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by A4M American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Proceedings of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine's (A4M) Seventeenth World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies Spring Summer and Winter Sessions (2009 conference year). Also includes Anti-Aging Clinical Protocols 2010-2011.
by Morley D. Glicken
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
At a time when the mental health difficulties/disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore of many practitioners' patient rosters, naming and treating those problems is still too often handled as an art as much as a science. Inconsistent practices based on clinical experience and intuition rather...
Mastery of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
This program has at its foundation the use of ritual prevention and prolonged actual and imaginable exposure exercises. Therapists will learn the best methods for assessing OCD and formulating a treatment program tailored to their client's particular OCD symptoms. Sample lists of exposure items are...
Positive Psychology
Established and Emerging Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This volume is a comprehensive review of theoretical and empirical contributions to positive psychology. It provides a scientific understanding of how human strengths help people psychologically and physically, showing how stressful circumstances do not inexorably lead to negative prognoses. It examines...
by Jeffrey Weinzweig, MD, FACS
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Plastic Surgery Secrets—the first Secrets Series® title in the PLUS format—offers an easy-to-read, information-at-your-fingertips approach to plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery. Jeffrey Weinzweig has joined forces with world-renowned plastic surgeons Joseph McCarthy, Julia Terzis,...
Development and Causality
Neo-Piagetian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This book sets forth a new model of development from a causal perspective. As this is an area vital to several disciplines. It has been written at multiple levels and for multiple audiences. It is based on the work of Piaget and Neo-Piagetians, but also covers other major models in development....
Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones
The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The newest edition of the most comprehensive handbook on autism and related disorders
Since the original edition was first published more than a quarter of a century ago, The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Volume 1: Diagnosis, Development, and Brain Mechanisms, has...
The Sydney Handbook of Anxiety Disorders
A Guide to the Symptoms, Causes and Treatments of Anxiety Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Anxiety disorders are common psychiatric conditions with a devastating effect on quality of life that is often underestimated. Unfortunately, anxiety is as misunderstood among patients and health practitioners as it is common. While more than 14 percent of Australians exhibit symptoms of anxiety disorders,...
Bipolar Disorder in Young People
A Psychological Intervention Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
As research emerges on the effectiveness of psychological therapies for bipolar disorder, this is the first manual guiding the treatment of those in adolescence and early adulthood, taking into account the developmental issues which can have significant impact on therapeutic outcomes. Core issues...
Attention Deficit
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Most clinicians rely on only an interview to diagnose ADHD in adults. With the recent media "overkill" about ADHD, more and more patients have already read numerous articles and books about the topic making it even harder for practitioners to differentiate between symptoms due to ADHD and...
by Heinz Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside...
Accounting for Rape
Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual violence....
Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder
Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Taken from bizarre cases of real patients, Playing Sick? is the first book to chronicle the devastating impact of phony illnesses--factitious disorders and Munchausen syndrome--on patients and caregivers alike. Based on years of research and clinical practice, Playing Sick? provides the clues that...