Health psychology Books

Book SynopsisStraightforward, no-nonsense guidance on one of the most vital (and often ignored) women''s health and wellbeing issues. A must-read! (Rebecca Schiller CEO of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity and author of The No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan) *Learn how to treat common problems such as stress incontinence, overactive bladder and prolapse *Get back into shape post-pregnancy *Enjoy a healthy sex life at every stage of your lifeTrade ReviewI loved reading this guide and found all the tips super informative and helpful after the birth of my second child -- Anniki Sommerville * The Selfish Mother *Jane's book is something that is very much needed - a book that addresses a topic we try to brush under the carpet, but one that is necessary to get out there and have information on. She is without doubt the perfect person for the job on this - as she has the right manner, attitude and help to make this subject less taboo. -- Emma Forbes * Radio and TV Presenter *Wonderful that the spotlight is being shone on and taboos broken about this common condition which so many women endure in silence - too ashamed to even talk about it. Now is the time for all of us to speak out about the reality of what it means to be female. -- Jennifer Nadel * Co-author of WE: The Uplifting Manual for Women Seeking Happiness and the co-founder of Compassion in Politics *Straightforward, no-nonsense guidance on one of the most vital (and often ignored) women's health and wellbeing issues. A must-read! -- Rebecca Schiller * CEO of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity and author of The No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan *Every woman should have access to this information. It's just not enough to just tell women to 'do pelvic floor exercises.' We need to really understand how important our pelvic floor is, how it can change throughout our lives and what we can do to take care for it. Finally, a book on the pelvic floor I can read and make sense of -- Sophie Fletcher * leading UK hypnotherapist and author of Mindful Hypnobirthing *If ever there was a muscle that women neglect to exercise, it's the pelvic floor, but this confronting book will have you squeezing with every sentence * Red Magazine *The more I talk to Simpson, the more I am radicalised. This is about valuing yourself, deep down, or on the inside, in the most practical way * Times T2 *A fabulous and useful book for anyone, having tips and tricks useful to both men and women...share it with your friends, colleagues and partners. It is a wonderful self management book for us all. * Nursing Times *

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Book SynopsisRachel Barr holds a master's degree in molecular neuroscience and wrote How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend while completing her PhD in the electrophysiology of memory and sleep.Beyond the lab, her videos as Rachel the Neuroscientist' demystify the fundamental principles of brain science, empowering her million-plus followers to make informed decisions about their mental health.Born and raised in Fife, she studied in Bristol and is now based in Quebec, where she shares her home and keyboard with Gnocchi the cat.

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Book SynopsisRON ROBERTS is a Chartered Health Psychologist, a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. His principal research interests include social inequalities in health and quality of life, and he has published over fifty articles.ANTHONY TOWELL is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Course Leader for MSc Health Psychology at the University of Westminster, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Hospital for Sick children, Great Ormond Street, London. JOHN F GOLDING is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster and Visiting Researcher at the Medical Research Council Human Movement and Balance Unit, London.

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Book SynopsisWhich behaviour patterns are detrimental to health?Why do people engage in such behaviour, even if they know about its negative effects?How can people be influenced to change their behaviour?This popular textbook addresses these key questions from a social psychological perspective. Recent research has been added to the new edition including the author's own research into obesity, sexual risk behaviour, and the stressful consequences of losing a marriage partner through death. The epidemiological information and references have been extensively updated. By integrating theories and research on automatic behaviour with the more traditional reasoned action approach, the book provides a new answer to the age-old puzzle of health research; why people engage in behaviour which they know will damage their health. The book also: Discusses determinants of health behaviour, based on the most recent research on social cognition Includes a review of research on the hTable of ContentsPreface Changing conceptions of health and illness Determinants of health behaviour: deliberate and automaticinstigation of action Beyond persuasion: the modification of health behaviour Behaviour and health: excessive appetitesBehaviour and health: self-protection Stress and health Moderators of the stress–health relationship The role of social psychology in health promotion Glossary References Author index Subject index

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Book Synopsis"This beautifully written book ... clearly explains the application of psychological concepts and theories to health and succinctly summarises key issues. Each chapter also provides a series of vignettes capturing the kind of real-life situations health and social care professionals will encounter in their own practice and a set of thought-provoking exercises ... These will be invaluable in developing critical thinking skills and growing the capacity to provide the kind of empathic care which is the heart of person-centred practice"Dr Wendy Cousins, Course Director, University of Ulster School of Nursing, UK"I have recommended earlier editions of this book and now am delighted to say that this latest edition is even better. The authors continue to clearly explain the relevance of psychological theories, models and approaches to nursing care but now, through the use of frequent reflective activities, vignettes and a 'psychosoap' family, students are also highly encouTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPsychology in health and social carePerception of self and others Development and change across the lifespanImproving memory, understanding and communicationLearning and behaviourSocial influences and interactionsStress and copingEmotional well-beingPsychology applied to health and illnessPain: reducing sufferingGlossaryReferences

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Book Synopsisit doesn't have to be downhill from here! How to make the second half of your life even better than the first

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Book SynopsisThe brain-gut connection has been increasingly implicated in biopsychosocial well-being. While there are numerous factors that directly and indirectly impact on how the gut and the brain interact, there is a growing awareness that gastrointestinal conditions need to be viewed and treated as part of a multidisciplinary approach. Psychogastroenterology for Adults: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals is the first book to provide mental health professionals with an evidence-based, practical guide for working with patients living with gastrointestinal conditions.Timely and accessibly written, this book provides a unique, comprehensive introduction to psychogastroenterology, offering a step-by-step guide to evidence-based psychological treatment protocols. Broad in scope and expertise, the book is divided into four parts. It opens with an overview of the field, moving on to outline psychological concerns and conditions in gastroenterological (GI) cohorts. Further, it covers various approaches to psychogastroenterology, including psychopharmacological and eHealth practices. In closing, the book looks to the future, providing guidance on supervision in psychogastroenterology, and exploring challenges in the field. Written by experts in the field, this book will be an indispensable resource for those who wish to enhance their knowledge and practice of psychogastroenterology in the mental health profession, including psychologists, psychiatrists, psychosomatic medicine specialists, nurses and social workers.Trade Review"The brain-gut axis is one of the most important clinical advances within the field of gastroenterology. This understanding involves more than just knowledge of the GI tract. Drs. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus are the thought leaders who have developed the burgeoning field of Psychogastroenterology and their qualifications to communicate this growing body of knowledge is well demonstrated in this highly informative and innovative book. I highly recommend Psychogastroenterology as a resource to behavioural scientists, clinicians and physicians working in the field of GI disorders."- Professor Emeritus Douglas A. Drossman, MD, AGAF; President of the Rome Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Psychiatry; Center for Functional GI Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America "Brain-gut (or gut-brain) disorders are extremely common affecting up to one in three people globally. Frequently these chronic gut disorders are accompanied by anxiety or depression, and they are often highly morbid impacting quality of life, relationships, work and sleep. Mental health professionals play a very important role in management but in my experience many clinicians struggle to identify a local mental health professional to refer to, because relatively few have specifically trained in or have a special interest in the field despite the high disease burden. This outstanding handbook, edited by three leading experts in the field, is therefore very timely, and provides an excellent and practical users guide for not only mental health professionals but also others who deliver health care to patients with gut disorders including specialists and general practitioners." - Laureate Professor Nicholas J. Talley, AC, MBBS (Hons.) (NSW), MD (NSW), PhD (Syd), MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.), FRACP, FAFPHM, FAHMS, FRCP (Lond. & Edin.), FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAMS, FRCPI (Hon), GAICD; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Research, University of Newcastle, Australia; Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia; Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia; Director, Priority Research Centre for Digestive Health and Neurogastroenterology, University of Newcastle, Australia; Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, NC, USA; Foreign Guest Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden"Every human being, healthy or otherwise, knows from personal experience that there is a link between what is going in their head and the state of their gastrointestinal system. Consequently, it is extraordinary that the potential for this link to be a therapeutic target has been largely ignored until relatively recently. Furthermore, when a modality such as hypnotherapy is deployed against this link, it is often dismissed as quackery or some form of placebo effect. The care of patients with gastrointestinal disorders requires a team effort from clinicians, dieticians, physiologists and preferably psychologists. However, psychologists with a training in gastroenterology are in short supply but hopefully this should change with the advent of a speciality called psychogastroenterology. This book will provide those individuals wanting to go into this exciting area with a first-class grounding on the subject with the bonus of also giving them an insight into the structure of the gastrointestinal system as well as how it works. Consequently, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the subject of psychogastroenterology." - Professor Peter J. Whorwell, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCP; Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester; Director of the Neurogastroenterology Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom "Dr’s Knowles, Keefer, and Mikocka-Walus have brought together a group of world experts in Psychogastroenterology who share their tricks of the trade. A necessary read for all interested in utlilising the brain-gut strategies to treat gastrointestinal conditions and associated psychological distress." - Professor Silvio Danese, MD, PhD; Head, IBD Center, Department of Gastroenterology Istituto Clinico Humanitas​, and President of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation, Vienna, Austria"Many physicians find patients with gastrointestinal disorders to be challenging and yes, at times exasperating. However, some derive great satisfaction from working together with these patients to improve their lives. These physicians are also aware of the critical importance of psychogastroenterology, which is why this excellent compendium edited by Drs. Knowles, Keefer, and Mikocka-Walus is essential reading for mental health professionals, but also to all physicians who treat these patients, regardless of their specialization." - Professor Ami D. Sperber, MD, MSPH, AGAF; Professor Emeritus of Medicine; Member, Rome Foundation Board of Directors; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel"There is increasing evidence of the importance of the brain-gut axis in gastrointestinal disease and gastrointestinal symptoms. Clinicians caring for persons with gastrointestinal disorders have increasingly recognized the responsibility they have to inquire as to patients’ mental health status and the need to incorporate mental health disease management in their overall treatment plans. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus have recognized the need for greater discussion and management advice for mental health professionals in the field of gastrointestinal diseases as they are increasingly called upon to participate in the care of these patients. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus have assembled a superb handbook with an acclaimed international roster of authors that meticulously reviews the management of mental health disorders in gastrointestinal diseases." - Professor Charles N Bernstein, MD, FRCPC; Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre; Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology, Winnipeg, Canada"I highly recommend this ground-breaking and comprehensive practical guide to psychogastroenterology to any mental health professional treating adults with gastrointestinal health problems. It is an essential resource in this clinical domain, and one that is highly readable, amazingly broad in scope, and admirably grounded in current empirical knowledge. Filled with innumerable pearls of wisdom, illustrations, pragmatic tips, forms, reference tables, and handouts, this is not a book you will read once and then put aside, but rather one that you will want to keep within reach for guidance in your everyday clinical practice."- Professor Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D.; Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America "This is a must-have go-to resource for health professionals providing psychological care for those with gastrointestinal illnesses. The medical background on GI conditions ranging from dyspepsia to IBD and colon cancer sets the stage for the evidence-based guidance on relevant psychological treatments. Practical and informative, the book is a superb entrance into the world of psychogastroenterology."- Professor Lesley Graff, PhD, CPsych; Professor & Head, Clinical Health Psychology Department, Max Rady College of Medicine University of Manitoba & Medical Director, Clinical Health Psychology Program Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Canada, Winnipeg, Canada"The brain-gut axis is one of the most important clinical advances within the field of gastroenterology. This understanding involves more than just knowledge of the GI tract. Drs. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus are the thought leaders who have developed the burgeoning field of Psychogastroenterology and their qualifications to communicate this growing body of knowledge is well demonstrated in this highly informative and innovative book. I highly recommend Psychogastroenterology as a resource to behavioural scientists, clinicians and physicians working in the field of GI disorders."- Professor Emeritus Douglas A. Drossman, MD, AGAF; President of the Rome Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Psychiatry; Center for Functional GI Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America "Brain-gut (or gut-brain) disorders are extremely common affecting up to one in three people globally. Frequently these chronic gut disorders are accompanied by anxiety or depression, and they are often highly morbid impacting quality of life, relationships, work and sleep. Mental health professionals play a very important role in management but in my experience many clinicians struggle to identify a local mental health professional to refer to, because relatively few have specifically trained in or have a special interest in the field despite the high disease burden. This outstanding handbook, edited by three leading experts in the field, is therefore very timely, and provides an excellent and practical users guide for not only mental health professionals but also others who deliver health care to patients with gut disorders including specialists and general practitioners." - Laureate Professor Nicholas J. Talley, AC, MBBS (Hons.) (NSW), MD (NSW), PhD (Syd), MMedSci (Clin Epi)(Newc.), FRACP, FAFPHM, FAHMS, FRCP (Lond. & Edin.), FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAMS, FRCPI (Hon), GAICD; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Research, University of Newcastle, Australia; Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia; Senior Staff Specialist, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia; Director, Priority Research Centre for Digestive Health and Neurogastroenterology, University of Newcastle, Australia; Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, NC, USA; Foreign Guest Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden"Every human being, healthy or otherwise, knows from personal experience that there is a link between what is going in their head and the state of their gastrointestinal system. Consequently, it is extraordinary that the potential for this link to be a therapeutic target has been largely ignored until relatively recently. Furthermore, when a modality such as hypnotherapy is deployed against this link, it is often dismissed as quackery or some form of placebo effect. The care of patients with gastrointestinal disorders requires a team effort from clinicians, dieticians, physiologists and preferably psychologists. However, psychologists with a training in gastroenterology are in short supply but hopefully this should change with the advent of a speciality called psychogastroenterology. This book will provide those individuals wanting to go into this exciting area with a first-class grounding on the subject with the bonus of also giving them an insight into the structure of the gastrointestinal system as well as how it works. Consequently, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the subject of psychogastroenterology." - Professor Peter J. Whorwell, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCP; Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester; Director of the Neurogastroenterology Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom "Dr’s Knowles, Keefer, and Mikocka-Walus have brought together a group of world experts in Psychogastroenterology who share their tricks of the trade. A necessary read for all interested in utlilising the brain-gut strategies to treat gastrointestinal conditions and associated psychological distress." - Professor Silvio Danese, MD, PhD; Head, IBD Center, Department of Gastroenterology Istituto Clinico Humanitas​, and President of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation, Vienna, Austria"Many physicians find patients with gastrointestinal disorders to be challenging and yes, at times exasperating. However, some derive great satisfaction from working together with these patients to improve their lives. These physicians are also aware of the critical importance of psychogastroenterology, which is why this excellent compendium edited by Drs. Knowles, Keefer, and Mikocka-Walus is essential reading for mental health professionals, but also to all physicians who treat these patients, regardless of their specialization." - Professor Ami D. Sperber, MD, MSPH, AGAF; Professor Emeritus of Medicine; Member, Rome Foundation Board of Directors; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel"There is increasing evidence of the importance of the brain-gut axis in gastrointestinal disease and gastrointestinal symptoms. Clinicians caring for persons with gastrointestinal disorders have increasingly recognized the responsibility they have to inquire as to patients’ mental health status and the need to incorporate mental health disease management in their overall treatment plans. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus have recognized the need for greater discussion and management advice for mental health professionals in the field of gastrointestinal diseases as they are increasingly called upon to participate in the care of these patients. Knowles, Keefer and Mikocka-Walus have assembled a superb handbook with an acclaimed international roster of authors that meticulously reviews the management of mental health disorders in gastrointestinal diseases." - Professor Charles N Bernstein, MD, FRCPC; Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre; Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology, Winnipeg, Canada"I highly recommend this ground-breaking and comprehensive practical guide to psychogastroenterology to any mental health professional treating adults with gastrointestinal health problems. It is an essential resource in this clinical domain, and one that is highly readable, amazingly broad in scope, and admirably grounded in current empirical knowledge. Filled with innumerable pearls of wisdom, illustrations, pragmatic tips, forms, reference tables, and handouts, this is not a book you will read once and then put aside, but rather one that you will want to keep within reach for guidance in your everyday clinical practice."- Professor Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D.; Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America "This is a must-have go-to resource for health professionals providing psychological care for those with gastrointestinal illnesses. The medical background on GI conditions ranging from dyspepsia to IBD and colon cancer sets the stage for the evidence-based guidance on relevant psychological treatments. Practical and informative, the book is a superb entrance into the world of psychogastroenterology." - Professor Lesley Graff, PhD, CPsych; Professor & Head, Clinical Health Psychology Department, Max Rady College of Medicine University of Manitoba & Medical Director, Clinical Health Psychology Program Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Canada, Winnipeg, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword by William E. Whitehead; Part 1: Introduction to gastrointestinal physiology and conditions, the brain-gut axis, and working within health care teams; Chapter 1: The gastrointestinal tract: A brief introduction to healthy digestion by Dr Christopher F.D Li Wan Suen and Dr Peter De Cruz; Chapter 2: The upper gastrointestinal tract, common conditions and recommended treatments by Professor Geoff Hebbard; Chapter 3: The lower gastrointestinal tract, common conditions and recommended treatments by Dr Rebecca Burgell and Dr Bei Ye; Chapter 4: Gastroenterological cancers and stomas by Professor Timothy Pearman and Dr Elizabeth L. Addington; Chapter 5: Stress and the brain-gut axis across the spectrum of digestive disorders by Dr Gregory Sayuk; Chapter 6: Working with gastroenterologists, health administrators, and other members of the gastrointestinal and allied health care team by Dr Sarah W. Kinsinger; Part Two: Psychological concerns and conditions in gastroenterological cohorts; Chapter 7: Common gastrointestinal investigations and psychological concerns by Dr Tuan Duong and Professor Jane M. Andrews; Chapter 8: Common psychological issues in gastrointestinal conditions by Associate Professor Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Ms Catherine Emerson, Dr Lisa Olive and Dr Simon R. Knowles; Chapter 9: Working with complex patients with gastrointestinal and psychological concerns Dr Emily Edlynn and Dr Tiffany Taft; Part Three: Psychological, psychopharmacological, and eHealth approaches in psychogastroenterology; Chapter 10: Psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention planning in gastrointestinal cohorts with psychological issues by Dr Philip Keightley and Dr Simon R. Knowles; Chapter 11: Promoting change in psychological and gastrointestinal conditions - motivational interviewing (MI) by Dr Daron A. Watts, Dr Hans R Watson and Professor Terry L. Correll; Chapter 12: Promoting change in gastrointestinal conditions - Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) by Assistant Professor Anne Lutz and Dr Christiaan van Woerden; Chapter 13: Stress management and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) approaches to gastrointestinal conditions by Anjali U Pandit and Dr Sarah Ballou; Chapter 14: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches to gastrointestinal conditions by Ms Karen J. Conlon and Associate Professor Laurie Keefer; Chapter 15: Hypnosis approaches to gastrointestinal conditions by Dr Megan E. Riehl; Chapter 16: Psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy (PIT) approaches to gastrointestinal conditions by Professor Elspeth Guthrie; Chapter 17: Emerging approaches - acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approaches to gastrointestinal conditions by Associate Professor Nuno Ferreira; Chapter 18: Behavioural approaches to managing substance-related problems in gastrointestinal conditions by Professor Eva Szigethy and Dr Trent Emerick; Chapter 19: Psychopharmacology in gastrointestinal cohorts by Ms Elspeth Carruthers and Dr Juilan Stern; Chapter 20: The role of eHealth in psychogastroenterology by Dr Andrew McCombie and Dr Simon R. Knowles; Part 4: Supervision and future challenges in psychogastroenterology; Chapter 21: Supervision and future challenges in psychogastroenterology by Dr Simon R Knowles, Associate Professor Laurie Keefer and Associate Professor Antonina Mikocka-Walus; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative volume introduces Twinleyâs concept of âThe Dark Side of Occupationâ. Focused on less explored and under-addressed occupations, it is an idea which challenges traditional assumptions around the positive, beneficial, health-promoting relationship between occupation and health. Emphasising that peopleâs individual experiences of occupations are not always addressed and may not always be legal, socially acceptable, or conducive to good health, the book investigates how these experiences can be explored theoretically, in practice and research, and in curriculum content for those learning about occupation. Beginning with a discussion of some assumptions and misunderstandings that have been made about the concept, the substantive chapters present and analyse tangible examples of the conceptâs applicability. This ground-breaking and practice-changing text provides ideas for future research and highlights contemporary, internationally relevant issues and concerns, sucTable of Contents1.The Dark Side of Occupation: An introduction to the Naming, Creation, Intent, and Development of the Concept Section I Theorising the Dark Side of Occupation 2.The Dark Side of Occupation: Accumulating Insights from Occupational Science 3.The Dark Side of Occupation: An Historical Review of Occupational Therapy 4.The Whole of the Moon: How Our Occupational Lens Helps or Hinders Our Exploration of the Dark Side of Occupation 5.Ontological and Epistemological Considerations in Understanding Occupations in Extreme and/or Oppressive Contexts: "Doing Non Violent Resistance" in Palestine Section II Researching the Dark Side of Occupation 6.Homelessness and Occupation 7.Occupational Transition from Smoker to Non-Smoker: The Perceived Consequences in Women’s Lives 8.Self-Defeating Behaviour in an Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder from An Occupational Perspective 9.Exploring the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse Trauma in the Context of the Occupation of Work Section III Occupational Therapy Practice 10.Challenges for Occupational Therapists Working with Clients who Choose Illicit, Immoral or Health-Compromising Occupations 11.Substance Use and Recovery as Part of Daily Life: A Zimbabwean Perspective of Substance Use as an Occupation among Young Adults Living with HIV 12.The Dark Side of Occupation in an Eating Disorder Intensive Day Service 13.Occupational Engagement in Forensic Settings: Exploring the Occupational Experiences of Men Living within a Forensic Mental Health Unit 14.The Development of an Assessment which Provides a Practical Application of the Concept of the Dark Side of Occupation for Practitioners and Students Section IV Occupational Therapy Education 15.Occupational Therapy Sounds Too Nice: Reflections from a Recently Trained Occupational Therapist 16.The Dark Side of Studying at University 17.How the Dark Side of Occupation can be Instructed in a Course: Learning from Occupational Therapy 18.Not Everything is Rosy and Not Everyone Wants to Fix their Garden: An Australian Example of Integrating the Dark Side of Occupation into Curriculum for Final Year Students 19.The Value of Exploring the Dark Side of Occupation in Pre-Registration Occupational Therapy Education, Using Homelessness as a Case Study 20.The Dark Side of Occupation: A Conversation of our Evolution and our Future

