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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
Counseling Adults with Autism is a practical guide for counselors,
psychologists, and other mental health professionals looking to
improve their confidence and competence in counseling adults
diagnosed with mild to moderate autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Organized into 11 chapters based on key areas for guiding
assessment and treatment planning for this population, this book
highlights evidence-based practices and therapeutic interventions
through case examples to demonstrate how assessment and treatment
can be applied. Replete with insights from a variety of
disciplinary approaches, this is a comprehensive and accessible
resource for practitioners looking to support and empower clients
struggling with social and behavioral challenges.
"Dr. Wakefield sets the record straight. It was not he who showed
callous disregard towards vulnerable, sick children with autism. It
was the British medical establishment, the General Medical Council,
the media and the pharmaceutical industry."-Mary Holland, Esq.,
co-founder, Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy As
Andrew Wakefield states in his prologue, "If autism does not affect
your family now, it will. If something does not change-and change
soon-this is almost a mathematical certainty. This book affects you
also. It is not a parochial look at a trivial medical spat in the
United Kingdom, but dispatches from the battlefront in a major
confrontation-a struggle against compromise in medicine, corruption
of science, and a real and present threat to children in the
interests of policy and profit. It is a story of how 'the system'
deals with dissent among its doctors and scientists." In the
pursuit of possible links between childhood vaccines, intestinal
inflammation, and neurologic injury in children, Wakefield lost his
job in London's Royal Free Hospital, his country of birth, his
career, and his medical license. A recent General Medical Council
ruling stated that he was "dishonest, irresponsible and showed
callous disregard for the distress and pain of children." Maligned
by the medical establishment and mainstream media, Wakefield
endeavors to set the record straight in Callous Disregard. While
explaining what really happened, he calls out the organizations and
individuals that are acting not for the sake of children affected
by autism, but in their own self-interests.
With a focus on the practical, day-to-day tools needed by
neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, and others who work
with the elderly, Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia,
3rd Edition, is an indispensable, easy-to-read resource in this
growing area. Clinical experts Drs. Andrew Budson and Paul Solomon
cover the essentials of physical and cognitive examinations and
laboratory and imaging studies for dementia and related illnesses,
giving you the guidance you need to make accurate diagnosis and
treatment decisions with confidence. Provides in-depth coverage of
clinically useful diagnostic tests and the latest research findings
and treatment approaches. Incorporates real-world case studies that
facilitate the management of both common and uncommon conditions.
Contains new chapters on Alzheimer's look-alikes and posterior
cortical atrophy. Covers key topics such as chronic traumatic
encephalopathy, primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and
limbic-predominant, age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE), in
addition to new criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies and
posterior cortical atrophy. Includes current National Institute on
Aging-Alzheimer's Association and DSM-5 criteria for Alzheimer's
disease and mild cognitive impairment. Demonstrates how to use
diagnostic tests such as the amyloid imaging scans florbetapir
(Amyvid), flutemetamol (Vizamyl), and florbetaben (Neuraceq), which
can display amyloid plaques in the living brains of patients, as
well as the new tau scans. Includes access to more than two dozen
videos that illustrate common tests, clinical signs, and diagnostic
features. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your
enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and
references from the book on a variety of devices.
All mental health clinicians and professionals, in practice and training, will welcome this concise and practical book which provides - a detailed account of cognitive models, including new perspectives
- state-of-the-art applications of cognitive therapy
- case examples demonstrating the real world application of techniques
- specific coverage of major categories of anxiety disorders
- knowledge based on very substantial treatment and outcome experience
This book emphasises the design and implementation of ‘pure’ cognitive therapy interventions. There are general sections on assessment and basic cognitive therapy skills, as well as practical advice on designing and executing behavioural experiments, homework tasks, and verbal re-attribution methods. A useful appendix includes questionnaires and outcome measures, and a selection of material that can be copied for patients. "Adrian Wells provides here a comprehensive overview of the cognitive model of anxiety disorders and illustrates how detailed, disorder-specific cognitive conceptualizations inform the choice of therapeutic interventions. The book incorporates the most up-to-date theory of anxiety disorders, much of it originated by the author. Dr Wells provides an array of effective, user-friendly cognitive techniques and vivid case examples. Students and seasoned therapists will find this volume valuable." Aaron T. Beck
Systemically Treating Autism provides a unique resource for family
therapists and other mental health professionals who want to
increase their understanding of families with children with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). Through a combination of research,
practical interventions, and case vignettes, this text covers the
diagnosis of ASD, how ASD impacts the family, systemic theories
that can be used when treating families with children with ASD,
spirituality and cultural dynamics, and collaboration with other
professionals. Providing a systemic framework for conceptualizing a
diagnosis that is typically discussed from an individual
perspective, this book guides mental health clinicians toward a
better understanding of how they can help the entire family unit.
