More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.
More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.
Recognizing and Correcting Developing Malocclusions: A Problem-Oriented Approach to Orthodontics provides an evidence-based approach to early treatment, an often-controversial topic.
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "e;recovery"e; rather than churning out long-term, "e;chronic"e; mental health service users.
In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illnessand yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity.
Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care.
A traves del libro, inicialmente, usted puede conocer que es el estres, evaluar diferentes tipos de estresores segun su fuente de origen, ya sean biologicos, psicologicos o sociales, y segun el tiempo, conocer de donde surgio el termino estres, que ocurre en nuestro cuerpo cuando estamos estresados, ademas, en este, podra encontrar los diferentes factores que nos hacen mas o menos vulnerables al estres, darse cuenta, como se relacionan el estres y la personalidad, asi como, nuestros modos de actuacion nos pueden conducir a estresarnos en determinado momento.
This fully updated edition of A Multidisciplinary Handbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health for Front-line Professionals is an accessible introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health problems in children and young people.
Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people's heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda.
Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.
This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades.