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for being skeptical of BDMA claims. The idea that addiction is a brain disease dominates thinking and practice worldwide. However, the editors of this book argue that our understanding of addiction is undergoing a revolutionary change, from being considered a brain disease to a disorder of voluntary behavior. The resolution of this controversy will determine the future of scientific progress in understanding addiction, together with necessary advances in treatment, prevention, and societal responses to addictive disorders. This volume brings together the various strands of the contemporary debate about whether or not addiction is best regarded as a brain disease. Contributors offer argumTrade Review"This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging exploration of the contested terrain of human troubles labelled addiction. The distinguished editors have invited the best brains across the various fields that bear upon addiction -- those who advocate the brain disease view, those opposed, and those carving creative paths in between. It will stand as the definitive inter-disciplinary collection on the brain disease paradigm and its alternatives, providing lively, point-for-point debates about the nature of addiction and why this matters."Craig Reinarman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA"This collection presents an excellent, well-balanced overview of different views on the brain disease model of addiction. Eminent international authors from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives discuss the emergence of the model and its growing popularity, challenges to the model and possible novel alternatives. Divided into four sections - for, against, unsure and innovative ideas – the book is informative, stimulating and a welcome reminder that the brain disease model is still far from universally accepted."Betsy Thom, Middlesex University, UK"What an exceptional book this is! Although understanding addiction as a ‘brain disease’ is accepted by many, it is in fact a controversial approach, contested by a large number of leading researchers, theoreticians and practitioners. This book offers a wonderfully encyclopaedic and yet very clear road map of this contested space. Divided into four stimulating sections (for, against, unsure, alternatives) the book brings together almost all of the leading figures in this debate, allowing all voices to be heard and yet also offering a clear set of statements from the Editors of the position that they hold. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in this area, from novices through to ‘experts’."Richard Velleman, University of Bath, UK and Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India"This book provides a rich compendium of seminal papers in the addiction field positioned alongside ground-breaking new contributions that consider the biopsychosocial, policy, and public health implications of a variety of models of addiction, as well as the specific benefits and downsides of the brain disease model. This book does way more than evaluate the brain disease model – it also provides a compelling retrospective and encourages introspection of our beliefs and attitudes about addiction. It also provides fascinating and thoughtful alternative models that have great potential to change how we study, treat, and frame addiction. Over the course of 44 chapters, Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction presents a paradigm shift and a call for us to reconsider how we study and conceptualize addiction. The overarching conclusion that is quite evident from reading this book is that, as a field, we have been asking the wrong questions. The chapters in this exceptionally curated book provide a plethora of ideas for alternative questions and conceptualizations that might ultimately reduce human suffering."Katie Witkiewitz, University of New Mexico, USA"This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging exploration of the contested terrain of human troubles labelled addiction. The distinguished editors have invited the best brains across the various fields that bear upon addiction -- those who advocate the brain disease view, those opposed, and those carving creative paths in between. It will stand as the definitive inter-disciplinary collection on the brain disease paradigm and its alternatives, providing lively, point-for-point debates about the nature of addiction and why this matters."Craig Reinarman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA"This collection presents an excellent, well-balanced overview of different views on the brain disease model of addiction. Eminent international authors from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives discuss the emergence of the model and its growing popularity, challenges to the model and possible novel alternatives. Divided into four sections - for, against, unsure and innovative ideas – the book is informative, stimulating and a welcome reminder that the brain disease model is still far from universally accepted."Betsy Thom, Middlesex University, UK"What an exceptional book this is! Although understanding addiction as a ‘brain disease’ is accepted by many, it is in fact a controversial approach, contested by a large number of leading researchers, theoreticians and practitioners. This book offers a wonderfully encyclopaedic and yet very clear road map of this contested space. Divided into four stimulating sections (for, against, unsure, alternatives) the book brings together almost all of the leading figures in this debate, allowing all voices to be heard and yet also offering a clear set of statements from the Editors of the position that they hold. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in this area, from novices through to ‘experts’."Richard Velleman, University of Bath, UK and Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India"This book provides a rich compendium of seminal papers in the addiction field positioned alongside ground-breaking new contributions that consider the biopsychosocial, policy, and public health implications of a variety of models of addiction, as well as the specific benefits and downsides of the brain disease model. This book does way more than evaluate the brain disease model – it also provides a compelling retrospective and encourages introspection of our beliefs and attitudes about addiction. It also provides fascinating and thoughtful alternative models that have great potential to change how we study, treat, and frame addiction. Over the course of 44 chapters, Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction presents a paradigm shift and a call for us to reconsider how we study and conceptualize addiction. The overarching conclusion that is quite evident from reading this book is that, as a field, we have been asking the wrong questions. The chapters in this exceptionally curated book provide a plethora of ideas for alternative questions and conceptualizations that might ultimately reduce human suffering."Katie Witkiewitz, University of New Mexico, USA"As well as giving an excellent overview of the debate on how to conceptualize addiction, this book also raises questions about the essence of science. Rejecting a neopositivist view, according to which science is almost exclusively data driven, the debate on the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) shows that science is about the interpretation of data and model building, and that these models can have a profound impact on the way we deal with social realities. While no pathognomonic brain lesions have been identified that can be used for diagnosing addiction, proponents of the BDMA have argued that understanding addiction as a brain disease would be helpful for overcoming stigma and improving treatment. However, 25 years after the first seminal paper introducing the BDMA, effects on treatment and public policies are, at best, modest, and the ‘othering’ associated with the BDMA apparently has unintended side effects. This book brings together a plethora of perspectives on the validity and utility of the BDMA from distinguished experts from addiction research as well as from the humanities, including proponents and critics of the model as well as authors who consider themselves ‘undecided’."Gallus Bischof, University of Lűbeck, GermanyTable of ContentsGeneral introduction; SECTION I FOR THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 1. Introduction to Section I; 2. Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters; 3. Neurobiologic advances from the brain disease model of addiction; 4. Time to connect: bringing social context into addiction neuroscience; 5. Drug addiction: updating actions to habits to compulsions ten years on; 6. Is addiction a brain disease? The incentive-sensitization view; 7. Addiction is a brain disease (but does it matter?); SECTION II AGAINST THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 8. Introduction to Section II; 9. Giving the neurobiology of addiction no more than its due; 10. The brain disease model of addiction: is it supported by the evidence and has it delivered on its promises?; 11. Brain disease model of addiction: why is it so controversial?; 12. Brain disease model of addiction: misplaced priorities?; 13. Addiction and the brain-disease fallacy; 14. Recovery is possible: overcoming ‘addiction’ and its rescue hypotheses; 15. Superpower rivalry, the American Grand Narrative, and the BDMA; 16. My brain disease made me do it: bioethical implications of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction; 17. Addiction is a human problem, but brain disease models divert attention and resources away from human-level solutions; 18. Before ‘rock bottom’? Problem framing effects on stigma and change among harmful drinkers; 19. Brain change in addiction: disease or learning? Implications for science, policy, and care; 20. Brains or persons? Is it coherent to ascribe psychological powers to brains?; 21. The persistence of addiction is better explained by socioeconomic deprivation-related factors powerfully motivating goal-directed drug choice than by automaticity, habit or compulsion theories favored by the brain disease model; 22. Addiction and criminal responsibility: the law’s rejection of the disease model; 23. One cheer for the brain-disease interpretation of addiction; SECTION III UNSURE ABOUT THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 24. Introduction to Section III; 25. In search of addiction in the brains of laboratory animals; 26. Addiction treatment providers’ engagements with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction; 27. Balancing the ethical and methodological pros and cons of the BDMA; 28. The making of the epistemic project of addiction in the brain; 29. Addiction and the meaning of disease; 30. The pitfalls of recycling substance-use disorder criteria to diagnose behavioral addictions; SECTION IV ALTERNATIVES TO THE BRAIN DISEASE MODEL OF ADDICTION 31. Introduction to Section IV; 32. Addiction is socially engineered exploitation of natural biological vulnerability; 33. Toward an ecological understanding of addiction; 34. Addiction biases choice in the mind, brain, and behavior systems: beyond the brain disease model; 35. Multiple enactments of the brain disease model: which model, when, for whom, and at what cost?; 36. The social perspective and the BDMA’s entry into the non-medical stronghold in Sweden and other Nordic countries; 37. Beyond the medical model: addiction as a response to trauma and stress; 38. Psychotherapeutic strategies to enhance motivation and cognitive control; 39. Addiction is not (only) in the brain: molar behavioral economic models of etiology and cessation of harmful substance use; 40. Understanding substance use disorders among veterans: virtues of the Multitudinous Self Model; 41. How an addiction ontology can unify competing conceptualizations of addiction; 42. Looping processes in the development of and desistance from addictive behaviors; 43. Recovery and identity: a socially focused challenge to brain disease models; 44. Replacing the BDMA: a paradigm shift in the field of addiction; Concluding comments

