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Mental Health Promotion: Paradigms and Practice
ISBN: 9780415101066 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental health promotion is an emerging field of interest to many health professionals. This book traces its history, defines it and distinguishes it from mental illness prevention. Mental health is viewed as a positive concept and seperate from mental illness and psychopathology. Based on original research, the conceptual analysis developed in the book offers policy makers and practitioners a coherent and comprehensive framework within which to design and implement practice. Mental Health Promotion:
* offers a new conceptual paradigm for mental health promotion * applies it to... Mental health promotion is an emerging field of interest to many health professionals. This book traces its history, defines it and distinguishes it f...
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201,44 zł |
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The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9780415105392 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While professional trainings in psychotherapy and counselling vary considerably in the attention they pay to assessment, courses, conferences and workshops devoted to the subject are attracting an audience eager for more demonstration and discussion. In response, The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy offers an extended symposium on principles and practice. Guided by a belief that comparative study will spur critical reflection and innovation, its presentations encompass a wide range of therapeutic orientations, settings and interests.
In the book twelve distinguished... While professional trainings in psychotherapy and counselling vary considerably in the attention they pay to assessment, courses, conferences and work...
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196,46 zł |
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Asylum in the Community
ISBN: 9780415107433 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on an empirical examination of psychiatric care both past and present, Asylum in the Community clearly defines the concept of asylum and shows how it can be provided effectively outside the hospital. Drawing on work in the USA, Belgium, Spain, Ireland and England, contributors analyse such services from both user and provider perspectives. From these analyses the editors establish the key elements that should be considered in developing contemporary community services for the mentally ill.
Asylum in the Community provides a balanced assessment of a controversial,... Based on an empirical examination of psychiatric care both past and present, Asylum in the Community clearly defines the concept of asylum an...
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186,33 zł |
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Preventing Mental Illness in Practice
ISBN: 9780415119931 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this follow up to Preventing Mental Illness, Jennifer Newton describes real life examples of good practice in preventive mental health. Five areas covering the life span have been identified and promising strategies are described in detail: what is provided, how the target group is engaged, the resources required, management problems and evidence of effectiveness. Interviews with both clients and providers help to bring to life the descriptions as we learn how the support came to be needed and what benefits they themselves feel have been reaped.
These descriptive studies,... In this follow up to Preventing Mental Illness, Jennifer Newton describes real life examples of good practice in preventive mental health. Fi...
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191,37 zł |
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Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States
ISBN: 9780415121774 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the well known myth of Pandora, hope was the last and most needed gift at the bottom of a box of myriad misfortunes let loose on an unsuspecting world. For most human beings hope is a positive benefit. But in this work, Anna Potamianou shows how in the borderline patient it can become an omnipotent means of denying reality. Indeed, in such individuals, any state of mind or feeling can take on the status of an object, which is then used as a barrier against their fear of change. The author gives both clinical and literary examples of how this happens and goes on to discuss the connection...
In the well known myth of Pandora, hope was the last and most needed gift at the bottom of a box of myriad misfortunes let loose on an unsuspecting wo...
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206,54 zł |
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Adult Bullying: Perpetrators and Victims
ISBN: 9780415126731 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The frequency and severity of personal harrassment is a problem that is only just beginning to be uncovered. In Adult Bullying, psychologist Peter Randall uses the voices of both bullies and victims to reveal the misery that many adults endure.
He describes the processes that turn child bullies into adult bullies, often aware of their behaviour but unable to stop it. The workplace and the neighbourhood replace the playground, but the tactics and patterns of reward remain the same. The adult victim has little or no more power than the child counterpart, often changing jobs to... The frequency and severity of personal harrassment is a problem that is only just beginning to be uncovered. In Adult Bullying, psychologist ...
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186,33 zł |
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Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry
ISBN: 9780415157254 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revised edition, the authors assess the psychological consequences of migration and prejudice for groups as diverse as West Indians, Turkish Cypriots and Hasidic Jews. Combining theoretical perspectives from the areas of psychiatry and social anthropology, they examine the epidemiology of mental ill health among ethnic minorities and black Britons, and conclude that mental illness can be an intelligible response to disadvantage and prejudice. The new concluding chapter to this standard text reviews the development of transcultural psychiatry in Britain and summarizes recent changes in...
In this revised edition, the authors assess the psychological consequences of migration and prejudice for groups as diverse as West Indians, Turkish C...
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176,31 zł |
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Understanding Depression: Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches
ISBN: 9780415165631 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. Janet Stoppard argues that current approaches give only partial accounts of womens' experiences of depression and concludes that a better understanding will only be achieved when womens' experiences and lived realities are considered in relation to the material and social conditions in which their everyday lives are embedded. The impact of this change in approach for modes of...
Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches ...