To provide high quality dementia care, professionals need to be
both knowledgeable about dementia and skilled in the provision of
care. This book is an introductory reference guide that will help
students, professionals and practitioners develop their skills and
expertise to better respond to the needs of people with dementia.
It sets out information and advice on essential topics, research
and evidence-based practice within dementia care in a clear,
sensible way. Based on the standard course structure for higher and
further dementia education, this wide-ranging textbook covers
topics including dementia diagnosis, person-centred care and law,
ethics and safeguarding. The new go-to book for the dementia
curriculum, it is an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to improve
the required core skills and values needed to care for those
affected by dementia.
*Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2022* 'This is family history at
its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind'
Sunday Times If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.
Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase
filled with her father's papers. Her father's life had been a study
in borders - exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey then
Egypt and eventually Britain, and ultimately to the borderless
territory of Alzheimer's. The unopened suitcase seems to represent
everything that had made her father unknowable to her in life. So
begins a captivating exploration of history, memory and geography,
as Frances Stoner Saunders decides to unpick her family's past.
The forced migration of neuroscientists, both during and after the
Second World War, is of growing interest to international scholars.
Of particular interest is how the long-term migration of scientists
and physicians has affected both the academic migrants and their
receiving environments. As well as the clash between two different
traditions and systems, this migration forced scientists and
physicians to confront foreign institutional, political, and
cultural frameworks when trying to establish their own ways of
knowledge generation, systems of logic, and cultural mentalities.
The twentieth century has been called the century of war and
forced-migration, since it witnessed two devastating world wars,
prompting a massive exodus that included many neuroscientists and
psychiatrists. Fascism in Italy and Spain beginning in the 1920s,
Nazism in Germany and Austria between the 1930s and 1940s, and the
impact of the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe all forced more
than two thousand researchers with prior education in neurology,
psychiatry, and the basic brain research disciplines to leave their
scientific and academic home institutions. This edited volume,
comprising of eight chapters written by international specialists,
reflects on the complex dimensions of intellectual migration in the
neurosciences and illustrates them by using relevant case studies,
biographies, and historical surveys. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the
Neurosciences.
This book, the second of three volumes, concentrates on peripheral
nervous system disorders. Examining the effects of neurotoxicants
on nerve, muscle and the neuromuscular junction, it builds on the
scientific principles outlined in volume 1 by looking at the
application of the methods discussed, particularly in terms of the
evaluation and diagnosis of individual patients and the related
process of establishing causation. Neurobehavorial Toxicology,
Volume 2 will be of interest to practicing neurologists and
neuropsychologists, as well as to occupational medicine physicians
and medical toxicologists.
Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic,
psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at
listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the
clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict,
distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are
trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the
client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied
experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic
interventions. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research
in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that
points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma.
The premise of this book is that, by adding body-oriented
interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists
can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work.
Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on
traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body
as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using
observational skills, theories, and interventions not usually
practiced in psychodynamic psychotherapy. By synthesizing bottom-up
and top down interventions, the authors combine the best of both
worlds to help chronically traumatized clients find resolution and
meaning in their lives and develop a new, somatically integrated
sense of self. Topics addressed include: Cognitive, emotional, and
sensorimotor dimensions of information processing * modulating
arousal * dyadic regulation and the body * the orienting response *
defensive subsystems * adaptation and action systems * treatment
principles * skills for working with the body in present time *
developing somatic resources for stabilization * processing
This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic
individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new
discussions around sensory experience, autism and how disability
and ability can be reconceived. Autism is commonly understood to
involve social and communication difficulties. Less commented upon
is the sensory challenges faced by those with autism. Sociology is
no different, focusing on communication and neglecting the sensory
dimensions of experience. Sensory experiences and relations are
central to how we understand and navigate through the natural and
social worlds, and mediate our interactions with other people,
objects and spaces. In this book, the author explores how these
processes are affected by the favourite activities of autistic
people. With real-life case studies and cutting-edge research, this
book will be useful to students, autistic people, advocates and
carers, disability studies researchers and sociologies of
disability and the senses.
