Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends.
Integrates and fosters effective leadership/management and supervisory skills The development of competency in management and leadership skills as well as clinical supervisory skills is of increasing importance to professional counselors who seek advancement in their careers.
Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness.
Kontrollieren, Zählen, Waschen: Die Zwangsstörung ist eine komplexe psychische Erkrankung und ihr vielgestaltiges Erscheinungsbild stellt Behandelnde vor besondere Herausforderungen.
Questo manuale offre al clinico e al professionista sanitario una guida introduttiva e di facile utilizzo alla gestione neuro- e sociocognitiva del paziente schizofrenico e descrive nel dettaglio come impostare la terapia INT (Integrierte Neurocognitive Therapie) in 4 moduli.
Menschen mit der Diagnose einer Binge-Eating-Störung leiden unter regelmäßig auftretenden Essanfällen, während derer sie große Nahrungsmengen verzehren und das Gefühl haben, die Kontrolle über ihr Essverhalten zu verlieren.
Describes an outstanding training programme in public psychiatry developed by the Connecticut Mental Health Center A worthwhile and valuable contribution to the field that has no current equivalent in the market The book suggests a plan for the future of public sector psychiatry and serves as a model to centers throughout North America and further afield Describes the impact of the Connecticut Mental Health Center on psychiatric service models in the public sector
The intention of this book was to have investigators describe an expert opinion on their field of research and cutting-edge work in their laboratory on the neurobiology and treatment of eating disorders.
An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of performing bodies - on stage and in life.
Distinguished contributors analyze the problem of homelessness from a clinical perspective, focusing on the major health problems found among the homeless, special populations within the homeless, and strategies for improvement and change.
The book provides the first state-of-the-art overview of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, an enigmatic neurological condition characterised by perceptual distortions (for example, seeing things as being larger or smaller than they actually are; seeing human faces change into animal faces; feeling one's body growing larger or smaller; experiencing time as slowing down or speeding up; etc.
Keeping the Blues Away is a clinically tested programme to help prevent depression from returning: it has also shown efficacy in reducing depression severity.
The goals of Integrated Care: Working at the Interface of Primary Care and Behavioral Health are to educate psychiatrists about the fundamental shift underway in health care and to prepare them to be successful and effective in the new health care arena.
Neurobiology of PTSD outlines the basic neural mechanisms that mediate complex responses and adaptations to psychological trauma, describing how these biological processes are impaired in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Designed to advance understanding of the unique needs of high-functioning individuals with autism, this volume details the latest diagnostic and treatment approaches and analyzes the current conceptions of the neurological processes involved in autism.
According to the Eating Disorders Association there is a general lack of recognition of eating disorders in men, making it more difficult for male patients to access specialist services, although clients with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating form a significant proportion of counsellors' lists.
Das perfekte Hilfsmittel für alle Praktiker, um mit den Charakterstärken die positiven Eigenschaften des Menschen auszubauen; Eigenschaften, mit denen alle Menschen ausgestattet sind und die wir dazu nutzen können, das Leben in vollem Maße zu leben.
Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province.
Long considered important for professionals working with minority and under-represented populations, cross-cultural competency has become a requisite for all health care providers.
This atlas is the first fully visual reference to cover psychiatry broadly, appealing to psychiatric as well as non-psychiatric clinicians and trainees who need an easy-to-use visual resource with holistic approach to patient care.
"e;Many counsellors who work in primary care find it difficult to explain to colleagues in the primary care team what they actually do with clients behind the closed door of their room.
Herzrasen, Schwindel, Kurzatmigkeit und Engegefühle sind typische körperliche Empfindungen, die Menschen mit einer Panikstörung mitunter täglich erleben.
