Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Care and Practice
ISBN: 9781846198915 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought provoking and highly practical book is not just about caring for the dying within mental health, but also applying the quality care and practice of palliative care within mental health practice. Multidisciplinary in its approach, it focuses on intervention, treatment, care and practice, and the similarities in practice between palliative care and mental health. This common ground is an excellent foundation for integrating palliative care into mental health care, practice and service delivery, succinctly covering all aspects of psychological, physical, social, spiritual, sexual...
This thought provoking and highly practical book is not just about caring for the dying within mental health, but also applying the quality care and p...
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238,58 zł |
ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth about Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
ISBN: 9780062266743 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder--one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today--to argue that ADHD is actually a cluster of symptoms stemming from over 20 other conditions and disorders. According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 6.4 million children between the ages of four and seventeen have been diagnosed with attention deficit... In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of pa... |
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75,78 zł |
Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9781499790023 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At last, it is thrilling, that after 22 years, my son is finally out of denial and on his road to self-reliance. He has been developing his job readiness skills and is now leading a meaningful and independent life. He is also working diligently at adjusting his lifestyle to include foods, activities and associates that are conducive to becoming a healthier person. For years, my son remained in denial. He refused to accept or understand his illness. Additionally, he was oblivious to developing the proper views or motives toward recovery. Today, he has accepted responsibility for managing his...
At last, it is thrilling, that after 22 years, my son is finally out of denial and on his road to self-reliance. He has been developing his job readin...
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35,54 zł |
Destigmatising Mental Illness?: Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870-1970
ISBN: 9780719085819 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations of mental illness which reflected their professional aspirations, economic motivations and perceptions of the public. Sharing in the stigma of their patients, healthcare workers sought to enhance the prestige of their professions by focussing upon the ability of psychiatry to effectively treat...
This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigm...
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454,28 zł |
Psychosocial Interventions in Mental Health Nursing
ISBN: 9781446275078 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to give high quality care it is essential that mental health nurses have a solid grasp of the most common therapies and interventions used in mental healthcare. If nurses understand what the various interventions involve then they will be much better equipped to support patients through their recovery. This is a practical, engaging introduction to the major psychosocial interventions that demonstrates to students what the interventions are, why they are important and how they can be used.
Key features - Interactive approach through realistic case studies... In order to give high quality care it is essential that mental health nurses have a solid grasp of the most common therapies and interventions used in...
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441,72 zł |
After the Rehearsal - Living with Dementia, a Carer's Story
ISBN: 9780755216574 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the heart of the book is a carer's story. However, it is much, much more than that. It is a book about being human, about the ups and downs of life, about loving, about trying to make sense and work out, and around the things that life throws at you how you have to find a way of living without ever forgetting your loved one. Beautifully written with love and confidence about a poignant time in the life of a family. The Struggle to retain the self of a beloved husband and father and the harsh reality of living with dementia is all too clear.
At the heart of the book is a carer's story. However, it is much, much more than that. It is a book about being human, about the ups and downs of life...
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61,56 zł |
Addiction: Am I Powerless
ISBN: 9780985189822 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addiction: Am I Powerless is the first step in determining if a chemical/substance problem really exists. Addiction: Am I Powerless is the most comprehensive self-assessment tool ever devised to measure Powerlessness. This book brings together, for perhaps the first time, a standard for the measurement of Powerlessness via the development of a "Powerlessness Syndrome." It examines the issues of "Loss of Control" and "Unmanageability" as they relate to the use of a mood altering chemical. Addiction: Am I Powerless has been written by a front line clinician with 3 decades of experience in the...
Addiction: Am I Powerless is the first step in determining if a chemical/substance problem really exists. Addiction: Am I Powerless is the most compre...
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84,59 zł |
Creativity and the Mind: Discovering the Genius Within
ISBN: 9780306450860 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative book, acclaimed psychologists Thomas Ward, Ronald Finke, and Steven Smith eloquently portray the fascinating processes of the creative mind at work, and hand us the invaluable tools with which we can mine our most valued and important resource. Creativity - and the methods by which we can heighten it - has recently become the focus of a burgeoning and exciting new field in psychology. By skillfully blending this cutting-edge scientific research with the real-world experiences of humanity's most successful creative thinkers, this provocative book isolates the mechanisms by...
In this provocative book, acclaimed psychologists Thomas Ward, Ronald Finke, and Steven Smith eloquently portray the fascinating processes of the crea...
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194,52 zł |
Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Adults
ISBN: 9781489914583 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book could not have been conceptualized or published 20 years ago. Indeed, it is doubtful that we could have organized the material for this handbook 10 years ago. Over the last 20 years, however, the painstaking efforts of many clinical researchers working with a variety of resistive psychopathologies have resulted in specific psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies that are effective with a significant propor- tion of patients, at least for some of the disorders. Much clinical research remains to be carried out in the forthcoming decades. But now that we are nearing the 21st century, at...
