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Written in accessible but medically accurate prose, Anorexia provides a detailed explanation of how the diagnosis of anorexia is made, common physical and personality characteristics of those affected by the illness, and both short and long-term complications.

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"Are You Culturally Competent" by Dr. Elisa P. Bell gives an in-depth examination of the continuum of culturally-competent care including definitions, key concepts, history and treatments that influence thinking. The author shares clinical and personally rich experiences to provide an additional lens into cultural competency.

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A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.

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Late-life depression can be addressed. This practice-oriented, research-based casebook draws on the authors' extensive clinical and academic experience to provide an essential resource for practitioners and researchers.

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This book focuses on the importance of understanding the experience of the person as the primary task of psychology and psychotherapy. A chapter on qualitative research methodologies includes both the philosophical bases of this form of research and the compatibilities between qualitative psychology and personal construct theory.

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This volume analyzes selected state-of-the-art addiction research presently being conducted by leaders in the field. In Part II, the treatment section, they examine aversion therapy for both cigarette smokers and alcoholics, coping-response counseling, the effectiveness of relapse prevention, and a job-training program for heroin addicts.

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This book will be of interest to faculty and students in undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with addictions. It will also be useful to counselors and clinical professionals dealing with addiction and substance abuse.

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In this work, a panel of experts discusses clinical, business and operational aspects of assisted living, seeking to offer innovative approaches to providing a superior atmosphere of care. Examples and case studies are included to illustrate the text.

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Callaway argues that this history offers lessons about the treatmentand options for better treatmentof the mentally ill in society today.

Throughout the text, the author weaves in comparisons to books and movies about the mentally ill and the facilities that have housed them.

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This book presents the problem of attempted suicide as a meaningful and momentous event in the person's life with special consideration of its effects on the human environment. Five groups of people who have made suicide attempts were studied.

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Addresses a particular disease or medical condition. This title examines a wide variety of topics: the history of the disease, and the origins of medical treatments; who gets the disease, how they are diagnosed, and the likely symptoms; the impact of the condition on patients, their families, and society; and, what the future may bring.

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The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especi

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Grounded in feminist perspectives, the first study of transnational surrogacyto give due prominence to the voices of those most affected by the practice, namely the surrogate mothers, donors, prospective parents and the children themselves.

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Demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding can reduce the painfulness of negative feelings and increase our tolerance for emotional pain. This work enables freedom from frightening fantasies, decrease reliance on passive and masochistic ways of being, increase our ability to take pleasure in the body and more.

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Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. -- .

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This book shows you how the Alexander Technique will beat your back pain, relieve your stress and improve your overall wellbeing.

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This bibliography contains references to material in the field of behavioral teratology--a hybrid between psychology, with its emphasis on behavior, and teratology, which emphasizes factors interfering with normal development.