions are increasingly the norm.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.Trade ReviewAt the margins of the autism world, there are niches where vaccines are rejected, miracle cures are peddled, or, on the contrary, all therapies are rejected as forms of coercive normalization. Spaces on the Spectrum analyzes the moral experiences, rhetorical strategies, and advocacy practices of two groups that occupy opposite niches: parents who experiment with alternative therapies and autistic self-advocates. Catherine Tan went down the rabbit hole and came out bearing fascinating stories and insights. Written with generosity and poise, meticulously researched, this is a reflective and insightful analysis of how controversies over knowledge, expertise, and identity are intertwined. -- Gil Eyal, coauthor of The Autism MatrixWith engaging data, compelling stories, and compassionate insight, Tan brings us into the competing and complementary worlds of autism advocacy. Spaces on the Spectrum provides an important exploration of how two different worldviews of autism have led parents of autistic children and autistic adults to dramatically different beliefs about what causes the condition, what it means, and what, if anything, should be done. This is an important contribution that shows how knowledge production is contentious, how meanings of expertise can be multifaceted and contradictory, and how calls for sympathy and respect can place well-intentioned people who care deeply about the same issue at odds. -- Jennifer A. Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject VaccinesIn this phenomenal study, Catherine Tan explores two autism social movements hoping for a better world: parents of children diagnosed with autism embracing alternative treatments and adults living with autism advocating for acceptance and accommodation of neurodivergence. What the believers and participants find instead is support, community, and validation that they have been right after all. With grace and sensitivity, Tan deftly weaves their convictions, struggles, and joys into a nuanced analysis that demonstrates the best medical sociology has to offer. Also, a magic buffalo appears. -- Stefan Timmermans, coauthor of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of AngelsTable of ContentsPreface and PositionAcknowledgments1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements4. Knowing One’s Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of “Recovery”6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy7. Making Space for the SpectrumAppendix A. Interview ProtocolsAppendix B. ParticipantsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.Trade ReviewAt the margins of the autism world, there are niches where vaccines are rejected, miracle cures are peddled, or, on the contrary, all therapies are rejected as forms of coercive normalization. Spaces on the Spectrum analyzes the moral experiences, rhetorical strategies, and advocacy practices of two groups that occupy opposite niches: parents who experiment with alternative therapies and autistic self-advocates. Catherine Tan went down the rabbit hole and came out bearing fascinating stories and insights. Written with generosity and poise, meticulously researched, this is a reflective and insightful analysis of how controversies over knowledge, expertise, and identity are intertwined. -- Gil Eyal, coauthor of The Autism MatrixWith engaging data, compelling stories, and compassionate insight, Tan brings us into the competing and complementary worlds of autism advocacy. Spaces on the Spectrum provides an important exploration of how two different worldviews of autism have led parents of autistic children and autistic adults to dramatically different beliefs about what causes the condition, what it means, and what, if anything, should be done. This is an important contribution that shows how knowledge production is contentious, how meanings of expertise can be multifaceted and contradictory, and how calls for sympathy and respect can place well-intentioned people who care deeply about the same issue at odds. -- Jennifer A. Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject VaccinesIn this phenomenal study, Catherine Tan explores two autism social movements hoping for a better world: parents of children diagnosed with autism embracing alternative treatments and adults living with autism advocating for acceptance and accommodation of neurodivergence. What the believers and participants find instead is support, community, and validation that they have been right after all. With grace and sensitivity, Tan deftly weaves their convictions, struggles, and joys into a nuanced analysis that demonstrates the best medical sociology has to offer. Also, a magic buffalo appears. -- Stefan Timmermans, coauthor of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of AngelsTable of ContentsPreface and PositionAcknowledgments1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements4. Knowing One’s Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of “Recovery”6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy7. Making Space for the SpectrumAppendix A. Interview ProtocolsAppendix B. ParticipantsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive revision to the textbook on modern psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, keyed to the DSM-5 and ICD-10.

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Book SynopsisHealing assessments and interventions from disparate areas of knowledge such as art, nature and storytelling.

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Book SynopsisPsychological research into autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased exponentially in the last two decades. Much of this work has been led by different theorists, identifying a process or set of processes that hold the key to understanding the condition.Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Identifying Autism: From Discrete Entity to Multidimensional Spectrum 1 Early conceptions: the ‘autistic child’ 1 From discrete entity to spectrum of related conditions 5 Diagnostic systems and instruments 11 Dimensions versus entities: ‘lumping’ versus ‘splitting’ 16 Early detection 21 Conclusion 25 2 Understanding Other Minds: Cognitive Approaches 26 Understanding false belief: a specific mental module? 26 Understanding minds: a specific process or something else? 37 Provisional conclusions 49 3 Understanding Other People: Emotion and Interaction 51 Appraisal of emotion in others 53 Understanding the directedness of behaviour 60 Understanding others in autism: final conclusions 67 4 Beyond Social Impairment: Difficulties with Executive Functions 70 Implications of the executive dysfunction account for our understanding of ASD 81 Conclusion 88 5 Building a Coherent Picture of the World 90 Alternative explanations of WCC phenomena 98 Conclusion 111 6 Attention and Perception 113 Attention 113 Accounting for attentional difficulties 125 Conclusion 133 7 Specific Aspects of Understanding: Faces, Concepts and Memory 135 Face processing 135 Concept formation 145 Memory 152 Conclusion 165 8 Psychology, Autism and the Brain 167 Studies of brain size and structure 167 Lesion-based models of autistic behaviour 173 Theories of global brain dysfunction 175 Brain impairments inferred from more basic psychological processes 203 Conclusion 207 9 Development 209 Assumptions about development in ASD: psychometrics, matching and developmental delay 209 Developmental trajectories in ASD 212 Developmental change in two psychological domains: theory of mind and executive functions 219 Developmental theory and ASD 228 Conclusion 241 10 Whence and Whither: Glimpses of the Tapestry, Paths Through the Jungle 242 How far have we really come? 243 Stepping back to move forward? Emerging themes 247 Final thoughts 261 References 263 Index 299

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Book SynopsisLittle is known about Sexual Murderers those who kill in a sexual context. Recent studies have compared their backgrounds and characteristics with that of rapists and/or violent (non-sexual) offenders. This translation of a French original by the renowned Jean Proulx challenges existing knowledge on sexual murders, offers new tools for profiling and interrogation, and helps to establish a new research base. Current theories of sexual murder, its prevalence, reasons including attachment theories, profiling and interrogation techniques are all addressed in Proulx's distinctive, thought-provoking style.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Sexual Murderers: Myth and Reality. PART I: THE MONTREAL STUDY. Chapter 1. Sexual Murder: Definitions, Epidemiology and Theories. Chapter 2. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Developmental Paths and Criminal History. Chapter 3. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Psychopathological Considerations. Chapter 4. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Intention and Situation. Chapter 5. The Factors Distinguishing Sexual Murderers from Sexual Aggressors: A Multivariate Analysis. Chapter 6. Serial Killers and Sexual Murderers. Chapter 7. Sadistic Sexual Offenders. Chapter 8. Angry or Sadistic: Two Types of Sexual Murderers. Chapter 9. The Motivation and Criminal Career of Sexual Murderers. PART II: THE BIRMINGHAM STUDY. Chapter 10. A Comparison of Rapists and Sexual Murderers on Demographic and Selected Psychometric Measures. Chapter 11. Identification of Motivations for Sexual Murder. PART III: PRACTICAL ISSUES. Chapter 12. The Role of Profiling in the Investigation of Sexual Homicide. Chapter 13. Psychotherapeutic and Psychodynamic Issues with Sexual Murderers. Conclusion. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a collection of 43 primary sources, ranging from newspaper articles to scholarly journals, which aim to provide a supplement to any course in abnormal or clinical psychology. The articles represent current psychopathology and indicate the direction of new research.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. Debating Mental Illness: Implications for Science, Medicine, andSocial Policy (E. Gorenstein). The Reliability of Psychiatric and Psychological Diagnosis (J.Matarazzo). SCHIZOPHRENIA. Clues to the Genetics and Neurobiology of Schizophrenia (S. Nicol& I. Gottesman). Expressed Emotion: A Review of the Critical Literature (J.Hooley). MOOD DISORDERS. Antidepressants and Biochemical Theories of Depression (E. McNeal& P. Cimbolic). Depressive Self-Schemas, Life Stress, and Vulnerability toDepression (C. Hammen, et al.). ANXIETY DISORDERS AND REACTIONS TO STRESS. A Cognitive Approach to Panic (D. Clark). Confronting a Traumatic Event: Toward an Understanding ofInhibition and Disease (J. Pennebaker & S. Beall). SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND INTERPERSONAL DISORDERS. Portrait of a Con Artist (T. Sandler). Epidemiology of Drug Abuse: An Overview (M. Schuckit). PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN CHILDREN. Comparative Analysis of Attentional Deficits in Hyperactive andLearning Disabled Children (K. Tarnowski, et al.). Toward an Understanding of Risk Factors for Bulimia (R.Striegel-Moore, et al.). INTERVENTION. Differential Aspects of Experiential and Problem-SolvingInterventions in Resolving Marital Conflict (S. Johnson, etal.). Understanding and Preventing Relapse (K. Brownell).

