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Recovering from Sexual Abuse, Addictions, and Compulsive Behaviors
Clinical social worker Knauer discusses the addictive or compulsive behaviors exhibited by many survivors of sexual abuse. She argues that the behaviors are an understandable defensive mechanism for coping with the emotional pain of abuse. She …
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Written specifically for midwives by a practising acupuncturist who is also a qualified midwife and with the latest developments and increasing understanding of acupuncture in mind, this text relates the use of acupuncture specifically to areas …
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Co-published with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), this book is a comprehensive clinical resource for practicing perinatal nurses and an excellent staff educator's guide and textbook. It provides commonly …
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Essential Midwifery Practice: Public Health highlights how public health underpins every midwife's practice by using examples and case histories. It addresses a wide range of public health issues pertinent to every midwife, including: smoking in …
For the pioneering psychologist D.W. Winnicott, a creative approach to the world is what makes life worth living. But what are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does "Playing and …
Health Action Zones: Partnerships for Health Equity
Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. "Health Action Zones," written by members of the team undertaking …
The Handbook of Autism, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Featuring new case studies that reflect the extent and variability of autism, and an updated appendix of useful addresses, this new edition of "The Handbook of Autism" brings up to date the relevant and practical information of the first edition. …
Normalization, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long-stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has …
Comprised of 500 multiple choice questions of MRCP examination level, this excellent resource comes complete with answers and explanations to aid in understanding and retention. Authored by an experienced MCQ composer, the questions are divided …
Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia
Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and nurses are increasingly involved in treatments which include psychological therapy, and particularly cognitive therapy, for serious mental disorders. The aim of this book is to guide such …
John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
John Bowlby (1907-1990) has been described as one of the three or four most important psychiatrists of the 20th century. In this book, Jeremy Holmes provides a focused and coherent account of Bowlby's life and work, based on his writings and …
Key Thinkers for the Information Society
With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor introduces a particular social theorist and discusses the way in which their insights can be reintroduced into debates regarding the social, political and …
Health Policy and Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Health economics has made major contributions to the development of health policy in many countries. This book describes those successes and looks forward to the major contributions that health economics can bring to bear on emerging policy …
The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals
The new edition of of The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals enables students and professionals to understand how the Internet works and how to navigate it with ease, so that they may access online health information …
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
First time in Penguin Classics. Edited by the coauthors of the acclaimed biography Darwin. Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, chronology, biographical register, and index. Reproduces the book's original illustrations and …
This stop smoking programme employs hypnotherapy and special breathing techniques. It claims to cause no withdrawal symptoms or cravings, no irritability and no desire for snacks between meals. However, the programme will only work if the smoker …
Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison
First published in 1983 when it won the MIND Book of the Year Award, this best-selling book has help thousands of people leave behind the prison of depression. Dorothy Rowe gives depressed people a way of understanding their depression, which …
The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities
The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities is chock full of inspiring and innovative ideas on how to: - convert everyday activities into those with "knack" - create new activities out of tried-and-true activities - provide activities between …
Quality of Life in Old Age.
Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior: A Therapist's Guide to Assessment and Treatment represents state of the art coverage of the latest theory, research and treatment strategies for infants and children with problems of …
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies, an area that can be a source of anxiety to many students. "Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy" is a unique, hands-on guide to …
It is estimated that as much as 30 percent of the adult population suffers from insomnia. Those millions of sleep-challenged men and women will find solutions that really work in this engagingly written handbook. Whether chronic or occasional and …
Outcome and Innovation in Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia
Psychological treatments for schizophrenia are increasingly popular with mental health practitioners and people with schizophrenia, and also with their families. But do they work? This book brings together some of the latest evidence for the …
Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans
Delmar's Maternal-Infant Nursing Care Plans, 2nd edition, provides detailed information on caring for clients during pregnancy, labor and delivery, the postpartum period, and the newborn/infant period. All the information needed to develop …
Biological Basis of Nursing: Mental Health: Mental Health
This essential text for mental health nursing students, practitioners and educators explores the underlying biology associated with the pathology of mental health disorders and the related nervous system. Integrating related pharmacological and …
Coping with Catastrophe: A Handbook of Post-Disaster Psychosocial Aftercare
"Coping with Catastrophe" is a practical handbook for people who provide psychosocial aftercare for victims of disasters. This completely revised and updated second edition includes the latest findings on the nature and effects of trauma, the …
Learning Human Skills: An Experiential and Reflective Guide for Nurses and Health Care Professionals
Learning Human Skills has become a standard text for teaching and learning effective interpersonal, counselling and group skills at both student and practitioner levels. It has also proved to be of great value to many nurse educators in the …
Cultural Diversity Mental Health and Psychiatry
According to the National Service Framework for mental health, published by the Department of Health in 1999, black and minority ethnic communities have the minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services. Cultural …
Technology as Symptom and Dream
Robert Romanyshyn's latest book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was, and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world.;This book should be of interest to students of psychology, analysis, …
How to Write Health Sciences Papers, Dissertations and Theses
This comprehensive text serves as a practical, guide to preparing a written research report. It also provides a checklist for thesis preparation to ensure that no steps or key components are overlooked. Researchers will be able to present results …