Therapy and therapeutics

Despite the gains of the women's movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do.

Bei der Behandlung von Magersucht steht und fällt der Therapieerfolg mit der Motivation des Patienten.

Psychodrama and other action methods are especially helpful in the treatment of the classic eating disorders as well as dieting struggles, body dissatisfaction and associated issues of fear, sadness, silence and shame.

This ambitious and comprehensive handbook represents an essential contribution to our current understanding of interactions between heart and brain, a research topic generating growing interest.

This book demystifies the world of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in speech and language therapy, explaining key terminology and guiding clinicians through the research underpinning successful clinical practice.

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.

There are now signs that, after decades of phenomenal growth, the era of unrestrained gambling liberalisation may be coming to an end.

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.

Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.

This excellent book is a concise yet thorough examination of the important and emerging field of the study of biological risk factors in drug abuse.

Introduces the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, including an investigation into their potential evolutionary and social functions.

Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines the multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, etiology, and treatment.

Incorporating Science, Body, and Yoga in Nutrition-Based Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery is a valuable, innovative guide that demonstrates how clients and clinicians can untangle, discern, and learn from the complex world of eating disorders.

Widely popularized images of unobtainable and damaging feminine ideals can be a cause of profound disjunction between women and their bodies.

How do newspapers use language to represent obesity, and how does this language potentially shame and stigmatise people with obesity?

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The Clinician's Guide to Alcohol Moderation examines alcohol use around the world and teaches a range of behavioral health care providers how to help clients practice alcohol moderation.

This book explores how music can improve skills that are impaired in some neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), autism, and Rett syndrome.

This book comprises 50 tips for speech and language therapy practitioners who are new to, or less experienced in, working with adult voice disorders.

Why are people often so unpredictable?

Harm reduction approaches are effective, patient-driven alternatives to abstinence-based treatment for people who are not ready, willing, or able to stop using substances.

Viele Ärzte und Psychologen haben Essstörungen bisher zumeist als eine Folge von Beziehungsstörungen oder schweren, psychisch belastenden Ereignissen in der Kindheit angesehen.

The pharmaceutical industry has become increasingly interested in biologics from animal venoms as a potential source for therapeutic agents in recent years, with a particularly emphasis on peptides.

Leadership in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention blends the wisdom of numerous long-term professionals addressing drug and alcohol issues with helpful strategies and current science.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott's concept of the transitional object.

The qualitative analysis of naturally occurring discourse in neurogenic communication disorders, specifically in dementia studies, has experienced recent burgeoning interest from wide-ranging disciplines.

Obesity: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants cover the science of oxidative stress in obesity and associated conditions, including metabolic syndrome, bariatric surgery, and the potentially therapeutic usage of natural antioxidants in the diet or food matrix.

Developing Baseline Communication Skills is a practical resource designed to fit with baseline assessments in primary school.

The Gambling Addiction Client Workbook is an evidence-based program that uses treatments including motivational enhancement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, medication, and 12-step facilitation.

Written in accessible language for teens and young adults - those most at risk for these potentially deadly mental disorders - this book provides readers with information to better understand eating disorders.

This book reports the findings of a study of the treatment of alcoholism in the out-patient clinics and the related in-patient facilities of state-supported alcoholism programmes in the United States.

Ursachen von peripheren Hörstörungen und deren Auswirkungen bei Kindern sind vielfältig.

This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care.

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior?

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life.

This innovative work explores integrating emerging research into how the brain processes information in applied therapeutic interventions.

The upheaval of pregnancy and new motherhood can often trigger the development of, or a relapse into, an eating disorder.

Neurolinguistic Programming in Clinical Settings provides a theoretical framework for the clinical applications of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) protocols in mental health.

A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic.

Written by Eduard Vieta, a world renowned award winning expert in this field, Managing Bipolar Disorder in Clinical Practice, Third Edition, is an up-to-date, concise practical handbook developed with the clinician in mind.

Yoga therapy offers a truly holistic approach to solving the growing problem of insomnia.

Substance use and related addictive disorders rate amongst the top four risk factors contributing to the global burden of disease and form an increasingly important part of medical and healthcare practice.

Based on a curriculum that was successfully implemented and evaluated at Stepping Stone, a drug and alcohol treatment program in San Diego, Sexual Health in Recovery offers counselors a chance to understand and integrate basic sexual health principles into their work.

Alcohol Use Disorders takes a life-span/developmental approach to understanding the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for alcohol use disorders (AUD).

Skills-based Caring equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery.