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Oxford University Press ADHD
Book SynopsisRates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving diagnosis and medication. The disorder is painful and sometimes disabling for individuals and tremendously costly for society; yet, widespread misinformation, skepticism, and unanswered questions have jeopardized effective diagnosis and treatment. Researched and written by Stephen Hinshaw, an international expert on ADHD, and Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author, ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know is the go-to book for authoritative, current, accurate, and compelling information about the global ADHD epidemic. This book addresses questions such as: Is ADHD a genuine medical condition or a means of pathologizing active and exploratory behavior? Do medications for ADHD serve as needed treatments, or are they attempts at social control, designed to bolster profits of pharmaceutical firms? Has the ADHD label become a ruse by which parents can game the educational system for accommodations? How do symptoms and impairments related to ADHD differ between girls and women and boys and men? Why are ADHD medications often used as performance enhancers by college and high-school students? ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know clears the air of the most polarizing and misleading information that abounds, providing straight talk and sound guidelines for educators, policymakers, health professionals, parents, and the general public. It shows the reality of ADHD but does not ignore the forces that have pushed up rates of diagnosis to alarmingly high levels.Trade Review"This is an essential guide for people who suspect that they or a loved one might have ADHD. In clear, unbiased prose, it addresses the controversies surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of this disorder. It is written in a manner that is easily accessible without sacrificing the basic science important to understanding this condition." --Sanford Newmark, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Pediatric Integrative Neurodevelopmental Program, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UC San Francisco "Many trade books exist on ADHD but exceptionally few are written by expert clinical scientists who have spent their long careers both studying ADHD and working with families and patients with ADHD. And fewer still of those books are this current in harvesting the results of more than 1,000 science articles per year published on the disorder. This is one of those rare few. It contains extensive, useful information not only on the nature of the disorder and its causes and life course but, more importantly, on the best ways to manage the condition. Despite the richness of science-based information it contains, it reads easily. It is clearly a must-read for parents of children with the disorder, teachers who must educate them, and adults with ADHD." --Russell A. Barkley, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina "Well researched and unbiased, this book dispels the myths surrounding ADHD and the ADHD 'industrial complex.' Even better, it answers so many of the important questions adults have when they - or one or their children - is diagnosed with ADHD. It's easy to read, well organized, and based in the latest science. Definitely one of the best resources available today!" --Melissa Orlov, author of The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHDTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Part I: Facing the Facts ; Chapter 1: What is ADHD? And Why Does it Suddenly Seem to be Everywhere? ; Chapter 2: How Widespread Is It? ; Chapter 3: What Causes It? ; Chapter 4: How Do You Know If You Have It? ; Chapter 5: How Does ADHD Change Over the Lifespan? ; Chapter 6: How Much Does It Matter Who You Are and Where You Live? ; Part II: Taking Action ; Chapter 7: How Helpful-or Harmful-Is Medication? ; Chapter 8: How Helpful is Behavior Therapy, and What Kinds of Behavior Therapies Help the Most? ; Chapter 9: What Other Strategies May Be Helpful in Treating ADHD? ; Chapter 10: What Do You Need to Know About the "ADHD Industrial Complex"? ; Chapter 11: Conclusions and Recommendations ; Resources
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Oxford University Press, USA Shattered Nerves Doctors Patients and Depression in Victorian England
Book SynopsisJanet Oppenheim''s book explores an illness that figures in nearly every volume of Victorian autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters, and more than a few novels. Variously described as shattered nerves, nervous collapse, neurasthenia, or nervous breakdown, the illness was the focus of extensive medical discussion during the Victorian and Edwardian decades. Few doctors could decide whether nervous breakdown was a physiological disorder, to be cured by medication, or a moral weakness for which the patient needed psychiatric care.Oppenheim uses the letters, diaries, and autobiographies of men and women who suffered breakdowns, examines medical archives, published scientific sources, and contemporary fiction, in which the `nervous type'' was so familiar as to border on caricature. Shattered Nerves places a puzzling medical problem in its full social, cultural, and intellectual context.Trade Review`Throughout, this is a remarkeable example of traditional scholarly writing and publishing. No misprints, no theorizing; instead, plain English and knowledgable pragmatism ... must become the standard survey of its subject.' History`Professor Oppenheim writes with agreeable gusto. With a historian's skills she masters the intricacies of psychiatric thinking admirably ... serious, stimulating, and entertaining.' The Lancet'Janet Oppenheim is Professor of History at the American University, Washington, DC. She spent nigh on a decade writing this admirable book, which combines scholarship with wit and clarity of writing. This is a great source book for any who are interested in the origins of our ideas about depression. It illuminates the present, as it illuminates the past. I recommend it thoroughly.' Paul Bebbington, Insitute of Psychiatry, London, International Review of Psychiatry (1992)John Reddick has written a substantial and compelling book on Georg Büchner. John Reddick communicates his sense of wonder at Büchner's achievement, which he describes using terms applied to the plays of Molière - "une transcription physique". This is a good book, and long overdue. * Forum for Modern Language Studies. Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 '97 *
