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Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections
ISBN: 9780802078308 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schizophrenia, at one time considered by many clinicians to be a psychological response to an oppressive upbringing, is now generally accepted as a physical illness. While Keith Doubt does not quarrel with this current view, he does challenge the positivist assumptions that tend to accompany it. Throughout this fascinating survey of the literature on schizophrenia, Doubt presents a critique of society's neglect of the mentally ill and promotes a humanistic understanding of the affected person as a social being. Doubt draws on several disciplines and uses the works of such diverse... Schizophrenia, at one time considered by many clinicians to be a psychological response to an oppressive upbringing, is now generally accepted as a... |
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Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis
ISBN: 9780802131676 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. D.W. Winnicott, a psychoanalyst of extraordinary grace and originality, left a body of work distinguished by fierce independence of mind, profound playfulness and technique, and passionate intelligence. Holding and Interpretation, a verbatim record of his sessions with a psychotic patient, vividly illustrates his enormous contribution to psychoanalytic theory and technique, his skill at holding the patient in the analytic session and providing guidance through sensitive interpretation. It is a rare working portrait of one of the true giants of psychoanalysis a very vast subject, as he said,...
D.W. Winnicott, a psychoanalyst of extraordinary grace and originality, left a body of work distinguished by fierce independence of mind, profound pla...
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Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780803931824 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims is a practical manual designed to assist mental health professionals in the effective treatment of both victims and offenders through the development of specialized skills. The author discusses methods of treatment of offenders and includes an assessment battery, which measures their sexual attitudes. She also addresses ways of treating victims and minimizing trauma within the legal system. The volume will thus be invaluable for all mental health professionals who wish to learn effective treatment of the victims and the perpetrators of child sexual...
Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims is a practical manual designed to assist mental health professionals in the effective treatment of both victi...
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552,66 |
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Mental Health in Black America
ISBN: 9780803935396 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to overcome adversity and maintain a positive, healthy perspective on life. Based on data obtained from a United States National Survey of Black Americans, the book first discusses psychological and sociological factors affecting life satisfaction. Contributors then explore how these psychosocial factors contribute to such health problems as alcoholism and hypertension. The volume concludes with an examination of strategies Black Americans use in...
This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to ...
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Treating the Sexual Offender
ISBN: 9780803936638 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the correct assessment techniques and behavioural approach to maladaptive sexual abuse disorders, this book covers such topics as aversive respondent conditioning and reconditioning. The author offers a discussion of future directions in behavioural treatment.
Focusing on the correct assessment techniques and behavioural approach to maladaptive sexual abuse disorders, this book covers such topics as aversive...
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Ethnic Issues in Adolescent Mental Health
ISBN: 9780803939851 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The effects of social and environmental conditions on mental health, and the need to understand ethnic values and attitudes when developing helping strategies are the major themes of this volume, which is aimed at raising awareness of the effects of ethnicity on adolescent mental health.
The effects of social and environmental conditions on mental health, and the need to understand ethnic values and attitudes when developing helping st...
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Clinical Case Management: A Guide to Comprehensive Treatment of Serious Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780803943872 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The integration of a broad array of interventions is described in this comprehensive, practical guide for those working with seriously mentally ill adults. It draws on the experience of clients who struggle with severe and disabling problems in a challenging urban environment. The contributors argue that psychological and practical issues are intertwined and therefore such interventions must be delivered concurrently. They also emphasize that understanding and using the resources of a client's culture is critical to the successful implementation of care, and that families and natural support...
The integration of a broad array of interventions is described in this comprehensive, practical guide for those working with seriously mentally ill ad...
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552,66 |
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Sexually Agressive Children: Coming to Understand Them
ISBN: 9780803951761 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accessible and sensitive, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sexual abuse perpetrated by children 12 years old and younger. Drawing attention to this frequently overlooked population, the author explores the familial, extrafamilial and situational factors conducive to various types of sexual abuse by children so young.
For professionals and researchers having to consider sexually aggressive acts by children as young as two or three, this book examines the theories and frameworks used to explain this kind of behaviour, and outlines their associated social and psychological... Accessible and sensitive, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sexual abuse perpetrated by children 12 years old and younger. Drawing attent...
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Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780803957213 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the trend of deinstitutionalization, family members are finding themselves increasingly in the position of primary caregivers to mentally ill adults - a role for which they are often untrained and unprepared. This volume explores the experiences of these caregivers. The author: discusses the characteristics and conceptual models related to mental illness; surveys the experience of mental illness in the context of the family life cycle and developmental stages of the illness; appraises the burdens on the family including social stigma, refusal of treatment, stress and the relationship...
