Therapy and therapeutics

Practical, evidence-based psychological treatments for severe obesity and related comorbidities, with case vignettes and clinical dialogues.

Counseling Individuals with Eating Disorders: An Intersectional Approach was written to provide mental health professionals and students of counseling, medicine, psychology, social work, and other helping professions, with useful information and suggestions for their work with individuals with eating disorders.

Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead.

This timely volume fills a long-standing gap in the professional literature by providing an overview of contemporary assessment and rehabilitation of alcohol and chemical dependent substance abusers.

Most teenagers worry about their body and appearance at some point, and some may try to alter their eating in order to change their weight or shape.

The recent development of cognitive theories and therapies within the ranks of behavior therapy has to be classified as one of the more intriguing developments in contemporary clinical psychology.

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities.

The book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

A practical, accessible and informative guide to overcoming and managing a wide spread affliction!

Stress is an unavoidable part of life that we will all encounter at various times, be it due to a one-off event such as losing a job or the break-up of a relationship, or from facing long-term difficulties such as working in a stressful environment or caring for someone who is ill.

Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder.

The subgroup of males with eating disorders has been understudied, and this book presents the most comprehensive look at this topic since Arnold Andersen edited the text Males with Eating Disorders in 1990.

Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river, but he has a problem - Mr.

Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities!

This 4 volume set presents important research on audiology and hearing.

Accompanying China's economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem.

This book provides potential students of a chiropractic career path, as well as other health care practitioners, with vital information regarding the training required to enter the chiropractic field and the roles of chiropractors in modern health care.

Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity provides practical, accessible and expert advice on the clinical diagnosis and management of obesity and will be your perfect go-to tool in the management of your patients.

Take control of your habit and your life!

Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'.

This volume consists of a broad selection of studies on the applied economics of weight and obesity.

This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.

The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.

Although it is the least noticed by patients, effective documentation is one of the most critical skills that speech-language pathologists must learn.

Ein ermutigender Ratgeber für Menschen mit Essstörungen und diejenigen, die sie begleiten, von Rebekka Gohla und Ilka Tran Anh mit berührenden und persönlichen Geschichten.

In the 1980s work with elderly people was making up an increasing proportion of the workload of speech therapists, due to the overall increase in the elderly population.

The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances.

Word Aware 3 is a comprehensive, practical and engaging resource that focuses on teaching vocabulary and word learning skills to children aged 6 to 11 years who have vocabulary learning needs.

This practical teaching resource has been designed to give children aged 9-12 the basic tools required to challenge some of the conflicting information which they may encounter in everyday life.

This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.

If you're interested in using natural remedies for treating your everyday ailments, then The Healing Remedies Sourcebook is the perfect book for you.

Speech Language Therapy as a Global Practice focuses on the necessary skills and considerations needed to be a culturally responsive clinician in a multicultural and multilingual world.

Did you know that anyone--addicts or non-addicts--can benefit from working the Twelve Steps and find the freedom, joy, and intimacy with God that their hearts long for?

Explore the psychological function and meaning of dreams, and unlock their power for self-improvement.

A valuable resource for professionals working with pre-school children, or with older children lacking basic literacy skills, this book provides practical photocopiable activities to develop the early skills required for success with literacy.

Diseases of the Spine and Spinal Cord reviews the full spectrum of disorders affecting this region including primary spinal tumors and metastases, infection, degenerative diseases, and trauma.

Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders addresses a complex client population, which presents service providers with significant professional challenges.

While many aspects of eating disorders remain a mystery, there is growing evidence that collaboration is an essential element for treatment success.

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use.

Exploring the wide array of structures, substances, and environments that are primary factors in the initiation or inhibition of sleep, this reference highlights key findings from respected professionals around the globe on the social and economic burden of impaired performance, productivity, and safety arising from sleep deprivation-studying pharm

This book is an amalgamation of knowledge, experience, and expertise in various aspects of nanotechnology, by experts who are proficient in designing of novel nanoformulations that are used in the treatment of various challenging and prevalent diseases.

Paediatric speech and language therapists are challenged by diminished resources and increasingly complex caseloads.

The Cheeky Ostrich is the fifth book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

Multifamily Therapy Group for Young Adults with Anorexia Nervosa describes a new and innovative family-centered outpatient Multifamily Therapy Group (MFTG) approach called Reconnecting for Recovery (R4R) for young adults with anorexia nervosa that is based on a relational reframing of eating disorders.

This handbook offers a theoretical foundation for the adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families.

Systematically working from the whole body down to cellular levels, this book presents a multiscale, integrative approach to skeletal research.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

The publication four years ago of Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e), written by two eating disorder specialists at London's world-famous Maudsley Hospital, was a milestone in the treatment of bulimia.

The Auditory System in Sleep presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain.