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Measuring the Effects of Racism - Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury... Measuring the Effects of Racism - Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury (Hardcover)
Robert T. Carter, Alex L. Pieterse
R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A large body of research has established a causal relationship between experiences of racial discrimination and adverse effects on mental and physical health. In Measuring the Effects of Racism, Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse offer a manual for mental health professionals on how to understand, assess, and treat the effects of racism as a psychological injury. Carter and Pieterse provide guidance on how to recognize the psychological effects of racism and racial discrimination. They propose an approach to understanding racism that connects particular experiences and incidents with a person's individual psychological and emotional response. They detail how to evaluate the specific effects of race-based encounters that produce psychological distress and possibly impairment or trauma. Carter and Pieterse outline therapeutic interventions for use with individuals and groups who have experienced racial trauma, and they draw attention to the importance of racial awareness for practitioners. The book features a racial-trauma assessment toolkit, including a race-based traumatic-stress symptoms scale and interview schedule. Useful for both scholars and practitioners, including social workers, educators, and counselors, Measuring the Effects of Racism offers a new framework of race-based traumatic stress that helps legitimize psychological reactions to experiences of racism.

Higher and Friendly Powers - Transforming Addiction and Suffering (Paperback): Peg O'Connor Higher and Friendly Powers - Transforming Addiction and Suffering (Paperback)
Peg O'Connor
R490 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psychological Approaches to Cancer Care (Paperback): Teresa L. Deshields,, Jonathan Kaplan, Lauren Z. Rynar Psychological Approaches to Cancer Care (Paperback)
Teresa L. Deshields,, Jonathan Kaplan, Lauren Z. Rynar
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Multidisciplinary authors provide a holistic overview Details the key principles and models of cancer-related distress Guides through assessment and treatment Illustrated with case studies Printable tools for clinical use Psychosocial oncology is a health psychology specialty that focuses on the psychological, behavioral, emotional, and social challenges faced by patients with cancer and their loved ones. Cancer can cause significant distress, and psychosocial interventions are known to be effective for helping patients and families navigate the many issues that can arise at any stage of the cancer continuum. This volume provides psychologists, physicians, social workers, and other health care providers with practical and evidence-based guidance on the delivery of psychological interventions to patients with cancer. The multidisciplinary team of authors succinctly present the key principles, history, and theoretical models of cancer-related distress. They then move on to explore clinical assessment and interventions in cancer care, in particular psychological and psychiatric treatments, multidisciplinary care management, and complementary supportive interventions. Case vignettes give the reader insight into diagnostic processes and effective treatment planning. Practitioners will find the printable handout and screening tool for clients invaluable in their daily work.

Complex PTSD - Understanding PTSD's Effects on Body, Brain and Emotions - Includes Practical Strategies to Heal from... Complex PTSD - Understanding PTSD's Effects on Body, Brain and Emotions - Includes Practical Strategies to Heal from Trauma (Paperback)
Erika Alexander
R539 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Paperback): Sigmund Freud The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Paperback)
Sigmund Freud; Translated by Anthea Bell; Introduction by Paul Keegan
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter—and how a young acquaintance mangled a quotation from Virgil through fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant—it brings together a treasure trove of muddled memories, inadvertent actions, and verbal tangles. Amusing, moving, and deeply revealing of the repressed, hypocritical Viennese society of his day, Freud's dazzling interpretations provide the perfect introduction to psychoanalytic thinking in action.

The Mask of Sanity (Paperback): Hervey M Cleckley The Mask of Sanity (Paperback)
Hervey M Cleckley; Foreword by Mary Beck
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trauma - Contemporary Directions in Trauma Theory, Research, and Practice (Paperback, second edition): Jerrold Brandell,... Trauma - Contemporary Directions in Trauma Theory, Research, and Practice (Paperback, second edition)
Jerrold Brandell, Shoshana Ringel
R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on the theoretical and clinical issues associated with trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It presents key developments in the conceptualization of trauma and covers a wide range of clinical treatments. Trauma features coverage of emerging therapeutic modalities and clinical themes, focusing on the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups. Clinical chapters discuss populations and themes including cultural and historical trauma among Native Americans, the impact of bullying on children and adolescents, the use of art therapy with traumatically bereaved children, historical and present-day trauma experiences of incarcerated African American women, and the effects of trauma treatment on the therapist. Other chapters examine trauma-related interventions derived from diverse theoretical frameworks, such as cognitive-behavioral theory, attachment theory, mindfulness theory, and psychoanalytic theory.

