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How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout
: :Each year more than 17 million Americans suffer from a depressive illness, yet few suffer in solitude. How You Can Survive When They're Depressed explores depression from the perspective of those who are closest to the sufferers of this prevalent disorder--spouses, parents, children, and lovers--and gives the successful coping strategies of many people who live with a clinical depressive or manic-depressive. Depression fallout is the emotional toil on the depressive's family and close friends who often are so focused on the welfare of the depressive, they are unaware of their own stressful reactions ...
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Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
: :The survival and recovery guide for parents picks up where 'Tough Love' leaves off. This compassionate self-help recovery guide dares to suggest that parents have a right to a fulfilling life, even when their kids are ruining their own through alcohol or drugs. By helping yourself, the author claims, you help your kids.
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Clinical Interviewing
: :Now fully revised and updated, Clinical Interviewing offers both the scientific basis and interpersonal aspects of mental health interviewing. Presenting a clear and engaging picture of how to interview clients in therapy, the new edition of this bestselling text reflects current research and includes important expansion of multicultural content throughout. Graduate students in social work, counseling, and psychology will gain insight into and practical examples of useful interviewing techniques for more effective therapy.
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Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Therapist Guide (Treatments That Work)
: :Now in its 4th edition, Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic, Therapist Guide updates, extends, and improves upon the most effective, evidence-based treatment program available for Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia. -Program is now organized by skill, instead of by session so treatment can be tailored to the individual -Presents breathing and thinking skills as methods for facing, rather than reducing fear and anxiety -Focuses on learning how to face agoraphobic situations and the scary physical symptoms of panic from an entirely new perspective -Includes a completely new chapter for adapting the treatment ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well
: :Morbid obsessions with sex, germs, or with one's appearance, and uncontrollable compulsions to hoard objects, to check and recheck locks, or to pull one's hair are just a few of the symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, which afflict over ten million Americans. Many suffer in isolation, not knowing that their disorder has a name, how to seek help, or how to help themselves. Dr. Penzel discusses the entire spectrum of these disorders, from the classic form characterized by intrusive, repetitive, and often unpleasant thoughts, to body dysmorphic disorder ('imagined ugliness'), trichotillomania (compulsive hair ...
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Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment
from: American Psychological Association (APA)
: :With hundreds of tests and assessment techniques to choose from, the practising neuropsychologist or doctoral level trainee in a busy hospital may have difficulty coming up with quick and accurate diagnoses. This guide, designed to fit into the lab coat pocket, offers a ready source of information to aid in the differential diagnosis of clinical syndromes. With tips on medical chart reading, correlates of blood and lab tests, and descriptions of over 25 diagnostic disorders, this book should be a welcome companion for everyone from interns to practising clinicians in neuropsychology, psychiatry ...
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Essentials of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
: :Brandon/Hill Nursing List selection (#327). Textbook includes new chapters and features for this edition. Added features include diagnoses from the 2000 text revision of the DSM-IV, new content on anger/aggression management, Internet references for each DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, and the newest psychotropic medications. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover.
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Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia (Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
: :During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars were following him, or that strangers wanted to harm him. Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes during the late teen or young adult years. In Me, Myself, and Them, Kurt, now an adult, looks back from the ...
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Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
: :A world-renowned expert provides a psychological profile of serial sex offenders-how they think, how they deceive their victims, and how they elude the law. What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves.
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Effective Treatments for PTSD, Second Edition: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
from: The Guilford Press
: :Developed under the auspices of the PTSD Treatment Guidelines Task Force of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, this tightly edited work is the definitive best-practice reference for practitioners caring for any trauma population. Leading clinical scientists thoroughly review the clinical and research literature on widely used therapeutic approaches. Succinct treatment guidelines are then presented that feature standardized ratings of the evidence for each approach. The second edition has been revised and expanded to incorporate important advances in the field, including a wealth of new data on child and adolescent therapies. ...
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