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Book SynopsisThe Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse offers educators, counselors, and clinicians a handbook for understanding and implementing a new and highly successful alternative to traditional methods for preventing substance abuse among young people. The proven social norms approach outlined in this book identifies young people''s dramatic misperceptions about their peer norms and promotes accurate public reporting of actual positive norms that exist in all student populations. The contributors to this important book are the originators, pioneers, and active proponents of this new approach. Many of them have successfully applied the social norms approach in secondary and higher education settings and as a result have promoted healthier lifestyles among adolescents and young adults across the United States.Trade Review“Influential approach based on correcting beliefs about peer substance use.” (Drug & Alcohol Findings, Spring 2005)Table of ContentsTables and Figures. Preface. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1. The Emergence and Evolution of the Social Norms Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention (H. Wesley Perkins). PART TWO: CASE STUDIES OF COLLEGE EXPERIMENTS TO REDUCE ALCOHOL ABUSE. 2. The Northern Illinois University Experiment: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Social Norms Approach (Michael P. Haines, Gregory P. Barker). 3. The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Experiment: A Synergistic Social Norms Approach Using Print, Electronic Media, and Curriculum Infusion to Reduce Collegiate Problem Drinking (H. Wesley Perkins, David W. Craig). 4. The University of Arizona’s Campus Health Social Norms Media Campaign (Koreen Johannessen, Peggy Glider). 5. Applying the Social Norms Model to Universal and Indicated Alcohol Interventions at Western Washington University (Patricia M. Fabiano). 6. The Rowan University Social Norms Project (Linda R. Jeffrey, Pamela Negro, DeMond S. Miller, John D. Frisone). 7. The Small Groups Norms-Challenging Model: Social Norms Interventions with Targeted High-Risk Groups (Je anne M. Far, John A. Miller). PART THREE: EXPANDING SOCIAL NORMS INTERVENTIONS TO OTHER COLLEGE STUDENT APPLICATIONS. 8. Perceptions, Norms, and Tobacco Use of College Residence Hall Freshmen: Evaluation of a Social Norms Marketing Intervention (Linda C. Hancock, Neil W. Henry). 9. A Social Norms Approach to Building Campus Support for Policy Change (William DeJong). PART FOUR: YOUNG ADULTS AND SOCIAL NORMS WORK BEYOND THE CAMPUS. 10. Misperceptions of Peer Alcohol Norms in a Statewide Survey of Young Adults (Jeffrey W. Linkenbach, H. Wesley Perkins). 11. The Montana Model: Development and Overview of a Seven-Step Process for Implementing Macro-Level Social Norms Campaigns (Jeffrey W. Linkenbach). PART FIVE: THE SOCIAL NORMS APPROACH IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL POPULATIONS. 12. The Imaginary Lives of Peers: Patterns of Substance Use and Misperceptions of Norms Among Secondary School Students (H. Wesley Perkins, David W. Craig). 13. MOST of Us Are Tobacco Free: An Eight-Month Social Norms Campaign Reducing Youth Initiation of Smoking in Montana (Jeffrey W. Linkenbach, H. Wesley Perkins). 14. Using Social Norms to Reduce Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Two Midwestern High Schools (Michael P. Haines, Gregory P. Barker, Richard Rice). PART SIX: FURTHER APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE SOCIAL NORMS MODEL IN PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. 15. Parents’ Perceptions of Parenting Norms: Using the Social Norms Approach to Reinforce Effective Parenting (Jeffrey W. Linkenbach, H. Wesley Perkins, William DeJong). 16. Applications of Social Norms Theory to Other Health and Social Justice Issues (Alan David Berkowitz). 17. The Promise and Challenge of Future Work Using the Social Norms Model (H. Wesley Perkins). About the Editor. About the Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on topics including: the insanity of the world in general; specific disorders; the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and vernacular ideas that made sufferers seek help.Trade Review"Middlefort's latest book will not disappoint the many scholars in varied disciplines who have eagerly awaited it. This is mature, sensitive scholarship . . . [that] succeeds brilliantly in exploring the social and intellectual dilemmas posed by early modern insanity. . . It belongs in every academic library."—History: Reviews of New Books"This is the best book I have ever read on the border between cultural and social history in early modern Europe."—Thomas A. Brady, Jr., University of California, Berkeley"The best book yet on madness in history. Erik Midelfort's study of madness in sixteenth-century Germany is an outstanding contribution to the medical, social and cultural history of the insane. Its impressively researched discussions of madness, melancholy, demonic possession, witchcraft, folly and the asylum give a more convincing and reliable picture of these subjects than we have ever had, for any European nation. Although aimed at a scholarly audience, the book is so well-written and so full of fascinating topics and colorful tales that it should appeal to general readers as well as to professional historians."—Michael MacDonald, University of Michigan"In this long awaited book, Midelfort explores how sixteenth-century Germans understood madness and mental disorders during the age of the Renaissance and the religious reformations. Operating from the assumption that one cannot understand madness without understanding the social contexts in which it is defined, diagnosed, and treated, the author examines madness in seven chapters, each a model of th integration of intellectual and social history. . . . This important work should be in every university library."—ChoiceTable of ContentsTables and maps; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Historical problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil; 2. Two reformers and a world gone mad: Luther and Paracelsus; 3. Academic 'psychiatry' and the rise of Galenic observation; 4. Witchcraft and the melancholy interpretation of the insanity defence; 5. Court fools and their folly: image and social reality; 6. Pilgrims in search of their reason; 7. Madness as helplessness: two hospitals in the age of reformations; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAfter 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the US media. This book examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of the enemy during the War on Terror.Trade Review[A]s a critical account of the ways in which racialized minorities are represented in the Western media in contemporary times, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11is a further valuable contribution to the field. In particular, it provides a vital critique of what appear as 'positive' and progressive representations and the actual 'reality' of Muslim and Arab, and South Asian experience in the United States. Alsultany has produced a detailed yet highly readable and accessible book of value to students and researchers alike, and even general readers interested in the media's implication in the War on Terror. -- Anamik Saha * Popular Communication *A lucid and persuasive work, Asultany's book shatters the illusion of a post-race, postfeminist United States, forcing the reader to confront the role popular representations play in troubling American policies. -- Gretchen Head * Women's Studies Quarterly *A major, skillfully constructed, must-read book . It should be required reading for all Americans who care about and seek to eradicate injurious stereotypes of the evil Cultural Other. -- Jack G. Shaheen,author of Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleThis important book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on the post-9/11 cultural and political history of the United States. Drawing on a rich understanding of the representations of Arabs and Muslims in the last century, Alsultany helps us to understand what has changed, and what has not, in the last ten years. -- Melani McAlister,George Washington UniversityWhile Asultany states that the issues of human rights in the post 9/11 period are of greater concern than the media's representations of them, she seems hopeful that an increase in diverse representations of Arabs and Muslims as human beings rather than simply as 'terrorists' or 'not terrorists' may help to usher in a positive cultural environment in which the human rights of American Muslims and Arabs will be given greater consideration. -- Jason Archbold * Media International Australia *Alsultanys work provides alevel of refinement in that she argues, like Islam, media discourses cannot be treated as a homogenous entity. Instead of simply examining news media and political discourse as representative of the range of debates being held about Arabs and Muslims in America, she considers a broader selection of media. In doing so, she recognizes that discourse is not just about hard news, but also about the multiple and complex array of voices that contribute to any given debate. This is an important turn in the scholarly material on Muslims if you consider that a popular television series will gain many more viewers than a typical current affairs news programme. * European Political Science *[] Alsultanys book is of great value to those interested in contemporary cultural studies, politics, race and ethnic studies, or feminist representational analysis. It is straightforward and capable of supplying both the details and the larger principles to those interested in investigating our & postracial social movement. * Cinema Journal *Table of Contents1 Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype 2 Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights 3 Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman 4 Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man 5 Selling Muslim American Identity

