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An overview written for general readers of the history, prevention, treatment, causes, and consequences of obesity.

What makes obesity a disease instead of just a matter of overeating

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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in countries like the United States. This book provides a comprehensive summary of obesity in America and around the world, discussing the causes and proposing ways to help stem the tide and to help those who are overweight.

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Most studies of geriatric patients have focused on nursing homes. This ethnography details the day-to-day experiences of a geriatric and assessment unit by examining the staff, families, and patients themselves. It looks at the activities that take place in the unit as well as the less obvious cultural patterns of the process.

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The book offers a deep insight into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it not only meticulously reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940 to 1980 but also tells a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.

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The book is intended primarily for professionals, educators, and students in the fields of geriatrics, nursing, rehabilitation, social work, gerontology, family sociology, medical anthropology, and family therapy.

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Reviews the historical development of psychiatry. In this book, the author shows that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses.

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A terrifying picture of the collapse of American psychiatry and the toll it has taken on the mentally ill."-BusinessWeek

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This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.

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This book offers an in indictment of the nation's drug enforcement approach focusing on the short-sighted policies that often deny patients suffering from chronic pain the medications they need.

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Join Pam Pam, a playful panda, on a heartwarming journey of self-discovery and understanding in "Pam Pam's Journey." This beautifully illustrated parable sheds light on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders, offering comfort, insight, and hope for families facing these challenges.

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Paraverbal Communication in Psychotherapy: Beyond the Words offers an innovative investigation into the nonverbal communication between client and therapist. By reviewing engaging case studies from their own practices, the authors step through how therapists and clinicians can...

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Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives offers fresh insights into treating parents and their children that highlight the evolving role of parents throughout the lifespan and amidst contemporary social pressure and change. By drawing from their own personal experiences a...

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today.

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Written by a childbirth specialist, this concise manual teaches spouses, friends, and family how to ease the burdens of pregnancy and childbirth. The ultimate self-help guide for the partner of a birthing mother.

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This book provides a description of the change processes that occur in psychotherapy when it is viewed from a personal construct perspective. The reconstructive process is dealt with in some depth, including the goals of personal construct therapy, the process of reconstruing and the sharing of it between therapist and client.

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This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes.

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This book presents integrative models of play therapy that incorporate expressive arts and evidence-informed interventions when working with preadolescents from a play-based context. It covers play therapy with preadolescents, integrating expressive arts like music, movement, play, sand, and poetry into treatment, along with familial involvement.

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This book presents integrative models of play therapy that incorporate expressive arts and evidence-informed interventions when working with preadolescents from a play-based context. It covers play therapy with preadolescents, integrating expressive arts like music, movement, play, sand, and poetry into treatment, along with familial involvement.

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Play Therapy with Vulnerable Populations: No Child Forgotten provides play therapists and child mental health clinicians a guide to incorporating research-supported practice with play therapy for children affected by natural disasters, complex trauma, chronic illness, and adolescents being bullied for identifying as LGBT.