Violence within the family, whether directed against children, partners or elders, profoundly disturbs our notions of what the relationship between the family and the discipline of general practice should be. GPs are doctors to whole families and yet their relationships with patients are individual ones, drawing their strength from the principles of confidentiality, mutual trust and positive regard. Violence and abuse within families necessarily challenges all of these, creating a profusion of ethical, interpersonal and practical difficulties and dilemmas. At the same time the nature of general practice confers unique opportunities to deal effectively with family violence.

GPs and GP registrars will find this book an invaluable and empowering resource. It brings together a broad range of expertise and opinion from relevant specialities and disciplines and sets family violence in its historical, epidemiological and societal context. It describes in separate sections, child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse, its presentations, diagnosis and treatment; and suggests ways forward for its prevention and early detection. It draws throughout on the experience of GPs, health visitors and social workers, providing practical safe and workable guidelines.

Family violence can present to any member of the primary care team and there is much here that will be of relevance and interest to them all.

Angelika Amend vermittelt, dass die drei Komponenten "Koerper - Seele - Geist" nicht von einander zu trennen sind, sondern dass eine gesunde Balance wichtig ist, um bis ins hohe Alter gesund, vital und zufrieden zu leben: Letztlich ist Gesundheit ein Geschenk, zu dem aber jeder wesentliche Beitrage leisten kann. In ihrer langjahrigen Berufserfahrung durfte die Autorin erkennen, dass die koerperliche Gesundheit und Vitalitat ein wichtiges Kapital im Leben sind. Sie moechte Interessierte anleiten, Verantwortung fur den eigenen Koerper zu ubernehmen, Wege aufzeigen und Tipps geben, wie ein harmonisches Leben gelingen kann.

Das Buch stellt ein Konzept vor, das es Mitarbeitern in sozialen und Pflegeberufen erleichtert, mit ihrer Empathie bewusst umzugehen. Im Mittelpunkt der Analysen steht dabei das Trainingsprogramm "Mit Empathie arbeiten - gewaltfrei kommunizieren", das einen reflektierten, authentischen und langfristig gesunden Umgang mit Empathie einubt. Das Buch fokussiert den Zusammenhang zwischen Empathie und daraus resultierenden Risiken wie Depressivitat und Burnout, denen das Trainingsprogramm entgegenwirkt. Ausserdem wird dessen Entwicklung beschrieben sowie eine Studie zu seiner Wirksamkeit vorgestellt.

Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adults living with cancer and their families. Chapters cover a wide range of topics including screening tools and interventions, psychiatric emergencies and disorders, physical symptom management, communication issues, and issues specific to common cancer sites. A resource section is appended to provide information on national services and programs. This book features contributions from experts designed to help clinicians review, anticipate and respond to emotional issues that often arise in the context of treating cancer patients. Numerous cross-references and succinct tables and figures make this concise reference easy to use. Psycho-Oncology is an ideal resource for helping oncologists and nurses recognize when it may be best to refer patients to their mental health colleagues and for those who are establishing or adding psychosocial components to existing clinics.

In che modo la diagnosi di tumore alla prostata impatta sull equilibrio familiare, sulla vita di coppia e sui progetti di vita? Come viene gestita da parte dei clinici, medici e psicologi, la complessita della malattia nel caso del tumore alla prostata?
Sono queste alcune tra le domande a cui gli Autori hanno cercato di rispondere attraverso un testo strutturato come una serie di riflessioni, nel duplice significato di pensiero su e di immagine riflessa. Uno spaccato sulle emozioni del paziente e sulle relazioni con partner, figli, medico curante, psicologi, che chiude conil punto di vistadel paziente che ci racconta la sua verita.
Una narrazione che vuole portare alla luce gli aspetti psicosociali e le dinamiche interpersonali, talvolta complicate, tra i vari attori che ruotano intorno al paziente con tumore alla prostata.

Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuropharmacological bases of cognition and behavior, cur rent cognitive theory in many different domains of functioning, and the nature and tools of clinical assessment. Although the cognitive functions and abilities of interest are often the same, each of these fields has grappled with them from sometimes very different perspectives. Terminology is often specific to a particular discipline or ap proach, methods are diverse, and the goals or outcomes of study or investigation are usually very different. This book poises itself to provide a largely missing link between traditional approaches to assessment and the growing area of cognitive neuropsy chology. Historically, neuropsychology had as its central core the consideration of evidence from clinical cases. It was the early work of neurologists such as Broca, Wernicke, Hughlings-Jackson, and Liepmann, who evaluated and described the behavioral cor relates of prescribed lesions in individual patients and focused investigation on the lateralization and localization of cognitive abilities in humans. An outgrowth of those approaches was the systematic development of experimental tasks that could be used to elucidate the nature of cognitive changes in individuals with well-described brain lesions."

This book introduces the reader to the basic skills necessary for good communication between doctors (and other health professionals) and patients. The practical importance of such skills is outlined, making the doctor much more effective in all fields of medicine. This is not a book for the specialist reader, but aimed at all those who need to talk with patients.

La donazione in Italia Il testo presenta la situazione aggiornata e le prospettive future nel campo della donazione di sangue (emocomponenti), organi (tessuti e cellule), e midollo osseo in Italia. Coinvolgendo vari clinici, ricercatori e associazioni, il testo offre una chiara spiegazione delle possibilita di donazione in Italia e presenta, nell'ultima parte, esperienze cliniche e di ricerca in tale ambito. Il volume e rivolto a operatori sanitari, associazioni di volontariato, volontari, donatori, infermieri, medici e psicologi."

Some phenomena in medicine and psychology remain unexplained by current theory. Chronic fatigue syndrome, repetitive strain injury and irritable bowel syndrome, for example, are all diseases or syndromes that cannot be explained in terms of a physiological abnormality. In this intriguing book, Michael E. Hyland proposes that there is a currently unrecognised type of illness which he calls 'dysregulatory disease'. Hyland shows how such diseases develop and how the communication and art of medicine, good nursing care, complementary medicine and psychotherapy can all act to reduce the dysregulation that leads to dysregulatory disease. The Origins of Health and Disease is a fascinating book that develops a novel theory for understanding health and disease, and demonstrates how this theory is supported by existing data, and how it explains currently unexplained phenomena. Hyland also shows how his theory leads to new testable predictions that, in turn, will lead to further scientific advancement and development.

'A wholly new perspective to finding balance and success' - Nir Eyal 'I highly reccommend it' - John Maeda, Chief experience officer, Publicis Group and author of How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Digital Age Smash your targets * Annihilate the competition * Choose your battles Have you ever wondered why we use metaphors derived from war and conflict so often at work? What impact does that have on how we conduct business, our culture, our stress levels and ultimately our ability to succeed? For too long war has cast a spell on how we think about business, with negative implications for us, the companies we work in and on the planet. Drawing on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art based on the idea that fighting is fundamentally bad, John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge some of our deepest-held assumptions and show us how to unlearn many ideas and behaviours that are preventing our personal and professional growth. Instead of embracing force as the long accepted route to success, Winning Not Fighting offers as a transformational guide to work and life by inspiring positivity, simplicity and focus. "Unites business and martial arts in a realistic, practical and intelligent way. It's capitalism, but not as we know it." - Benjamin Zephaniah

Although there has been an increasing public interest in minority men who have sex with men (MSM), much of that attention has focused on HIV risk and has been concerned with lurid details of people s sex lives. Relatively little attention has addressed the multiple health issues confronting this population, the risks that are associated with various health conditions (apart from HIV), or the innovative strategies that have been developed to address them.

Each section of this edited book will be devoted to a particular health issue affecting minority MSM. Each section will consist of one or more scholarly chapters that address the particular issue, followed by a chapter or short piece from an individual associated with a nonprofit organization or public health department. In addition, each section will contain one or more writings from minority MSM regarding their experiences and/or perspective on the issue at hand. This book uniquely focuses on both gay/queer-self-identified men from diverse minority communities (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander) and men of these ethnic communities who have sex with men but are not gay/queer-self-identified."

