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"The Bipolar Expeditionist" describes what it is like to experience
every level of mania right up to the fully blown stage, as well as
the depressing stagnating flipside. Far less stigma and taboo are
attached to illnesses of the mind these days, but that's still not
good enough, so these issues are also addressed. This book enables
readers of any level, age or race to comprehend an often tricky
subject in a way that isn't too heavy and overpowering, but with
just enough mental glue to stick.
"The Bipolar Expeditionist" is not only a true story, it is an
inspirational tool that can be used by caregivers, sufferers and
medical professionals for many years to come.
Optimism oozes out of the pages, telling the bipolar beholder
or their loved ones that all is never lost. By the time "The
Bipolar Expeditionist" has been read you will realise exactly why
you will never be left alone, and that despite the agonizing slog
you will always past the test, and then go on to enjoy a fulfilling
and creative life, just as God intended.
This book equips school psychologists and other mental health
professionals with a comprehensive understanding of mental health
and well-being in adolescent girls. The text places adolescent
girls in a developmental and social-cultural context and outlines
factors that can shape girls' well-being including family, peers,
and media. Chapters discuss trajectories that might result in
mental distress and dysfunction in adolescent girls and identify
pathways to their optimal development. Additionally, the book
reviews the domains of well-being including physical health and
habits, emotional well-being, healthy relationships, and identity
and agency. Each chapter includes theory-informed and empirically
supported interventions to help promote girls' positive physical
and socio-emotional development and culminates in a list of further
recommended resources for the reader. Well-Being in Adolescent
Girls is a valuable resource for school psychologists, counselors,
and other mental health professionals working with adolescents
along with those in graduate-level courses in school psychology and
school counseling programs.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology
and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the
U.S. military's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A major part of this
work is the attempt to identify means of healing, recovery, and
repair for those morally injured by their experiences in combat (or
similar situations). What this volume does is to provide insight
into the identification of moral injury, the development of the
notion, attempts to work with those affected, emerging ideas about
moral injury, portraits of moral injury in the past and present,
and, especially, what creative engagement with moral injury might
look like from a variety of perspectives. As such, it will be an
important resource for Christian ministers, chaplains, health care
workers, and other providers and caregivers who serve afflicted
communities.
Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is
limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction
therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet
addiction in psychotherapy.
Equips the upcoming generation of addiction counselors with crucial
knowledge to skillfully treat current and future addictionsGrounded
in leading-edge, evidence-based research, this hands-on text
applies a step-by-step approach to addictions counseling. This book
encompasses assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning; case
management; and relapse prevention, with an incisive focus on
process addictions and co-occurring disorders. The text covers all
essential topics as outlined in the gold standard SAMSHA Counselor
Training Manual. Included are detailed guidelines on how to write
succinct treatment plans and conduct effective client sessions;
case studies; role-playing exercises; and clinical applications to
assessment and diagnosis, treatment planning, and case management.
Counselor Perspectives--interviews with experienced clinicians
working with varied populations throughout the country--offer the
wisdom of those who have been there. Critical topics unique to the
book include the role of neuroscience in addiction treatment,
relapse prevention, and advocacy. In addition, the text offers
specific chapters on process addictions and co-occuring disorders
as well as a separate chapter on multicultural counseling covering
gender, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, age, religion, and
disability issues. It is also distinguished by an abundance of
downloadable forms and documents, including screening instruments,
treatment plan format templates, treatment plan examples,
biopsychosocial assessment forms, informed consent forms,
confidentiality forms, case management forms, and more. Pedagogical
elements to help learners process and apply concepts inlcude key
terms, learning activities, discussion questions, recommended
readings/resources and chapter summaries. Faculty aides include an
instructor's manual with sample syllabi, CACREP mapping tools, test
bank, and PowerPoint slides. This essential resource will be valued
as a primary textbook for any course that focuses on addiction
counseling and treatment. Purchase includes digital access for use
on most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Describes a
variety of etiological models and how they become a means of
assessing biopsychosocial risk factors Delivers step-by-step
guidelines on how to write concise treatment plans and for
conducting effective treatment sessions Devotes a chapter to
motivational interviewing to promote willingness to change Includes
cutting-edge research pertaining to neuroscience and its
applications and evidence-based treatment practices Provides
separate chapter on multicultural counseling and substance use
disorders among people of diverse races, ethnicities, genders,
class, ages, and spirituality Offers real-world insights with
"Notes from the Field" feature Facilitates practical application
through role play exercises, treatment technique and assessment
case examples, biopsychosocial assessment guidelines, how to
provide client feedback, and more Includes multiple digital
downloadable tools
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films,
television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not
innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of
war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in
wider social and political networks and institutions-families,
activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state
programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted
in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of
masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from
the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The
authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the
emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies,
minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence,
diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds.
