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L'Abate (psychology, Georgia State U.) clarifies and systematically sets out proposals he has made before to pair programmed distance writing, as represented by notebooks, with any other preventative, psychotherapeutic, and rehabilitative approach regardless of theory or personal bias. He reviews so

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Kiesler's Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorder goes beyond recent volumes which argue that psychotropic medications are being overused and abused in contemporary mental health settings.

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Kiesler's Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorder goes beyond recent volumes which argue that psychotropic medications are being overused and abused in contemporary mental health settings.

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Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a biblically-based approach to suicide prevention, designed to overcome suicidogenic patterns in fourteen patients fitting into seven Graeco-Roman suicidal syndromes. Kaplan and Cantz use biblical narratives alongside an in-depth positive psychology, aimed at promoting life instead of simply preventing suicide.

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Synthesizing mental health history, law, policy, and treatment, Donna Kemp highlights mental health and reproductive technology and research, prevention issues, identification of and intervention in cases of mental disability, and drug treatment and experimentation issues.

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In this book, psychologist Sharna Olfman leads a team of widely known experts who examine that astonishing rise in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder, particularly in the absence of any compelling evidence for either the validity of the criteria being used to diagnose it or the safety and effectiveness of the drugs being used to treat it.

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This is a careful study of obstetrical mechanics in monkeys, apes, and extinct hominids in order to understand the present crisis in human reproduction. By studying the evolution of anatomical structures and the mode of delivery among other primates, strong reasons are apparent for the present crisis in human labor and delivery.

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Famous and not-so-famous mums share their always moving - sometimes outrageous, on occasion laugh-out-loud funny, and always touchingly personal - stories of bringing their babies into the world.

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Literature can play an important role in helping young children cope with developmental changes and deal with the external world.

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This book is an ideal resource for general readers who want a clear understanding of people suffering with chaotic emotions, and for clinicians treating patients for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

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This work offers a practical model of time-limited therapy that brings together recent theoretical advances and empirical findings on effective brief therapy techniques. The model's focus on measurable goals makes it compatible with the policies on managed care providers.

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The model's focus on measurable goals makes it compatible with the policies of managed care providers, and practitioners will find the model comfortable to use and responsive to diverse client groups.

Most Americans now receive health services through some form of managed care.

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This book explains how to apply brief, existing, generic treatments to help manage the traumatized and diminish or eliminate their traumatic symptoms.

These recommended brief treatments are guided by sound assessment methods that can be verified empirically.

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To control ennui with chemicals is to direct our attention away from what is wrong in our lives and to focus instead on what we can control easily, by taking a pill.

Mental life has become marginal in biologically reductionistic discourse.

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Despite the fear surrounding the issue of drug use by our children, there is little information to guide those interested in providing help to children vulnerable to substance abuse.

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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.

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In this enlightening and compassionate guide, one of the foremost specialists in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome--himself a ten-year survivor of the disease--helps victims and their loved ones regain control of their lives. This updated edition includes new information about current medical treatments, related disorders, and strategies for living with the CFS.

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It consists of 302 entries covering, assessment of chronic pain, the human body and chronic pain, perceptions of chronic pain, treatment of chronic pain, and correlates and consequences of chronic pain.

This volume includes a select citation list of 150 articles that focus on older persons and cancer pain.

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The Family Pscyhologist

Featuring 21 papers by important contributors from academia and clinical practice, this volume examines the major developments in the client-centered approach to therapy which took place in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's and early 1980's.

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Clinical Problem Solving: Case Management provides a powerful and unique counseling service format for making recommendations to clients and monitoring cognitive behavioral gains. The Listen-Identify-Brainstorm-Reality-test-Encourage (LIBRE) Model and LIBRE Model Stick Figure ...

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An overwhelming majority of sleep disorders remain undiagnosed and untreated. Some of the most common ones are insomnia, restless legs syndrome, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, excessive daytime sleepiness, night terrors, sleep apnea, periodic limb movement disorder, and narcolepsy.

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This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences.

Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties.