The Mind and its Discontents : An Essay in Discursive Psychiatry
ISBN: 9780198523130 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author argues that to understand mental illness fully requires more than a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he stresses, we need to look for the causes of human mental disorders in our interactions with others; in social rule-following and its role in the organization of mental content; in the power relations embedded within social structures and cultural norms; in the way that our mental life is inscribed by a cumulative life of encounters with others.
The author argues that to understand mental illness fully requires more than a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As inte...
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677,06 zł |
Integrity and Change : Mental Health in the Market Place
ISBN: 9780415141406 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Market Place examines how workers in the caring professions might preserve their integrity and ability to reflect and act purposefully in the face of such rapid and extensive change. Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Market Place examines how workers in the caring professions might preserve their integrity and ability t... |
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Women and Mental Health
ISBN: 9780415188852 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We know that gender traits and mental disorders are based on social, cultural. personal and psysiological background. In order to formulate the best management plan for the patient, the mental health practitioner needs to incorporate all available information. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the most prominent mental health problems in women today. Examining the physiological, social and psychological factors of mental illness, and providing an up-to-date perspective on the etiology of different disorders, the book should help professionals formulate the best management plan...
We know that gender traits and mental disorders are based on social, cultural. personal and psysiological background. In order to formulate the best m...
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202,24 zł |
Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2
ISBN: 9780415198196 / Angielski / Twarda / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set Selected Works of R. D. Laing
This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set Selected Works of R. D. Laing
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1011,47 zł |
Sanity, Madness and the Family: Selected Worksks R D Laing Vol 4
ISBN: 9780415198219 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set Selected Works of R. D. Laing
This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set Selected Works of R. D. Laing
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1264,34 zł |
Women, Madness and Spiritualism
ISBN: 9780415276337 / Angielski / Twarda / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional 19th-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the lunacy laws to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women.
This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional 19th-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as...
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Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment : Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context
ISBN: 9780415375290 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities. This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience ... |
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Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice : A Pragmatic Guide
ISBN: 9780415935029 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appropriate for students and practitioners alike, this book teaches readers how to perform assessments on patients in the absence of the instruments and assistants that many standard procedures assume.
Appropriate for students and practitioners alike, this book teaches readers how to perform assessments on patients in the absence of the instruments a...
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328,67 zł |
Clinical Aspects of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination : Psychological Consequences and Treatment Interventions
ISBN: 9780415946049 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to address the psychological impact of sexual harassment and gender discrimination from both a clinical and theoretical perspective. In the first portion, Lenhart provides a comprehensive summary and integration of existing literature on the topic and presents relevant aspects of the workplace and legal environments. The second portion of the book deals with the psychodynamics of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, placing these violations in proper psychological perspective, along the same lines as rape, battering and other forms of gender-based abuse. With...
This book is the first to address the psychological impact of sexual harassment and gender discrimination from both a clinical and theoretical perspec...
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Treating Sexual Offenders : An Integrated Approach
ISBN: 9780415949354 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treating Sexual Offenders provides the therapist with a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of different disorders, including fetishisms, transvestic fetishisms, exhibitionism, frottage, pedophilia, sexual sadism, sexual masochism, telephone scatologia, voyeurism, rape, child molestation, and incest. Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, the authors provide the clinician with the means to have a continued positive impact on the sex offender, from assessment to post-treatment evaluation and follow-up.
Treating Sexual Offenders provides the therapist with a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of different disorders, includi...
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657,46 zł |
Bearing Witness : Violence and Collective Responsibility
ISBN: 9780789004772 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bloom, a physician, and Reichert, a psychologist are involved with a task force on psychosocial causes of violence created by the Philadelphia chapter of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, and they both have extensive experience in the field. They offer sorely needed insight, addressing the cycle of violence in society by discussing some of
Bloom, a physician, and Reichert, a psychologist are involved with a task force on psychosocial causes of violence created by the Philadelphia chapter...
