Serious Mental Illness and the Family: The Practitioner's Guide
ISBN: 9780471181804 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Serious Mental Illness and the Family "Serious Mental Illness and the Family is unique in building assessment, intervention, and collaborative strategies around specific types of clinical cases and life scenarios. The book will be an invaluable aid to mental health professionals working with severely ill clients and their families." --Harriet P. Lefley, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Miami School of Medicine "Dr. Marsh is very knowledgeable about families, yet is also very compassionate in her approach to the experience of families who are...
Praise for Serious Mental Illness and the Family "Serious Mental Illness and the Family is unique in building assessment, intervention, and collaborat...
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The Previous Essays of a Former Paranoid Schizophrenic: Highrise Two, 103 Stories
ISBN: 9781847479730 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description This collection of 103 essays, written over some years, I venture to suggest shows increasinglybetter mental health developing over that period illustrated by the improved command of expression of the author in choices of somewhat differing subject matters. That may be of only minor concern though, of more importance to one and all is it's preoccupation, almost throughout, on the benefits of and obligation to do " the right thing," which, although possibly didactic, may be unexpected coming from someone with the notorious label of paranoid schizophrenic, perhaps even being... Description This collection of 103 essays, written over some years, I venture to suggest shows increasinglybetter mental health developing over ... |
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Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health
ISBN: 9780313282041 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary reference is the first to assess the empirical research and conceptual frameworks for understanding the mental health needs and services use of the ethnic elderly. Leading scholars, researchers, and clinicians in gerontology, epidemiology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, anthropology, nursing, and social work appraise varying approaches, the demographics, the mental health status and service use of the ethnic elderly, and issues in the diagnosis, treatment, and mental health service delivery for the ethnic aged: for African Americans, American... This state-of-the-art, multi-disciplinary reference is the first to assess the empirical research and conceptual frameworks for understanding the m... |
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507,76 zł |
Searching for Daylight: Poetry
ISBN: 9781849910194 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description This collection of poems reflects deep emotions. They were written when Kathryn had no other way of expressing her emotions externally. The book is in two parts. The first part contains poems that were written during 1984 and 1985 when Kathryn was 14 and 15. The second part contains poems written more recently between 2004 and 2007. About the Author Kathryn has struggled with mental health problems for a long time, starting when she suffered abuse as a child. She has many issues with self harm and has attempted to take her life on two occasions. Over the last four... Description This collection of poems reflects deep emotions. They were written when Kathryn had no other way of expressing her emotions externa... |
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Shattered Wings: Psychiatry
ISBN: 9781847479914 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description A novel based on the social and criminological study of the effects of rape and on the problem of recidivism of sex offenders. The story starts with the episode of Francine a victim of rape, who turns up a killer without wanting to after killing her perpetrator. While in prison, awaiting trial, Francine is referred to the desk of Dr. Michelle a forensic psychiatrist who works in a mental institution, mainly with cases of sex offenders and who is assigned to help Francine in court. Through Francine s' experience we learn about the long term effects of rape, its impact on... Description A novel based on the social and criminological study of the effects of rape and on the problem of recidivism of sex offenders. T... |
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120,53 zł |
The Seen But Forgotten: An Insight Into Mental Illness and the Dangers of Current Psychiatric Practice
ISBN: 9781849910057 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Seen But Forgotten has been written based on nearly twenty years of personal experience of mental illness, 'schizoaffective disorder', as well as on many of my observations and other ideas, and related research on mental illness. It is based also on my observations of many of my friends and associates with mental illness, over the years, and their stories and experiences relayed to me. It describes some insights into some of the thoughts and feelings one can experience in certain states of mental illness. It also offers an overview of both known and other hypothetical considerations of...
The Seen But Forgotten has been written based on nearly twenty years of personal experience of mental illness, 'schizoaffective disorder', as well as ...
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The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
ISBN: 9780521121026 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still-perplexing disorder. Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth. Separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still...