This book could not have been conceptualized or published 20 years ago. Indeed, it is doubtful that we could have organized the material for this hand...
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778,22 zł |
The Changing Nature of Pain Complaints Over the Lifespan
ISBN: 9781489918925 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A landmark contribution to chronic pain literature, this contemporary text measures the intricate relationship between chronic pain and life transition events. Researchers and clinicians will appreciate The Changing Nature of Pain Complaints Over the Lifespan for its linking of life transition theories to health and illness. Drawing on nearly 20 years of research, the authors bring together the epidemiological and psychosocial aspects of chronic pain and suggest expanding options for pain management. Their coverage encompasses every stage of the human life cycle.
A landmark contribution to chronic pain literature, this contemporary text measures the intricate relationship between chronic pain and life transitio...
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389,09 zł |
A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
ISBN: 9781442649538 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the connection between institutionalization and eugenics. Malacrida explains how isolating the Michener Centre's residents from their communities served as a form of passive eugenics that... Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the da... |
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342,00 zł |
Cannabinoids in Neurologic and Mental Disease
ISBN: 9780124170414 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The application of cannabis sativa for the treatment of neurologic and mental disease is expanding. Cannabinoids in Neurologic and Mental Disease collects and presents for the first time recent research involving the use of pharmacological cannabinoids for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disease. The neurologic application of cannabinoid therapy builds upon psychiatric and psychological use for the treatment of a variety of core mental disorders. This comprehensive reference on the known uses of cannabinoids will be useful for clinical neurologists,...
The application of cannabis sativa for the treatment of neurologic and mental disease is expanding. Cannabinoids in Neurologic and Mental Disease
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558,51 zł |
The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner
ISBN: 9781119063056 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timesaving resource features:
This timesaving resource features:
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299,03 zł |
Psychology and Geriatrics: Integrated Care for an Aging Population
ISBN: 9780124201231 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to respond to unprecedented gains in life expectancy and an explosion of new retirees living with chronic health conditions, this collaboration could not be more timely. This exceptional resource is, itself, evidence that physicians... Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatr... |
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A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen
ISBN: 9781138022164 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the authors experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen is designed for mental health, public health, and primary care professionals new to this emerging area. The guide is organized topically and divided into four sections that move from organizing and delivering global mental health services to clinical practice, and from various settings and populations likely to be encountered to special issues unique to global work. Case studies based around a... Drawing on the authors experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Globa... |
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812,36 zł |
A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen
ISBN: 9781138022171 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the authors experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen is designed for mental health, public health, and primary care professionals new to this emerging area. The guide is organized topically and divided into four sections that move from organizing and delivering global mental health services to clinical practice, and from various settings and populations likely to be encountered to special issues unique to global work. Case studies based around a... Drawing on the authors experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Globa... |
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Drugging Kids: Psychiatry's Wholesale Drugging of Schoolchildren for ADHD
ISBN: 9781634437646 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a lot of crucial information that parents and the general public do not know about the diagnosis of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and the unwanted effects of the drugs used to "treat" it. You should read this book if your child is taking an ADHD drug, or if you are being told to have your child diagnosed and drugged for ADHD. You should read this book if you are concerned about the growing numbers of children in your local schools who are being given ADHD diagnoses and drugs. You should read this book if you are concerned about the continually rising numbers of...
There is a lot of crucial information that parents and the general public do not know about the diagnosis of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dis...
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47,40 zł |
How Memory Works--And How to Make It Work for You
ISBN: 9781462520374 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you wish you could remember the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, anniversaries, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Robert Madigan is an expert in the "memory arts"--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, it's important to exercise memory in simple ways every day. Dr. Madigan explains the science of how memory works and presents innovative mnemonic devices and visualization techniques that will help everyone--from students to seniors--sharpen their mental skills; avoid...
Do you wish you could remember the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, anniversaries, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Robe...
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65,95 zł |
How Memory Works--And How to Make It Work for You
ISBN: 9781462520381 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you wish you could remember the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, anniversaries, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Robert Madigan is an expert in the "memory arts"--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, it's important to exercise memory in simple ways every day. Dr. Madigan explains the science of how memory works and presents innovative mnemonic devices and visualization techniques that will help everyone--from students to seniors--sharpen their mental skills; avoid...
Do you wish you could remember the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, anniversaries, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Robe...
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233,50 zł |
A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
ISBN: 9781442626898 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the connection between institutionalization and eugenics. Malacrida explains how isolating the Michener Centre's residents from their communities served as a form of passive eugenics that... Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the da... |
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165,63 zł |