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Transformations of Gender and Race : Family and Developmental Perspectives
ISBN: 9780789006554 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of papers addressing racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in family therapy and developmental psychology. Simultaneously co-published as Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, v.10, no.1, 1998. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
A collection of papers addressing racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in family therapy and developmental psychology. Simultaneously co-publish...
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Psycho-Economics : Managed Care in Mental Health in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780789007803 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors offer advice to psychologists and administrators handling the changes resulting from managed care. Using empirical research and practitioner accounts, this book assesses the impact of managed care, suggests ways to ameliorate its negative effects, and proposes ideas for the improvement of the managed care system and mental health care
Contributors offer advice to psychologists and administrators handling the changes resulting from managed care. Using empirical research and practitio...
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262,93 zł |
Psycho-Economics : Managed Care in Mental Health in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780789008152 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Develop new ways to provide ethical, effective mental health services in a world of managed care Psycho-Economics gives psychologists and mental health care administrators suggestions for handling the changes that have come with the advent of managed care. Using empirical research and practitioner accounts, this informative book assesses the impact of managed care, suggests ways to ameliorate its negative effects, and proposes ideas for the improvement of the managed care system and mental health care in general. Psycho-Economics takes a clear look at the ways in which the managed care...
Develop new ways to provide ethical, effective mental health services in a world of managed care Psycho-Economics gives psychologists and mental heal...
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111,21 zł |
Diagnosis in Social Work : New Imperatives
ISBN: 9780789015969 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can you make necessary professional judgments without being judgmental?Assessment and diagnostic skills are essential professional tools for the social worker, but all too often they are neglected or downplayed. Diagnosis in Social Work argues for the reinstatement of social diagnosis to its former place as an essential concept in social work. This courageous book demonstrates the detrimental impact of the loss of diagnostic skills on the quality of social work intervention.Combining meticulous history with insightful analysis, Diagnosis in Social Work shows how the concept of diagnosis...
How can you make necessary professional judgments without being judgmental?Assessment and diagnostic skills are essential professional tools for the s...
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338,79 zł |
Recovery and Wellness : Models of Hope and Empowerment for People with Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780789019042 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appearing simultaneously as Occupational Therapy in Mental Health volume 17, numbers 3-4 (2001), this book for occupational therapists provides theoretical and experiential perspectives on the Recovery Model and describes its effective use. Ten chapters examine the major constructs of the model, outline the recovery process, present specific approa
Appearing simultaneously as Occupational Therapy in Mental Health volume 17, numbers 3-4 (2001), this book for occupational therapists provides theore...
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Emerging Trends in Psychological Practice in Long-Term Care
ISBN: 9780789020055 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Update your knowledge of mental health services delivery in long-term care settings Authored by experts in the field of psychology practice in long-term care (LTC), this valuable book is designed to update psychologists and educators on developments in the evolving field of geriatric mental health in LTC settings. The editors and chapter authors are scientist-practitioners who use their expertise to cover applied topics while maintaining high scientific and scholarly standards.The first section of Emerging Trends in Psychological Practice in Long-Term Care examines modifications to...
Update your knowledge of mental health services delivery in long-term care settings Authored by experts in the field of psychology practice in long-t...
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262,93 zł |
Intimate Violence : Contemporary Treatment Innovations
ISBN: 9780789020192 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral phychoeducational approach in favor of treatment modalities that focus on the offenders individual characteristics.
Examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral phychoeducational approach in favor of treatment m...
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288,21 zł |
On Transitions From Group Care : Homeward Bound
ISBN: 9780789020543 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In introducing five papers on post-residential services for disturbed children and adolescents, Epstein (Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, U. of Chicago), addresses the difficulties of transition planning for limited community options. Zimmerman, the school's director, discusses social- and life-ski
In introducing five papers on post-residential services for disturbed children and adolescents, Epstein (Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, U. of Chica...
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505,68 zł |
Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families
ISBN: 9780789025432 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders. Each chapter provides an overview of a specific category of sex offender and presents case examples and sample treatment plans with short- and long-term goals and objectives. This unique book also includes the latest assessment and intervention methods, family and relapse prevention efforts, and cultural issues that affect service delivery.
Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, use...
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202,24 zł |