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Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion and many other cultural factors play an important role in recovery from a traumatic event. She offers vignettes illustrating these issues, as well as activities for traumatized people to regain their sense of self-esteem, safety, strength and calm.

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This book offers insights into the intellectual and emotional development of exceptional children. and developmental theories and how they relate to the identification of gifted children. Several chapters also examine young prodigies and the diversity of personalities and talents that exist among the gifted.

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Gerontology is a multidisciplinary field, and this bibliography provides a multidisciplinary perspective on research on aging. Included are bibliographies on caregiving and health care, rituals related to death and dying, sleep disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, coronary disease, and the use of growth hormone in aging research.

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Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.

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The first book introduces the 18 types of Chinese herbs, which have been widely used in China for intervention of anti-aging and age-related diseases. We wish this book will facilitate progress toward healthy aging solutions and successful interventions.

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A seasoned and thoughtful clinician, the author furnishes rich techniques and approaches toward a new understanding of patients' life dilemmas. His solid and dramatic case material shows how he keeps himself and his patients deeply engaged in experiencing life in abundance.

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This work, set in the context of the growing Asian American population and its associated mental health needs, offers resource/training guidance for psychotherapists who intend to practice with minority communities. It deals with cultural factors that pose obstacles to western psychotherapy.

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Drawn from the wisdom and insights of the world's top doctors, therapists and experts, Trauma will show you that no matter what you have endured, how long you have carried it or how deeply embedded it is, you can be free from pain and suffering. Your road to recovery and whole-body healing is before you.

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Shows therapists how psychological problems can be buried in a gay context, guiding them to recognition and dynamic evaluation that forms the basis of a treatment plan that is simultaneously affirmative, supportive, and corrective.

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Keen, a professor and practicing psychotherapist, addresses the essential distinction between the truly serious questions involved in human life and the superficial aspects so generally engaging people's concern-and often professional treatment-which he terms, triviality.

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This book offers a one-stop source that explains the history, increasing incidence, diagnosis, costs, treatment, and many faces of depression across ages, gender, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic group, and sexual identity.

Every chapter includes vignettes and interviews to illustrate the topic and main points.

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Many major and different types of depression are covered, including adjustment disorder with depressed mood, atypical depression, depressive personality disorder, dysthymic disorder, major depressive disorder, postpartum depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, seasonal affective disorder, and unipolar depression.

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One of the most experienced therapists in the world for treatment-resistant obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) explains the disorder, the treatments available, and the skills needed to overcome and outsmart OCD.

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An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.

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Topics covered include challenges of correct diagnosis, variations in prognosis, investigations of causes including exciting progress in possible toxins and genetic factors that play a role, and different treatment options including natural remedies as well as new drugs for symptom treatment.

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Offering an understanding of postpartum psychosis, this riveting book explains what happens and why during this temporary and dangerous disorder that develops for some women rapidly after childbirth.

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Written by two physicians with decades of clinical and research experience in the field, this volume helps readers face schizophrenia by understanding what it is and how it is managed.

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When picturing a typical alcoholic, most people would visualise a down-on-his-luck, low-income individual. However, of the alcoholics in western countries, nearly 20 per cent are 'highly functional alcoholics. This title offers insights into the millions of 'successful' people who excel in many ways, but remain under the control of alcohol.

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A new understanding of substance abuse explores treatment issues based on subtypes of addicts, with a special focus on antisocial personality disorder and functional addiction.

Professionals in the treatment of substance abuse have long recognized the dismal success rate in addressing this pervasive problem.

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This innovative book explains writer's block (and other creative blocks) as a symptom of a larger disorder. Kantor identifies 10 kinds of writer's block, classified according to the underlying disorder that causes that block.

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