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Helps practicing physicians and medical students make use of short stories to help their patients adapt to their illnesses and participate in their treatment. This manual includes sixteen stories which as analyzed to show how they illustrate the process of change, as defined by Erik Erikson's description of the "life cycle."

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"One of the most searching and thought-provoking discussions about human change processes I have read. The author writes from the perspective of a psychologist, psychotherapist, philosopher, and reseracher, but above all he writes as a perceptive and sensitive human being."--Hans Strupp, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.

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The increase in new medical technology and experimental treatments has made the study of medical ethics essential for practitioners on all levels.

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Professionals who are creative users of humor, and whose work with humor is exemplary in nurturing children's cognitive, social, and/or emotional development, illustrate how humor played a key role in the relationships they developed with children.

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Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism. This title offers an account of the young woman's mental afflictions.

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An examination of brain-immune system communication in autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

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This guide examines injury prevention for the elderly. It provides a survey of 621 references which cover injury prevention in general as well as various accidents and problems, ranging from burns and scalds to hypothermia and hyperthermia.

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This book is designed as a gentle, step-by-step guide for re-parenting the inner child during the first seven stages of life: as an infant, a toddler, a young child, a grade school child, a young teen, a young adolescent, and a young adult. Using a wide range of tools to do this inner work, the reader is led to explore the issues of grief, shame, and loss at each of the seven stages.

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This text presents examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in order to achieve the goal of providing care for those with severe mental illness. Strategies examined include consumer co-operatives, professional-volunteer teamwork and housing-based alternatives.

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Part of a growing trend toward bridging the gap between rival schools of therapy, this book goes beyond other works to envision a mental health professional who, like a family doctor, can serve as a resource for an entire family either individually or together throughout their lives.

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This book, serving as a positive augmentation to prevalent theories of psychotherapy, is ideal for students, scholars, professors, and researchers from any cultural background.

The book begins with a discussion of the converging themes in psychotherapy as presented at the International Conference on Psychotherapy.

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"This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in t"

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Reflecting exciting new trends in psychiatric treatment, the authors present their model of IPT, short-term psychotherapy for treating clinical depression.

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A guide to understanding and overcoming boredom and depression shows readers how to break the addiction to artificial forms of excitement and activity, such as television, and how to renew joy in life by unfreezing emotions.

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This text examines some of the most perplexing problems a client may present to a counsellor and how a philosopher would deal with them. It provides a detailed philosophical discussion as well as illustrative case studies of some of the most important issues encountered in any counselling practice.

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Food allergies don't have to slow you down!

Jessie and friends teach you how to stay safe and have fun!

Sarah Boudreau-Romano, MD, is an allergist/immunologist and mother of four kids, three of whom have food allergies,
who shares her playful perspective on this serious condition.

Colorfully depicted by illustrator Abbie Boudreau-Cook.

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This book offers a warning that American children are receiving increased chemical treatment from psychiatrists and provides a primer on how to improve the emotional health of kids without drugs.

"Maelstrom" is an apt metaphor for the inexorable deterioration many children experience inside the mental health system.