Therapy and therapeutics

In Women and Substance Abuse: Gender Transparency you'll see what can be done to aid women in some of the world's hardest hit substance abuse hubs, including Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New Haven, Connecticut.

Among mental health researchers, there is a consensus that empirically supported treatments (ESTs) have favorable outcomes and that the outcomes are typically better than other approaches.

This book is a selection of linguistic and multimodal research on healthcare and well-being communication in Japan.

Affecting 20 to 30 % of children under the age of five, sleep disorders can seriously affect a child's health.

Despite widespread use, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is a topic of much debate, often receiving criticism from academic and professional sectors.

By 2010, 15% of the U.

The highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997.

In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from different cultural backgrounds; in particular, when clients are members of marginalized groups.

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction.

Drawing on the expertise of leading creative arts therapists from around the world, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of the creative arts in the treatment of clients with eating disorders (EDs).

This book explains both the basic science and the applications of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on their clinical uses.

Thoroughly examines the natural history and social etiology of addictive behaviors.

Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness describes frontline clinical treatment of HIV-infected chemically dependent persons.

Substance use has become an increasingly common concern for all aspects of social work practice, and especially when working with mental health and vulnerable families.

With chapters containing up to 50 percent new coverage, this book provides a thorough update of the latest research and development in the area of acquired aphasia.

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, general levels of alcohol consumption had risen considerably in all parts of the world.

Foundations of Psychiatric Sleep Medicine provides a uniquely accessible, practical, and expert summary of current concepts at the sleep-psychiatry interface.

Social Communication Development and Disorders examines the integrated development of social, linguistic, and cognitive functions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of binge eating, which is characterized by the uncontrollable consumption of large amounts of food in a discrete time period.

Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the development of communication and language in infancy and childhood.

The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion of research at the intersection of typical language development and child language disorders.

Most children have interesting interior lives that contain dreams, fantasies, hopes, fears, beliefs and their unconscious lives.

Finding Your Voice with Dyslexia/SpLD is an essential guide to living with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties (SpLD).

Grief and Addiction illuminates the role of grief work in addiction counseling, encouraging counselors to be more comprehensive in their treatment and to increase empathy for what the treatment process is asking of clients.

Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30.

Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa is a treatment manual that details an empirically supported and innovative treatment for this disorder.

Noodle loves to jump in muddy puddles, and his friends don't understand.

Recent years have seen a growth in the numbers of studies of substance abuse and dependence in adolescence, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, course and outcome.

Affecting over 1.

Muffin is a quirky little fish full of fun ideas.

Do you struggle with Ana (anorexia) or have a difficult relationship with food and body image?

Originally published in 1981, this title was designed to present a comprehensive review of research on, and treatment of selective mutism.

From their ground-breaking work with CBT techniques in London's only NHS clinic for obesity, Drs Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert and Clare Grace have developed this accessible self-help guide, based on clinically tested methods that will help change thinking and overcome weight problems once and for all.

The majority of individuals who suffer from severe eating disorders also experience symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic reactions, and/or obsessive-compulsive disorders.

A definitive and evidence-based guide for psychologists, teachers, coaches, HR personnel and all professionals who must understand and work with dyslexic adults.

The first comprehensive resource on anorexia and women's sexuality in the world, this book presents a model for understanding sexuality as complex with interconnected factors, and how anorexia interacts with the varied components of one's sexuality.

In this book, Dr.

The International Review of Sign Linguistics -- which replaces the International Journal of Sign Linguistics -- is planned as an annual series publishing the most up-to-date scholarly work in all aspects of sign language linguistics.

Drug use and abuse continues to thrive in contemporary society worldwide and the instance and damage caused by addiction increases along with availability.

The first book to offer an in-depth study of the relationship between sleep disorders and common psychiatric disorders in children, this new addition to Informa's Sleep Disorders series covers: sleep and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety, and depressionsleep disorders and obesity (including diabetes and metabolic syndrome),

Delve into the uncharted territory of the "e;hidden"e; drug addict--users who are not in treatment, not incarcerated, and not officially accessible for research purposes through traditional means.

A lifestyle plan that integrates nutrition, exercise, and spiritual practices into the proven method of twelve-step recoveryPersonal trainer and sports nutritionist Tom Shanahan outlines a program of action to energize, reboot, and strengthen one's recovery, especially those who feel they may have hit a wall in their program.

Eating problems are common in children and teenagers.

People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships.

The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents and honors the ways thousands of LGBT people have carried Alcoholics Anonymous' message.

A leading professional resource and course text, this book provides practical guidance for treating clients with substance use disorders in a variety of contexts.