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the long overdue successor to Fromm and Nash''s Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field''s authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years. This new book is a comprehensive summary of where field has been, where it stands today, and its future directions. The volume''s lucid and engaging chapters on the scientific background to the field, fully live up to this uncompromising scholarly legacy. In addition, the scope of the book includes 17 clinical chapters which comprehensively describe how hypnosis is best used with patients across a spectrum of disorders and applied settings. Authored by the world''s leading practitioners these contributions are sophisticated, inspiring, and richly illustrated with case examples and session transcripts. For postgraduate students, researchers and clinicians, or anyone wanting to understand hypnosis as a form of treatment, this is the starting point. Unequalled in its Trade ReviewA comprehensive exploration of hypnosis split into four sections. * Matthew Whalley, Hypnosis Tools *Table of ContentsSECTION I: DOMAIN OF HYPNOSIS; SECTION II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; SECTION III: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH; SECTION IV: CLINICAL HYPNOSIS: TREATMENT AND CONSULTATION; A. MODELS OF CLINICAL INTERVENTION; B. METHODS OF CLINICAL INTERVENTION: TECHNIQUES AND CASES; C. EVIDENCE BASED OF CLINICAL INTERVENTION AND CONSULTATION
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anxiety Disorders Integrated Psychotherapy Approaches
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Selected Papers
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Taylor & Francis Out of This World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Parental Alienation and Factitious Disorder by Proxy Beyond DSM5 Interrelated Multidimensional Diagnoses
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders
Given the complexity of scientific developments inside and outside the psychoanalytic field, traditional definitions of basic psychoanalytic notions are no longer sufficiently comprehensive. We need conceptualizations that encompass new clinical phenomena observed in present-day patients and that take into account contributions inside, outside, and on the boundaries of our practice. This book discusses theoretical concepts which explain current clinical expressions that are as ineffable as they are commonplace. Our patients resort to these expressions when they feel distressed by their perception of themselves as unreal, empty, fragile, non-existent, non-desiring, doubtful about their identity, beset by feelings of futility and apathy, and emotionally numb. The book aims at contrasting the ideas of Winnicott and Kohut, which are connected with a clinical practice that sees each patient as unique and are moreover in direct contact with empirical facts, and
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare
Book SynopsisThis book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour - Perceptual Control Theory - can be applied to create mental health services that are more effective, efficient, and humane.Authored by clinicians, academics, and experts-by-experience, the text explores the way Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) principles can be applied within the secondary mental healthcare system â from the overall commissioning and design of services to the practice of individual clinicians. A range of topics relevant to the delivery of secondary mental healthcare are covered, including community and inpatient working, the delivery of individual psychological therapy, the use of restrictive practices, and working with relatives and carers. The book concludes by describing PCTâs unique contribution to the field of mental healthcare.The book, one of the first of its kind, will be of interest to students and practitioners from a range of health and social care backgrounds, as well as service managers, commissioners, academics, and policy makers. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Trade Review‘Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective provides a comprehensive deconstruction of the limitations of current mental healthcare design and delivery. Whilst the critiques in this book are stark, I don’t think any of the observations of current provision will be received as a blindside by practitioners. An achievement of the authors is that they have been able to synthesise, using the theoretical lens of Perceptual Control Theory, and write about, their collective experiences as clinicians and users of mental health services, without the undertone of blame or ressentiment that often (perhaps, understandably) characterises critiques of psychiatry. This should enable the radical yet practicable ideas and solutions to be confronted without moral injury to any individual or group who have a stake in the quality and safety of mental health services. The deficiencies in care and compassion that are outlined in the book are, after all, a product of systemic rather than individual failings (i.e., conceptualisations of mental distress that are impersonal and of questionable validity, the pervasive experience of being ‘too ill’ or ‘not ill enough’ to receive any or certain types of support, and arbitrary limits set on the duration and intensity of the support that is offered). The book’s fundamental proposition is that mental service design and delivery should be transformed via radical shifts in the ways that behaviour and distress are conceptualised. Namely, that behaviour is a product of efforts to control perceptual input, distress is a consequence of conflicting goals in the attainment of desired perceptual states, and that effective support should be characterised by the facilitated reorganisation of goal conflicts to reduce distress. It is, fundamentally, a profoundly optimistic text that everyone working in mental health should read.’Owen Price, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, University of Manchester.‘This text will – I suspect – force professional readers to question many assumptions they hold about the nature of psychological distress and its alleviation, whilst simultaneously striking service users as common sense. Rooted in PCT, the text has wide-ranging implications for the way services are designed and delivered, advocating for the allocation of control to service users wherever possible. Time will tell whether the proposals stand up to empirical testing and deliver on the promise of more effective and efficient care. Irrespective, the over-arching aims of the text are I believe commendable and much needed in the context of over-stretched services.’Marc Tibber, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University College London.