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Book SynopsisInvestigating Pop Psychology provides the basic tools required to make evidence-informed decisions and thoughtfully distinguish science from pseudoscience through the application of scientific skepticism. Psychologists conduct scientific investigations into a lot of strange things including alien encounters, horoscopes, dream interpretation, superstition, and extrasensory perception (ESP). Through a digestible, open-minded format combined with relevant and topical case studies such as energy psychology, demonic possession, and horoscopes, this book offers an engaging read which encourages students to think critically about the information they are exposed to during their academic careers and beyond. By taking a fresh look into investigations regarding pseudoscience and fringe science in pop psychology, it celebrates the science of psychology while also providing warnings about the problem of pseudoscience in pop psychology. Providing tips on how to considTable of Contents1. Examining Claims in Pop Psychology 2. Phrenology and Neuroscience 3. Extrasensory Perception, Psychokinesis, and Sensation 4. Dream Interpretation and Consciousness 5. Superstition and Learning 6. Alien Encounters and Memory 7. Learning Styles and Cognition 8. Brain Training and Intelligence 9. Psychosexual Stages and Development 10. Horoscopes and Emotion 11. Spectrophilia and Sexuality 12. Alternative Medicine and Health 13. Selling Flimflam and Social Influences 14. Projective Tests and Personality 15. Demonic Possession & Disorders 16. Energy Psychology and Therapy 17. Postscript: How to Resist False Claims

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Now in its third edition, Health Psychology offers the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field. Clearly explaining the psychological processes that shape health-related behaviors, and affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular systems, it shows how these relationships provide the foundation for psychological interventions which can change cognition, perception and behavior, thereby improving health.Divided into five parts, the book looks at the biological bases of health and illness, stress and health, coping resources, motivation and behaviour, and applied health psychology. The third edition has been revised to highlight:â Current research on the biological processes that underpin stress and illness.â How stress can be best managed at individual, organisational and community levels.â The ways peopleâs beliefs and attitudes shape motivation and behaviour.â How health promotion can effectively change beliefs and attitud

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Book SynopsisHow can we improve our sense of wellbeing? What explains the current wellbeing boom? What does wellbeing mean to you? The Psychology of Wellbeing offers readers tools to navigate their own wellbeing and understand what makes a âgood lifeâ. Using self-reflection and storytelling, it explores how trust affects psychological and emotional wellbeing, considers how stress and inequality impact our psychological wellbeing, and how trends such as positive psychology influence our understanding of happiness. In a world where the âwellness economyâ is big business, The Psychology of Wellbeing shows how we can question and make sense of information sources, and sheds light on the wellness, self-care and self-help industry.Table of Contents Introduction: Defining Wellbeing, Psychology, and the Self Questions of Trust: The Truth About Wellbeing Storytelling and Sense-Making: 50 Shades of Wellbeing Stress & Coping: On Being Well in Your Self Self-Help and Wellbeing: Ifs, Nots, Myths & Knots Happiness, Meaning & the Good Life: The Structure of Wellbeing Some Concluding Thoughts: Stories, Questions and Reflections on Being Well and Getting Better

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Book Synopsisto Tic Disorders, Trichotillomania, and Other Repetitive Behavior Disorders: Behavioral Approaches to Analysis and Treatment.- Assessment of Repetitive Behavior Disorders.- Physical and Social Impairment in Persons With Repetitive Behavior Disorders.- Characteristics of Tic Disorders.- Behavioral Interventions for Tic Disorders.- Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Tic Disorders.- Characteristics of Trichotillomania.- Behavioral Interventions for Trichotillomania.- Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Trichotillomania.- Characteristics of Oral-Digital Habits.- Behavioral Interventions for Oral-Digital Habits.- Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Oral-Digital Habits.- Analysis and Treatment of Oral-Motor Repetitive Behavior Disorders.- Repetitive Behavior Disorders in Persons with Developmental Disabilities.Trade Review`The book...is well written and edited with a strong sense of continuity throughout. The authors present through literature reviews supported by timely references to the varied behavioral approaches for treating repetitive behavior disorders. I learned a lot from reading it.' Journal of Psychiatry, 159:11 (November 2002)Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction to Tic Disorders, Trichotillomania, and Other Repetitive Behavior Disorders: Behavioral Approaches to Analysis and Treatment; D.W. Woods, R.G. Miltenberger. 2. Assessment of Repetitive Behavior Disorders; J.E. Carr, J.T. Rapp. 3. Physical and Social Impairment in Persons with Repetitive Behavior Disorders; D.W. Woods, et al. 4. Characteristics of Tic Disorders; D.B. Findley. 5. Behavioral Interventions for Tic Disorders; T.S. Watson, et al. 6. Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Tic Disorders; D.W. Woods. 7. Characteristics of Trichotillomania; R.G. Miltenberger, et al. 8. Behavioral Interventions for Trichotillomania; A.J. Elliott, R.W. Fuqua. 9. Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Trichotillomania; R.G. Miltenberger. 10. Characteristics of Oral-Digital Habits; P.C. Friman, et al. 11. Behavioral Interventions for Oral-Digital Habits; V.J. Adesso, M.M. Norberg. 12. Habit Reversal Treatment Manual for Oral-Digital Habits; D.W. Woods, M.P. Twohig. 13. Analysis and Treatment of Oral-Motor Repetitive Behavior Disorders; K.D. Allen, J. Polaha. 14. Repetitive Behavior Disorders in Persons With Developmental Disabilities; J.E. Ringdahl, et al. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Twelve-Step Program.- Introduction: The Twelve-Step Program Model of AA.- The Twelve-Step Recovery Model of AA: A Voluntary Mutual Help Association.- Twelve Defining Moments in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous.- The Impact of AA on Professional Treatment.- The Impact of Alcoholics Anonymous on Other Substance Abuse-Related Twelve-Step Programs.- The Impact of AA on Non-Professional Substance Abuse Recovery Programs and Sober Living Houses.- Spiritually Oriented Recovery.- An Overview of Spirituality in AA (and Recovery).- The Concept of Spirituality in Relation to Addiction Recovery and General Psychiatry.- Kickbacks from Helping Others: Health and Recovery.- Issues in Measuring Spirituality and Religiousness in Alcohol Research.- Spirituality and Health: Empirically Based Reflections on Recovery.- Spiritual Change in Recovery.- Mindfulness and Addiction.- Twelve-Step Membership.- Epidemiology of Alcoholics Anonymous Participation.- Concerns About Dose and Underutilization of Twelve-Step Programs: Models, Scales, and Theory that Inform Treatment Planning.- Facilitating Involvement in Twelve-Step Programs.- Twelve-Step Facilitation in Non-specialty Settings.- Effectiveness and Outcome Research.- Alcoholics Anonymous Outcomes and Benefits.- Outcomes of AA for Special Populations.- How and Why Twelve-Step Self-Help Groups Are Effective.- Individual and Contextual Factors That Influence AA Affiliation and Outcomes.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This volume in the Recent Developments in Alcoholism series is a unique and comprehensive review of 12-step programs/Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and spirituality, how they intersect, and how they aid in the treatment of addiction. … All healthcare providers, researchers, and students involved in the treatment of patients with alcoholism and addictions are the intended audience. It will also be useful for anyone interested in spirituality as a model for helping chronic illnesses. … This is a valuable reference for anyone in this field … ." (Michael Easton, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2009)Table of ContentsThe Twelve-Step Program.- Introduction: The Twelve-Step Program Model of AA.- The Twelve-Step Recovery Model of AA: A Voluntary Mutual Help Association.- Twelve Defining Moments in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous.- The Impact of AA on Professional Treatment.- The Impact of Alcoholics Anonymous on Other Substance Abuse-Related Twelve-Step Programs.- The Impact of AA on Non-Professional Substance Abuse Recovery Programs and Sober Living Houses.- Spiritually Oriented Recovery.- An Overview of Spirituality in AA (and Recovery).- The Concept of Spirituality in Relation to Addiction Recovery and General Psychiatry.- Kickbacks from Helping Others: Health and Recovery.- Issues in Measuring Spirituality and Religiousness in Alcohol Research.- Spirituality and Health: Empirically Based Reflections on Recovery.- Spiritual Change in Recovery.- Mindfulness and Addiction.- Twelve-Step Membership.- Epidemiology of Alcoholics Anonymous Participation.- Concerns About Dose and Underutilization of Twelve-Step Programs: Models, Scales, and Theory that Inform Treatment Planning.- Facilitating Involvement in Twelve-Step Programs.- Twelve-Step Facilitation in Non-specialty Settings.- Effectiveness and Outcome Research.- Alcoholics Anonymous Outcomes and Benefits.- Outcomes of AA for Special Populations.- How and Why Twelve-Step Self-Help Groups Are Effective.- Individual and Contextual Factors That Influence AA Affiliation and Outcomes.

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Book SynopsisA long-awaited workbook companion to Monica McGoldrick’s highly successful textbook Genograms.