With the trend of deinstitutionalization, family members are finding themselves increasingly in the position of primary caregivers to mentally ill adu...
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Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: Misunderstood Child Abuse
ISBN: 9780803958128 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on Munchausen by proxy syndrome, this text addresses critical issues of identification and assessment along with a long-term psychotherapy model designed for the treatment of acknowledged perpetrators.
Focusing on Munchausen by proxy syndrome, this text addresses critical issues of identification and assessment along with a long-term psychotherapy mo...
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Children′s Mental Health Services: Research, Policy, and Evaluation
ISBN: 9780803973497 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is estimated that in the United States, 14-26 per cent of children under the age of 18 suffer from some type of behavioural, emotional or developmental problem. However, less than a third of these children receive any mental health care. This volume presents recent developments in policy, service and evaluation, and explores how more of these children can be reached and helped.
It is estimated that in the United States, 14-26 per cent of children under the age of 18 suffer from some type of behavioural, emotional or developme...
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A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
ISBN: 9780804741699 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the...
This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also...
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Masochism and the Self
ISBN: 9780805804867 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an integrative theory firmly grounded in current psychology of the self, and offers a fresh, compelling account of one of psychology's most enigmatic behavior patterns. Professor Baumeister provides comprehensive coverage of historical and cross-cultural theories and empirical data on masochism and presents recent, original data drawn from a large data set of anonymous masochistic scripts of fantasies and favorite experiences. Drawn from the latest social psychological research and theories, Professor Baumeister returns the emphasis to the original and proto-typical form...
This volume provides an integrative theory firmly grounded in current psychology of the self, and offers a fresh, compelling account of one of psychol...
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The Sexual Abuse of Children: Volume II: Clinical Issues
ISBN: 9780805809558 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is sexual abuse to be defined? What are the effects of abuse? How can the victim be helped? This book covers a wide range of issues concerning the sexual abuse of children. Topics such as epidemiology, legal reforms, and child pornography are dealt with in this and the companion volume.
How is sexual abuse to be defined? What are the effects of abuse? How can the victim be helped? This book covers a wide range of issues concerning the...
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The Antisocial Personalities
ISBN: 9780805819410 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it offers a coherent theoretical and developmental analysis of socialization and its vicissitudes, and the role played in socialization by the crime-relevent genetic traits of the child and the skills and limitations of the primary socializing agents, the parents.
This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it off...
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The Antisocial Personalities
ISBN: 9780805819748 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it offers a coherent theoretical and developmental analysis of socialization and its vicissitudes, and the role played in socialization by the crime-relevent genetic traits of the child and the skills and limitations of the primary socializing agents, the parents.
This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it off...
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Historical and Geographical Influences on Psychopathology
ISBN: 9780805824261 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book begins with the assumption that a deep understanding of the origins of psychopathology, human dysfunction, and their course is fundamental to the quest for the good society, and perhaps, even to our survival as a species. The studies presented compare prevalences and risk factors across time and place, and make use of concepts and methods from history, geography, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, social and medical services research, social policy, psychiatry, and epidemiology. Collectively, they illustrate the methods and methodological difficulties involved in the...
This book begins with the assumption that a deep understanding of the origins of psychopathology, human dysfunction, and their course is fundamental t...
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Subordination and Defeat: An Evolutionary Approach To Mood Disorders and Their Therapy
ISBN: 9780805832983 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describing the ways in which human subordination systems of ancient origin relate to other behavioural systems and contribute to depressive illness, this book offers an evolutionary model of mood disorders and explores its implications for therapy.
Describing the ways in which human subordination systems of ancient origin relate to other behavioural systems and contribute to depressive illness, t...
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The Mental Health Professional and the New Technologies: A Handbook for Practice Today
ISBN: 9780805839883 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last two decades, new communication technologies have dramatically changed the world in which mental health professionals and their patients live. Developments such as e-mail, online chat groups, Web pages, search engines, and electronic databases are directly or indirectly affecting most people's routines and expectations. Other developments are poised to do so in the near future. Already, for example, patients are acquiring both good and bad advice and information on the Web; many expect to be able to reach their therapists by e-mail. And already there is pressure from third party... In the last two decades, new communication technologies have dramatically changed the world in which mental health professionals and their patients... |
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The Mental Health of Refugees: Ecological Approaches to Healing and Adaptation
ISBN: 9780805841725 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based mental health care. In any case, clinic-based services cannot adequately address the constellation of displacement-related stressors that affect refugees daily, whether in a new region of their homeland or a new country--stressors such as social isolation, the loss of previously valued social...
It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have doc...
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