Die weitreichenden EinflA1/4sse und MAglichkeiten der neuen Medien kAnnen im Bereich Gesundheit nicht mehr A1/4bersehen werden. Die damit zusammenhAngenden Konsequenzen und assoziierten Effekte sind auch fA1/4r jene Personen von hAchster Relevanz, die sich aus unterschiedlichsten GrA1/4nden bisher nicht mit den neuen Informationstechnologien auseinandersetzen wollten. Dieses Buch widmet sich dem weitreichenden Einfluss des Internets auf die Gesundheitspsychologie. Ausgehend von fA1/4nf BerA1/4hrungspunkten - Information, BeziehungsAnderung, Interventionen, UnerwA1/4nschte Nebenwirkungen und Forschung - wird die Beeinflussung ausfA1/4hrlich und praxisnah von akutellen Themen wie Online Beratung, SuchtphAnomene, Silver Surfers sowie verAnderte Beziehungen zwischen Professionisten und Klienten behandelt. Ebenso thematisiert werden Online Interventionen im Bereich SexualitAt. In erster Linie richtet es sich an ein Fachpublikum, aber auch Studierende aus dem Gesundheitsbereich und interessierte Laien werden daran fA1/4ndig werden.

In an original and provocative study of suicide, Ian Marsh examines the historical and cultural forces that have influenced contemporary thought, practices and policy in relation to this serious public health problem. Drawing on the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault, the book tells the story of how suicide has come to be seen as first and foremost a matter of psychiatric concern. Marsh sets out to challenge the assumptions and certainties embedded in our beliefs, attitudes and practices concerning suicide and the suicidal, and the resulting account unsettles and informs in equal measure. The book will be of particular interest to researchers, professionals and students in psychology, history, sociology and the health sciences.

Sergei Korsakoff, Alois Alzheimer, James Parkinson, Hans Asperger and other eminent scientists, are all names which have become synonymous with a disease, a syndrome, or an autistic disorder. Although the names of these psychiatrists and neurologists are familiar, we often know little about the individuals themselves and the circumstances surrounding their discoveries. What exactly did they discover, and who were their patients? Douwe Draaisma expertly reconstructs the lives of these and eight other 'names' from the science of mind and brain. Disturbances of the Mind provides a fascinating, illuminating, and at times touching insight into the history of brain research. Thanks to Draaisma's unerring eye and elegant, engaging style, the case histories of Asperger, Bonnet, Capgras, Clerambault, Korsakoff and Gilles de la Tourette syndromes; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; the areas of Broca and Brodmann; Jackson's epilepsy; and the Gage matrix are all brought to life and transformed into unforgettable tales.

Stress levels in health professionals have been shown to be high in many countries and in most staff groups. This creates a personal cost to the individuals concerned, a financial cost to the organisations in terms of absence, early retirement and complaints, and a health cost to patients in terms of the risk of poorer quality care that is received by patients from stressed or dissatisfied staff. At a time when health organisations worldwide are striving to reduce costs and to increase quality, addressing the psychological well-being of their staff has necessarily risen high on their priorities. Stress in Health Professionals reports on the latest research from around the world on the causes of stress in health professionals and on ways to intervene to reduce stress levels. In doing this, it takes approaches from organisational and clinical psychology to focus on key staff groups. It considers wider issues such as burn-out, teamwork, training and counselling services and investigates the effectiveness of both organisational and individual interventions. Written by experts from a broad range of areas, the chapters include:

• the latest evidence on the levels and sources of stress in health staff
• links between stress and patient care
• Individual differences in the stress process
• ways to set up counselling services
• the importance of teamworking
• a strong focus on interventions and their evaluation

Are we in control of our own development in adulthood, or are we shaped by circumstances beyond our control? By adopting the concept of intentional self-development (ISD), this text outlines an action-theoretical approach to human development that emphasizes both an individual's ability to shape their own development throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which this potential is limited. By examining general age-related changes and critical life events, Intentional Self-Development and Positive Ageing explores the adaptive cognitive-motivational processes that generate positive development in adulthood, including developmental tasks, cognitive changes, life-stage transitions, and biological and neural processes. Leipold goes on to discuss the concept of positive ageing, highlighting the flexibility of the term and evaluating it from multiple perspectives to demonstrate its subjectivity, as well as its importance. This text also discusses the importance of resilience in positive development, contributing to the search for conditions conducive to positive life conduct across the lifespan. This book will be essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying lifespan development and gerontology, positive psychology, or health psychology, as well as researchers in those fields. It will also be of interest to developmental counsellors, clinicians, and other applied occupational groups who are seeking to understand the psychological basis of actions.

