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Lutterworth Press Psychology A Complete GCSE Course
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Penguin Putnam Inc Heres a Brilliant Idea
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Vintage Canada When She Was Bad How and Why Women Get Away with
Book SynopsisWinner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime BookFrom award-winning author and journalist Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad questions our understanding of violent women.Why do some women murder their children? Why do others team up with men in ghoulish killing sprees? What motivates the female serial killer? When She Was Bad explores the enigmatic heart of female darkness, drawing into focus such fascinating characters as Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house in Sacramento; Mary Beth Tinning, who killed eight of her children in upstate New York; Karla Homolka, who joined forces with Paul Bernardo to abduct, rape and murder school girls in southern Ontario; and Karla Faye Tucker, the born-again Christian who was executed in Texas for having killed two people with a pickax. In this provocative book, Patricia Pearson explores women'
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Basic Books Mans Search For Ultimate Meaning
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DK Whats My Cat Thinking
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered why your cats behave the way they do? This authoritative guide has all the answers! Cats are weird, and sometimes their behavior can leave you scratching your head. Discover what’s really behind those things cats do – whether they’re amusing, irritating or just downright bizarre.What’s My Cat Thinking will help cat lovers unlock the secret code of cats for a deeper connection with the feline in your life. Inside, you’ll find: • Accurate descriptions of behavior will help you understand your cat’s body language nuances and act accordingly. • Covers a range of breeds. • A fun book for cat people that delivers practical, helpful advice from acknowledged experts on a range of tricky or puzzling cat behaviors. Have you ever wondered why your cat sleeps on your keyboard, why
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DK ADHD Explained
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Kensington Publishing Just Get Me Through This Revised And Updated A
Book SynopsisYou Can Get Through ThisYour doctor told you it was breast cancer. So now what?! You'll need plenty of essential advice--the kind that only comes from someone who's been there.In Just Get Me Through This! Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Gelfand, M.D. help you deal with all the ups and downs of the breast cancer experience. From the shock of diagnosis to getting through treatment to getting on with your life, they pack it with plenty of straight talk and practical tips. This newly updated edition also includes advice from two prominent breast cancer surgeons.Discover:The latest data on hormonal treatments How cornstarch can help you breeze through radiationWhy a calendar can help you get through chemotherapyInformation on the latest drugs used as part of chemotherapyHow to ease back into an intimate relationship Who might be your best ally when you're feeling blue The surefire way to beat
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Gaining Archetypal Vision
Book SynopsisGaining the ability to see the archetypes in everyday living is a spiritual journey, a pilgrimage to your authentic self. It is a journey of unfolding wisdom leading to increased awareness as you deepen your healing skills and trust your intuition in your personal and professional lives. Because intuitive healing must first be well grounded in established theory and practical advice, you will learn to integrate transpersonal psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy to observe and use archetypal information. This will expand your awareness of how disease and health manifest at symbolic and energetic levels. The tools readers will utilize are visualization, guided imagery, meditation, art expression, journaling, and more. Throughout this book, there are dozens of simple exercises to help you develop an archetypal vision. There are powerful energies behind the magic of the healing arts and understanding them can help you heal.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Haunted Asylums
Book SynopsisGo behind the barbed wire and explore the many sanitariums or asylums that were intended to help the mentally ill but only contributed to their afflictions. Learn the history behind the infamous Riverside patient Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary. Get spooked by the gothic and foreboding buildings at Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, which became both the inspiration and the filming location for the movie Session 9, and Oregon State Hospital, where Jack Nicholson''s famous One Flew Over the Coco''s Nest was filmed. Today, these abandoned state institutions have been converted into other uses or remain in shambles, but the ghosts of their pasts linger. The author, also known by the pen name Corvis Nocturnum, explores these reputedly haunted asylums and others all the world over. Join himif you dare.
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Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming
Book SynopsisDescribes how one thinks and works as an analyst; how to increase the capacity to feel in a visceral way in the alive moments of a session; and how, through close attention to the nuances of language, gestures, and actions, to grasp the intersubjective construction the patient and therapist are creating.Trade ReviewNot since Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment have I read a book through at a single sitting—and that was 35 years ago. I did so again, when I first came across Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming. That being so, I readily agreed to review the book. Now that it is time to do so, however, I realize how rash an offer that was, for the thrill and immediacy of the experience of Ogden's thinking make it extraordinarily hard to write about his thinking. Ogden's evocative, ebullient, and idiosyncratic way of putting things, on his lively capacity to draw almost-thoughts up towards the light, to address such elusive and profound matters as creativity, meaning, and unconscious communication. This is not a way of thinking and writing that can easily be paraphrased by a reviewer. * Journal Of Child Psychotherapy *
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Ordinary Resurrections Children in the Years of
Book Synopsis Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Resurrections gives a human face to poverty and racial isolation, and provides a stirring testimony to the courage and resilience of the young. Sometimes playful, sometimes jubilantly funny, and sometimes profoundly sad, these are sensitive children—complex and morally insightful—and their ethical vitality denounces and subverts the racially charged labels that the world of grown-up expertise too frequently assigns to them. Yet another classic case of unblinking social observation from one of the finest writers ever to work in the genre, this is a piercing discernment of right and wrong, of hope and despair—from our n
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Currency Before Happiness
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This fresh, uplifting book is filled with ideas for improving our organizations and our lives.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife“With his characteristic blend of academic rigor and twinkle in the eye, Shawn Achor will change your view of happiness, of reality—and of yourself.”—Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Bittersweet Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. Before Happiness is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive: • The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus • Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world• The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing ten pounds• Noise-Canceling: Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss• Positive Inception: Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you By mastering these strategies, you’ll create a renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.