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Book SynopsisIn this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates.Trade Review"Anyone with an interest in social history will find this book fascinating. . . . A valuable resource and an interesting read." * Drugs and Alcohol Review *"It is a powerful, clearly written, and well-researched reference on the history of drugs in the U.S...Readers will learn much about the temperance movements and the introduction of cocaine into the American market, including coca Cola products." * Choice *"The sermons, speeches, medical arguments, and policy papers gathered here adequately convey changing attitudes toward these sometimes licit, sometimes illicit substances. For classes in public policy, reform, or public health or for individuals interested in these areas, this book will be exceedingly informative and useful." * Journal of the History of Medicine *"This volume is an ambitious attempt to provide, through a collection of primary sources, an overview of the US experience with drugs and drug control. . . . Drugs in America is a splendidly edited volume, of interest both to the substance abuse specialist and the general reader." * Jama: Journal of the American Medical Association *

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Book SynopsisBoricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinatingTrade ReviewProvocative and broad-ranging . . . This eclectic, always interesting work will be certain to elicit discussion among faculty and students of ethnic studies, US popular culture, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies. * Choice *A brilliant intervention in the culture and politics of Latinos in the United States. Important, timely, and innovative, Boricua Pop is a stellar addition to a body of work that grows in importance over time. Negron-Muntaner's book is eagerly anticipated. -- Jose Quiroga,author of Tropics of DesireFrances Negron-Muntaner is a challenging and provocative scholar whose multi-focal positionings turn the Puerto Rican process of colonization and migration into a fascinating transcultural hologram. Boricua Pop is a foundational text in American, Latino/a, Queer, Performance, and Cultural Studies. -- Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez,Mount Holyoke CollegeImportant, timely, and innovative, Boricua Pop is a stellar addition to a body of work that grows in importance over time. Negron-Muntaner's book is eagerly anticipated. -- Jose Quiroga,author of Tropics of DesireA perspicacious new book and one of the most intellectually exciting works of recent years, Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the latinization of American Culture gives new meaning to the idea of the pleasure of the text * QBR *Mixing the down and dirty with high culture to come up with good look at the transculture effects of it all. * San Juan Star *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part I Founding Spectacles1 Weighing In Theory: Puerto Ricans and American Culture2 1898: The Trauma of Literature, the Shame of Identity 3 Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and U.S. Puerto Rican Identity Part II Boricuasin the Middle4 From Puerto Rico with Trash: Holly Woodlawn's A Low Life in High Heels5 The Writing on the Wall: The Life and Passion of Jean-Michel Basquiat 6 Flagging Madonna: Performing a Puerto Rican-American Erotics Part III Boricua Anatomies7 Rosario's Tongue: Rosario Ferre and the Commodi?cation of Island Literature 8 Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market 9 Jennifer's Butt: Valorizing the Puerto Rican Racialized Female Body 10 Ricky's Hips: The Queerness of Puerto Rican "White" Culture Postscript: Words from the Grave Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvocative . . . . Chock full of interesting, colorful anecdotes and observations. Wenegrat is one of the few psychiatrists who has dared to apply evolutionary thinking to everyday clinical practice. -- Judith Eve Lipton, M.D.An important book...treats alternative explanations for women's mental disorders with crisp, critical insight, culling out the wrongheaded and embracing valid points of view where they exist. -- Linda Garfield,Stanford University Medical Center

