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Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity
ISBN: 9780521012966 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the reperscussions can be dramatic. This book sets out in clear and comprehensive terms what the death of a parent means to most adults--how it in fact functions as a turning point in our emotional, social, and personal lives. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, in-depth interviews, and data collected nationwide, Debra Umberson explores the social and psychological factors...
In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent...
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117,16 |
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Religion, Culture and Mental Health
ISBN: 9780521850230 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage clinical levels of obsessional behaviour? And are religious people happier than others? By merging the growing information on religion and mental health with that on culture and mental health, Kate Loewenthal enables fresh perspectives on these questions. This book deals with different psychiatric conditions such as...
Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress...
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486,89 |
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Psychological Impact of Iiraira (Title III) on Legal Permanent U.S. Residents and Their Families: A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of T
ISBN: 9780595373338 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Psychological Impact of IIRAIRA (Title III) on Legal Permanent U.S. Residents and Their Families" examines the devastating emotional turmoil faced by IIRAIRA-affected families living and working in the United States. This seminal study, whose significance goes beyond its limited scope, describes the altered psychological, social and political reality forced on so many by the law's passage. Documenting IIRAIRA-related psychological and social consequences, the study demonstrates that the ripple effect of traumatic negative life changes imposed by punitive legislation creates depressed single...
"Psychological Impact of IIRAIRA (Title III) on Legal Permanent U.S. Residents and Their Families" examines the devastating emotional turmoil faced by...
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Clinical Work with Children
ISBN: 9780743211857 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,27 |
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Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context: A Casebook for Mental Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780761917885 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context provides mental health professionals with materials to practice the application of cross-cultural variations on standard diagnostic guidelines. Freddy A. Paniagua offers clinical case examples to illustrate the cross-cultural variations applicable in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients from four major cultural groups: African Americans, American Indians, Asians, and Hispanics. Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context provides mental health professionals with materials to practice the application of cross-cultural variations o... |
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770,69 |
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Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context: A Casebook for Mental Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780761917892 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context provides mental health professionals with materials to practice the application of cross-cultural variations on standard diagnostic guidelines. Freddy A. Paniagua offers clinical case examples to illustrate the cross-cultural variations applicable in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients from four major cultural groups: African Americans, American Indians, Asians, and Hispanics. Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context provides mental health professionals with materials to practice the application of cross-cultural variations o... |
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556,07 |
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Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice
ISBN: 9780761930259 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current practice of counselling, psychotherapy, and most helping professions often relies on clinical wisdom with little evidence of what actually works. Clinical wisdom is often a justification for beliefs and values that bond people together as professionals but often fails to serve clients since many of those beliefs and values may be comforting, but they may also be inherently incorrect. Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice covers the use of research and critical thinking to assist helping professionals make the most effective...
The current practice of counselling, psychotherapy, and most helping professions often relies on clinical wisdom with little evidence of what actually...
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648,74 |
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Omnipotent Fantasies and the Vulnerable Self
ISBN: 9780765700469 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fantasies of omnipotence grow out of feelings of helplessness. We are all born helpless, completely dependent on others for nurturance and survival, and we all must face the ultimate annihilation of the self at the end of life. While fantasies of omnipotence help us to cope with these painful acts, they may also interfere with our ability to engage reality and deal with life. This important new book addresses all aspects of omnipotence, from the merger fantasies of the baby who feels like an extension of the powerful parent, to the rigid defense omnipotent fantasies of the frightened...
Fantasies of omnipotence grow out of feelings of helplessness. We are all born helpless, completely dependent on others for nurturance and survival, a...
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365,83 |
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Rethinking Clinical Technique
ISBN: 9780765701831 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the issue of whether it is possible to think clearly about clinical technique in an era of fluidity and change. Busch offers an approach to clinical technique based on shared assumptions about what helps people change. Using clinical examples, he explains when and how to intervene to help increase patients' autonomy and self-reflective abilities. The method is designed to be integrated into clinical practice whatever the theoretical orientation or level of experience.
This text addresses the issue of whether it is possible to think clearly about clinical technique in an era of fluidity and change. Busch offers an ap...
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439,01 |
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New Clinical Realms: Pushing the Envelope of Theory and Technique
ISBN: 9780765703354 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Clinical Realms, Dr. Akhtar's latest book, raises intriguing questions about man's subjective experience and his relationship with the world around him. What exactly is mental pain? How does forgiveness occur? What is the proper psychosocial role of a mentor? And, even more provocatively, what is man's inner relationship with animals? How do inanimate objects sustain and facilitate psychic development throughout the life span? Do the physical objects in the clinical setting actually affect the patient's mind? How does simplicity lead to contradiction and at what stage does contradiction...
New Clinical Realms, Dr. Akhtar's latest book, raises intriguing questions about man's subjective experience and his relationship with the world aroun...