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Hyperion The Unexpected Legacy Of Divorce
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Fleming H. Revell Company Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love Daily
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Baker Publishing Group So Much to Live for
Book SynopsisThis practical guide for parents, family members, friends, or anyone concerned about a loved one who may be considering suicide uses real-life stories, proven advice, and helpful steps readers can take to be effective suicide prevention advocates.
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Johns Hopkins University Press ADHD in Adulthood A Guide to Current Theory
Book SynopsisDescriptions of all the primary approaches to treatment-medication, psychological therapies, and environmental restructuring-include vivid case examples.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and authoritative text on the subject of [ADHD in adulthood] that combines a scholarly command of the literature and the extensive clinical experience of the authors into a masterful synthesis of the current state of knowledge. The book will be invaluable for both clinicians and researchers. American Journal of Psychiatry A sensible book, well referenced and up-to-date, it should be on the shelf of any clinic that sees adults with self-regulatory disorders. Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review The three authors have extensive experience treating both children and adults with ADHD. Although this textbook discusses problems and issues relating to adult patients, it will help anyone to understand the full scope of the disorder. This is an excellent textbook for understanding ADHD both in childhood and in adult life and, thus, it should be useful to both the pediatrician and the family practitioner. Pediatric and Child Health This volume will serve as an excellent introduction to the topic for those who find themselves consulted increasingly by patients themselves or by their physicins, as awareness of the persistence of ADHD into adulthood continues to burgeon. It is worthwhile reading for any clinician with an interest in human behavior. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences This book, the first on adult ADHD for professionals since 1995, is an excellent resource... [it] provides comprehensive, accessible information both for clinicians and for informed lay persons. Bulletin of the Menninger ClinicTable of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 ADHD in Adulthood: An Introduction CHAPTER 2 The Assessment CHAPTER 3 ADHD and Other Disorders: Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidity CHAPTER 4 Difficult Diagnoses CHAPTER 5 The Psychoeducational Approach CHAPTER 6 Medication for ADHD CHAPTER 7 Medication for ADHD with Comorbid Conditions CHAPTER 8 Psychological Therapies CHAPTER 9 Environmental Restructuring: School and Work CHAPTER 10 ADHD in the Family and in the Community CHAPTER 11 Living with ADHD: A Family Looks at Itself CHAPTER 12 Future Directions, Future Challenges APPENDIX 1 Adult Self-Report Inventory-4 APPENDIX 2 Adult Inventory-4 APPENDIX 3 Domains of Impairment Summary Form Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Concepts of Alzheimer Disease Biological Clinical
Book SynopsisEssays examine not only the prominent role that biomedical and clinical researchers have played in defining Alzheimer disease, but the ways in which the perspectives of patients, their caregivers, and the broader public have shaped concepts.Trade ReviewThe first sentence of this excellent book sums up both its content and the reason one should read it: 'it is ironic that the professional and popular discourse surrounding Alzheimer disease (AD), whose most dreadful feature is the obliteration of memory, proceeds with little awareness of its past.' And if Santayana's often-quoted statement about those who cannot remember the past is true, what does this mean for studies of dementia? This book attempts to answer the question and does so very successfully. -- A. M. Clarfield, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine This book will be an inspiration of greatest interest to anyone engaged in biological or social research in AD. Clinical Gerontologist This is an excellent book, both for the newcomer to the study of Alzheimer disease and to the seasoned reader and clinician. -- A. MacDonald Aging and Mental Health White has written the go-to or standard account of the Haitian Revolution's impact on the United States. Even more important, she has done so in a way that opens up rather than closes off new avenues of exploration. -- Matthew Hale H-Net Reviews 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsPart I: The Cases of Auguste D. And Johann F.Chapter 1. Auguste D.: The History of Alois Alzheimer's First CaseChapter 2. Johann F.: The Historical Relevance of the Case for the Concept of Alzheimer DiseasePart II: From Alzheimer to the Present Chapter 3. Neurofibrillary Changes: The Hallmark of Alzheimer DiseaseChapter 4. Contributions of German Neuroscience to the Concept of Alzheimer DiseaseChapter 5. Beyond the Characteristic Plaques and Tangles: Mid-Twentieth-Century U.S. Psychiatry and the Fight Against Senility Chapter 6. The Rediscover of Alzheimer