Therapy & therapeutics books

Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness,...

Offering the most modern psychological techniques, this guide to breaking the habit of smoking provides useful advice so that readers can avoid paying for costly professional treatments. Using clear and concise language, this book...

By performing a thorough patient assessment, this title can assist physicians in the decision-making process regarding treatment, in evaluating the treatment's effectiveness, and in determining if changes in the treatment need to...

Suitable for those who working therapeutically with children and their families, including play and family therapists, mental health practitioners, social workers, parenting experts and foster and adoptive careers, this book...

They say there's a thin line between love and hate; there's also a thin line between love and addiction. Obsessive behavior, distrustfulness, and the need to control another's life and thoughts are the warning signs. And they can...

Children with autism often have an intense natural musicality. This book explains how music and language 'work' as systems of communication, and why music holds such a fascination for many young people on the autism spectrum. It...

Drug court programs were established beginning in the late 1980s as a local response to increasing numbers of drug-related cases and expanding jail and prison populations nationwide. A drug court is a specialized court-based...

A definitive and evidence-based guide for psychologists, teachers, coaches, HR personnel and all professionals who must understand and work with dyslexic adults.

A practical guide to combatting sleep problems from one of the world's leading authorities, offering solutions for sleeping more soundly and healthily

Helps you decide which pharmacotherapy to employ in specific clinical situations. This title details essential drug information, such as benefits, risks, adverse reactions, dosage, interactions with other drugs, and responses.

LIVING THE PROMISES is a personal, warm 365 reader which includes quotes and exhortations, celebrations and lists of thanks and all manner of real-life inspirations. Each month begins with a promise and each day explores that...

Provides refereed reviews on learning theory and addition, deep brain stimulation and addiction, novel therapeutic approaches to addiction, developmental studies of reward, genetics and brain imaging in addiction, genetics of...

The founder of the Shades of Hope treatment center uses her personal story as an illustration of the philosophy behind the Shades of Hope program, which is renowned for its successful approach to treating eating disorders and...

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them...it is unforgivable not to reclaim them...Mountain Air: Relapsing And Finding The Way Back One Breath At A Time is a brutally honest personal...

Takes the reader through health assessment and client consultation. This title covers sanitation and hygiene, refreshes on physiology pertinent to the pathology and pathophysiology. It tells about general contraindications and...

Presses policymakers to implement humane responses to persistent substance use that remove its control entirely from the criminal justice system

This handy pocket guide has clear and concise information about the safe administering of insulin, both subcutaneously and intravenously. It includes data on the different types and side effects of insulin, delivery devices, and,...

Rely on this best-selling laboratory manual to provide the hands-on practice you need to confidently perform the most common to complex respiratory procedures for class and clinical. Step-by-step instructions with detailed...

Watching your loved one have seizures - or having them yourself can be a very emotionally difficult thing to do. Our daughter struggled with over 100 seizures every day - even while heavily medicated (and we were scared of the...

Provides coverage of nursing interventions for drug therapy with related rationales. This text explains the why behind each nursing action, and emphasizes how drugs work differently in different patients.

Based on decades of research, it is now known that the most effective program for the reversal of chronic insomnia is called 'Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia' or CBT-I. This book breaks CBT-I down into a step-by-step,...

There are times for all of us when, no matter how many sheep we have counted, falling asleep just isn't as easy as it should be. This book provides you with the tools and techniques needed to understand your sleep patterns, and to...

Designed to help you practice and retain the knowledge you've gained from the textbook, this title is structured to integrate that knowledge and give you a basis for applying it in your nursing practice.

An innovative new approach to addiction treatment that pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive Therapy for Addiction directly targets the core mechanisms of addiction.

Recovery from Eating Disorders focuses on real-life recovery strategies for eating disorders, including methods that involve motivational factors, physical and psychological health, and issues such as self-esteem and relationship...