Mental Illness category: 868 books
by Monica Ramirez Basco, PhD, A. John Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
From leading scientist-practitioners, this pragmatic, accessible book provides a complete framework for individualized assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder. It addresses the complexities of working with individuals with broadly varying histories and clinical presentations, including those...
New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder
Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementar y Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
With proper diagnosis and early intervention, there is unlimited hope for children and teens diagnosed with bipolar disorder to lead fulfilling and enjoyable lives, starting today.
Inside, you’ll discover compassionate and informative methods to help manage the diagnosis and develop the natural...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Workbook
Practical Help and Information for PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Traumatic experiences need only be one chapter in your life.
You get to write the last chapter of your story.
PTSD is stealing far too much from the lives of trauma survivors. Many suffer in silence. This workbook provides transformational tools for working through:
Fear
Anxiety
Depression
Losses
Panic...
Understanding Schizophrenia: A Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Professionals
Understanding Schizophrenia: A Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Professionals
A Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
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.
• Provides a succinct, introductory guide to getting started on the road to understanding schizophrenia
•...
Hope For Humanity
How understanding and healing trauma could solve the planetary crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Trauma warps our personality blights our health stunts our development and condemns us to living well below our potential. Yet it is so embedded in human culture that we do not recognize it. We accept aggression violence hierarchy and the drive for power status and wealth as normal. To survive we...
Rebuilding Shattered Lives
Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Praise for Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Second Edition
"In this new edition of Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Dr. Chu distills the wisdom he has gained from many years spent building and directing an extraordinary therapeutic community in a major teaching hospital. Both beginners and experienced...
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD
A Case Formulation Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
Presenting clear-cut strategies for working with traumatized patients who have multiple co-occurring disorders and life problems, this highly practical manual puts an array of proven cognitive-behavioral strategies at the clinician's fingertips. The authors illustrate the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos"...
The Bipolar Spectrum
Diagnosis or Fad?
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum...
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Third Edition
Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book--now revised and expanded--has enhanced the clinical repertoires of more than 100,000 readers and has been translated into 10 languages. Originally developed for treatment of posttraumatic...
Surviving, Existing, or Living
Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
For professionals working with people who experience severe psychosis, increasing empirical evidence for the benefits of psychotherapy for psychosis has been especially welcome. Given the limitations of medication-only approaches and the need for an expanded perspective, including for those diagnosed...
Acute Stress Disorder
What It Is and How to Treat It
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, leading authority Richard A. Bryant explores what works--and what doesn't work--in managing acute traumatic stress. He reviews the current state of the science on acute stress disorder (ASD) and presents diagnostic guidelines based on DSM-5. In...
Yoga for Emotional Trauma
Meditations and Practices for Healing Pain and Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Many of us have experienced a traumatic event in our lives, whether in childhood or adulthood. This trauma may be emotional, or it may cause intense physical pain. In some cases, it can cause both. Studies have shown that compassion and mindfulness based interventions can help people suffering from...
by David A. Treleaven
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"[A] rare combination of solid scholarship, clinically useful methods, and passionate advocacy for those who have suffered trauma." —Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices,...
Terrorism, Trauma and Psychology
A multilevel victim perspective of the Bali bombings
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the multilayered effects experienced by directly affected victims and their indirectly affected family members following terrorist incidents and other world disasters. Chapters draw primarily on interviews with fifty victims of the Bali bombings, but...