Psychiatry category: 2250 books
by Stanley L. Brodsky, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A pragmatic guide to a growing area of professional practice, this book describes the multiple roles of the trial consultant and provides tools for carrying them out competently and ethically. Leading authority Stanley Brodsky uses examples from actual trials and depositions to illustrate how knowledge...
The Academic Medicine Handbook
A Guide to Achievement and Fulfillment for Academic Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Attaining professional success and finding personal happiness in academic medicine is not an easy path, yet both are critical if the future is to be brighter through better science, better clinical care, better training, better responsiveness to communities, and better stewardship and leadership in...
Personal Recovery and Mental Illness
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Recovery is a concept which has emerged from the experiences of people with mental illness. It involves a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations such as managing risk and avoiding relapse, towards new priorities of supporting the person in working towards their own goals and taking responsibility...
Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition
From the First Interview to Termination
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Many students and beginning clinicians have relied on this engaging, authoritative text--now revised and expanded--to hit the ground running in real-world clinical practice. Focusing on what works, the authors show how to flexibly draw on multiple theories and techniques to conduct comprehensive assessments,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book brings together two bodies of knowledge - wellbeing and recovery. Wellbeing and 'positive' approaches are increasingly influencing many areas of society. Recovery in mental illness has a growing empirical evidence base. For the first time, overlaps and cross-fertilisation opportunities between...
Moral Jeopardy
Risks of Accepting Money from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Industries
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations have been highly effective in stalling, diverting and blocking public health measures. This book provides an original and engaging exposé of the ethical issues faced by people and organizations when they accept industry money in ways that facilitate corporate...
Working Safe
How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Written by world-renowned health and safety researcher E. Scott Geller, Working Safe: How to Help People Actively Care for Health and Safety, Second Edition presents science-based and practical approaches to improving attitudes and behavior for achieving an injury-free work environment. This book...
by P. Crawford, B. Brown, C. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide. It sets out the context for this emergent and innovative field which extends beyond Medical Humanities to advance the inclusion and impact of the arts and humanities in healthcare, health and well-being.
by Ezzat A. Fattah, Vincent F. Sacco
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Crime and Victimization of the Elderly provides a "state-of-the-art" review of the social scientific literature relating to the crime problems of older persons. Building upon a broad interdisciplinary base, the volume addresses a wide range of issues that will prove to be of interest and...
The Gift of Therapy
An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.
The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential...
Curare giocando, giocare curando. La famiglia, i bambini, i terapeuti
La famiglia, i bambini, i terapeuti
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Proponendo il gioco come strumento principe per la cura del disagio psico-emotivo della famiglia con bambini, questo libro può essere considerato una vera e propria sfida per una cultura in cui il giocare costituisce un’attività meramente infantile.
The Adolescent in Family Therapy, Second Edition
Harnessing the Power of Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Rich with clinical wisdom, this successful text and practitioner guide offers a comprehensive framework for treating adolescent problems in the family context. Even as teenagers become increasingly independent, Joseph Micucci shows, they still need parental guidance and nurturance. By strengthening...
Child Abuse and Culture
Working with Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete examples are presented to help readers address cultural concerns at each stage of the assessment and intervention...
by Elton Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Pierre Janet (1859 – 1947) is considered to be one of the founders of psychology, and pioneered research in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy and psychotherapy. Janet’s most crucial research, particularly in the subjects of ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’ - terms coined by him...