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Book SynopsisSomething is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patientâs experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice. Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todresâ innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in healthcare policy and practice. It: presents an innovative lifeworld-led approach to the humanisation of care; explores the concept of well-being and its relationship to suffering and outlines the rationale for a focus on them within this approach; discusses how the framework can be applied and how health and social practitioners can draw oTrade Review‘I congratulate Galvin and Todres for placing well-being and the person, with all of his or her complexities, at the center of our discipline. Caring and Well-being: A Lifeworld Approach is a milestone that will significantly shake nursing, moving our profession firmly into the domain of humanized health care. It is a must-read for every nurse academic, student and clinician.’ – Janice M. Morse, Professor and Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, USA; Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada; and Honorary Professor, Bournemouth University, UK. ‘This book is philosophically grounded, clinically relevant, informed by the best of qualitative research, and written with a genuine concern for the well-being of patients as well as the professionals who provide care for them. Galvin and Todres demonstrate how a solid understanding of patients as persons is both humane and eminently practical. Caring and Well-being is far more than a critique of how the relational and social aspects of care are overshadowed by the technical. It is a powerful guide for how we can move forward and create a healthier approach to treatment. The authors are practitioners and researchers who care deeply, have studied these issues thoroughly, and who in clear and eloquent prose remind us of what is at the heart of working in a caring and thoughtful way with patients.’ – Steen Halling, Professor of Psychology, Seattle University, USA. ‘Galvin and Todres offer a bold and passionately humane approach to healthcare. Their call to counterbalance the efficiency-driven, technology-based culture of healthcare with an emphasis on the experience of illness and suffering is timely and well-placed. Their approach is philosophically sophisticated, rooted in real-life healthcare practice, and genuinely innovative. In particular, their emphasis on seeing health as part of wellbeing and illness as part of the broader notion of suffering, demonstrates the philosophical innovation of their work. Their proposal to develop a "lifeworld-led healthcare" (contrasted with "patient-led care") and to understand illness in terms of existential homelessness turns attention to the pressing need to offer healthcare that is not just patient-centred, but one that is also engaged with the existential dimensions of illness and is authentically compassionate.’ – Havi Carel, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, UK. ‘This book is a significant and scholarly contribution to the health sciences, founded on a theoretical treatise developed over several years by Galvin and Todres. The text presents a conceptual framework that articulates alternative ways to approach health-related caring and well-being in order to create a basis for more humanised forms of health-care delivery. The work derides the reductionist view of the body as dehumanising and instead offers an alternative view via a value-base that "does justice" to the breadth and depth of being human. The work draws extensively on epistemological and ontological tenets that are central to phenomenological and existential philosophy, as well as offering significant contributions from qualitative health and social science research, including that of the authors. In doing so, Galvin and Todres provide an eloquent model of life-world led care, one that involves conceptualising eight humanising dimensions that are meaningfully contrasted against those considered dehumanising. It is a lively and thought provoking exploration of what constitutes our notion of well-being and offers a critical analysis of our capacity to care. This book is designed to promote sensitivity to the human complexities of care among health professionals by providing a "helpful coherent value base for guiding practice". It does this in light of the more personalised dimensions of care that appear to be becoming less obvious in favour of economic imperatives. With this in mind, the book is acutely timely. It presents a world view that those of us who are phenomenological converts have known for a long time as one that is particularly relevant to caring practices. There is no doubt this book has readability and resonance. Based on some highly theoretical concepts Galvin and Todres make compelling arguments for an approach to care that is easily accessible and applicable.’ – Professor Sally Borbasi, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Australia. 'In Caring and Well-being Kathleen Galvin and Les Todres present a creative, complex, and coherent investigation of philosophical and practice-based perspectives on caring for others in humane, holistic, and hopeful ways. With an emphasis on innovation, contemplation, and imagination, Galvin and Todres elucidate how experience, embodiment, empathy, emotions, and ethics are all inextricably connected to promoting caring and well-being in ways that honour the lived and living experiences of human beings who cannot be reduced to charts and statistics. In the spirit of contemporary hermeneutic inquiry, this book is nuanced and evocative, insightful and inspiring, philosophical and poetic. By carefully investigating the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, policy and practice, knowledge and discourse, empathy and action, Galvin and Todres have composed a remarkable book that exemplifies their commitment to nurturing integrated lifeworld approaches to well-being in the caring professions and disciplines.’ – Carl Leggo, poet and professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Need for Humanised Care Part 1: Humanising Healthcare: A Lifeworld Approach 1. A Value Framework for the Humanisation of Care 2. A Lifeworld Approach: Revisiting a Humanising Philosophy that Provides an Experiential Context for Considering Health and Illness 3. Lifeworld-led Healthcare is More than Patient-led Care 4. Caring for a Partner with Alzheimer’s: an Illustration of Research-based Knowledge for Lifeworld-led Care Part 2: Well-being and Suffering: the Focus of Care 5. An Existential Theory of Well-being: ‘Dwelling-Mobility’ 6. Kinds of Well-being: Eighteen Directions for Caring 7. Kinds of Suffering: Caring for Vulnerability 8. An Illustration of Well-being as Dwelling-Mobility: Older Peoples’ Experiences of Living in Rural Areas Part 3: Developing the Capacity to Care 9. The Creativity of ‘Unspecialisation’: Contemplative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom 10. Complex Knowledge to Underpin Caring: Embodied Relational Understanding 11. Embodied Interpretation: One Way of Re-presenting Research Findings that may Serve to Sensitise the Empathic Imagination 12. Embodying Nursing Openheartedness: An Illustration of a Core Capacity for Caring 13. Conclusion: Caring for Well-being

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Book SynopsisâThis isnât living, this is just existing.âA long-term physical health condition â a chronic illness, or even a disability â can take over your existence. Battling against the effects of the condition can take so much of your time and energy that it feels like the rest of your life is âon holdâ.The physical symptoms of different conditions will vary, as will the way you manage them. But the kinds of psychological stress the situation brings are common to lots of long-term health problems: worry about the future, sadness about what has been lost, frustration at changes, guilt about being a burden, friction with friends and family. You can lose your sense of purpose and wonder âWhatâs the point?â Trapped in a war against your own illness, every day is just about the battle, and it can seem impossible to find achievement and fulfilment in life if the condition cannot be cured.It doesnât have to be like that.Using the latest developments in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which emphasise mindfulness and acceptance, and including links to downloadable audio exercises and worksheets, this book will show you how you can live better despite your long-term condition. It will teach you to spot the ways of coping that havenât been working for you, how to make sure that troubling thoughts and unwanted feelings donât run your life, how to make sense of the changes in your circumstances, to make the most of today and work towards a future that includes more of the things that matter to you.If you stop fighting a losing battle, and instead learn how to live well with the enemy, then â even with your long-term condition â youâll find yourself not simply existing, but really living again.Trade Review"A deeply compassionate, extremely practical and much-needed guide to creating a rich, full and meaningful life while living with chronic illness. This book skilfully plots a mindfulness-based, Values-guided path to reducing your suffering and increasing your vitality, regardless of the nature of your illness."Dr Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap"The author, clinical psychologist Ray Owen, writes in an accessible, easy to read style. He avoids jargon, explaining things in a lay person’s terms. He introduces us to four people, all with long term conditions (LTCs), and he uses these folk to explain the problems LTCs bring and how the techniques in the book can help. We can see elements of ourselves in these people. Owen does not belittle the problems that a LTC can bring for both patient and their loved ones – the limitations, frustrations, loss, physical and emotional suffering and his approach is not a ‘quick fix’." Cathy Stark, CardiomyopathyTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Knowing the Enemy. Getting Stuck in the Struggle. Troubling Thoughts. Unwanted Feelings. Living in the Present. Who Am I Now? Living with Purpose. Taking Action. Putting it Together. Conclusion. Further Reading. References.

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Book SynopsisIn todayâs sick world, the application of psychological research and methods to issues about and around health could not be more important. Health psychologists pursue ambitious goals, including: the promotion and maintenance of health; the prevention and management of illness; the improvement of healthcare systems; and the formulation of rational health policies. And they seek to understand dizzyingly difficult questions, such as: how do people adapt to chronic illness? What factors influence healthy eating? How is stress linked to heart disease? And, why do so many patients ignore medical advice and prescriptions?As research in and around health psychology burgeons as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Psychology series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions.With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Health Psychology will be particularly useful as a one-stop database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiarâand sometimes overlookedâtexts. For researchers and advanced students, it is a vital one-stop research and reference resource.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being. She examines the evidence behind the positive effects of designed landscapes, and explains effective methods and approaches which can be put into practice by those seeking to reduce costs and add value through outdoor spaces. Using principles from sensory, therapeutic and healing gardens, Souter-Brown focuses on landscape's ability to affect health, education and economic outcomes. Already valued within healthcare environments, these design guidelines for public and private spaces extend the benefits throughout our towns and cities.Covering design for school grounds to public parks, public housing to gardens for stressed executives, this richly illustrated text builds the case to justify inclusion of a designed outdoor area in project budgets.  With case studies from the US, UK, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, iTrade Review"You will not find a more comprehensive, informative, and well-researched compendium of healing, sensory, and therapeutic gardens, with real-life examples and case studies, written with a tangible passion for the subject. This book, containing answers to all your questions, is a definite must have!" - Marta Ratajszczak, Landscape Architects Network, landarchs.com"Presenting greenspace as a human lifeline, this is an excellent and accessible read for the practitioner and students alike. Concepts of architecture, design, sustainability and well being are blended with whole of life costing approaches to make the case for a supportive urban environment in which individuals, families, communities and business can thrive." - Teena Hale Pennington, CEO New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA)"A good, practical blueprint for creating urban spaces that offer health through nature." - Richard Louv, journalist, author and co-founder of the Children & Nature Network"Both comprehensive and informative, this publication adds immeasurably to the growing interest in the health-giving properties of green space to enhance liveable, sustainable cities. Covering design from school grounds to public parks, from public housing to private gardens, this richly illustrated text builds the case for including green spaces throughout our urban environments......It is refreshing to see coverage not just of the health benefits of urban green space but how interventions - large and small - provide social and economic benefits to communities. This is a rare, inclusive approach to thinking about how green nature can support us in our homes, neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces and healthcare facilities......This book is a rich and welcome addition to the debate." – World Health Design, Clare Cooper Marcus, University of California, Berkeley, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Origins And Evolution Of Healing Gardens 1. The History: What Were Gardens For? 2. Why Do We Need Gardens For Health And Well-Being Today?’ 3. Urban Space Degradation 4. Sustainable Communities Are Healthy Communities Part 2: Who Will Benefit From Healing Gardens? 5. Healing Gardens For Children 6. Healing Gardens For Adults 7. Healing Gardens And Cityscapes For Disabled Children And Adults 8. Healing Gardens For Stressed Executives 9. Cost Benefits Of Greening The Urban Environment Through Healing Gardens Part 3: Designing Healing Gardens Using An Inclusive, Salutogenic Approach 10. The Salutogenic Design Process 11. Salutogenic Design Guidelines - Simple Is Best 12. Inclusive Design - Key Design Elements Part 4: Additional Resources 13. Funding Sources For Public Sensory, Therapeutic And Healing Gardens 14. How And Where To Develop Community Green Space

