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Developmental Science of Early Childhood: Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence - Hardcover

$45.00

by Claudia M. Gold (Author)The field commonly known as "infant mental health" integrates current research from developmental psychology, genetics, and neuroscience to form a model of prevention, intervention, and treatment well beyond infancy. This book presents the core concepts of this vibrant field and applies them to common childhood problems, from attention deficits to anxiety and sleep disorders.Readers will find a friendly guide that distills this developmental science into key ideas a...

Developing Clinical Problem-Solving Skills: A Guide to More Effective Diagnosis and Treatment - Paperback

$21.95

by Howard S. Barrows (Author), Garfield C. Pickell (Author)The transformation from medical student to physician is a gradual one, requiring the assimilation of vast amounts of knowledge as well as the development of the ability to "think like a doctor." The thought processes that enable a physician to "think like a doctor" are perhaps the most difficult skills the clinician-in-training must acquire in medical school and residency. In this extraordinary book, Dr. Howard Barrows, one of the wor...

At Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships - Paperback

$40.32

by Marilyn R. Peterson (Author)The first three chapters cover the social context of the relationship, the inherent power differential that delineates the relational boundaries, and professionals' difficulty with managing that power appropriately. Also discussed are the four characteristics of a boundary violation--a reversal of roles, a secret, a double bind, and an indulgence of professional privilege--and the damage to the client. Throughout the book, clients share their stories of violatio...

Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence - Paperback

$17.23

by Deepak Chopra (Author)Dr. Deepak Chopra, author of the best-selling Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, offers his thousands of fans a newly revised edition of Creating Health, his groundbreaking book about the healing power of the mind. First published in 1987, Creating Health introduces the basic premises of Ayurveda, the six-thousand-year-old tradition of health care from India, and guides readers toward a sound understanding of the mind-body connection. Dr. Chopra is considered the preeminent...

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by Robert Stone (Author)The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Under the Pitons" is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a ...

Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell - Paperback

$24.99

by Natalie Angier (Author)As dramatic as The Double Hex and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry. Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Dat...

Reversing Memory Loss: Proven Methods for Regaining, Stengthening, and Preserving Your Memory, Featuring the Latest Research and Treaments - Paperback

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by Vernon H. Mark (Author), Jeffrey P. Mark (Author)Written with warmth and clarity, this book belongs in the hands of anyone who has agonized over an aging friend or relative or worries about his own capacity to remember. No physical problem is as destructive or frightening as the loss of memory. Stress, pain, depression, overmedication, stroke, or Alzheimer's disease -- these are just some of the causes. In this fully revised and updated book, an internationally known neurosurgeon and resea...

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by Lloyd C. Douglas (Author)When Robert Merrick's life is saved at the expense of the life of an eccentric but adored surgeon, the carefree playboy is forced to reevaluate his own path. Merrick embarks on a course of anonymous philanthropy, inspired by reading the doctor's private papers. An engaging and dramatic story of personal redemption and private sacrifice, this spiritual tale has served as an inspiration for both the stage and screen. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 I...

Choose to Lose: A Food Lover's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss - Paperback

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by Ronald S. Goor (Author), Nancy Goor (Author)Take charge of your life with the only weight loss book that lets you choose what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat. Here is the fully revised and updated version of the book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers lose weight by making them the boss. By using the Goors' unique "Fat Budget" system, anyone can create a personal plan for permanent weight loss. It's not a fad diet, it's a whole new way of life--one that's easy, ev...

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by J. G. Scadding (Author), D. N. Mitchell (Author)Since the first edition of this book in 1967, interest in sarcoidosis has increased world-wide, leading to increasing numbers of published clinical, epidemiological and laboratory studies, notably in immunology and in the pathogenesis of granulomatous inflammation. Aseries of international con- ferences which started as an informal gathering in London in. 1958 has continued at approximately three-yearly intervals with increasing numbers of pa...

Early Intervention Studies for Young Children with Special Needs - Paperback

$160.38

by David R. Mitchell (Author), Roy Irwin Brown (Author)This is the fourth volume in the Rehabilitation Education Series. It is the first volume tobe co-edited and follows a volume on quality of life. The first few years of a child' s life sets the pattern for many issues associated with quality of life. Although intervention may at later stages enhance quality oflife, it is in these first years thatthe attitudes and systems of society can have long lasting effects. The early years are increas...

Occupational Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation - Paperback

$178.18

by Simon B. N. Thompson (Author), Maryanne Morgan (Author)This book is both an introductory text to the rehabilitation of stroke for student therapists and a reference text for qualified therapists. The layout of the book reflects these needs with Chapters 1-4 assuming a minimal level of understanding of the material. These chapters provide an introduction to the condition of stroke itself, the problern therapists face in assessing and treating stroke patients and therapeutic approaches in oc...

Safer Childbirth?: A critical history of maternity care - Paperback

$64.78

by Marjorie Tew (Author)The revolution in maternity care: the diverse strands of a complicated tapestry.- Birth attendants and their places of practice.- The practices of attendants before birth.- The practices of attendants around the time of birth.- Maternity care; a public concern.- Evaluating the results of maternity care: statistical instruments.- Mortality of the mother.- Mortality of the child.- Epilogue: drawing fair conclusions from factual evidence. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: ...