‘A shroud of pessimism has long stymied secondary care mental health services. The people who use them have been viewed as passive recipients of their own care. In this brilliant book, Robert Griffiths and colleagues draw from Perceptual Control Theory to reimagine services that place people as central agents in their own recovery. People are driven by individual goals and are seen as controllers of their own perceptions. Given the right environment, people are capable of solving the inevitable conflicts that emerge when dealing with the complexity of their lives. The challenge then, is to create environments that allow people and families to creatively address these conflicts, in order to find their own solutions. This book provides a blueprint for services to do just that, and in doing so, moves secondary mental health care to a place of hope and optimism.’James Kelly, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Lancaster University; and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Greater Manchester Mental NHS Foundation Trust.‘This original and insightful text offers a fresh perspective on the organisation of mental health care and support. The recognition that control over aspects of one’s life, or lack of it, might be the most crucial consideration regarding disturbances to mental health is the pivotal touchstone for examining identified shortcomings of mental health services and pointing to solutions. The proposed remedies appear to have great promise in tackling the alienating features of contemporary services, offering a route to more democratic, relational, person-centred responses. Even if the suggested approach to redesign is not to be adopted wholesale, this book offers clear food for thought for practitioners, service users and families who are rightly concerned about the lack of choice within services overly reliant upon coercion rather than consent.’Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire.'Radical, practical and humane. This work deserves to be a seminal text in the field of secondary mental healthcare and required reading for students, practitioners and managers who wish to be a part of the solution, rather than the problem.'Nathan Filer, author of This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health and The Shock of the Fall‘As many mental health services seek to redefine how care is provided, this book gives a theoretically sound framework for coherent patient-perspective-care. Perceptual control theory is offered as a guiding model for mental health services and potentially for shaping communities and society. As a service model and an approach to psychological therapy, PCT gives us something properly new and inviting as an alternative. As a psychological therapy, Method of Levels is truly oriented to patients’ priorities, from the timing and duration of sessions to the moment-by-moment content. The book itself is a collaboration between those who have used mental health services and those who work in them. The superb writing in this book is made richer with the views and stories of patients.’Christopher Whiteley, Chief Psychologist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.‘This book succeeds in that all too rare a feat of being both an enjoyable read, alongside explaining some important ideas in easily digestible form. As a clinical psychologist within the NHS who, in addition to delivering psychological therapy, is also involved in service evaluation, design, and management, there are many lessons contained within these pages for me to consider. As a parent of two feisty children, the lessons the book has taught me about control, conflict and reorganisation have also contributed towards me upping my game on the parenting front. So, if you want to improve your standard of therapy, or survive and thrive within services, which we all know have a long way to go, or if you want a solid strategy to remain present and compassionate alongside feisty family or friends of your own, then give yourself the chance to enjoy this book like I did.’John Mulligan, Lead Clinical Psychologist, Manchester Early Intervention Service, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.“This is the most important and exciting book I’ve read in a long time. It explains in everyday language recent developments in psychological science which have profound implications, and the potential completely to transform mental health services. The principles it sets out are revolutionary, but also simple – and liberating for both clinicians and those experiencing mental health problems. The book is supremely practical too, and full of stories that inspire.”Anne Cooke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing an Approach to Secondary Mental Healthcare that is Informed by Perceptual Control Theory PrinciplesChapter 2: A Perceptual Control Theory Account of Mental Health, Psychological Distress, and WellbeingChapter 3: Using Perceptual Control Theory Principles to Improve Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 4: Individual Psychological Therapy: The Method of LevelsChapter 5: Adopting Perceptual Control Theory Principles in Mental Health Inpatient Settings and other Restrictive ContextsChapter 6: Towards a Perceptual Control Theory-Informed Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 7: Working with Relatives and Carers of People Using Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 8: Perceptual Control Theory as a Unique Biopsychological Approach to Secondary Mental Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Biological Basis of Mental Health
Book SynopsisThis book explores the underlying biology and neuroscience associated with mental health and wellbeing. Table of Contents1.Introduction to the brain. 2.Brain development 3.Neural communication 4.Neurotransmitters and receptors 5.The brain-body connection: Gut microbiota, immunity and brain gender. 6.Hormones 7.Behaviour 8.Genetics I: Introduction and Autosomes 9.Genetics II: Sex chromosomes and gene disorders. 10.Pharmacology 11.Illicit substance use disorders 12.Common substance misuse 13.Emotions 14.Stress, anxiety and fear. 15.Schizophrenia 16.Antipsychotic drugs 17.Affective disorders 18.Antidepressant drugs 19.Epilepsy 20.Subcortical degenerative disorders of the brain 21.Memory and learning 22.The ageing brain and dementia 23.Communication and developmental disorders 24.Sleep
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Biological Basis of Mental Health
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