Crazy - A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Paperback): Pete Earley Crazy - A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Paperback)
Pete Earley
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness...Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken."-Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the "revolving doors" between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.

Keep Clear - my adventures with Asperger's (Paperback): Tom Cutler Keep Clear - my adventures with Asperger's (Paperback)
Tom Cutler 1
R310 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A revealing memoir about living with Asperger's syndrome that is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and achingly sad. It is only when he is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler's life starts to make sense - his accidental rudeness, his strange obsessions (including road signs and Sherlock Holmes), his unusual way of dressing, and his trouble in company. In this moving memoir, Tom explores his eccentric behaviour from boyhood to manhood, examines the role of autism in his family, and investigates the scientific explanations for his condition. Eloquent, witty, and insightful, Keep Clear ultimately shows why the day Tom received his diagnosis turned out to be the happiest day of his life.

No Map to This Country - One Family's Journey through Autism (Paperback): Jennifer Noonan No Map to This Country - One Family's Journey through Autism (Paperback)
Jennifer Noonan
R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused to accept the conventional wisdom that autism was largely permanent, instead launching a relentless investigation into the very latest dietary, immunological, and metabolic research available. "I certainly had no reason to believe at that time that autism was treatable," she writes, "but somehow I decided, in my classically pigheaded way, that it would be." This spirited audacity gave her not only courage,and ultimately success,in the face of such a devastating diagnosis, but also a self-aware and darkly funny perspective on her own faults and struggles over the next six years.With equal parts defiance, tenacity, and wry humour, No Map to This Country details one family's journey through the modern autism epidemic, and the lengths to which a mother will go to heal her family. Neither a medical manual nor a heartwarming tale of growth, Noonan's ground-breaking yet profoundly relatable memoir seamlessly combines cutting-edge research with a gripping and unapologetic account of her family's fight for recovery.

Finally Focused - Laser Concentration - Learn The Trick To Become Incredibly Productive In Everything You Do (Paperback): Fred... Finally Focused - Laser Concentration - Learn The Trick To Become Incredibly Productive In Everything You Do (Paperback)
Fred Park
R516 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lab Girl (Paperback): Hope Jahren Lab Girl (Paperback)
Hope Jahren 1
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work. Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.

Notes on a Nervous Planet (Paperback): Matt Haig Notes on a Nervous Planet (Paperback)
Matt Haig
R462 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'm So Glad You're Here - A Memoir (Paperback): Pamela Gay I'm So Glad You're Here - A Memoir (Paperback)
Pamela Gay
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I'm So Glad You're Here is the story of a family disrupted by ramifications of a father's mental illness. The memoir opens with a riveting account of Gay, age eighteen, witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and carried out of the house on a stretcher. The trauma she experiences escalates when, after her father has had electroshock treatments at a state mental hospital, her parents leave her in a college dorm room and move from Massachusetts to Florida without her. She feels abandoned. Both her parents have gone missing. Decades later, when Gay and her three much-older siblings show up for their father's funeral, she witnesses her sundered family's inability to gather together. Eventually, she is diagnosed with PTSD of abandonment and treated with EMDR therapy-and finally begins to heal. Poignant and powerful, I'm So Glad You're Here is Gay's exploration of the idea that while the wounds we carry from growing up in fractured families stay with us, they do not have to control us-a reflective journey that will inspire readers to think about their own relational lives.

The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior (Hardcover): Kees Van Heeringen The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior (Hardcover)
Kees Van Heeringen
R2,799 Discovery Miles 27 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide - however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented. While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging. Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop; ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented.

I Am Me - My Personal Journey with My Forty Plus Autistic Son (Paperback): Marlene Ringler I Am Me - My Personal Journey with My Forty Plus Autistic Son (Paperback)
Marlene Ringler
R444 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I Am Me is a courageous story offered as a gift of hope, inspiration, and love to anyone whose life is affected by an autism spectrum diagnosis-a candid and moving personal narrative about raising a child with the devastating diagnosis. One out of 68 children today are diagnosed with autism. One of those happens to be Marlene Ringler's son. Yesterday's autistic child is today's autistic adult. As mothers, women worry about just what will happen to their child when they are no longer around to provide guidance and support. Who will look after him? Who will care? Who will love my son? Marlene Ringler directly addresses those very human questions as she pays special attention to research findings and current investigations into the spectrum disorder. Her journey provides a firsthand look at the highs and lows of raising a son with this diagnosis, leading towards a greater understanding of how recognition of an autistic diagnosis can be viewed as part of our human condition. I Am Me is a straightforward, honest, and touching story of how a family copes when one member is on the spectrum. It is a journey told through the prism of a mother who offers hope, belief, and conviction that the life of a child with autism can and should be fulfilling and rewarding.