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing - Paperback

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by Victoria Sweet (Author)"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." --The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine tak...

Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare - Paperback

$116.62

by Ann Marie Rafferty (Editor), Jane Robinson (Editor)A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different pe...

Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop - Paperback

$79.36

by Anne Alvarez (Editor), Susan Reid (Editor)Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, Autism and Personality outlines in considerable detail the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children. It also underlines the importance of support for parents and siblings, who are all too often ignored under considerable stress. The book presents fresh ideas about the importance of personality for the developmental course ...

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by H. Roberts (Editor)By now it must be clear to even the most traditional of male scholars that in doing sociological research we can no longer follow Evans-Pritchard's advice to behave like a gentleman, keep off the women, take quinine daily and play it by ear. This volume presents accounts of research work undertaken by sociologists who have been influenced by feminism or the feminist critique of sociology, or both. It proceeds from the basis that problems raised in personal accounts of re...

Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis - Paperback

$76.12

by Dany Nobus (Author)Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.The book is structured thematically around five key issues: diagnosis, the analyst's position during the treatment, the management of transference, the formulation of interpretations, and the organisation of ana...

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by Adam Edward Jukes (Author)Men who Batter Women presents a unique psycho-analytic perspective on clinical studies of the roots of male violence towards women. Most published work concentrates on the experiences of the female victims of domestic violence. This book is unusual in that it focuses on the male perpetrators. Adam Edward Jukes considers both feminist approaches to male violence and those perspectives that treat such violent behaviour as pathological. The author suggests the practi...

Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination - Paperback

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by Joan Chodorow (Author)Dance/movement as active imagination was originated by Jung in 1916. Developed in the 1960s by dance therapy pioneer Mary Whitehouse, it is today both an approach to dance therapy as well as a form of active imagination in analysis. In her delightful book Joan Chodorow provides an introduction to the origins, theory and practice of dance/movement as active imagination.Beginning with her own story the author shows how dance/ movement is of value to psychotherapy. An hi...

Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality - Paperback

$105.28

by Adrian Howe (Author)Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to women's imprisonment 5. Postmodern feminism and the question of penalty 6. Towards a postmodern penal politic? BibliographyAuthor BiographyAdrian Howe is Lecturer in Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.83 x 8.4 x 5.54 IN Publication...

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times - Paperback

$102.04

by Dorothy Porter (Author)This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects* centralization in Victorian Britain* localization of health care in the United Stat...

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by Heidi Safia Mirza (Author)Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve. This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research and writig from Amer...

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by Michael Argyle (Author)What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others?This new edition of The Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research into the nature of happiness. Major research developments have occurred since publication of the first edition in 1987 - here they are brought together for the first time, often with surprising conclusions.Drawing on research from the disciplines of sociology, physiology and economics as well as psychol...

A Guide to Interviewing Children: Essential Skills for Counsellors, Police Lawyers and Social Workers - Paperback

$95.56

by Claire Wilson (Author), Martine Powell (Author)Children may be witnesses to crimes or accidents, or suspected victims of abuse or neglect, or they may be involved in some form of legal action such as custody cases. In these situations, they may need to be interviewed formally, and if this is not done properly, incorrect or inadequate information may be recorded or the child's position may not be correctly represented later in court. In cases of child abuse, the child may not be the only wi...

Philosophy of Medicine: An Introduction - Paperback

$85.84

by R. Paul Thompson (Author), Ross E. G. Upshur (Author) What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, knowledge and ontology - questions that are central to philoso...

Team Physician Manual: International Federation of Sports Medicine (Fims) - Paperback

$170.10

by Lyle Micheli (Editor), Fabio Pigozzi (Editor), Kai-Ming Chan (Editor)The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world's oldest sports medicine organization. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, the book offers a complete guide to the background knowledge, practical techniques and professional skills required to become a successful medical practitioner working in sport.Well illustrated, ...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Paperback

$46.96

by C. G. Jung (Author)Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Lively and insightful, it covers all of his most significant themes, including man's need for a God and the mechanics of dream analysis. One of his most famous books, it perfectly captures the feelings of confusion that many sense today. Generation X might be a recent concept, but Jung spotted its...

The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex - Paperback

$89.08

by Annie Potts (Author)What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, are discussed in The Science/Fiction of Sex. Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make s...

New Directions in Nursing History: International Perspectives - Paperback

$100.42

by Susan McGann (Editor), Barbara Mortimer (Editor)This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address: the issues of professionalism within nursing the social and ethical issues which are woven into the relationship between the nurse/midwife and her patient/client the trans-cultura...

Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works Vol 3 - Paperback

$116.62

by Jean Piaget (Author), Margaret Cook (Author)First published in 1997. This is Volume III of selected works of Jean Piaget which explores his concepts on the origins of intelligence in children. The theses developed in this volume, concern in particular the formation of the sensorimotor schemata and the mechanism of mental assimilation. Number of Pages: 438 Dimensions: 0.89 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2011

Social Work and Intimate Partner Violence - Paperback

$84.22

by Mary Allen (Author)Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women's physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of intimate partner violence is an essential aspect of good-quality social work practice. This is an accessible introduction to the complexities of social work practice with abused women, as well as men. Designed for those new to...