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This volume traces the history of the field of sports medicine and offers an informative survey of the evaluation and treatment of sports injuries across the life cycle.

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This book explores how to recognize, treat, and prevent sports injuries and offers guidance on which sports and training techniques are most likely to lead to injury.

Engaging in sports has numerous health benefits, but it's an unfortunate reality that it can also lead to injury.

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Part of a series that provides a resource for obtaining an overview of the most controversial areas of healthcare.

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Providing a significant source of information for upper high school and community college students concerning steroids and their derivatives, this book provides a holistic overview of this controversial class of drugs.

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Covers the common affliction of stroke that comes in many different forms, which can be fatal or leave the patient disabled, and which strikes a surprising number of younger people. This volume includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of works that discuss the disease.

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This volume offers a description and analysis of subtle suicide-a psychological condition whose victims don't care if they live or die, and thus act in self-defeating, self-damaging ways.

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This bold book breaks new ground by making explicit and coherent the theoretical underpinnings of feminist therapy

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Van der Mark examines Dutch attitudes and practices surrounding birth from a sociohistorical point of view, explaining the importance of ideological consensus, the private nature of the Dutch family, the high regard for comfort and well being, and the professional development of midwives as trained and licensed practitioners.

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Delving into a topic of perennial interest and concern, particularly among teenagers, this important volume addresses the full range of issues relative to suicide and suggests ways to help those who struggle.

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This is the first book to provide a carefully designed clinical approach to supportive psychotherapy that is rigorously connected to psychodynamic theory.

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Here, psychologists, psychiatrists and other leading experts who disagree with Thomas Szasz's views on specific issues explain their reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.

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Filled with enlightening first-person accounts, Talking About Therapy tells us why patients sought therapy, what they think of the therapists to whom they entrusted their well-being, and whether the treatment was worth the struggle, the emotional pain, and the money.

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An indepth overview of major current problems faced by today's adolescents.

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Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded

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Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. This book examines various facets of pain: the psychological and clinical aspects, the physiological evidence, the major theories of pain and the developments in its control.

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This book explores the subject of working with people of African, Caribbean, Asian and Mixed heritage in both therapeutic practice and clinical supervision. Using a wealth of real-life examples, it examines the hurt of racism in therapy and guides students, trainees and practitioners through the process of engaging with black issues.

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Following in the tradition of "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information," this work is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug, providing a long, strange trivia trip.

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Journalist Blake's gripping true story ("Publishers Weekly") about a 34-year-old Buffalo firefighter who regained consciousness after nearly 10 years in a coma patiently records a family's heroic grief and fortitude.