Disease During the 1960s and 1970sChapter 7. The History of the Genetics of Alzheimer DiseasePart III: Alzheimer Disease as a Social and Cultural EntityChapter 8. Alzheimer Disease: Epistemological Lessons From History?Chapter 9. Aging, Culture, and the Framing of Alzheimer DiseaseChapter 10. Narrative Practice and the Inner World of the Alzheimer Disease ExperiencePart IV: Politics, Policy, and the Perspectives of the Caregiver and PatientChapter 11. The Role of the Concept of Alzheimer Disease in the Development of the Alzheimer's Association in the United StatesChapter 12. The History of the Alzheimer's Association: Future Public Policy Implications Chapter 13. The Concept of Alzheimer Disease in a Hypercognitive SocietyPart V: Progress and Its ProblemsChapter 14. Alzheimer Disease and the New BiologyChapter 15. The Genetics of Alzheimer Disease: Some Future ImplicationsChapter 16. History and the Future of Alzheimer DiseaseIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press History of Suicide
Book SynopsisMinois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history-the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.Trade ReviewThis book, lucidly translated, makes compulsive reading. -- Roy Porter The Times of London Minois's book follows the religious, philosophical, literary, and judicial debate for and against self-murder from antiquity to the end of the Enlightenment, demonstrating the close connection between political power, religious authority, social status, and the freedom to die... Minois's study is detailed and thorough... Gory anecdotes and effective reference to overarching intellectual trends make the book edifying and morbidly enjoyable. Kirkus Reviews Minois... has provided a timely chronicle tracing the evolution of societal attitudes toward suicide... Minois writes in an unadorned, concise prose that aids him in treating a serious subject in a serious manner. Although his own convictions on the issue are clear, Minois treats both sides of our current debate with objectivity, understanding, and compassion. Booklist The History of suicide has come of age. After a century of sociological inquiry, historians over the last decade have now embraced this all-too-human act and have produced remarkable results. -- D. J. A. Matthew American Historical Review Minois has succeeded in pulling together a wide range of materials, and in reminding us how elite attitudes to suicide shifted, and that those shifts may well serve as pointers to some more general developments in the intellectual history of Europe. -- J. A. Sharpe Journal of Early Modern History A broad and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities of suicide. Continually reminding us that the legalities and theoretical discussions of suicide often do not coincide with the reality of suicide, Minois focuses his discussion around Hamlet's famous question, 'to be or not to be,' and this proves to be an effective way to organize and present the large and dense amount of material... This book provides a useful and impressive collection of data and an absorbing discussion of attitudes toward voluntary death. -- Elise P. Garrison Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Tradition: A Repressed Question Chapter 1: Suicide in the Middle Ages: Nuances Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Middle Ages: Between Madness and Despair Chapter 3: The Classical Heritage: Perfecting the Timely Exit Part II: The Renaissance: A Question Raised, Then Stifled Chapter 4: The Early Renaissance: Rediscovery of the Enigma of Suicide Chapter 5: To Be or Not To Be: The First Crisis of Conscience in Europe Chapter 6: The Seventeenth Century: Reaction and Repression Chapter 7: Substitutes for Suicide in the Seventeenth Century Part III: The Enlightenment: Suicide Updated and Guilt-Free Chapter 8: The Birth of the English Malady, 1680-1720 Chapter 9: The Debate on Suicide in the Enlightenment: From Morality to Medicine Chapter 10: The Elite: From Philosophical Suicide to Romantic Suicide Chapter 11: The Common People: The Persistence of Ordinary Suicide Epilogue: From the French Revolution to the Twentieth Century, or, From Free Debate to Silence
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Johns Hopkins University Press Psychotherapy An Introduction for Psychiatry
Book SynopsisSlavney draws on his long experience as a psychotherapist and teacher of psychotherapy in a confidence-building book that is both practical and scholarly.Trade ReviewWritten in an engaging, informal style, and is replete with the sorts of examples that can only come from an extended period of experience. -- Tony O'Brien Mental Health Net 2005 A helpful book and one that has a place as a first volume for residents beginning to practise psychotherapy. -- Laura Stovel Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2006 The writing style is easy and conversational... will appeal to students for its ability to address their fears and to instructors and supervisors, because it contains a number of conversations worth having with students of psychotherapy. -- Caroline Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Psychiatric Services 2006Table of ContentsForeword, by Jerome L. Kroll, M.D.Preface and Acknowledgments1. Life-Story Reasoning2. Personality: The Patient's