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301,86 zł |
Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia: The Catie Project
ISBN: 9780521895330 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Antipsychotic medications are a key treatment for schizophrenia and sales of antipsychotic drugs approach $20 billion per year, with fierce marketing between the makers of the drugs. The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health sponsored the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) project to provide independent information about the comparative effectiveness of medications. CATIE was the largest, longest and most comprehensive study of schizophrenia to date. Conducted under rigorous double-blind conditions, Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia presents the...
Antipsychotic medications are a key treatment for schizophrenia and sales of antipsychotic drugs approach $20 billion per year, with fierce marketing ...
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501,43 zł |
Demystifying PTSD
ISBN: 9780995196308 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the biggest sources of anguish for people with PTSD is that they are baffled as to why they haven't been able to "be strong" and to get over their trauma and move on with their lives. Over the years, the author has developed a simple, intuitive Information Processing Model to help PTSD victims and their families understand why victims can't "just get over it." Demystifying PTSD uses everyday language to present this simple model without using complicated scientific terms. The model gives victims and their families hope because they finally feel like somebody understands what they have...
One of the biggest sources of anguish for people with PTSD is that they are baffled as to why they haven't been able to "be strong" and to get over th...
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38,62 zł |
Mental Health and Social Problems: A Social Work Perspective
ISBN: 9780415493864 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness. The introductory chapter presents bio-psycho-social and life-modeled approaches to helping individuals and families with mental illness. The book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses specific social problems, such as poverty, oppression, racism, war, violence, and... Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship betwe... |
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Cannabis Dependence: Its Nature, Consequences and Treatment
ISBN: 9780521891363 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cannabis dependence is controversial. What are the health and behavioral risks of becoming cannabis-dependent? What counseling approaches have been tested with adults and adolescents, and how effective are they? What are the arguments for legalization, regulation, or prohibition? Looking back and toward the future, what do we know and what do we need to learn? This state-of-the-science review sets out to answer all such questions, beginning with an historical examination and moving into diagnosis, classification, epidemiology, public health, policy, issues relating to regulation and...
Cannabis dependence is controversial. What are the health and behavioral risks of becoming cannabis-dependent? What counseling approaches have been te...
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Interface Between Pediatrics and Children's Mental Health, an Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Volume 19-2
ISBN: 9781437719468 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Child and Adolescent psychiatrists frequently see patients with medical disorders that impact their psychiatric care in various ways. This issue covers oncology, inflammatory bowel disease, siblings with chronic illnesses, obesity, genetic abnormalities, transplants, very premature infants through the lifespan, asthma, diabetes mellitus, HIV, palliative care, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, headaches, unexplained physical complaints, and epilepsy. Each article provides an overview of the medical disorder itself, as well as the special considerations required for the psychiatric care... Child and Adolescent psychiatrists frequently see patients with medical disorders that impact their psychiatric care in various ways. This issue co... |
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322,33 zł |
Medicines for Mental Health: The Ultimate Guide to Psychiatric Medication
ISBN: 9781419669545 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A finalist in the National Indie Excellence 2008 book awards, this book was written for anyone who suffers from sexual dysfunction, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia (or cares for someone who does). Medicines for Mental Health is the first book to provide detailed and readable information about all psychiatric medications, and other medical treatments, for these mental illnesses. Medicines cuts through jargon, demystifies mental illness, and explains how treatments work. It goes beyond current fads to cover important medications you need to know about, including many that will be...
A finalist in the National Indie Excellence 2008 book awards, this book was written for anyone who suffers from sexual dysfunction, depression, bipola...
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Melancholia: The Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment of Depressive Illness
ISBN: 9780521131247 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood, associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear diagnosis, prognosis, and range of management strategies, differentiated from other similar psychiatric, neurological, and general medical conditions. It challenges accepted doctrines in the classification and biology of the mood disorders and defines melancholia as a treatable mental illness. Described for millennia in medical texts and used as a term in literature and poetry, melancholia was included within early...
This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood, associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome...