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Book SynopsisA history of alternative radio.Trade ReviewThroughout Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, Walker surveys the current state of radio and finds it wanting. * Chronicles *Rebels on the Air is a joyous, smart, lucid, hilarious, critical and engaging celebration of community based, non-commercial radio in the United States. Jesse Walker vividly captures the people, their visions and achievements, their friends and enemiesall in a book that is great fun to read. -- Matthew Lasar,author of Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative NetworkPresent-day American radioboth public and commercialhas, with its blandness, hidden the bodies of hundreds of idealists who tried to make it meaningful and interesting and alive. Whether it's micro radio, pirate radio, the Citizens Band, or Pacifica, Jesse Walker has done his homework, digging up often funny tales of strange characters who tried, in one way or another, to better the airwaves. -- Lorenzo W. Milam,author of Sex and Broadcasting and the Radio PapersThe book is a great addition to the literature of the ways in which the state uses regulatory edicts and strong-arm tactics to stifle people's freedom. -- George C. Leef * Freedom Daily *Without a doubt, this is the most detailed and well-researched book ever published on the history of free radio in America. This includes the most comprehensive history ever written on the modern microradio movement; culled from personal interviews, the writing is mostly engaging and fast-paced...A must read. * The About Guide *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments l Joe's Garage 2 The First Broadcasters 3 Siberia 4 The '60s 5 Into the '70s 6 Money from Washington 7 Free Radio Abroad 8 American Pirates 9 Micro Radio: Every Man a DJ 10 The FCC's Wars 11 CB, the Internet, and Beyond Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFor more than a half century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a thorough and provocative critique of the practice of psychiatry. In many ways his latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the traumatized German war veteran. This work traces how some of the most vulnerable members of society, marginalized and persecuted as 'enemies of the nation,' attempted to regain authority over their own minds and reclaim the authentic memory of the Great War.Trade ReviewTheir story [...] richly deserves the nuanced and balanced reading that Crouthamel provides. Thomas J. Saunders, German Studies Review 35/2 * German Studies Review 35/2 *Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introdcution 1 Healing the Nation's Nerves: Imperial Germany at War 2 The War Neurotics Return Home: Psychologically Disabled Veterans and Post-War Society, 1918-1920 3 Neurosis and the Welfare State: The Rise and Fall of the National Pension Law of 1920 4 'The Class Struggle Pyschosis': Working-Class Politics and Psychological Trauma 5 National Socialism and its Discontenst: War Neurosis and Memory under Hitler 6 Nazi Germany's Hidden Psychopaths: Case Studies of Mentally Disabled Veterans in the Third Reich Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNew edition of an acclaimed manual which uses the solution focused approach to take an empathetic and validating approach to working with individuals considering suicide. Offers invaluable guidance for suicide prevention by showing what works in treating those struggling with suicidal thoughts Provides straightforward ways to deal frankly with the subject of suicide, along with a range of tools and techniques that are helpful to clients Includes actual dialogue between practitioners and clients to allow readers to gain a better understanding of how to work with suicidal clients Compares and contrasts a ground-breaking approach to suicide prevention with more traditional approaches to risk assessment and management Features numerous updates and revisions along with brand new sections dealing with the international landscape, blaming the suicided person, Dr Alys Cole-King's Connecting with People', and telephone work with the suicidal, HTable of ContentsAbout the author vii About the author vii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi 1 How to use this book 1 2 The book’s style and purpose 4 3 Defining suicide and self]injury 24 4 Current service provision: risk assessment, management and medication 32 5 Other approaches to helping the suicidal 49 6 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? 70 7 Suicide encounters: the crucial first ten minutes 112 8 The solution focused approach in working with the suicidal 123 9 Case study: Reg and ‘the demons calling from the deep’ 152 10 Some more case vignettes 175 11 Connecting with people by Alys Cole-King 185 12 Working on the phone with the suicidal person 199 13 Blaming those who took their lives 208 14 International solution focused applications to suicide prevention 215 15 Zero suicide: should this be our goal? 245 16 Where do we go from here? 253 Appendix 1: Flow diagram for an episode of treatment 264 Appendix 2: Specialist solution focused training workshops 268 Appendix 3: Evidence base for solution]focused working 270 References 278 Index 314

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Book SynopsisFrom best-selling author Louis Cozolino, the essentials of the interconnection between brain, mind and relationships.

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Book SynopsisA written companion and workbook for readers seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma.

