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Early Intervention in Psychosis: A Guide to Concepts, Evidence and Interventions
ISBN: 9780471978664 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early recognition and treatment of psychosis--particularly in adolescents and young adults--is increasingly accepted as an important factor in the individual experience of mental illness, which can have major implications for mental health care and treatment. This book is one of the first books available on the treatment of psychosis.
The early recognition and treatment of psychosis--particularly in adolescents and young adults--is increasingly accepted as an important factor in the...
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288,45 |
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Understanding Suicidal Behaviour: The Suicidal Process Approach to Research, Treatment and Prevention
ISBN: 9780471988038 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW IN PAPERBACK
How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour offers a clinical guide to the assessment, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour, from a new and useful theoretical perspective. The book presents the arguments and research evidence that suicidal behaviour is not just a response to current emotional crises, but is influenced by persistent characteristics that can be defined in psychological and biological terms. The approach in this book accommodates and goes beyond... NEW IN PAPERBACK
How can suicide be prevented and treated by mental health professionals? Understanding Suicidal Behaviour... |
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832,37 |
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Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organisational Causes and Interventions
ISBN: 9780471998761 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stress levels in health professionals have been shown to be high in many countries and in most staff groups. This creates a personal cost to the individuals concerned, a financial cost to the organisations in terms of absence, early retirement and complaints, and a health cost to patients in terms of the risk of poorer quality care that is received by patients from stressed or dissatisfied staff. At a time when health organisations worldwide are striving to reduce costs and to increase quality, addressing the psychological well-being of their staff has necessarily risen high on their...
Stress levels in health professionals have been shown to be high in many countries and in most staff groups. This creates a personal cost to the indiv...
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360,62 |
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Health and Behaviour: Selected Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521033381 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An array of international experts discuss aspects of health care, such as the sociology of health care in developing countries, the mental health aspects of general health care and the dangers to children through disease, malnutrition and other factors. These chapters are essential reading for those concerned with improving health care--be they health personnel, behavioral scientists, or laypeople interested in human behavior and its relation to health.
An array of international experts discuss aspects of health care, such as the sociology of health care in developing countries, the mental health aspe...
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284,27 |
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Exceptional Language Development in Down Syndrome
ISBN: 9780521361675 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advanced language acquisition is possible in spite of serious mental handicap. This is the conclusion reached at the end of a thorough study of the language of a Down syndrome adult woman, exhibiting virtually normal expressive and receptive grammar. This case, presented in this book, is compared to a small number of other exceptional cases of language development in mental retardation. The findings are powerful arguments against the claim that the acquisition of grammar is determined by prior nonlinguistic cognitive achievements. Moreover, data analysis and comparison with other observations...
Advanced language acquisition is possible in spite of serious mental handicap. This is the conclusion reached at the end of a thorough study of the la...
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590,93 |
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Health and Behaviour
ISBN: 9780521363525 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An array of international experts discuss aspects of health care, such as the sociology of health care in developing countries, the mental health aspects of general health care and the dangers to children through disease, malnutrition and other factors. These chapters are essential reading for those concerned with improving health care--be they health personnel, behavioral scientists, or laypeople interested in human behavior and its relation to health.
An array of international experts discuss aspects of health care, such as the sociology of health care in developing countries, the mental health aspe...
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641,97 |
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Fearing Others: The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia
ISBN: 9780521671088 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-protection from social threats. Though a critical assessment of several theoretical perspectives, this book attempts to clarify social phobia by critically discussing four questions: what is social phobia, what causes it, what is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve.
Social phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpers...
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265,97 |
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Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences
ISBN: 9780521831574 / Angielski / Twarda / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's depression.
This handbook serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's depression.
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419,25 |
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Fearing Others: The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia
ISBN: 9780521854870 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-protection from social threats. Though a critical assessment of several theoretical perspectives, this book attempts to clarify social phobia by critically discussing four questions: what is social phobia, what causes it, what is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve.
Social phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpers...
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382,14 |
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Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9780521871907 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychotherapy is a 'talking cure'- clients voice their troubles to therapists, who listen, prompt, question, interpret and generally try to engage in a positive and rehabilitating conversation with their clients. Using the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis - a radical approach to how language in interaction works - this book sheds light on the subtle and minutely organised sequences of speech in psychotherapeutic sessions. It examines how therapists deliver questions, cope with resistance, reinterpret experiences and how they can use conversation...