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342,80 zł |
The Invisible Stalker
ISBN: 9781849911153 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I decided to write this book because I could not bear to hear peoples comments regarding someone they knew who committed suicide. The sort of comments where; they were selfish or they wanted to get back at someone or as a vendetta. Having suffered depression and also tried to commit suicide, I was non of these things. I want to take you on my journey when I tried to kill myself and survived. They have a name for it, it is simple, it is a mental illness which is not well understood. Please think twice before condemning someone who has taken their life. They got lost on their journey through...
I decided to write this book because I could not bear to hear peoples comments regarding someone they knew who committed suicide. The sort of comments...
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100 Questions & Answers about Depression
ISBN: 9780763777593 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Approximately 35 to 40 million Americans will deal with depression at some point in their lives. 100 Questions & Answers About Depression, Second Edition provides practical, authoritative answers to key questions about depression. Written in an easy-to-understand style by two prominent psychiatrists, Drs. Ava T. Albrecht and Charles Herrick, this unique guide presents comprehensive information on causes of depression, treatment options, and coping techniques. This completely revised book includes essential new topics on risk factors associated with depression, brain therapies, physiological...
Approximately 35 to 40 million Americans will deal with depression at some point in their lives. 100 Questions & Answers About Depression, Second Edit...
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138,92 zł |
Women's Mental Health, an Issue of Psychiatric Clinics: Volume 33-2
ISBN: 9781437718683 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This issue reviews psychiatric concerns that are specific to women.? Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute articles discuss topics such as PMS/PMDD, Perinatal Disorders, Menopause, Infertility, Female Sexual Dysfunction, Substance Abuse in Women, Gender Differences in ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Migraines in Women, Breast Cancer, Obesity in Women, Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Psychiatric Disorders in Women, Trauma and Violence Issues for Women in the Military, and Caring for the Elderly Female Psychiatric Patient.
This issue reviews psychiatric concerns that are specific to women.? Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute articles discuss topics such as PMS/PMDD, Peri...
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322,33 zł |
Dr. Sagot and the Lamb
ISBN: 9781936107704 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dr. Sagot and the Lamb" is a true story. The author, a psychologist herself, shares with you the details of her life and her therapy sessions, as she seeks to overcome anorexia, depression and a fear of intimacy. Effortlessly moving from the past to the present, she reveals the childhood issues that have contributed to her current problems, and the amazing skills that her psychologist, Dr. Sagot, employs to resolve them. With candor rarely seen, the reader is taken on an intimate journey into the private world of therapy. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how...
"Dr. Sagot and the Lamb" is a true story. The author, a psychologist herself, shares with you the details of her life and her therapy sessions, as she...
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Prader-Willi Syndrome: Development and Manifestations
ISBN: 9780521173377 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is associated with an assortment of physical, behavioral and cognitive abnormalities that create a broad range of interdisciplinary care needs. Joyce Whittington and Tony Holland identify and integrate the latest findings on managing the complex medical, nutritional, psychological, educational, social and therapeutic needs of people with PWS. Both have been involved in the Cambridge PWS study--the largest of the cohort studies of PWS--which provides the basis of this book.
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is associated with an assortment of physical, behavioral and cognitive abnormalities that create a broad range of interdis...
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219,99 zł |
Living with Multiple Personalities: The Christine Ducommun Story
ISBN: 9780984308156 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mesmerizing journey inside the mind and life of a victim of disassociative identity disorder (DID). Christine Ducommun eloquently shares her story of her descent into madness, struggling to regain her sanity as four personalities compete for control of her mind and protect her from the demons of her childhood. A story of courage, healing, identity, hope, and love. ABOUT THE BOOK Christine Ducommun was a happily married wife and mother of two, when-after returning to live in the house of her childhood-she began to experience panic attacks, night terrors, a series of bizarre flashbacks, and...
A mesmerizing journey inside the mind and life of a victim of disassociative identity disorder (DID). Christine Ducommun eloquently shares her story o...
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91,59 zł |