Therapy and therapeutics

A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations.

The Neuroscience of Cocaine: Mechanisms and Treatment explores the complex effects of this drug, addressing the neurobiology behind cocaine use and the psychosocial and behavioral factors that impact cocaine use and abuse.

Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology is a comprehensive guide to the pharmacology of drugs of abuse and the medications used to treat dependence on those substances.

The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves.

This book presents the SPEAKS approach, an innovative treatment model for anorexia nervosa that primarily combines aspects of Emotion Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy to target struggles with emotion expressed as a "e;Lost Emotional Self.

This book explores the history of the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory from 1940 to present day.

Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice.

This book highlights those rare, difficult to diagnose or controversial cases in contemporary clinical neuropsychology.

Ayelet spent six years of her adolescence in and out of hospital, having been diagnosed as suffering from a severe anorexia disorder.

This landmark book is the first comprehensive edited volume on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a common and severe disorder.

Success in mastering any language requires knowledge in speaking, reading, and writing the language.

Based on the authors' pioneering work and up-to-date research at London's Maudsley hospital, A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa provides adults with anorexia nervosa and the professionals working alongside them with a practical resource to work through together.

This book provides a broad reference covering important drugs of abuse including amphetamines, opiates, and steroids.

More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs.

This book outlines a new cognitive-behavioral treatment for patients of all age groups with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.

This book is a treatment manual providing guidance for therapists treating clients with gambling addictions.

Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?

Problem gambling is a recognised mental disorder and a significant public health issue internationally.

A unique interdisciplinary exploration of a pressing social issueThe numbers of women offenders involved in the correctional system are quickly growing.

Originally published in 1963, this title was an attempt to provide a new basis for the discipline of Speech Therapy.

This book examines the assessment and obligatory treatment programs for violent and sexually violent offenders - primarily adolescents and adults - diagnosed with cluster B personality disorder or a conduct disorder.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat.

A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations.

An effective treatment to help those with addictionsVictims of drug addiction, chronic illness, and mental illness all too often are overwhelmed with the affliction called hopelessness.

A medically sound way to relieve common ailments, such as allergies and digestive complaintsFasting--going for short periods of time without certain types of foods--is gaining more attention for its ability to detoxify the body, strengthen the immune system, promote healing, and lead to heightened emotional awareness and clarity.

In this startling new collection of case studies entitled HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture: Shattered Lives, you'll take an eye-opening and informative look at the lifestyle and culture of the HIV/AIDS intravenous drug users (IVDUs).

This important work elucidates why relapse is so common for people recovering from addictive behavior problems--and what can be done to keep treatment on track.

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

"e;Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Disorders"e; provides managers and clinicians with results from Practice Improvement Collaboratives (PIC) that demonstrate how substance abuse treatment can be improved by increasing the exchange of knowledge between community-based service providers and the research community.

Many tens of thousands of mental health and health care professionals have used this essential book--now significantly revised with 70% new content reflecting important advances in the field--to develop and sharpen their skills in motivational interviewing (MI).

School Start Storybooks support language development in reception and Key Stage 1 aged children both in school and at home.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun playing in the snow until they run into each other and fall over.

Why do many people with disorders of communication experience a sense of demoralization?

Addiction: A Behavioral Economic Perspective focuses on the behavioral economics of addiction to explain why someone decides and act against her own well-being.

Despite decades of research into the nature and treatment of stuttering, the causes and underlying mechanisms of it are still not well understood.

Sleep can be viewed as a brain state, as a process and a behavior.

In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS).

This volume provides the first major overview, by eminent authorities on the subject, of recent developments in the field of endogenous substances and their regulation of sleep processes.

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Discover fresh perspectives on alcoholism treatment and research with this enlightening new book describing the work of researchers at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute, USSR.

While keeping the scope and essential thrust of the original book unchanged, this third edition has been updated to reflect the latest technology.

An up-to-date, superbly illustrated practical guide to the effective use of neuroimaging in the patient with sleep disorders.

The definitive guide to natural and complementary medicines and clinics for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and wish to know their options.

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

Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised.

Catch up with current theories on a major public health menace!

A practical application-based guide to adult mechanical ventilationThis trusted guide is written from the perspective of authors who have more than seventy-five years' experience as clinicians, educators, researchers, and authors.