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Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research methodologies used in clinical psychology. This book discusses topics such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs, statistical analysis, validity, ethics, cultural diversity, and the scientific process of publishing.Trade Review"This book is truly weighty in size and content...it provides excellent comprehensive overview chapters of every aspect of clinical psychological research and implications for practice." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry "Roberts and Ilardi and their authors have done a marvelous job presenting a cutting-edge array of methods and applications in clinical psychology research. This publication captures the vigor and excitement present in the field today. The text is practical, broad in scope, yet with sufficient depth to guide practicing clinical researchers. It should be used in graduate education and will also prove helpful to seasoned investigators." John Curry, Duke University "Roberts and Ilardi have created an impressive, comprehensive, and cutting-edge handbook of research methods and data-analytic procedures. This volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike. All aspects of the research process are represented. The individual chapters are excellent - very understandable and clear, with many practical examples provided." Annette M. La Greca, University of Miami "Focusing on new developments and cutting-edge advances in research methods, this handbook should have a wide audience. Summing up: Recommended." S. M. Valente, University of Southern California, Choice, December 2003Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Part I Clinical Psychology Research. 1 Research Methodology and Clinical Psychology: An Overview. (Michael C. Roberts and Stephen S. Ilardi). 2 Addressing Validity Concerns in Clinical Psychology Research. (Michael S. Finger and Kevin L. Rand). 3 The Scientific Process and Publishing Research. (Michael C. Roberts, Keri J. Brown, and Julianne M. Smith-Boydston). 4 Ethical Considerations in Clinical Psychology Research. (William A. Rae and Jeremy R. Sullivan). Part II Research Designs. 5 Evaluating Treatment Efficacy With Single-Case Designs. (Cynthia M. Anderson and Christine Kim). 6 Design and Analysis of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Investigations. (Andrea Follmer Greenhoot). 7 The Analysis of Correlational Data . (Charles M. Judd and Melody S. Sadler). 8 Structural Equation Modeling in Clinical Psychology Research. (Samuel B. Green and Marilyn S. Thompson). 9 Qualitative Methods in Psychological Research. (Gloria L. Krahn and Michelle Putnam). 10 Basic Principles of Meta-Analysis. (Joseph A. Durlak). Part III Topics of Research. 11 Research Methods for Developmental Psychopathology. (Eric M. Vernberg and Edward J. Dill). Vignette: Research Methods for Developmental Psychopathology. (Anne K. Jacobs). 12 Adult Experimental Psychopathology. (John P. Kline, Steven D. LaRowe, Keith F. Donohue, Jennifer Minnix, and Ginette C. Blackhart). Vignette: Adult Experimental Psychopathology. (Anne K. Jacobs). 13 Child and Adolescent Assessment and Diagnosis Research. (Paul J. Frick and Amy H. Cornell). Vignette: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Diagnostic Research. (Anne K. Jacobs). 14 Adult Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis Research: Current Status and Future Directions. (Thomas E. Joiner, Jr., and Jeremy W. Pettit). Vignette: Adult Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis. (Anne K. Jacobs). 15 Therapy and Interventions Research with Children and Adolescents. (Ric G. Steele and Michael C. Roberts). Vignette: Therapy and Interventions Research with Children, Youth, and Families. (Anne K. Jacobs). 16 Therapy and Interventions Research with Adults. (Anne D. Simons and Jennifer E. Wildes). Vignette: Therapy and Interventions Research with Adults. (Anne K. Jacobs). 17 Research in Prevention and Promotion. (George C. Tremblay and Barbara Landon). Vignette: Research in Prevention and Promotion. (Anne K. Jacobs). 18 Research in Ethnic Minority Communities: Cultural Diversity Issues in Clinical Psychology. (Yo Jackson). Vignette: Research in Ethnic Minority Communities. (Anne K. Jacobs). 19 Investigating Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology. (Michael C. Roberts, Jodi L. Kamps, and Ephi J. Betan). Vignette: Investigating Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology. (Anne K. Jacobs). 20 Reflections on the Future of Clinical Psychological Research. (Stephen S. Ilardi and Michael C. Roberts). Index.

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Book SynopsisBy identifying aspects of the individual's qualities, behaviors, and experiences that may account for poor response to treatment, Still Down points the way for people with TRD and their families to find appropriate diagnoses and the best possible care.Trade Review... Patients, psychiatry residents, and physicians will find this a helpful guide to reconsidering clinical options when standard treatments don't work. Library Journal In a concise, clearly written and exceptionally helpful book, [MacKinnon] provides insights and advice on what to do if [antidepressant] medications don't work initially... Brief summaries, case notes, and excellent appendices make this a useful book for practitioners and patients alike. Simply stated, this book is a gem. It's a very understandable guide to a very complex and frustrating issue. Clinical Psychiatry NewsTable of ContentsList of TablesIntroduction Section I: Fundamentals Ann: Textbook depression Bob: Treatment ambivalence Carla: Underdosing Section II: Misdiagnosis Darius: Demoralization Evelyn: Bipolar depression Frances: Overmedication Section III: Treatment Resistant Depression Gary: Double depression Hannah: Residual depression Irma: Treatment refractory depression Conclusion Appendix A: Common therapeutic practices to boost antidepressant responseAppendix B: Assessment of the patient with antidepressant failureIndex

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Book SynopsisAn estimated 51 million people worldwide have schizophrenia, 2.2 million of them in the United States. While early diagnosis and appropriate treatment improve the long-term prognosis, schizophrenia is a disease that is difficult to manage. In Living with Schizophrenia, Drs. Jeffrey Rado and Philip G. Janicak, specialists in treating people who have schizophrenia, offer an easy-to-read primer for people with the disorder, along with their families and other caregivers. Drawing on their combined sixty years of clinical and research experience, Drs. Rado and Janicak * define schizophrenia and explain what is known about its causes* discuss the difference between negative symptoms (such as lack of emotion and social withdrawal) and positive symptoms (such as hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders)* describe medication and psychosocial and behavioral treatments-and the importance of early diagnosis and treatment for better long-term outcomes* explain what people with schizophrTrade ReviewThis text would be an excellent addition for a Health/Wellness and Psychology section in a public library, and its brevity and affordability are huge selling points.—American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1 What Is Schizophrenia? Chapter 2 What Causes Schizophrenia? Chapter 3 Biological Therapies for SchizophreniaChapter 4 Psychosocial and Behavioral Treatments for SchizophreniaChapter 5 Staying Well Chapter 6 Schizophrenia and the Family Chapter 7 Medical Conditions and Schizophrenia Conclusion: Looking to the Future NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to how family members and friends can help someone who has depression. Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are biologic conditions of the mind and body that affect our everyday functioning, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Often devastating to the person, mood disorders can also be overwhelming to their family and close friends, who are frequently the first to recognize the subtle changes and symptoms of depression and the ones who provide daily support. Yet many feel unsure about how to help someone through the course of this difficult and disabling illness. This book is written for them. In Helping Others with Depression, Dr. Susan J. Noonan speaks firsthand from her perspective as a physician who has treated many patients, as a mental health Certified Peer Specialist, and as a patient with personal experience in living with the illness. Her combined professional and personal experiences have enabled her to write an evidence-based, conciseTable of ContentsList of TablesForeword, by Maurizio Fava, MD, and Timothy J. Petersen, PhDAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. What Are Mood Disorders?Chapter 2. Signs of Depression to Look For: Making the DiagnosisChapter 3. Healthy Ways to Handle Mood DisordersChapter 4. Finding Professional HelpChapter 5. Paying for Mental Health TreatmentChapter 6. Challenges in Caring for Someone Who Has a Mood DisorderChapter 7. Support and Communication StrategiesChapter 8. Helpful ApproachesChapter 9. What You Can Do NowChapter 10. When Someone Is SuicidalChapter 11. Mood Disorders and AddictionsChapter 12. For the Parents of a Teen or Young Adult and the Teens with an Affected ParentChapter 13. Technology in Mental HealthChapter 14. Depression in SeniorsChapter 15. What Recovery Looks LikeChapter 16. Anticipating Recovery: Skills to Have in PlaceChapter 17. Caring forthe CaregiversChapter 18. Dos and Don'ts and Suggested LanguageConclusionAppendix A. MedicationsAppendix B. Psychiatric Advance DirectiveGlossaryResourcesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis?A compact but thorough guide to successfully handling and surviving a divorce.? ?PsychCentral The bestselling author of Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers draws on her expertise in treating men, women, and children damaged by narcissists in this practical guide to divorce and its aftermath.Narcissism?a personality disorder that goes beyond mere selfishness and vanity?is a prevalent cause of marital and family problems. Narcissists do not have the capacity to love, understand other people?s emotions, or feel empathy. They are grandiose in their need for praise and attention, they overestimate their abilities, and they diminish people around them with emotional abuse. Being in an intimate relationship with a narcissist destroys your hopes, dreams, and peace of mind and erodes your children?s emotional health and your finances. Does this sound like what you have to deal with? If you ever look at your partner and wonder in despair if you will ever be free, the answer is yes, you can be. A leading authority on narcissism, Dr. Karyl McBride offers proven therapeutic advice that will help you protect and nurture yourself and your children through your difficult divorce, from separating from your narcissistic partner and navigating the court system, where a narcissist can be especially destructive, to a restorative healing program of trauma recovery.Trade Review"An important, groundbreaking book. Dr. McBride opens our eyes to these toxic individuals who damage their spouses, children, and inevitably the legal system. This innovative program will help families chart a course and create health and healing through the divorce process." -- Renee Richker, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"Dr. McBride has put together a terrific, step-by-step guide for dealing with divorce from a narcissistic spouse. There is a huge need out there for this information, and Dr. McBride's long-term experience in therapeutic and legal settings makes her the perfect person to put it out there. I know I will be personally recommending this book for years to come." -- W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., co-author of THE NARCISSISM EPIDEMIC“As a family law attorney, I would give this book to certain clients with a highlighter and sticky notes. Enough said.” -- S. Scott Lasher, Esq."Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Free of You? is a smart, practical guide to a perplexing problem - severing your tie to a highly narcissistic partner. Full of good advice and moving examples, it is as readable as it is s sensible and helpful." -- Terry Real, author of The New Rules of Marriage"Compact but thorough guide to successfully handling and surviving a divorce—if you’re married to a narcissist... Packed with useful advice... Proactive, goal-oriented, sound advice on how to heal, and how to move forward.... The author isn’t satisfied with helping the thousands of men and women whose lives have been damaged by narcissists and are involved in high-conflict divorces. She wants to help the children, too." * PsychCentral.com, Therapy Soup *

