Over the many decades the importance of Psychoeducational intervention playing significantly vital role in treating children having mental retardation with autism spectrum disorders. This book provides an overview of the state of current scientific knowledge on the prevalence, prevention and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders, and examines the problems encountered in providing the comprehensive approach that is needed to make them part of main stream of the society. Also it provides the impact of psycho-educational interventions on depressive symptoms of mothers of young...

Hypertension and diabetes are common intertwined conditions with significant overlap in underlying risk factors and healthy complications. As a consequence, these conditions have a fundamental physical basis, but are deeply intertwined with complex psychosocial issues. Such interrelationships are considerable: sometimes subtle and sometimes overwhelming. With constantly growing volume of research in the area of diabetes and hypertension in old age, this book will provide with an overview of behavioural approaches/strategies for managing diabetes and hypertension in older adults. This book...

Sport psychology, an interdisciplinary science draws on knowledge from many cognate fields like for eg., biomechanics, physiology, kinesiology and psychology. Sport psychology focuses on certain mental factors which affect performance motivation to participate in sports exercise with an outcome to ensure mental and physical well-being. In view of constantly growing volume of research in the area of sport psychology, this book will provide an understanding of opportunities and motivation towards sports, games. This book focuses on aptitude towards sports and games motivation, and Opportunities...