and Yours3. The Psychotherapeutic Relationship4. Psychotherapy SupervisionEpilogueReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Book SynopsisThe Treatment of Opioid Dependence will be a valuable resource for methadone counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses, and addiction counselors, as well as physicians interested in office-based buprenorphine treatment.Trade ReviewThe clinical expertise of the authors is reflected in the detailed, yet highly practical, information presented. -- Robert C. Wolf Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2006 Incredibly thorough and well organized... the first resource to refer to for anyone with any questions or interest in the treatment of opioid dependence. -- Steve C. Lee Doody's Book Review Service 2006 This book is a mine of information and is extensively referenced... the single best book I have read on the treatment of opioid dependence and I have no hesitation in recommending it. -- Michael J. A. K. Kelleher British Journal of Psychiatry 2006 A most welcome update of the 1999, Methadone Treatment of Opioid Dependence. -- Robert Maslansky Journal of Addictive Diseases 2006 This well-written, easy-to-read book, with an unassuming title, is truly a tour-de-force. Analogous to the porridge in the Goldilocks story, it is neither too little nor too much, but just right! -- Mark J. Albanese, M.D. American Journal on Addictions 2007Table of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsPart I: Overview of Opioid DependenceChapter 1. Introduction and Historical OverviewChapter 2. Regulatory, Cost, and Policy IssuesChapter 3. Epidemiology of Opioid Use, Abuse, and DependencePart II: Methadone Treatment for Opioid DependenceChapter 4. Pharmacology of MethadoneChapter 5. Beginning and Ending Methadone Dosing: Induction and WithdrawalChapter 6. Methadone Dose during Maintenance TreatmentChapter 7. Counseling and Psychosocial ServicesChapter 8. Contingency Management TherapiesChapter 9. Practical Issues of Program Organization and OperationPart III: Other Medication ApproachesChapter 10. Pharmacology of BuprenorphineChapter 11. Clinical Use of BuprenorphineChapter 12. Office-Based Treatment with Buprenorphine and Other MedicationsChapter 13. Pharmacology and Clinical Use of LAAM, Clonidine, and LofexidineChapter 14. Pharmacology and Clinical Use of NaltrexonePart IV: Other Treatment ApproachesChapter 15. Medication-Free Treatment of Opioid DependenceChapter 16. Medically Supervised Withdrawal as Stand-Alone TreatmentPart V: Comorbidities in Opioid DependenceChapter 17. Other Substance Use Disorders: Prevalence, Consequences, Detection, and ManagementChapter 18. Comorbid Medical DisordersChapter 19. Comorbid Psychiatric DisordersPart VI: Special Treatment IssuesChapter 20. Specialty Treatment for WomenChapter 21. Treatment of Persons under Legal RestrictionsChapter 22. Treatment of AdolescentsChapter 23. Prescription Opioid Nonmedical Use and AbuseChapter 24. Pain Management in Addicted PatientsIndex
£35.77
Johns Hopkins University Press Supporting the Caregiver in Dementia A Guide for
Book SynopsisThis volume offers health professionals insights into the daily lives of caregivers, along with tools to provide their patients with the support they need.Trade ReviewWill directly benefit both researchers and practitioners committed to dementia care and support. -- Nina M. Silverstein Ageing and Society 2007 This compact volume provides an invaluable resource for professionals in the field. -- Elizabeth Beattie Research and Theory for Nursing Practice 2007 This work should be on the bookshelf of any clinician serving caregivers and persons with dementia. -- James J. Callahan Gerontologist 2007Table of ContentsPrefaceList of Contributors Part I: IntroductionChapter 1. The History of Caregiving in DementiaPart II: Individual Aspects of CaregivingChapter 2. The Caregiver in DementiaChapter 3. From Home to Nursing Home: A Continuum of Care for Persons with DementiaChapter 4. Caregiver BurdenPart III: Interpersonal Aspects of CaregivingChapter 5. The Affective Interpersonal Bond in CaregivingChapter 6. Religious Participation and Caregiving: A Psychodynamic PerspectiveChapter 7. Caregiving and the Sexual Relationship in DementiaChapter 8. Grief and Loss in DementiaPart IV: Implications for Treatment: The Multidisciplinary ApproachChapter 9. The Role of Pharmacotherapy for Dementia Patients with Behavioral DisturbancesChapter 10. Care of the Caregiver: Individual and Family InterventionsChapter 11. Social Supports for the CaregiverPart V: Societal Issues of CaregivingChapter 12. Health Care Policies and CaregiversChapter 13. Ethnic Elders and CaregivingChapter 14. The Ethics of Dementia CaregivingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Better But Not Well