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Book SynopsisClinical psychologists and counsellors increasingly work with doctors, nurses, and medical therapists to implement psychological measures that increase the effectiveness, or mediate the ill effects, of medical treatment. This is a clear and concise guide to the body of knowledge in this field and to best practice in the clinical context.Trade Review"...offers an excellent introduction to the psychological aspects of healthcare..." (Journal of Health Psychology, Vol.16, No. 4, 2001) "...a well-written and lively book.." (British Journal of Health Psychology, September 2001) "This book could serve as a very useful basis for teaching a broad range of health professionals. Issues could then be picked up by course tutors to enable discussions of the more controversial areas and an opportunity for more in depth treatment of certain topics. Clinical and health psychologists would benefit from reading this book as an introduction to applied psychology in general medicine and surgery. Given the breadth of the book, most readers are going to find sections relevant to their own work and benefit from Peter Salmon's knowledge and experience of working in health care setting." (British Journal of Health Psychology, Sep 2001)Table of ContentsAPPLYING PSYCHOLOGY TO HEALTH CARE. Psychology Knowledge: Its Relevance and Limitations. Theories, Models and Objectives in Health Care. BECOMING ILL AND BEING ILL. Challenge, Stress and Coping. Psychobiology of Disease Processes: Heart Disease and Cancer. Psychology of Physical Symptoms. The Patient's Agenda: Beliefs and Intentions. The Psychological Impact of Physical Illness. Chronic Illness, Dying and Bereavement: Stages and Cycles of Adaptation. TREATMENT. Clinicians' Decisions and Patients' Adherence. Clinical Communication: Partnership and Opposition. Patient Empowerment: Information, Choice and Control. Hospitalization and Surgery. Psychological Treatment of Unexplained Physical Symptoms. Psychological Treatment of Physical Disease. Using Patients' Perspective to Evaluate Care. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSergei Korsakoff, Alois Alzheimer, James Parkinson, Hans Asperger and other eminent scientists, are all names which have become synonymous with a disease, a syndrome, or an autistic disorder. Although the names of these psychiatrists and neurologists are familiar, we often know little about the individuals themselves and the circumstances surrounding their discoveries. What exactly did they discover, and who were their patients? Douwe Draaisma expertly reconstructs the lives of these and eight other 'names' from the science of mind and brain. Disturbances of the Mind provides a fascinating, illuminating, and at times touching insight into the history of brain research. Thanks to Draaisma's unerring eye and elegant, engaging style, the case histories of Asperger, Bonnet, Capgras, ClÃrambault, Korsakoff and Gilles de la Tourette syndromes; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; the areas of Broca and Brodmann; Jackson's epilepsy; and the Gage matrix are all brought to life and transformedTrade Review'One can open this book at any chapter - but having done so, one cannot put it down. Disturbances of the Mind, combining deep learning with beguiling narrative, and full of fascinating information and ideas, is one of those rare books that will delight professionals and public alike.' Oliver Sacks'This book is a treasure for those studying the mind and brain, and is written accessibly to appeal to the general reader interested in the history of medicine and the variety of human behaviour.' Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University'… [an] intriguing book …' New Scientist'… cleverly constructed book … [Douwe Draaisma] … has a rare talent for writing informatively and entertainingly without losing depth.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'… full of delights … Draaisma offers us not just glorious stories, wrapped up in history, to enjoy, but many timeless questions to ponder.' Human Givens Journal'Draaisma is no straightforward biographer … his accounts are informed by insights from the burgeoning fields of sociology and philosophy of science. Thus although at one level the book can be read for instruction and entertainment, a theoretical thread about the social institutions within which science and medicine grow runs unobtrusively through the text.' The Lancet'… a compelling series of stories that offers inspiration; perhaps also, a sense of historical nostalgia … Disturbances of the Mind is a beguiling, easy-to-read and informative text. Several of the insights, byways and references were new to me. This work should attract the general reader of the history of medicine as well as neurologists, psychiatrists and students of human behaviour disorders. It conforms to W. B. Yeats's caveat: 'think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.' The excellent accounts he provides allow us a glimpse into the minds of the discoverers and an appreciation of their intelligent perceptions (at least the equal of our own), often struggling for knowledge in the academic darkness of their times.' BRAIN: A Journal of NeurologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: not the Draaisma syndrome; 1. Towards dusk the images appear: Bonnet syndrome; 2. A tormenting round of tremors: Parkinson's disease; 3. Phineas Gage's posthumous stroll: the Gage matrix; 4. The Celestine Prophesy: Broca's area; 5. Sparks from a Leyden jar: Jackson's epilepsy; 6. Siberian brandy: Korsakoff syndrome; 7. Go to hell, idiot! Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; 8. A labyrinth of tangles: Alzheimer's disease; 9. The Mercator of neurology: Brodmann's areas; 10. The headquarters of madness: Clérambault syndrome; 11. A cup of tea for the doppelgänger: Capgras syndrome; 12. Little professors: Asperger syndrome; 13. The Cardan suspension of science.

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Book SynopsisIn Chronic Physical Disorders, the most prominent figures in the field of behavioral medicine argue why a biopsychosocial perspective is crucial to reducing the tremendous personal and societal burden of chronic disease.Trade Review“Christensen and Antoni have edited an outstanding text that will be exceptionally helpful to both researchers and clinicians. The list of authors reads like a veritable Who’s Who in Behavioral Medicine.” Professor Francis J. Keefe, Duke Pain and Palliative Care Program “This volume provides an excellent synthesis of the cross-cutting themes and major psychosocial issues in the adjustment process for persons with chronic medical conditions. It is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians, and students of the discipline of health psychology and behavioral medicine, as well as a valuable resource for other health professionals whose research and clinical work focuses on chronic disease management.” Dr. Perry M. Nicassio, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, and the University of California, San Diego School of MedicineTable of ContentsContributors. Introduction: Alan J. Christensen (The University of Iowa) and Michael H. Antoni (The Ohio State University). Part I: Cross-Cutting Issues:. 1. Quality of Life and Chronic Illness: Robert M. Kaplan (University of California, San Diego). 2. Social Psychological Aspects of Chronic Disease: Vicki S. Helgeson (Cernegie Mellon University) and Kerry A. Reynolds (Carnegie Mellon University). 3. Coping Processes and Adjustment to Chronic Illness: Charles S. Carver (University of Miami) and Michael F. Scheier (Carnegie Mellon University). 4. Adherence in the Management of Chronic Disorders: Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob (University of Pittsburgh), Elizabeth A. Schlenk (University of Pittsburgh) and Donna Caruthers (University of Pittsburgh). Part II: Chronic Physical Disorders:. 5. Coronary Heart Disease: Timothy W. Smith (The University of Utah) and John M. Ruiz (The University of Utah). 6. Cancer: Barbara L. Anderson (The Ohio State University) and Sharla Wells (The Ohio State University). 7. Diabetes: Linda Gonder-Frederick (University of Virginia Health System), Daniel J. Cox (University of Virginia Health System), and William L. Clarke (University of Virginia Health System). 8. Chronic Pain: Dennis C. Turk (University of Washington) and Akiko Okifuji (University of Washington). 9. HIV and AIDS: Michael H. Antoni (University of Utah). 10. End-Stage Renal Disease: Alan J. Christensen (University of Iowa) and Katherine Raichle (University of Iowa). 11. Asthma: Bruce G. Bender (University of Colorado) and Thomas L. Creer (The Ohio University). 12. Arthritis: Heather M. Burke (Arizona State University), Alex J. Zautra (Arizona State University), Amy S. Schultz (Arizona State University), John W. Reich (Arizona State University) and Mary C. Davis (Arizona State Univerisity).

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Principles 3. Getting started; rapport and agendas 4. Assessing importance, confidence and readiness 5. Exploring importance and building confidence 6. Exchanging information 7. Reducing resistance 8. Ending the consultation 9. Common clinical encounters 10. Learning to practice this approach 11. Calls from the consulting room 12. Example of a consultation Appendices: Practitioner and Patient Worksheets

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Book Synopsis Drawing on the contributions of a diverse group of international experts and a multidisciplinary approach, this reference challenges professionals, researchers, and students to implement new solutions and further their research in youth inactivity. Trade Review"This is a very thought-provoking book, considering the current state of childhood obesity in this country. It addresses the major problem in our culture of inactivity or a sedentary lifestyle."-Doody's Book ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Conceptualization of Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorChapter 1. Definitions and Measurement Simon J. Marshall and Gregory J. WelkUnderstanding Physical Activity and InactivityUnderstanding Active and Sedentary Behavior in YouthRecommended Levels of Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorMeasuring Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorReferencesChapter 2. Youth Health OutcomesDavid J. Stensel, Trish Gorely, and Stuart J.H. BiddleOverweight and ObesityType 2 DiabetesCardiovascular Disease RiskSkeletal HealthMental HealthConclusionReferencesChapter 3. A Sociohistorical Analysis of U.S. Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorMary McElroyEarly 20th Century Views of Children's Health The First Weight Crisis and American Youth The Intractability of Youth Obesity The Growth of the Media GenerationChallenges Facing Contemporary FamiliesLessons Learned From the Past for the FutureReferencesChapter 4. Conceptual Perspectives Claudio R. Nigg and Raheem J. PaxtonNecessity and Status of Theory A Review of Theory-Based InterventionsCritical Evaluation of Applied TheoryImproving Our Theoretical UnderstandingReferencesChapter 5. “Couch Potatoes” and “Wind-Up Dolls”? A Critical Assessment of the Ethics of Youth Physical Activity ResearchMichael GardCouch Potatoes? Wind-Up Dolls? Some Alternatives Ethics ReferencesPart II. Developmental and Psychological Factors in Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorChapter 6. Biocultural Factors in Developing Physical Activity LevelsRobert M. MalinaA Biocultural Perspective Factors Related to Physical Activity LevelsActivity Levels, Fitness, and SportImplicationsReferencesChapter 7. Youth Attitudes Martin S. Hagger and Nikos L.D. ChatzisarantisAttitudes in Social Science Research Modifications of the Theory of Planned Behavior Individual Differences in the Theory of Planned Behavior Recommended Interventions Derived From the TPBConclusionReferencesChapter 8. Motivational Characteristics Stuart J.H. Biddle, Darren C. Treasure, and C.K. John WangDescriptive Approaches Framework for Theoretical PerspectivesSuggestions for ActionConclusionReferencesChapter 9. The Role of the Self Peter R.E. Crocker, Kent C. Kowalski, and Valerie HaddGeneral Conceptions of the SelfThe Physical SelfThe Self and Physical ActivityConclusionReferencesChapter 10. Youth With Movement DifficultiesJanice Causgrove Dunn and Donna L. GoodwinImportance of Physical Activity for This PopulationTheoretically Based Predictions and Research FindingsEnvironmental Issues Intervention Research Recommendations for Future ResearchReferencesPart III. Social and Contextual Factors in Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary BehaviorChapter 11. The Family Brian E. Saelens and Jacqueline KerrTypes of Familial InfluenceCorrelational Studies of Familial Influences Studies of Other Family FactorsIntervention Studies Conclusions and Recommendations for ResearchReferencesChapter 12. Peers Alan L. Smith and Meghan H. McDonoughBasic Concepts in Peer-Related ResearchPeer ResearchPromising Future Research DirectionsConclusionReferencesChapter 13. Physical Activity Levels During the School DayGareth Stratton, Stuart J. Fairclough, and Nicola D. RidgersActive TransportationRecessPhysical EducationSummaryReferencesChapter 14. Organized Sport and Physical Activity PromotionRobert J. Brustad, Runar Vilhjalmsson, and Antonio Manuel FonsecaOrganized Sport Participation and Children's Well-BeingYouth Sport Value StructuresTheoretical PerspectivesDevelopmental and Motivational ConsiderationsGender and Socioeconomic InfluencesProgramming to Facilitate Lifelong Physical ActivityReferencesChapter 15. Community Out-of-School Physical Activity PromotionDavid A. DzewaltowskiAfter-School Programs in the United StatesThe Organized Community Opportunities Model Research Based on the Organized Community ModelConclusions and Future DirectionsReferencesChapter 16. Living Environments Jo Salmon, John C. Spence, Anna Timperio, and Nicoleta CutumisuConceptual and Theoretical PerspectivesThe Home EnvironmentThe Neighborhood EnvironmentImplications for Research and PracticeReferencesChapter 17. Economic Principles Chad D. MeyerhoeferIndividual Choices and the Market EconomyMarket FailuresPolicy SolutionsThe Field in PerspectiveReferencesChapter 18. Culturally Appropriate Research and InterventionsSuzanna M. Martinez, Elva M. Arredondo, Guadalupe X. Ayala, and John P. ElderPhysical Inactivity in Immigrant and Ethnic Minority PopulationsAdapting Models and Theories Unique Contextual FactorsCulturally Appropriate InterventionsConclusionReferences