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis. After a routine operation Pauline lost all the strength in her legs. Shortly afterwards, convulsions started. But Pauline's tests are normal: her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever. This may be an extreme case, but Pauline is not alone. As many as a third of people visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, an emotional root is suspected which is often the last thing a patient wants to hear and a doctor to say. We accept our hearts can flutter with excitement and our brows can sweat with nerves, but on this journey into the very real world of psychosomatic illness, Suzanne O'Sullivan finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves. 'A fascinating glimpse into the human condition... a forceful call for society to be more open about such suffering' Daily Mail 'Honest, fascinating and necessary' The Times

Drug Abuse: Etiology, Prevention, and Cessation serves as a comprehensive source of information on the topography of, causes of, and solutions to drug problems. The text covers conceptual issues regarding definitions of drug use, misuse, abuse, and dependence. Importantly, the text addresses a variety of theoretical bases currently applied to the development of prevention and cessation programs, specific program content from evidence-based programs, and program processes and modalities. Information regarding etiology, prevention, and cessation is neatly delineated into (a) neurobiological, (b) cognitive, (c) micro-social, and (d) macro-social/physical environmental units. The book is ideally suited as a primary source for students and professionals in chemical dependence programs, clinical and health psychology, public health, preventive medicine, nursing, sociology, and social work, among other fields, on the nature, causes, prevention, and cessation of the abuse of legal and illegal drugs.

Hauptsache gesund Der entscheidende Ansatz der Gesundheitspsychologie ist es, die Gesundheit (und nicht die Abwesenheit von Krankheit) in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen. Dies tun auch Babette Renneberg und Philipp Hammelstein konsequent: Die Themenvielfalt spiegelt die zahlreichen Tatigkeitsfelder des Fachgebietes wieder - sie reicht von der Verminderung des Konsums von Nikotin und Alkohol, Ernahrung und Dentalhygiene, Bewegungsverhalten und Stress-Management bis hin zu sexuellem Kontaktverhalten. Die Inhalte sind fur Studierende und angehende Gesundheitspsychologen aufbereitet: So wird der Einstieg in das noch junge Fachgebiet leicht gemacht."

Im arztlich-medizinischen Berufsfeld wird haufig unterschatzt, wie eng korperliche Krankheiten mit psychischen Vorgangen verknupft sind. Das Fachgebiet der medizinischen Psychologie setzt an den zahlreichen Beruhrungspunkten zwischen Medizin und Psychologie an: den Auswirkungen korperlicher Erkrankungen oder medizinischer Eingriffe auf das psychische Erleben und Befinden, den Einfluss psychischer Zustande auf Entstehung und Verlauf von Erkrankungen oder die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen zwischen Arzten, Patienten und Angehorigen. In diesem Buch beleuchten fuhrende Vertreter des Faches solche medizinpsychologischen Fragen und Erkenntnisse erstmals getrennt fur spezifische, medizinische Anwendungsgebiete: Was hat die Psychologie u.a. zur Onkologie, Kardiologie, Zahnmedizin, Augenheilkunde oder auch zu Themen wie "Sterben, Tod und Trauern" und "Telemedizin" zu sagen? Wie tragen z.B. psychische Faktoren zur Entstehung einer Herzinsuffizienz oder der Migrane bei?"