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487,78 |
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Addiction as an Attachment Disorder
ISBN: 9780765703378 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Foreword: "Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotions, self-care, self-esteem, and relationships. In this monumental and illuminating text Philip Flores covers all the reasons why this is so. But it is the domain of interpersonal relations that he makes clear why individuals susceptible to substance use disorders (SUDs) are especially vulnerable. His emphasis on addiction as an attachment disorder is principally important because he provides extensive scholarly and clinical insights as to why...
From the Foreword: "Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotion...
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A Primer of Clinical Interpretation: Classic and Postclassical Approaches
ISBN: 9780765703613 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a guide to clinical interpretations for those in the practice of psychotherapy. The book is divided into two parts: Part I deals with the classical approach to clinical interpretation; and Part II deals with developments since Freud, including Kohut's self-psychological approach.
This text provides a guide to clinical interpretations for those in the practice of psychotherapy. The book is divided into two parts: Part I deals wi...
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414,61 |
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Infertility & Identity: New Strategies for Treatment
ISBN: 9780787938819 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new model for treating infertility
This new book offers a revolutionary clinical model for treating individuals and couples who are infertile. The authors reveal how infertility profoundly affects a sense of identity and colors the most intimate relationships with family and friAnds. Step by step, this vital resource, shows clinicians how they can learn to support clients in overcoming their inevitable sense of loss and help them to regain their power. The authors' advocacy of acceptance of infertility is a liberating approach for families who have been struggling... A new model for treating infertility
This new book offers a revolutionary clinical model for treating individuals and couples who are inf... |
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Spirituality and Mental Health : Clinical Applications
ISBN: 9780789024763 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought-provoking guide for mental health professionals and pastoral counselors provides you with a framework to assess and incorporate client-based spirituality into your practice. The author's unique understanding of spirituality and its relationship to mental heath makes the book an ideal educational guide for practitioners striving to understand the impact of faith on their clients' mental health. The insights presented in Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications will leave you better informed about the complexities of spirituality and make it easier for you to integrate...
This thought-provoking guide for mental health professionals and pastoral counselors provides you with a framework to assess and incorporate client-ba...
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756,05 |
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Spirituality and Mental Health : Clinical Applications
ISBN: 9780789024770 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn to conduct a client-centered assessment of spirituality and use the findings to enhance your interventions as well as your clients' psychospiritual coping abilities Even to clinicians practiced in helping clients to manage their stress, the impact of clients' spirituality upon their mental health can be difficult to discern and discuss. Moreover, ethical dilemmas can arise when clinicians feel compelled to intervene with a client's negative religious coping. Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications can help. This thought-provoking guide for mental health professionals and...
Learn to conduct a client-centered assessment of spirituality and use the findings to enhance your interventions as well as your clients' psychospirit...
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282,86 |
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Developmental Aspects in Learning to Write
ISBN: 9780792369790 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for the discovery of writing as an object worthy of intellectual inquiry (Havelock, 1986). A number of books, which came out in that decade, set the stage for this turn-to-writing. One of them was the Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock. This book, published in 1963, was to become a milestone in the discovery of literacy as a field of research (Bockheimer, 1998). Havelock (1986) referred to three more works that came out at the same time, and...
Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for t...
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402,53 |
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Developmental Aspects in Learning to Write
ISBN: 9780792370635 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for the discovery of writing as an object worthy of intellectual inquiry (Havelock, 1986). A number of books, which came out in that decade, set the stage for this turn-to-writing. One of them was the Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock. This book, published in 1963, was to become a milestone in the discovery of literacy as a field of research (Bockheimer, 1998). Havelock (1986) referred to three more works that came out at the same time, and...
Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for t...
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519,50 |
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Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements: Generalizability Theory
ISBN: 9780792374992 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements focuses on the applications of Generalizability Theory to Performance Assessment. The author developed an objective method to examine the dependability of the scoring of large-scale performance assessments by humans.
This book presents principles in identifying common missing data patterns inherent in assessment designs. These principles can be used to guide the design of assessment procedures including those used in large-scale testing programs, observations, and structured interviews. Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements focuses on the applications of Generalizability Theory to Performance Assessment. The aut...
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Childhood Abuse and Chronic Pain: A Curious Relationship?
ISBN: 9780802077905 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empirical evidence is mounting to support the theory that certain individuals are prone to suffering from chronic pain as a result of childhood abuse. This is the first book devoted to a comprehensive exploration of abuse and its role in the genesis of pain. In a review of different types of abuse - childhood, spousal, sexual, physical, and emotional - Ranjan Roy probes the psychological and social consequences of abuse over time. He discusses variety in clinical presentation, course of treatment, and the failure or adverse effects of treatment. An experienced and highly recognized... Empirical evidence is mounting to support the theory that certain individuals are prone to suffering from chronic pain as a result of childhood abu... |
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117,02 |
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The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy
ISBN: 9780803953338 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some 1,500 terms are briefly defined, each entry including a relevant example, identification of the origin of the term, and listing of at least one source. A thorough, concise, and well-conceived reference. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Some 1,500 terms are briefly defined, each entry including a relevant example, identification of the origin of the term, and listing of at least one s...
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648,74 |