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides case studies of some of the people, groups and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the USA. Whether by birth or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I: Issues Related to Politics and Socioeconomic Status.L.S. Eastland, Defending Identity: Courage and Compromise in Radical Right Contexts. K. Miller, Conflicting Voices: Homelessness in America. J. Kahler, B.F. Sharf, From Pedagogy to Praxis: Affecting Communication in an Inner-City AIDS Clinic. A.A. Marshall, J.K. McKeon, "I Just Can't Afford It": Overcoming Barriers Facing Women Living in Poverty. Part II: Issues Related to Family.F. Avalos-C'deBaca, P. Geist, J.L. Gray, G. Hill, The Baby Shower: Rituals of Public and Private Joy and Sorrow. D.S. Ballard-Reisch, J. Price, Coping With Adolescent Cancer: One Family's Experience. J.E. Rudd, D.P. Joyce, Divorce Mediation: Balancing the Scales of Justice? J.F. Nussbaum, L. Sparks, M. Bergstrom, Elder Care: Different Paths Within an Extended American Family. Part III: Issues Related to Abuse.S. Alemán, M. Lavitt, Responses to Rape: The Contextualization of Violence Against Women. E.B. Ray, When the Protector Is the Abuser: Effects of Incest on Adult Survivors. L. Kanae, J.T. West, To Love, Honor, and Obey: One Woman's Narrative of Intimate Violence. T.J. Hack, R.P. Clair, Sexual Harassment: Raising Consciousness and Sharing Solutions. Part IV: Issues Related to Health Concerns.F.C. Corey, Without AIDS: A Gay Man Dies. S. Metts, H. Manns, Living with HIV and AIDS: Personal Accounts of Coping. R.J.W. Cline, N.J. McKenzie, "Stripping You of Everything You Ever Held Dear to Your Heart": The Many Losses of Women With HIV/AIDS. T.L. Thompson, "But I Don't Know What to Say to Her": Communication With the Terminally Ill. R.W. Thomas, D.R. Seibold, Trouble at Laster Enterprises: Managing Alcohol Problems in a Work Environment. G.M. Johnson, T.L. Albrecht, Working With Disabilities: The Case of the Job Finders Club. D.O. Braithwaite, "I Am a Person First": Different Perspectives on the Communication of Persons With Disabilities.

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Book SynopsisReflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective.Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, and Vicki S. Freimuth have developed this up-to-date collection to focus on todayâs key communication issues in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Chapters herein examine the interplay of the messages individuals receive about AIDS at the public level as well as the messages exchanged between individuals at the interpersonal level. Acknowledging how the face of HIV/AIDS has changed since 1992, the volume promotes the perspective that an understanding of effective communication through both mediated and interpersonal channels is essential to winning the continued battle against AIDS.Issues addressed here include: Social stigma associated with the disease, social support and those living with HIV/AIDS, and the current state of HIV testing Parentâchild discussions surrounding HIV/AIDS and safer sexual behavior, and cultural sensitivity relating to developing HIV prevention and sex education programs The effectiveness of health campaigns to impact attitudes, norms, and behavior, as well as the current state of entertainment education and its ability to contribute to HIV prevention News media coverage of HIV/AIDS and the impact of the agenda-setting function on public opinion and policy making Health literacy and its importance to the health and well-being of those undergoing HIV treatment. The role of technological innovations, most notably the Internet, used for both prevention interventions as well as risky behavior The volume also includes exemplars that showcase the diversity of approaches to health communication used to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These cases include interpersonal and mass communication mediums; traditional along with new media and technology; research by academics and practitioners; individual as well as community-based approaches; work based in the United States and internationally; and campaigns directed at at-risk, HIV- positive, as well as general populations. With new topics, new contributors, and a broadened scope, this book goes beyond a revision of the 1992 volume to reflect the current state of communication research on HIV/AIDS across key contexts. It is designed for academics, researchers, practitioners, and students in health communication, health psychology, and other areas of AIDS research. As a unique examination of communication research, it makes an indelible contribution to the growing knowledge base of communication approaches to combating HIV/AIDS.Table of ContentsContents: Preface. Part I: Review Chapters. S.M. Noar, T. Edgar, The Role of Partner Communication in Safer Sexual Behavior: A Theoretical and Empirical Review. T. Edgar, S.M. Noar, B. Murphy, Communication Skills Training in HIV Prevention Interventions. L.S. Rintamaki, F.M. Weaver, The Social and Personal Dynamics of HIV Stigma. D.J. Goldsmith, D.E. Brashers, K.A. Kosenko, D.J. O'Keefe, Social Support and Living With HIV: Findings From Qualitative Studies. M. Mattson, I. Basnyat, Infusing HIV Test Counseling Practice With Harm Reducation Theory: An Integrated Model for Voluntary Counseling and Testing. C.K. DiIorio, F. McCarty, E. Pluhar, Talking About HIV and AIDS: A Focus on Parent-Child Discussions. K. Resnicow, C. DiIorio, R. Davis, Culture and the Development of HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs. P. Palmgreen, S.M. Noar, R.S. Zimmerman, Mass Media Campaigns as a Tool for HIV Prevention. M.G. Kennedy, V. Beck, V.S. Freimuth, Entertainment Education and HIV Prevention. J.W. Dearing, D.K. Kim, The Agenda-Setting Process and HIV/AIDS. J.B. Scott, The Rhetoric of Science vs. Politics in U.S. HIV Testing and Prevention Policy. S.C. Kalichman, Health Literacy and AIDS Treatment and Prevention. S. Bull, Internet and Other Computer Technology-Based Interventions for STD/HIV Prevention. Part II: Intervention Exemplar Chapters. P.R. Appleby, C. Godoy, L.C. Miller, S.J. Read, Reducing Risky Sex Through the Use of Interactive Video Technology. S. Clayton, C.M. Daniel, A. Bowen, The Internet: Accessible and Affordable HIV Prevention for Rural MSM. R.J. DiClemente, N.D. Braxton, J.M. Sales, G.M. Wingood, Using Communication Strategies in an HIV-Prevention Curriculum to Enhance African-American Adolescents' Adoption of HIV-Preventive Behaviors. J. Hecht, Social and Sexual Networks at STOP AIDS Project: A New Strategy for Diffusing Messages. T. Hoff, J. Davis, M. James, Leveraging Entertainment Media to Communicate About AIDS: The Kaiser Family Foundation. J. Howson, K. Witte, "For People Like Us": Mobilizing Communities for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Support. C.A. Latkin, A.R. Knowlton, A Network Oriented HIV Prevention Intervention: The SHIELD Study. A.N. Miller, Faith and the A, B, Cs of HIV: The Approach of "I Choose Life-Africa." C.A. Redding, P.J. Morokoff, J.S. Rossi, K.S. Meier, A TTM-Tailored Condom Use Intervention for At-Risk Women and Men. J.L. Richardson, J. Milam, L. Espinoza, Partnership for Health Program Development: A Brief Safer Sex Intervention for HIV Outpatient Clinics. A.J. Roberto, K.E. Carlyle, Using Technology to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, STDs, and HIV.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on psychological and socio-economic factors and individual differences, The Psychology of Retirement follows the journey of today’s retirees, through planning and decision-making (or lack of it), expectations, early experiences, pleasures and disappointments.Table of Contents1. THE NEW RETIREMENT 2. THE JOURNEY: TRANSITIONING FROM WORKER TO RETIREE 3. FINANCIAL SECURITY OR FINANCIAL STRESS? 4. RETIREMENT, HEALTH AND WELLBEING 5. RENEGOTIATING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 6. RE-SHAPING IDENTITY IN RETIREMENT7. MAKING THE MOST OF RETIREMENTReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? The Psychology of Retirement looks at this life stage as a journey that involves challenges, opportunities, setbacks, periods of disenchantment and, often, exciting new beginnings. Taking a positive approach, the book explores how retirement provides opportunities to cultivate new friendships, interests and hobbies, consolidate and renegotiate long-held ones, and even re-invent oneself in a post-work environment. It also emphasizes the value of pre-retirement planning, and the importance of establishing new goals and purposes. Retirement can be a period of significant psychological growth and development and The Psychology of Retirement shows how it can herald the beginning of a vibrant and active stage of life.Table of Contents1. THE NEW RETIREMENT 2. THE JOURNEY: TRANSITIONING FROM WORKER TO RETIREE 3. FINANCIAL SECURITY OR FINANCIAL STRESS? 4. RETIREMENT, HEALTH AND WELLBEING 5. RENEGOTIATING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 6. RE-SHAPING IDENTITY IN RETIREMENT7. MAKING THE MOST OF RETIREMENTReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING***Make the Most of Every Single Day Uncertainty, instability, pressure, anxiety and now pandemic pandemonium . . . the world is hell bent on robbing us of our wellbeing. It's time to fight back. Twenty-Two Rules for Life that Just work It's time to ditch the tired, old wisdom, and take life into your own hands. We've all fallen for the mantra that 'you only live once,' but it's a big fat lie. The truth is that you get to live reallyLIVE every single day of your life. Based on the wisdom of Positive Psychology,How to be a WELL BEINGteaches you to: Strive toward your true potentialStop wasting time and start achievingFocus on what's truly importantRethink your thinkingFind meaning and fulfillmentUpgrade to YOU 2.0 It's time to raise your personal bar from mental health to mental WEALTH. 'Memento mori' remember death. No more messing around. No more wasting time. A new world calls for new rules. It's time to re-focus on what's most important and to take massive strides towards your true potential. 'I forget what came before sliced bread, but whatever it was, this is better than that.'Mylee from SwindonTable of ContentsThree Authors, One Voice xi A Note from the Authors xv A Quick Word About Rule Breaking xvii RULE #1 Life Isn’t Fair (But Then Again, Nobody Ever Said It Was) 1 RULE #2 Your Matter Matters 7 RULE #3 Celebrate! You’re a Lottery Winner 15 RULE #4 Regrets, You’ll Have a Few 21 RULE #5 It Pays to Know the Truth About Money and Happiness 29 RULE #6 Say ‘Thank You’ (It Really Is That Simple!) 41 RULE #7 It’s Okay to NOT Be Okay 49 RULE #8 Sleep Easy 55 RULE #9 It’s LOVE Actually 67 RULE #10 Listen to Understand, Not to Reply – Then Reply 75 RULE #11 Whichever God You Follow, Kindness is the Best Religion 83 RULE #12 Nudge the Machine 95 RULE #13 Your Happiness is Bigger Than You 103 RULE #14 Be More Dog 115 RULE #15 Your Smartphone is Making You Stupid 123 RULE #16 Ditch the Superhero Cliché 131 RULE #17 Work is for Schmucks 139 RULE #18 Act Your Shoe Size 151 RULE #19 Carry on Squeezing 159 RULE #20 Being Busy and Being Productive are Two Different Things 167 RULE #21 You are Made of Ordinary Magic 173 RULE #22 Quit Your ‘Wait Problem’ 183 Index 191