Cosa si prova a non poter avere un figlio? Quanto e difficile comunicare alla coppia una diagnosi di sterilita? Come affrontare il 70% dei fallimenti delle tecniche di PMA? Come una legge puo' incidere sul futuro di un embrione? Il testo, nato dalla fusione multidisciplinare medica, psicologica e sociologica, vuole riflettere su queste domande e accompagnare il lettore in una nuova forma mentis sulle criticita nella fecondazione assistita. La trama scientifica si accompagna a un linguaggio diretto dove hanno un posto rilevante le emozioni, cosi' centrali in campi quali la ginecologia, la riproduzione e la psicologia dell'infertilita, che vanno al cuore del bisogno psico-sessuale piu forte e arcaico: quello riproduttivo. Al centro del volume e la relazione medico-paziente che, nel campo dell'infertilita, e caratterizzata dall'attivazione di forti echi emotivi da parte di entrambi. Il volume, a tale riguardo, propone il protocollo SAHARAI che comprende due metodi inediti (il questionario e il nurse-ring) capaci di intervenire, rispettivamente, nella fase diagnostica e in quella terapeutica della fecondazione. I metodi e le riflessioni proposti sono volti alla riduzione dei disagi psicologici delle coppie e al riequilibrio del rapporto medico-paziente. Dal testo emerge forte una nuova idea di formazione per gli operatori dei centri di fecondazione assistita e un percorso di qualificazione per le nuove figure professionali (gli psicologi addetti alla PMA) in accordo con le nuove direttive della legge."

Lebensqualitat ist mehr als nur Gesundheit

Deutsche Kohortenstudie zur Frauengesundheit

Aber war macht die Lebensqualitat von Frauen heute aus? Weibliche "Lust, Leid und Lebensqualitat" ist das Thema der 1998 bundesweit angelegten (und noch immer fortlaufenden) "deutschen Kohortenstudie zur Frauengesundheit" Uber 10.000 Frauen zwischen 18 und 65 Jahren wurden zu einer grossen Bandbreite gesundheitsrelevanter Themen befragt.

Psychologische Fragen

Aus psychologischer Sicht stellt sich die Frage: Wie beeinflussen unterschiedliche Selbstbilder Frauen in ihrer gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualitat, ihrer sexuellen Lust, aber auch ihrem korperlichen und psychischen Leiden? Und wo gibt es Ansatzpunkte diese Lebensqualitat zu verbessern?

Thema "Frauengesundheit"

Die Medizinpsychologin Beate Schultz-Zehden richtet den Blickpunkt auf derzeitige weibliche Lebenswelten und Lebensverhaltnisse. Ihre empirischen Ergebnisse bringen wichtige psychosoziale Aspekte - Ausbildungsstand, Erziehungsarbeit und Altersvorsorge von Frauen - in die offentliche Diskussion rund um das Thema Frauengesundheit ein."

Psychodermatology covers all aspects of how the mind and body interact in relation to the onset and progression of various skin disorders. This book is the first text written by a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, child specialists and dermatologists for all the health professionals who treat patients with skin problems. They cover a broad range of issues affecting these patients, including: stigma, coping, relationships, psychological treatments, the impact on children, comorbidities, psychoneuroimmunology, quality of life and psychological treatments.

Psychologically Informed Physiotherapy is a key new textbook for those who need a trusted and comprehensive resource to guide them in applying psychosocial perspectives to their physiotherapy practice. The first of its kind, this textbook brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of leading experts in the field. Together they present an evidence-based range of ideas and concepts around the psychologically informed practice framework, bringing psychosocial aspects of physiotherapy to the fore alongside the established biomedical model. By applying these aspects to screening, exploration and triaging, physiotherapists are better able to identify the origins of pain and barriers to rehabilitation; and so are more likely to achieve consistently good clinical outcomes for their patients. Throughout, clinical case studies ensure that the theory is then grounded in a variety of practical scenarios after which some reflective exercises and clinically relevant scenarios reinforce learning and understanding. Chapters on: Psychology of professional identity in health care The biopsychosocial model Screening for red flags Adapting interactions with others to form empowering relationships and influence behavioural change Neuro-immune-endocrine interactions and clinical practice in stress, pain and recovery Care of the anxious patient through cognitive and person-centred strategies Alternative and evolving models of practice, including the clinical flag system The psychology of the athlete from the physiotherapist's perspective Using counselling and psychological strategies within physiotherapy Making evidence-based decisions and measuring effectiveness in practice Using psychological interventions as a student or new graduate First textbook of its kind for physiotherapists Ideal confidence booster for both students and practitioners new to the subject Illustrates the role social factors have on thoughts, emotions and behaviour in patients as well as the neurobiological manifestations of social stressors Presents key, evidence-based concepts from leading international academics, clinicians and researchers in the field and across a range of health professions, including counselling and psychology