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Book SynopsisAn explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders. In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States, this book makes a major contribution to understanding technology's role in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. It focuses on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, adding to important anthropological debates about affect, subjectiTrade ReviewIn a historical moment when Latin American economic development and proliferating communication technologies are changing the stakes and forms of transitional migration,Mobile Selvesmodels the sophisticated ways scholars can integrate analyses of old and new media into their discussions of migration. * International Migration Review *Berg's analysis of Peruvian racial formations in new and transforming contexts of transnational mobility offers new insights about the diversity of migration strategies and experiences of racialization in receiving countries. With beautiful ethnographic detail and thoughtful analysis of media circulation in particular, she lays out how migrants communicate their identities and aspirations. -- Jessaca Leinaweaver,Brown UniversityA highly original and compelling work, one that will receive a lot of attention. . . . I read it with great fascination. -- Susan Coutin,University of California, IrvineThis [book] supported by some recent fieldwork and 16 pages of notes, 29 pages of references, 11 pages of index, and 13 photographs, will be of interest to all social scientists interested in this issue. * Choice *Mobile Selvesclearly shows that transitional migration is an important site for critically approaching belonging, inclusiveness, and citizenship within countries of origin as well as globally. * American Anthropologist *In addition to Bergs work being of major interest to academics in the growing area of transnational Andean and Latino studies, it also provides an insightful and nuanced analysis for humanities and social sciences scholars in other disciplines in addressing race, identity, performance and inequality. * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. Cosmopolitan Desires 1. Salir Adelante: Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes 43 2. Paper Fixes: The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru's Migration Industry 73 Part II. Transnational Socialities 3. Remote Sensing: Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication 105 4. Unfortunate Visibilities: The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects 141 Part III. Discrepant Publics 5. Enframing Peruvianness: Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood 177 6. Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo 209 Conclusion 231 Notes 247 Bibliography 263 Index 293 About the Author 304

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Book SynopsisThe connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century Sciences of Man' - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychTrade ReviewGilman and Thomas make their case methodically, with rigorous, far-reaching scholarship. They provide no easy answers but plenty of food for thought amid Americas current crisis in race relations. * Publishers Weekly *Are Racists Crazy?Is a highly informative book that significantly contributes to a historical understanding of the connection between race and madness. * Patterns of Prejudice *A tour d'horizon of the historical relationship among race, racism, and mental illness...A sharp contribution to a significant topic that continues to generate heated discussion and debate. * Kirkus *Truly multidisciplinary, thisbook will be of interest to scholars and educators from a variety of social science disciplines. * Choice *Gilman and Thomas make a major contribution to racial theory. They study the deep structures of racism, not only in plunder, privilege, and antipathy for the 'other,' but also in the scientific frameworks that seek to explain 'otherness,' sometimes affirming it, sometimes denying it. Locating racism within biopolitics, Are Racists Crazy? sheds new light on such varied matters as implicit bias and authoritarian populism. Most important, this book unveils the inescapable political connections between race and science. -- Howard Winant,author of The New Politics Of Race: Globalism, Difference, JusticeSander Gilman and James Thomas have undertaken a weighty task; they have provided a framework that helps us to decipher the science behind race and racism. As provocative as the books title is, you will find ample evidence and persuasive arguments for why a reliance on medicalizing racism is not enough in our quest to not only understand it but also to eradicate racism. -- Deirdre Cooper Owens,author of Medical Superbodies: Slavery, Immigration, and the Birth of American GynecologySander Gilman and James Thomas have provided a unique intellectual and political history of racial theorizing and have generated a virtual & cognitive road map of how anti-Semitism as leitmotif has played such a powerful, even dominant role in the way scholars and researchers have approached the subject matter, whether in Europe, the United States, or South Africa. Few works even attempt to piece together so much material, while pulling a convincing thread through a sustained argument. -- Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to EugenicsAre Racists Crazy?makes a strong, richly documented historical case for medicalization. * Anti-Semitism Studies *

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Book SynopsisUnprecedented in the way it draws on many different theories to explain crime and violent phenomena, this highly readable book is sure to fascinate readers.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is a Crime, What Is Not? 2. A Multidimensional Model of Crime 3. Explanations of Criminality 4. Psychopathy: Dionysius and the Antihero in Society 5. How Criminality Develops 6. The Cognitive and Neurological Bases of Criminality 7. Social Criminogenic Factors 8. Sociopolitical Criminogenic Factors 9. Violence in and of the Family 10. Climate, Aggression, and Crime- Effects of Temperature on Humans and Human Reactions to Environmental Threat 11. Hazardous Waste and Organized or Corporate Crime 12. CyberCrime: Advancing Technology in Aggression, War, and Crime Glossary References Index

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