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Book SynopsisLessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for educational practice and policy in different contexts.Table of ContentsEditorial Navigating the Pandemic and Future Crises: Insights From Developmental and Educational Psychology Marko Luftenegger, Martin Daumiller, and Ingrid Schoon Review Articles How Did COVID-19 Affect Education and What Can Be Learned Moving Forward? A Systematic Meta-Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Martin Daumiller, Raven Rinas, Ingrid Schoon, and Marko Luftenegger Original Articles Comparison of Parent-Rated Teaching Activities During the First and Second School Lockdowns and Its Association With Students' Learning Outcomes During Distant Teaching Ricarda Steinmayr, Rebecca Lazarides, Linda Wirthwein, and Hanna Christiansen Changes in Teachers' Perceptions of School Quality During COVID-19: Findings From a Longitudinal Study Based on Propensity Score Balancing Christoph Helm and Stephan Gerhard Huber Navigating an Uncertain Future: How Schools Can Support Career Adaptability of Young People in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic Ingrid Schoon and Golo Henseke The Role of Basic Need Satisfaction for Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study Elisabeth Rosa Pelikan, Luisa Grutzmacher, Katharina Hager, Julia Holzer, Selma Korlat, Martin Mayerhofer, Barbara Schober, Christiane Spiel, and Marko Luftenegger

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Book SynopsisSociology of Mental Health, 4th Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the impact of social forces on mental health. Fully updated throughout, it features eleven new chapters on such topics as immigration, the work-family interface, and LGBTQ+ mental health. Part I addresses the central theoretical developments in the sociology of mental health. Part II examines the social context of mental health, including the social structures, statuses, and positions that affect mental health. Part III moves to the system level, focusing on the structural forces that shape mental health care. Each chapter is written by leading scholars who have defined our understanding of the relationship between mental health and society. This book is designed for mental health students, educators, researchers, and providers, serving as an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand mental health and mental health delivery systems.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe. It offers a range of theoretical and critical perspectives to provide contemporary insights into complex health issues that can offer ways to address inequitable patterns of illness and ill health. This collection, written by an international pool of expert academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, is unique in providing theoretical and critical analyses on key health topics, considering power and broader social structures that influence health and illness outcomes. The chapters are organised in three parts. The first covers medical contexts; here, chapters provide commentary and critical analysis of the history of medicine, medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, services and care, medical technology, diagnosis, screening, personalised medicine, and Table of ContentsEditors Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Critical perspectives on health and illness Part I. Medical Contexts 2. The social and cultural histories of medicine 3. Medicalisation 4. Pharmaceuticalisation: Origins, drivers and new directions 5. Governing medical technology 6. Health services and care: Political and affective economies 7. Diagnosis: A social and political phenomenon 8. Population-based screening for detection and prevention 9. Personalised medicine 10. Complementary and alternative medicine Part II. Life Contexts 11: Health inequality 12. Beyond binary categories: A contemporary gender studies perspective on health and illness 13. Sexual orientation and gender identity as determinants of health and illness 14. Reproductive justice: Revitalising critical reproductive health research 15. Ethnicity and health 16. Indigeneity and wellness: Critically understanding the health of Indigenous peoples and communities 17. Disability, technology and health 18. Health and illness among older people: What has age got to do with it? 19. Death, dying and end-of-life care Part III. Shifting Contextual Domains 20. Bioethics: Critical reflections and future directions 21. Digital health 22. Migration and health 23. Medical travel: Critical perspectives 24: Place in health, illness and health care 25. Commercialization: The role of unhealthy commodity industries 26. Towards a critical social science of climate change and health 27. Globalisation and health Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is counselling and how can it help? Does counselling work? How is counselling different from talking to my family and friends about my problems? The Psychology of Counselling explains the different approaches to therapy and how they are used in practice, giving information on what counselling can help with and what it cannot do. It looks at cognitive and behavioural therapies, psychoanalysis, and humanistic psychology, as well as exploring positive psychotherapy and the move away from a disease-based approach to counselling. It also reflects upon the broader landscape of therapeutic spaces and gives consideration to professional issues in counselling, such as ethics, supervision, and duty of care to clients.At a time when mental health and psychological well-being are central subjects of conversation in modern society, The Psychology of Counselling sheds light on the therapeutic process, what it involves, and how it works, to help all those seeking assistTable of Contents1. Counselling - past, present and future 2. Freud psychoanalysis reviewed and reconsidered 3. Humanistic psychology – a person-centred approach to counselling 4. Cognitive behavioural therapy 5. The promise of positive psychology 6. The healing space – a changing landscape 7. Research in counselling and psychotherapy 8. Professional issues in counselling and psychotherapy

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a holistic understanding of the state of health psychology in the Indian context and the types of psychological and social support and welfare that are offered and required within treatment processes for various illnesses. The book discusses why health care should be the prerogative of both the biomedical profession and health psychologists and how they work together with medical professionals to augment public health. It emphasises the shift from biomedical to biopsychosocial approach in strengthening health care outcomes. The book highlights the substantial contribution of health psychology to the Indian health care system through simple, cost-effective, indigenous, and standardised techniques that worked efficiently in the context of various diseases. It projects the emerging trends and innovative techniques in health psychology in handling challenging health care needs.This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of pTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesContributorsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I. Holistic Approach to Health Evidence-Based Health Care: Contributions of Health Psychology Meena Hariharan Health Communication as a Preface to Management of Non-Communicable Diseases Sunayana Swain Health and Well-being for all: Policy Perspectives in the Indian Context Ramya Chitrapu Implementation Research for Public Health and Preventive Health Care in India B.R.Shamanna Part II. Health and Wellbeing of Individual in Society Residential Crowding and Subjective Wellbeing: Mediating Role of Helplessness Surendra Kumar Sia and Neethu. P. S Health in the Culturally Changing Underdeveloped Adivasi Communities Purnima Awasthi, Madhurima Mukherjee and R. C. Mishra Smoking and Alcohol Consumption Among Type 2 Diabetics: Health Behaviour Model-Based Investigation Rajkumar E., Romate J., Lakshmi R., & Kruthika G.T. Part III. Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Diseases Psychological Necessities of Patients Electing Cardiac Bypass Surgery: A Review and Roadmap Marlyn Thomas Savio Illness Perception and Adherence Behaviour in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Arti Singh and Shikha Dixit Optimizing Hypertension Management: Children as Adherence Monitors for Adult Patients Sandra Roshni Monteiro Part IV. Psychosocial Factors in Diabetes Management Illness Perceptions and Quality of Life of Diabetic Patients: Role of Perceived Control of Internal States Meera Padhy and A. Sheila Kumari Valli Illness Perceptions and Diabetes Self- Management: A Mixed Method Approach Chelli Kavya Part V. Critical Care Needs and Psychological Support The Intensive Care Unit Experiences and Repercussions: Need for Psychosocial Care Usha Chivukula An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis:The Unmet Information and Supportive Care Needs of Cancer Patients Mahati Chittem, Matsungshila Pongener, Sravannthi Maya, and Shweta ChawakIndex

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Book SynopsisCompassion in healthcare is simultaneously a professional practice and a personal response to the suffering of strangers that is shaped by life experience and a shared evolutionary past. This foundational text draws on insights from Gilbertâs body of work on compassion and brings them together with research findings by experts in healthcare to explore the nature and function of compassion in this particular context.The particularities of empathy and compassion and the challenges of both practices are considered. The process of emotional co-regulation that has a practical basis rooted in communication is framed as key to the experience of compassion. Mindfulness is presented as a way of establishing an attuned self-awareness as the foundation for self-care as well as for states of healthy connection with patients and colleagues. The cognitive therapy model is introduced as one way of organising the salient features of compassionate practice Suggestions are made for cultivating compassion in health and social care at individual, team and organisational level.The book is essential reading for all healthcare workers, as well as students of medicine, nursing, the allied healthcare professions, psychology and healthcare management.

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Book SynopsisWhat emotional, physical, and psychological effects might there be on those who have experienced traumatic events? How does neurodiversity, culture, and individual experience affect trauma responses? How can you support someone experiencing symptoms of trauma?The Psychology of Trauma integrates the knowledge and research from clinical practice and neuroscience to offer a scientific approach to understanding and managing symptoms of trauma. It debunks the myths and prejudices around trauma-informed therapy, shifting people's view from What's wrong with you?' to What happened to you?', and provides an overview of the different concepts and counselling approaches that are most suitable to support working with trauma. It also explores how neurodiversity, cultural differences, or social contexts affect the way we respond to any trauma.Using a trauma-informed framework, The Psychology of Trauma explores how clinical understanding can help family and communi

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Book SynopsisWhy do some people choose to be vaccinated and others do not? What is the difference between vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccinism? What can social psychology tell us about attitudes towards vaccination?The Psychology of Vaccination identifies the social psychological drivers of vaccine mindsets, to explore why some people choose to be vaccinated, some are hesitant, and others refuse. It explores the socio-demographic factors related to vaccine hesitancy and considers the role of motivation in making this health decision. The book focuses on how individuals are social beings, inserted into a web of influences that guide their behaviour, and considers the impact this may have on their health choices.Not only aimed at the convinced, but also for all those who have doubts about vaccination, The Psychology of Vaccination offers an insightful look at our health behaviours and considers whether it is possible to affect health behaviour change.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering work focuses on positive psychology and wellbeing from a neuropsychological perspective. It bridges social, emotional and psychological principles to explore the burgeoning field of positive neuropsychology.Combining academic theory and clinical practice, it delves into foundational principles, assessments of neuro-cognitive health, evidence-based interventions, practical applications and real-life case studies, and the profound implications of positive neuropsychology in educational contexts. At the intersection between neuropsychology and positive psychology, this book advocates the recent shift toward recognizing the paramount importance of exploring the positive facets of neuropsychological functioning, rather than the historical focus of neuropsychology on ameliorating cognitive deficits and addressing neurological disorders.A must-read for academics, clinicians, and students in neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and positive psychology, this bo

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