Book SynopsisTo fill this void, Frank and Glied suggest that institutional resources be applied systematically and routinely to examine and address how federal and state programs affect the well-being of people with mental illness.Trade ReviewOffers many insights beneficial to the informed reader. -- David Mechanic New England Journal of Medicine 2006 The authors are true to their word in providing an excellent overview of changes in the last 50 years. They provide compelling evidence that the condition of many, if not most, persons with mental illness has improved during that period. JAMA 2007 Will be of greatest interest to students of mental health economics, services, and policy, but clinicians interested in the relationship between health policy and everyday practice will also find it useful. -- Burton V. Reifler International Psychogeriatrics 2007 Provides a necessary counterpart to much overenthusiastic optimism surrounding recent development in psychopharmacology and the neurosciences. -- Bonnie Evans Journal of Mental Health 2008 Offers a fascinating... historical analysis of mental health policy. -- Ellen Dwyer History of Psychiatry 2008 Should be assigned to every practitioner, mental health clinician, administrator, and advocate - as well as every legislator and policy maker - concerned with the status of Americans with serious mental illness. -- William Fisher Psychiatric Services 2007 If one... has time to read one book on mental health policy this year, this should be the one. -- Roger Meyer Health Affairs 2007 A comprehensive assessment of changes in the life conditions and well-being of persons with serious mental illnesses over the past five decades. -- Janet R. Nelson Clergy Journal 2008 A well-written and important work that provides a definitive look at the past and a glimpse into the future of mental health policy in America. -- Kathleen Brown RN, MSN, PhD Nursing History Review 2009Table of ContentsForewordPreface1. Introduction2. The Population with Mental Illness3. The Evolving Technology of Mental Health Care4. Health Care Financing and Income Support5. The Supply of Mental Health Services6. Policy Making in Mental Health: Integration, Mainstreaming, and Shifting Institutions7. Assessing the Well-being of People with Mental Illness8. Looking Forward: Improving the Well-being of People with Mental IllnessNotesReferencesIndex
£30.91
Johns Hopkins University Press Mania A Short History of Bipolar Disorder Johns
Book SynopsisDrawing heavily on primary sources and supplemented with interviews and insight gained over Healy's long career, this lucid and engaging overview of mania sheds new light on one of humankind's most vexing ailments.Trade ReviewIf David Healy's intent is to present a cohesive, thorough, integrated and provocative account of the history of the concept of mania and the evolution of what is currently called bipolar disorder, he is tremendously successful. PsycCRITIQUES 2009 Healy reminds us that we need to ask ourselves what it means to be ill and what it means to be well. -- Garan Holcombe California Literary Review 2008 A learned and polemical volume in the series Biographies of Disease published by the Johns Hopkins University Press... Healy is an intellectual bomb-thrower, a most erudite and clever doctor with an anarchic streak that he cannot quite reconcile with disinterested historical inquiry. He is interesting precisely for the subtle detonations that he sets off in the reader's mind, rattling the received ideas too comfortably ensconced there. -- Algis Valiunas New Atlantis 2009 A powerful political tract. As social history it provides the most detailed available account of the interactions of psychiatry and the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009 Provides a probing and challenging commentary on the state of contemporary psychiatry. -- Allan Beveridge British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 David Healy is indeed an enfant terrible-and a very brave man. I doubt he is on Eli Lilly's or Pfizer's Christmas card list. Times Literary Supplement Mania is a work that deserves a wide readership. -- Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Well-written and compelling... I encourage you to read this exceptional book. -- Tom Olson, PhD Nursing History Review 2010 The book is a scholarly one [and] Healy's wide knowledge of the facts of the history is impressive. -- Paul Skerritt Health and History 2009 [Healy's] work has enriched our historiographic discourse enormously and social historians of medicine can only greet that as good news. -- Eric J. Engstrom Social History of Medicine 2009 How did we come to apply such a serious diagnosis to vaguely depressed or irritable adults, to unruly children and to nursing home residents? Is it simply that psychiatric science has progressed and now allows us to detect more easily an illness that had previously been ignored or misunderstood? Healy has another, more cynical explanation: the never-ending expansion of the category of bipolar disorder benefits large pharmaceutical companies eager to sell medications marketed with the disorder in mind. -- Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen London Review of Books 2010Table of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. RosenbergPreface: Stories about ManiaAcknowledgments1. Frenzy and Stupor2. Circling the Brain3. Circular Madness4. The Stone of Madness5. The Eclipse of Manic-Depressive Disorder6. Branded in the USA7. The Latest Mania8. The Engineers of Human SoulsCoda: The Once and Future LaboratoryNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Poets on Prozac Mental Illness Treatment and the