Answers the two most important questions about the use of
medication to treat ADHD. Does medication work? And is it safe? In
ADHD Medication, Dr. Walt Karniski uses his 40 years of experience
as a developmental pediatrician to address important concerns that
parents have about the use of medication for the treatment of ADHD.
Because there is no medical diagnostic test to definitively "make a
diagnosis" of ADHD, it is easy for critics to dismiss ADHD as a
disorder fabricated by doctors, teachers, and pharmaceutical
companies. Some parents blame themselves, and react with guilt,
believing that they should have raised their child differently. So
when you are presented with the diagnosis of a medical disorder in
your child, is it any wonder that you might react with confusion,
guilt, or denial? It doesn't have to be that way. Parents are
surprised to learn that there are almost 50 different medications
used to treat ADHD, representing only two primary medications. This
book addresses such issues as how to determine if medication is
needed, how to decide which medication is the right fit for your
child, whether children can outgrow ADHD, how to eliminate
medication side effects, and how you can discuss the need for
medication with your child. Most importantly though, this book
answers the questions: Does ADHD medication work, and is it safe?
This book is a powerful resource for parents and practitioners
alike seeking to understand the treatment of ADHD in children.
This is the only text to address child and adolescent
psychopathology from the viewpoint of the school psychologist.
Integrating, comparing, and distinguishing DSM-5 diagnoses from
IDEA disability classifications, it provides a comprehensive
overview of mental health conditions in this population. This book
addresses the impact of these conditions at school and at home,
along with a description of practical, evidence-based educational
and mental health interventions that can be implemented in school
environments. It addresses the role of the school psychologist and
details a variety of educational supports and school-based mental
health services as they apply to specific conditions.This resource
provides comprehensive coverage of school psychologists'
responsibilities, including assessment, educational and skill-based
interventions and supports, consulting with key stakeholders, and
advocacy. Case studies address classification issues and varied
approaches psychologists can use to support students. Chapters
provide a variety of features to reinforce knowledge, including
quick facts, discussion questions, and sources for additional
resources. Instructor's ancillaries include instructor's manual,
test questions, and mapping to NASP domains as well as PowerPoints
and a test bank. Purchase includes digital access for use on most
mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Provides a school
psychological approach to addressing a full gamut of
child/adolescent mental health problems at school and at home
Integrates, compares, and distinguishes DSM-5 diagnoses, IDEA
disability classifications and other legal protections (i.e.,
Section 504) for each disorder Covers the impact of various
disorders on a child's ability to learn and function in the
classroom Addresses practical, evidence-based educational supports
and school-based mental health services suited to specific
disorders Includes case studies addressing classification issues
and delineating practical student supports
Helps parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture
and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than
their anxiety. WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary
sources of the nation's worsening adolescent mental health crisis -
achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today's
youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting
their teens' current well-being while also setting them up for
future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating
fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem
by overlooking their own parental achievement anxiety. Based on
thirty years of clinical practice and her experiences raising her
own teenagers in New York City, the work demonstrates that when
parents become aware of their individual anxieties and learn to
effectively manage them, they are empowered to make values aligned,
rather than worry driven parenting decisions. Dr. Dorfman provides
practical evidence-based parenting strategies, exercises, and
reflective prompts to guide parents through a process to
constructively apply to their day-to-day parenting decisions.
Compulsive buying is a shopping addiction with worldwide prevalence
that causes significant emotional, financial, and social problems
for those afflicted by it. While most research has focused on the
problem and its consequences, this book examines the intersections
between consumer traits, self-regulation, ethical considerations,
and compulsive buying. Compulsive Buying: Consumer Traits,
Self-Regulation, and Marketing Ethics presents a model on consumer
trait predictors of compulsive buying as well as guidelines for
consumers, government policymakers, and companies.
"HOW COULD YOU, A MATHEMATICIAN, BELIEVE THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
WERE SENDING YOU MESSAGES?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West
Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because
the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way
my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them
seriously."
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius
who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and
who--thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the
loyalty of the mathematics community--emerged after decades of
ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game
theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award-winning
movie, Sylvia Nasar's now-classic biography is a drama about the
mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing
power of love.
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