Therapy and therapeutics

The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services.

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies.

Options can be limited for those who do not respond to standard eating disorder treatments.

This new edition includes the introduction of the WHO distinctions between impairment, disability and handicap; an increased focus on information processing approaches to language disorders, and the introduction of revision questions as well as tutorial activities at the end of every chapter to support student learning.

Eminently practical and authoritative, this comprehensive clinical handbook brings together leading international experts on eating disorders to describe the most effective treatments and how to implement them.

Neuroimaging in Addiction presents an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the functional and structural imaging human studies that have greatly advanced our understanding of this complex disorder.

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

This book synthesizes research on language development and communication disability in Sub-Saharan Africa and highlights best practices for providing speech and language therapy services to individuals with language, communication, and hearing disorders across the lifespan.

Increase your understanding of the link between alcoholism and shame and guilt with this tremendously important book that adds to our understanding of the total recovery process.

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Dual Disorders: Essentials for Assessment and Treatment is a practical handbook for the assessment and clinical management of patients with addiction and psychiatric disorders.

This book presents the etiology, assessment, prevention and cessation of eleven focal addictions within an appetitive motivation framework of addiction.

A reference guide that answers the questions people have about addiction and addictive behaviors of all kinds, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, Internet usage, and more.

This second edition of the Handbook of Eating Disorders offers a comprehensive, critical account of the whole field of eating disorders, incorporating both basic knowledge and a synthesis of the most recent developments in the area.

Through the contributions of global experts, this book meets the growing need to understand the implementation and development of pharmaceutical care.

This book gives fitness professionals everything they need to know to manage a referred client, from fulfilling government recommendations to motivating and retaining clients.

Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes: Injecting Hope sheds light on an often overlooked and misunderstood issue: the problem of eating disorders in women with type 1 diabetes - referred to by lay people and the media as "e;diabulimia"e; and characterized by insulin restriction as a means of calorie purging for weight loss.

Explore the causes and effects of the shame/guilt/addiction cycle!

Drugs and the Future presents 13 reviews collected to present the new advances in all areas of addiction research, including knowledge gained from mapping the human genome, the improved understanding of brain pathways and functions that are stimulated by addictive drugs, experimental and clinical psychology approaches to addiction and treatment, as well as both ethical considerations and social policy.

Designing EEG Experiments for Studying the Brain: Design Code and Example Datasets details the design of various brain experiments using electroencephalogram (EEG).

In this age of increasing headlines about drug addiction and prescription drug abuse, this book is a timely revelation of how the nursing profession is also impacted by substance abuse.

All aspects of sleep sciences are included in this excellent resource text, with special reference to sleep substances and sleep modulators.

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities.

Eating disorders comprise a range of physical, psychological and behavioural features that often have an impact on social functioning and can invade most areas of the sufferer's life.

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.

Treating Addictions: The Four Components offers a unique and coherent understanding of addiction.

Written in scientific prose that can also be understood by the layperson, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for those working in the addiction field and anyone interested in learning more about this devastating disease.

Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, CAPP, is a new, manualized, tested, 24-session psychotherapeutic approach to working psychodynamically with youth with anxiety disorders.

People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)/ME experience extreme tiredness and a range of other symptoms, including pain, headaches, impaired concentration and memory, anxiety, sleep problems, and palpitations.

This accessible guide offers a much-needed integration of family therapy into the treatment of substance use disorders.

This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life.

This book introduces the Recovery Cycle, the only relatable model for positive change in sobriety and a simple roadmap for sober living.

Bite Sized is a mother's story of striving to nourish her child.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

As anyone who has ever been on a diet knows, they simply don't work.

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution-the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?

This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated.

Most people who die by suicide see a clinician prior to taking their lives.

A must for parents, teachers and counselors, this book targets preadolescent girls aiming to engage them in educational activites that will empower them to avoid eating disorders.

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth handbook of qualitative research in the field of communication disorders.

Much of our scientific effort in tackling the multifactorial nature of addiction has taken place within individual disciplines.

In this beautifully illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Bozo the Clown as he tries to make a new friend.

Why do we dream?

This state-of-the art volume is a follow-up to the 1999 publication, Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap, edited by Nan Ratner and E.

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia.

Languages and Languaging in Deaf Education offers a profound vision for deaf education and studies, as author Ruth Swanwick offers bold contributions towards a new pedagogical framework.

This book presents research into gambling, showing the psychological variables that govern erosion or maintenance of self-control.

Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this practical manual is a detailed guide to the Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy programme (Palin PCI) developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering (MPC).