Book SynopsisShatters the notion that madness fuels creativity. This work features sixteen essays that address questions such as: Does emotional distress inspire great work? Is artistry enhanced or diminished by mental illness? What effect does substance abuse have on esthetic vision? Do psychoactive medications impinge on ingenuity?Trade ReviewA fascinating collection of 16 essays, as insightful as they are compulsively readable. Publishers Weekly (starred review) 2008 All agree that the sick brain often spells catastrophe for the creative mind. New York Times 2008 The book shows that good poets also write vigorous, engaging prose. Richard Berlin has done a marvelous job of showing us how ordinary poets are; the selected poets have shown us that mental illness shares with other experiences a capacity to reveal our humanity. Metapsychology 2008 At once instructive and poignant, Poets on Prozac constitutes an important addition to the literature on creativity and mental illness... An illuminating read both for mental health professionals who work with creative people and for artists who are contemplating treatment options. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 This book belongs on the shelves of all therapists who treat women and men who immerse themselves in creative writing or any other fine art. Dr. Berlin's pithy introduction provides a useful summary of the relationship between creativity and emotional disorder. The 16 essays and the poetic excerpts that bolster them share the virtues of being heartfelt, accessible, and brief. They can be read by highly literate women and men, even those in the midst of an emotional maelstrom. American Journal of Psychiatry 2008 Each essayist (and the book as a whole) certainly has an audience, most faithfully in poets. -- Roxanna Font Bellevue Literary Review 2008 This collection of brilliant essays does not resolve the relative contribution that medication (ranging from SSRIs to orthomolecular treatment) makes to the resolution of a creative person's fallow periods and blocks. Like the creative process itself, the picture that emerges is idiosyncratic and, perhaps, understood better as an appreciation than as analysis. Choice The book's claim to uniqueness lies chiefly in the character of the authors and the poetry with which they express their feelings. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009 In providing these poets with a voice in prose, Richard M. Berlin, himself both a healer and an artist, provides telling insights into both mental illness and the creative process. -- Harvey Fenigsohn Lamar Soutter Library Book Reviews 2008 Endlessly fascinating. -- Brooke Allen Hudson Review 2008 This collection of essays would be particularly useful to psychiatrists who have patients from the creative world of literature but I believe also from music, fine art or theatre. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 Through the words of poets, this book celebrates the idea that health is not an end point-and that healing is a lifelong process. -- Dagan Coppock, MD Psychiatric Times 2009Table of ContentsList of Contributors AcknowledgmentsIntroductions, Richard M. Berlin1. Dark Gifts, Gwyneth Lewis2. The Desire to Think Clearly, J. D. Smith3. A Crab, an Eggplant, a Tree, a Goldfish, a Cow, an Apple, a Candle: A Therapist, Demise Duhamel4. Perfecting the Art of Falling, Thoman Krampf5. My Name Is Not Alice, Ren Powell6. My Oldest Voice, Jesse Millner7. How I Learned to Count to Four and LIve with the Ghosts of Animals, Vanessa Haley8. The Uses of Depression: The Way Around Is Through, David Budbill9. In the Middle of Life's Journety, Jack Coulehan10. Basic Heart: Depression and the Ordinary, Renee Ashley11. Food for Thought, Caterina Eppolito12. From Bog to Crystal, Barbara F. Lefcowitz13. In the Country of Motherhood, Martha Silano14. Down the Tracks: Bruce Springsteen Sang to Me, Liza Porter15. Chemical Zen, Andrew Hudgins16. Psychopharmacology and Its Discontents, Chase TwichellAbout the EditorPermissions
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Social Behavior of Older Animals
Book SynopsisAt once instructive and compelling, this theme-spanning book reveals the complex nature of maturity in scores of social species and shows that animal behavior often displays the same diversity we find in ourselves.Trade ReviewI feel grateful to Dagg for trying to bring the strands of a relatively unknown literature together. PsycCRITIQUES 2009 Dagg's book should be a corrective to us all; species that lose or ignore the contributions of their older members do so at their peril. Literary Review of Canada 2009 Humans and chimps, it turns out, value age in sexual partners very differently. In our species youth is prized, but among chimps the reverse is the case. -- Tim Flannery New York Review of Books 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Evolutionary Matters2. Sociality, Media, and Variability3. The Wisdom of Elders4. Leaders5. Teaching and Learning6. Reproduction7. Successful Subordinates8. The Fall of Titans9. Aging of Captive Alphas10. Happy Families11. Mothering—Good and Not So Good12. Grandmothers13. Sexy Seniors14. Their Own Person15. Adapting and Not Adapting16. All Passion Spent17. The Inevitable EndNotesReferencesIndex
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Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. The Highly Sensitive Man
Book SynopsisA timely and ground-breaking guide to nurturing sensitivity in men.
