Therapy and therapeutics

This book is written for the beginning student of communication disorders with a basic understanding of phonetics, or the practising speech-language therapist whose phonetic training may need updating.

Manual of Smoking Cessation provides the crucial knowledge required if you are involved in helping smokers to stop.

Psychological Well-being and Acquired Communication Impairments is an essential resource for all health professionals working with this complex client group.

Ethics in Speech and Language Therapy is a key text for students, practitioners and managers alike.

Type 2 diabetes, associated with obesity, is today the most common form of diabetes.

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices is a key work that addresses the theoretical and experiential aspects common to the practical vocal work of the three major voice practitioner professions - voice training, singing teaching, and speech and language pathology.

This comprehensive, up-to-date book presents the latest research and applied practice to address all of the key issues relating to sport and eating disorders.

Music and dyslexia is of particular interest for two reasons.

This is an edited book that brings together many of the most distinguished researchers and clinicians in the field of food misuse.

In the treatment of addictions and their psychological understanding, cognitive-behavioural and motivation approaches have been paramount.

Rich traditions of group therapy permeate the substance misuse field - from residential and day-centre group programmes and the fellowship group tradition to the panoply of support/education and relapse prevention groups offered by out-patient services.

This book has a much wider focus than traditional books written about drug and alcohol addictions.

This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the communication impairments that occur in association with the two most common forms of childhood cancer, namely leukaemia and brain tumour.

There are numerous books dealing with epilepsy but none of them is entirely devoted to the manifold relationships between language and epilepsy.

Each chapter is written by a speech and language therapist specialising in psycholinguistic approaches to investigation and intervention.

One approach to the study of language has been to describe people whose ability to communicate is impaired.

This book presents a collection of accounts by internationally renowed experts on current techniques in the instrumental investigation of speech and disorders of speech.

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

This is a celebratory volume in honour of Professor T.

This book is written for concerned parents and teachers.

Like all health professionals, speech and language therapists (SLTs) need to keep themselves up-to-date with the research evidence base that is relevant to their field of practice and be able to show how this contributes to their clinical decision-making.

This new book offers professionals a practical guide to the psychological treatment of all substance abuse, including tobacco, alcohol, stimulant drugs, cannabis and opiates.

State-of-the-art, empirical support for the treatmentof substance abuse Part of the Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series, Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth and Adults provides busy mental health practitioners with detailed, step-by-step guidance for implementing clinical interventions that are supported by the latest scientific evidence.

State-of-the-art, empirical support for the treatmentof substance abuse Part of the Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series, Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth and Adults provides busy mental health practitioners with detailed, step-by-step guidance for implementing clinical interventions that are supported by the latest scientific evidence.

The most comprehensive source for the latest research and practice techniques for diagnosing and treating addictive disorders "e;This book brings together an array of international experts on addictive disorders.

This book explores the complex issues surrounding the management of cleft lip and palate in the Developing World, and aims to raise the profile of a condition commonly considered to be of only cosmetic importance in countries where infant and child mortality rates are high.

The book summarises research findings from a range of projects using a set of auditory and speech procedures designed for the psycholinguistic framework developed by Stackhouse and Wells (1997).

Phytochemicals are components acting individually, additively or synergistically, usually as a component of whole food, that have the characteristics of providing protective, preventative and possibly curative roles in the pathogenesis of cancer and other chronic disease progressions.

Therapies and Rehabilitation in Down Syndrome covers the entire lifespan of a DS patient, from infancy to 60 years and beyond, focusing not simply on identifying problems, but providing a detailed look at major therapeutic approaches.

In this new edition, Stephanie Covington includes important new evidence-based data and new proven techniques for her unique and exclusive program, as well as new ways to treat trauma and substance abuse, new principles for gender responsive strategies with women offenders, and a new module on sexuality and women's recovery.

Filled with helpful resources and illuminating case studies, Healing Addiction provides you with an integrative guide to understanding and treating addiction that brings together the latest neuroscience, pharmacology, social understanding, and psychological research.

This book brings together important information about complementary therapies and how they are used in diabetes care.

The book explores the clinical challenge of long-term eating disorders and examines the physical and psychological problems, family issues and difficulties in day-to-day living that patients with SEED can experience.

Based on a five-year research project, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women introduces an innovative approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity.

Treating individuals with a substance misuse problem can be challenging, especially if clients present with multiple problems related to the main addiction.

This authoritative handbook presents current ideas on the relationship between spoken and written language difficulties.

Research suggests that anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders, whilst not prevalent in the population, have the highest mortality rate of all psychological problems.

Language and Social Disadvantage critically analyses and reviews the development of language in direct relation to social disadvantage in the early years and beyond.

This is the third book in the series Children s Speech and Literacy Difficulties and is based on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated difficulties.

This book offers a concise, readable explanation of the theory of dysphagia and bridges that with material on clinical application.

The book is intended as a practical guide to setting up, staffing and running eating disorders services.

Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.

Previously published as two separate books for Speech and Language Therapists and for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Nursing, this book has now been updated and expanded and combines the two first editions into one.

This is a concise paperback version of the authoritative and comprehensive Handbook of Eating Disorders, Second Edition, focusing on the most practical elements from that volume.

Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation - Methods and Interventions is the latest volume from Progress in Brain Research focusing on new trends and developments in addiction research.

Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation: Constructs and Drugs is the latest volume from Progress in Brain Research focusing on new trends and developments in addiction research.

Alcohol is the most widely used drug in the world, yet alcoholism remains a serious addiction affecting nearly 20 million Americans.

Sleep Disorders II covers various aspects of sleep disorders.

Sleep Disorders Part 1 offers a glimpse of developments that focus on diagnostic techniques in the field of neurobiology of sleep.