Horses Coloring Book - An Adult Coloring Book for Horse Lovers (Paperback): Indus Coloring, Coloring Books for Adults, Adult... Horses Coloring Book - An Adult Coloring Book for Horse Lovers (Paperback)
Indus Coloring, Coloring Books for Adults, Adult Coloring Books
R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior (Paperback): Kees Van Heeringen The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior (Paperback)
Kees Van Heeringen
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide - however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented. While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging. Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop; ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented.

Assessment and Curriculum Tool (ACT) - An Assessment and Curriculum Tool for Individuals Diagnosed with Autism or Related... Assessment and Curriculum Tool (ACT) - An Assessment and Curriculum Tool for Individuals Diagnosed with Autism or Related Disorders (Paperback)
Chemise Taylor
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Amor Que Nos Cura, El (English, Spanish, Paperback): Boris Cyrulnik Amor Que Nos Cura, El (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Boris Cyrulnik
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Recovery from Complex PTSD From Trauma to Regaining Self Through Mindfulness & Emotional Regulation Exercises (Paperback): Don... Recovery from Complex PTSD From Trauma to Regaining Self Through Mindfulness & Emotional Regulation Exercises (Paperback)
Don Barlow
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ben Behind His Voices - One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope (Hardcover): Randye Kaye Ben Behind His Voices - One Family's Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope (Hardcover)
Randye Kaye
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When readers first meet Ben, he is a sweet, intelligent, seemingly well-adjusted youngster. Fast forward to his teenage years, though, and Ben's life has spun out of control. Ben is swept along by an illness over which he has no control one that results in runaway episodes, periods of homelessness, seven psychotic breaks, seven hospitalizations, and finally a diagnosis and treatment plan that begins to work. Schizophrenia strikes an estimated one in a hundred people worldwide by some estimates, and yet understanding of the illness is lacking. Through Ben's experiences, and those of his mother and sister, who supported Ben through every stage of his illness and treatment, readers gain a better understanding of schizophrenia, as well as mental illness in general, and the way it affects individuals and families. Here, Kaye encourages families to stay together and find strength while accepting the reality of a loved one's illness; she illustrates, through her experiences as Ben's mother, the delicate balance between letting go and staying involved. She honors the courage of anyone who suffers with mental illness and is trying to improve his life and participate in his own recovery. Ben Behind His Voices also reminds professionals in the psychiatric field that every patient who comes through their doors has a life, one that he has lost through no fault of his own. It shows what goes right when professionals treat the family as part of the recovery process and help them find support, education, and acceptance. And it reminds readers that those who suffer from mental illness, and their families, deserve respect, concern, and dignity."

The Lives They Left Behind - Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Paperback): Darby Penney, Peter Stastny The Lives They Left Behind - Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic (Paperback)
Darby Penney, Peter Stastny; Photographs by Lisa Rinzler; Introduction by Robert Whitaker
R504 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us." --Oliver Sacks "Fascinating...The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that it's so easy to identify with them." --Newsweek When Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State's largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients was discovered. Using the possessions found in these suitcases along with institutional records and doctors' notes from patient sessions, Darby Penney, a leading advocate of patients' rights, and Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, were able to reconstruct the lives of ten patients who resided at Willard during the first half of the twentieth century. The Lives They Left Behind tells their story. In addition to these human portraits, the book contains over 100 photographs as well as valuable historical background on how this state-funded institution operated. As it restores the humanity of the individuals it so poignantly evokes, The Lives They Left Behind reveals the vast historical inadequacies of a psychiatric system that has yet to heal itself.

The Female Mind - User's Guide (Paperback): Kathryn Abel The Female Mind - User's Guide (Paperback)
Kathryn Abel
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This great book offers an up-to-date overview of how gender and sexuality affect mental health. It will help women to self-identify and self-manage the symptoms of mental ill health. The book covers a wide range of specific mental health disorders - many of which are more common in women - and includes real-life case studies, the latest treatments and where to find further help and support. It's written in an easy-to-read format to give an invaluable guide for women.

Trauma Competency for the 21st Century - A Salutogenic Active Ingredients Approach to Treatment (Paperback): Psy D Robert... Trauma Competency for the 21st Century - A Salutogenic Active Ingredients Approach to Treatment (Paperback)
Psy D Robert Rhoton, J. Eric Gentry
R760 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R51 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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