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Beacon Press Mind over Monsters
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the mental health crisis affecting young adults today, and an impassioned argument for creating learning environments characterized both by compassion and challengeAlarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth. To identify solutions, psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews a roster of experts across the country who are dedicating their lives to working with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds.Cavanagh also brings the reader on an invigorating tour of pedagogical, neuroscientific, and psychological research on mental health—one that involves her own personal journey from panic to equilibrium.The result of these combined sources of inquiry indicates that to support youth mental health, we must create what Cavanagh calls compassiona
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Beacon Press Living While Black
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Beacon Press The Stars in Our Pockets Getting Lost and
Book SynopsisWhat shapes our sense of place, our sense of time, and our memory? How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves?Our screens offer us connection, especially now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are certain depths of connection our screens can’t offer—to ourselves, to the natural world, and to each other. In this personal exploration of digital life’s impact on how we see the world, Howard Axelrod marshals science, philosophy, art criticism, pop culture, and his own experience of returning from two years of living in solitude in northern Vermont. The Stars in Our Pockets is a timely reminder of the world around us and the worlds within us—and how, as alienated as we may sometimes feel, they were made for each other.
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Beacon Press Living While Black
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Random House USA Inc The Lucifer Effect
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Random House USA Inc Reconcilable Differences Connecting in a
Book SynopsisA remarkable new way to move beyond biases and blind spots (especially if you don’t think you have any!) so you can communicate more effectively with a friend, lover, relative, or colleague You know what it feels like to be “at odds” with someone. Sometimes it seems like you are speaking completely different languages. Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Dawna Markova and communication expert Angie McArthur have spent years developing and implementing tools to help people find common ground. In Reconcilable Differences, they provide the strategies you need to bridge the gap at the heart of your differences with others. Each of us possesses rational intelligence: the capacity to divide information into discrete categories, processes, and logical steps. But you may not realize that the secret to building bridges between people lies hidden in your relational intelligence: the way you communicate, understand, learn, and trust.
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John Wiley & Sons Red and Yellow Black and Brown Decentering
Book SynopsisThis book gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. Chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political issues and identities for people who are in dual or multiple minority situations. Trade Review"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: About Mixed Race, Not About WhitenessPaul Spickard, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Joanne L. Rondilla Part I Identity JourneysChapter 2 Rising Sun, Rising Soul: On Mixed Race Asian Identity That Includes BlacknessVelina Hasu HoustonChapter 3 BlackapinaJanet C. Mendoza Stickmon Part II Multiple Minority Marriage and ParentingChapter 4 Intermarriage and the Making of a Multicultural Society in the Baja California BorderlandsVerónica Castillo-MuñozChapter 5 Cross-Racial Minority Intermarriage: Mutual Marginalization and CritiqueJessica Vasquez-TokosChapter 6 Parental Racial Socialization: A Glimpse into the Racial Socialization Process as It Occurs in a Dual-Minority Multiracial FamilyCristina M. Ortiz Part III Mixed Identity and Monoracial BelongingChapter 7 Being Mixed Race in the Makah Nation: Redeeming the Existence of African-Native AmericansIngrid Dineen-WimberlyChapter 8 “You’re Not Black or Mexican Enough!” Policing Racial/Ethnic Authenticity among Blaxicans in the USRebecca Romo Part IV Asian ConnectionsChapter 9 Bumbay in the Bay: The Struggle for Indipino Identity in San FranciscoMaharaj Raju DesaiChapter 10 Hyper-visibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japanese Beauty CultureKaori Mori WantChapter 11 Checking “Other” Twice: Transnational Dual MinoritiesLily Anne Y. Welty Tamai Part V ReflectionsChapter 12 Neanderthal-Human Hybridity and the Frontier of Critical Mixed Race StudiesTerence KeelChapter 13 Epilogue: Expanding the Terrain of Mixed Race Studies: What We Learn from the Study of NonWhite MultiracialsNitasha Tamar Sharma BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press A Measure of Success