Psychotherapy is a 'talking cure'- clients voice their troubles to therapists, who listen, prompt, question, interpret and generally try to engage in ...
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488,86 |
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Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia
ISBN: 9780674165496 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative that both describes their experience and locks them into it. Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient's experience of agoraphobia. In this novel... Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its suffere... |
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169,87 |
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The Child's Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology
ISBN: 9780742559516 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or subjective world and what limits does he or she draw between the self and objective reality? These questions make up the first problem, the child's notion of reality. A second fundamental problem is the significance of explanations put forward by the...
A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from tho...
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210,60 |
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Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out
ISBN: 9780745621241 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kleinians is a compelling account of the extraordinary revolution in psychology pioneered by the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and nine of her colleagues and followers, including Susan Isaacs, Joan Riviere, Wilfred Bion, Frances Tustin and Hanna Segal.
Drawing on her experience as a professor, writer and therapist, Janet Sayers tells the story of this revolution through an account of the personal and public lives of its main architects, their families and patients. The result is a lively mixture of biography, psychoanalytic theory and individual case studies. The author... Kleinians is a compelling account of the extraordinary revolution in psychology pioneered by the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and nine of her colleague...
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135,95 |
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The Secret of Borges: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into His Work
ISBN: 9780761812395 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Secret of Borges approaches the complex, labyrinthine writings of Jorge Luis Borges from a Freudian perspective. The author searches for connections between the works of Borges by analyzing his writing and gathering information on his life from various sources, including in-depth interviews with those who worked as assistants for the blind writer.
The Secret of Borges approaches the complex, labyrinthine writings of Jorge Luis Borges from a Freudian perspective. The author searches for connectio...
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298,76 |
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Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males: A Practitioner′s Guide
ISBN: 9780761908401 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, practical resource provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural backgrounds.
The first part examines how psychological, career and athletic development of boys is shaped by a complex interaction of biological, social, cultural and economic forces. TheSecond Part covers cultural considerations when counselling particular North American client groups, such as Hispanic-Americans. The final part focuses on special populations such as gay, sexually abused and developmentally disabled boys. This comprehensive, practical resource provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural bac...
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940,36 |
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Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males: A Practitioner′s Guide
ISBN: 9780761908418 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur Horne and Mark Kiselica examine the complex interaction of forces, biological, cultural and economic, that shape male development, both adaptive and maladaptive, in this practice oriented handbook.'
Arthur Horne and Mark Kiselica examine the complex interaction of forces, biological, cultural and economic, that shape male development, both adaptiv...
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651,40 |
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Alcohol Use Among Adolescents
ISBN: 9780761909200 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The beauty of the book is in the detail and the selection of research findings which encourage one to go to the 12 pages of references to seek out the original papers' - 'Alcohol & Alcoholism Covering the latest research and literature on the use of alcohol by adolescents, this concise book provides leads for understanding its aetiology and effective interventions, as well as pointing to future lines of research. Topics covered include: an introduction to the scope of issues related to alcohol use; a review of approaches to the measurement of alcohol-related behaviours among adolescents; and...
'The beauty of the book is in the detail and the selection of research findings which encourage one to go to the 12 pages of references to seek out th...
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558,34 |
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Empirically Supported Therapies: Best Practice in Professional Psychology
ISBN: 9780761910756 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the issue of best practices in psychological interventions, which, due to the growing recognition of their value, are increasingly being funded by both public and private health providers.
This book addresses the issue of best practices in psychological interventions, which, due to the growing recognition of their value, are increasingly...
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773,84 |
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Empirically Supported Therapies: Best Practice in Professional Psychology
ISBN: 9780761910763 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the issue of best practices in psychological interventions, which, due to the growing recognition of their value, are increasingly being funded by both public and private health providers.
This book addresses the issue of best practices in psychological interventions, which, due to the growing recognition of their value, are increasingly...
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558,34 |
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Addressing Community Problems: Psychological Research and Interventions
ISBN: 9780761910787 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking both social and clinical psychological perspectives, this volume examines pressing community problems such as homelessness, racism, delinquency, alcoholism, violence, unemployment and workplace health. The contributors, leaders in community and social psychology, present the results of their empirical research into these problems.
Taking both social and clinical psychological perspectives, this volume examines pressing community problems such as homelessness, racism, delinquency...
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558,34 |