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211,52 zł |
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Evil or Ill? : Justifying the Insanity Defence
ISBN: 9780415166997 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from case examples, this text examines the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. It explains that in law, there exists two excuses derived from Aristotle: the excuses of ignorance and compulsion. This text however, proposes that there is actually a third excuse - the excuse of character change. In introducing this third excuse, the author raises a controversial possibility - the abolition of the insanity defence.
Drawing from case examples, this text examines the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. It explains ...
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680,04 zł |
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Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence
ISBN: 9780415167000 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controversial investigation of the insanity defense in Evil or Ill? Drawing from countless intriguing case examples, he aims to understand the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. In his easily accessible and elegant style, he explains that in law, there exists two excuses derived from Aristotle: the excuses of ignorance and compulsion. Reznek, however proposes a third excuse - the excuse of character change. In introducing this third excuse, Reznek raises a controversial...
Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controversial investigation of the insanity defense in Evil or Ill? Drawing from coun...
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211,52 zł |
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Mentally Disordered Offenders: Managing People Nobody Owns
ISBN: 9780415180108 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. With specialist contributors from criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation practice and the law, the book stresses the importance of professional cooperation in community-based services, whilst acknowledging the psychologically demanding nature of working with mentally disordered people. The text also looks at the very real challenges of attempting to contain their wrongdoing without recourse to the repressiveness of imprisonment.
This text presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. With ...
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201,44 zł |
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Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care: Essays in Honour of Professor David Goldberg
ISBN: 9780415205726 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an overview of the diagnosis, treatment and management of the most common mental disorders encountered in primary care. Published to mark the retirement of Professor Sir David Goldberg, contributors bring together clinical and research work drawn from psychiatry, medicine, psychology, social work and sociology. Topics include: the biological basis of common mental disorders; disability and depression in primary care; the limits of mental health care in general medical clinics; improving the management of mental disorders in the elderly; and training the whole primary care...
This text provides an overview of the diagnosis, treatment and management of the most common mental disorders encountered in primary care. Published t...
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438,20 zł |
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The Concentric Method In The Diagnosis Of Psychoneurotics
ISBN: 9780415209281 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the International Library of Psychology series is available upon request.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures...
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931,92 zł |
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Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness: Nameless Dread
ISBN: 9780415219808 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In the last few years arts therapies have been used in an increasingly wide range of applications with new groups of patients, such as patients in palliative care, or with learning disabilities - Diane Waller has been a driving force behind this expansion.
This book covers treatment such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy. In addition to dealing with a wide range of debilitating diseases, it focuses on... Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's...
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503,69 zł |
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The Environment of Schizophrenia: Innovations in Practice, Policy and Communications
ISBN: 9780415223065 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia are affected by a variety of environmental factors. The Environment of Schizophrenia draws upon our knowledge of these factors in order to design innovations that will decrease its incidence and severity, while enhancing the quality of life for sufferers and their relatives.
Examining environmental forces operating at the individual, domestic and broad societal levels, Richard Warner proposes feasible interventions such as: * education about obstetric risks * marketing effective... There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia are affected by a variety of environmental factors. The...
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528,93 zł |
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The Environment of Schizophrenia: Innovations in Practice, Policy and Communications
ISBN: 9780415223072 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia are affected by a variety of environmental factors. The Environment of Schizophrenia draws upon our knowledge of these factors in order to design innovations that will decrease its incidence and severity, while enhancing the quality of life for sufferers and their relatives.
Examining environmental forces operating at the individual, domestic and broad societal levels, Richard Warner proposes feasible interventions such as: * education about obstetric risks * marketing effective... There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia are affected by a variety of environmental factors. The...
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100,70 zł |
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Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality
ISBN: 9780415231015 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways. Some, for example, consider it in terms of statistical infrequency whilst others look at it as deviation from social norms. Susan Cave discusses and compares some of the attempts made and examines the limitations they might have. She also looks at medical and psychological models of abnormality, their views on the causes of abnormality and their practical implications for treatment.
Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways. Some, for example, consider it in terms of statistical infrequen...
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680,04 zł |
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Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality
ISBN: 9780415231022 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways. Some, for example, consider it in terms of statistical infrequency whilst others look at it as deviation from social norms. Susan Cave discusses and compares some of the attempts made and examines the limitations they might have. She also looks at medical and psychological models of abnormality, their views on the causes of abnormality and their practical implications for treatment.
Psychologists have attempted to define psychological abnormality in a number of ways. Some, for example, consider it in terms of statistical infrequen...
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191,37 zł |
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Studies on Psychosis : Descriptive, psycho-analytic and psychological aspects
ISBN: 9780415264495 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1965 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1965 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number...
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1057,85 zł |
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Mental Illness in the Community : The pathway to psychiatric care
ISBN: 9780415264518 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number...
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297,15 zł |