Book SynopsisA Measure of Success provides a comprehensive picture of CBM progress monitoring.Trade Review"A Measure of Success provides insight into the development, history, research, and practical applications of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). Although many in the field of special education know about and perhaps teach or use CBM, not many of us understand the impetus for Stanley Deno’s original idea for an efficient way to measure student progress, or the level of research supporting the use of CBM. This collection provides testament to his commitment to improving skills of teachers and other school personnel so they may positively impact student outcomes." —Dr. Janie Hodge, Clemson University"To gather so much expertise into one volume is a great way to help readers deepen their understanding of an idea that is beautiful in its simplicity, yet complex in its scope and impact." —Dr. Evelyn Johnson, Boise State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Christine Espin, Kristen L. McMaster, and Susan Rose1. Curriculum-Based Measurement: The Paradigm, History, and Legacy Joseph R. Jenkins and Lynn S. Fuchs Part I. Contributions to Educational Policy and Practice2. A Review of Deno and Mirkin’s Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT) Model: An Early Effort to Reconcile the Right to Social Integration with a Need for Effective InstructionDouglas Fuchs and Renee Bradley3. Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Develop Educationally Meaningful and Legally Sound Individual Education Programs (IEPs)Mitchell L. Yell and Todd W. Busch4. When the “Emerging Alternative” Becomes the StandardJohn L. Hosp and Michelle K. HospPart II: School-Based and District-Wide Applications5. School and District-wide Implementation of Curriculum-Based Measurement in the Minneapolis Public SchoolsDoug Marston6. Implementing Data-Based Program Modification Big Ideas Gary Germann7. The Contribution of Curriculum-Based Measurement to Response to Intervention: Research, Policy and School PracticeKim Gibbons and Ann CaseyPart III. Applications in Elementary School Education8. How Curriculum-Based Measures Help Us Detect Word Recognition Problems in First GradersEric Dion, Isabelle Dubé, Catherine Roux, Danika Landry, and Laurence Bergeron9. How Progress Monitoring Research Contributed to Early Intervention for and Prevention of Reading DifficultyRoland H. Good III, Ruth A. Kaminski, Hank Fien, Kelly A. Powell-Smith, and Kelli D. Cummings10. Technological Applications of Curriculum-Based Measurement inElementary Settings: CBM in the Digital AgeErica Lembke, Kristen McMaster, and Pamela M. SteckerPart IV. Applications in Secondary School Education11. Big Ideas and Core Values: The Influence of Stanley Deno’s Work on Secondary Mathematics Progress MonitoringAnne Foegen12. They’re Getting Older . . . but Are They Getting Better? The Influence of Curriculum-Based Measurement on Programming for Secondary-School Students with Learning DisabilitiesChristine Espin and Heather M. Campbell Part V. Applications in General Education Settings13. Curriculum-Based Measurement at Larue Elementary: They Said it Couldn’t be Done!Amanda Kloo, Charles D. Machesky, and Naomi Zigmond14. Curriculum-Based Measurement Progress Monitoring and the Health of General Education Deborah L. SpeecePart VI. Applications for Special School Populations15. Curriculum-Based Measurement and English Language Learners: District-Wide Academic Norms for Special Education EligibilitySteven L. Robinson, Margaret J. Robinson, and Lionel A. Blatchley16. A Tribute to Stanley Deno: Curriculum-Based Measurement for English Learners in First GradeAnne W. Graves17. Extending Curriculum-Based Measurement to Assess Performance of Students with Significant Cognitive DisabilitiesTeri Wallace and Renáta TicháPart VII. Applications in State Assessments of Schools18. How Curriculum-Based Measurement Progress Monitoring Contributes to the Alignment of Instruction and State Adopted Standards and Assessments Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek, and Sharon Vaughn19. Curriculum-Based Measures: Application with State AssessmentsGerald Tindal20. Curriculum-Based Measurement, Progress Monitoring, and StateAssessmentsJames G. Shriner and Martha L. ThurlowPart VIII. Uses for Teacher Development21. Stanley Deno’s Contributions to Teacher Education Scholarship andPractice
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Wesleyan University Press Centering In Pottery Poetry and the Person
Book SynopsisA flowing collection of poetry that is also a guide for life.
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Chalice Press Blessed Minds
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Science & Behavior Books Inc.,U.S. Satir Step by Step A Guide to Creating Change in
Book SynopsisAnnotated transcript of Satir conducting family therapy -- showing what she's thinking and how she selects a particular phrase or intervention -- and then an account of her theoretical foundations and methods.
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Quest Books,U.S. Manual for the Peacemaker An Iroquois Legend to
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Psychology of Women
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Gender Stereotypes and Other Gender Biases. 3. Infancy and Childhood. 4. Adolescence. 5. Gender Comparisons in Cognitive Abilities and Attitudes About Achievements. 6. Gender Comparisons in Social and Personality Characteristics. 7. Women and Work. 8. Love Relationships. 9. Sexuality. 10. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood. 11. Women and Physical Health. 12. Women and Psychological Disorders. 13. Violence Against Women. 14. Women and Older Adulthood. 15. Moving Onward.
£216.60
Liveright Publishing Corporation Introductory Lectures on PsychoAnalysis 0
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Red Wheel/Weiser Finding Your Soul Mate
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Spring Publications,U.S. The Old Fool and the Corruption of Myth
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Spring Publications,U.S. A Most Accursed Religion When A Trauma Becomes
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Spring Publications The Village of the Water Spirits The Dreams of
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Spring Publications Sappho
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Schreiber Publishing You Are Not Alone
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Harvest House Publishers,U.S. The Biblical View of SelfEsteem SelfLove and
Book SynopsisDr. Jay Adams, renowned biblical counselor and noted author, evaluates the self-esteem movement and offers a truly biblical view of self.
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