Practical, evidence-based advice for managing distressed behaviours
and common situations involving autistic children. Autism spectrum
conditions affect about one per cent of the population and whilst
they can present very differently in individual cases, there are
some common traits and challenges faced by autistic people. This
self-help guide focuses on practical, proven techniques to help
parents of autistic children with difficult areas commonly
experienced with autism. Written by authors with extensive
experience in research and working with children with a wide range
of neurodevelopmental difficulties, this book uses a strength-based
approach, helping children to enhance their strengths, rather than
treating problems as impairments needing fixing. This book will
help you to: · Support your child through anxiety and social
interaction issues · Manage sleep problems and feeding
difficulties · Understand sensory responses in autism · Manage
distressed behaviour, including self-harm and demand avoidance
Helping Your Child is a series for parents and caregivers to
support children through developmental difficulties, both
psychological and physical. Each guide uses clinically proven
techniques. Series editors: Dr Polly Waite and Emeritus Professor
Peter Cooper
The problem of freedom and determinism is one of the most enduring,
and one of the best, problems in philosophy. One of the best
because it so tenaciously resists solution while yet always seeming
urgent, and one of the most enduring because it has always been
able to present itself in different ways to suit the preoccupations
of different ages. This book, first published in 1980, sets out to
defend free will: it elaborates a sober and systematic case for
libertarianism in the face of the overwhelming threat that is posed
by the scientific study of the brain.
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Distinguished Honorable
Mention, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore "No matter
how old you are or how many degrees you have or don't have-when
grace takes you to school, you start in kindergarten." This was the
experience of Reverend Glandion Carney when he was given the
life-altering news that he has Parkinson's disease. He was plunged
into denial and despair. This was not supposed to be his journey.
How could he face it? With poignant vulnerability, The Way of Grace
describes one man's journey into a new land of God's amazing grace.
Both his honesty and his resilience will inspire and inform your
own times of difficulty. In each chapter we are introduced to a
spiritual practice that can carry us through difficult days:
acceptance, relinquishment, community, simplicity and more. And a
guide at the end of each chapter carries us into a brief and
refreshing experience with each of the practices. God's unmerited
grace saves us, strengthens us and sanctifies us. We too can
experience lives full of grace and truth, courageously searching
out God's wonders every day.
Your hands-on guide to dealing with dementia within the UK
healthcare system If a loved one has recently been diagnosed with
dementia, Dementia For Dummies, UK Edition provides trusted,
no-nonsense guidance on what this may mean for you and your family.
You'll get an understanding of the symptoms of dementia, make sense
of the stages of the illness and grasp the differences between the
various types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and
vascular dementia. Dementia is an increasingly common condition
that can have a significant impact on family life. Each person
diagnosed is unique, and your loved one's symptoms can range from
loss of memory to mood changes to communication problems and
beyond. This sensitive, authoritative guide walks you through the
different scenarios you may encounter as a family member or carer
and explains step-by-step how you can keep your loved one as safe
and as comfortable as possible--no matter how severe their symptoms
are. Gives you the straight facts on dementia Covers the symptoms,
causes and risk factors of dementia Helps identify and address the
fears as you face a diagnosis Provides carers and family members
with the information needed to help manage the illness If you're
looking for support as you adjust to caring for a loved one with
dementia, Dementia For Dummies helps make it easier.
325 astute and practical ideas, insights, tips and strategies
address the complex issues parents face during this crucial period
of transition for their child with Asperger Syndrome (Autism
Spectrum Disorder). The practical, bite-size suggestions focus on
the vital importance of developing and nurturing an open and
healthy relationship with your son or daughter. The
easy-to-navigate format will suit busy parents wanting to locate
advice to suit their particular needs. All the suggestions are
designed to foster understanding and acceptance between family
members and help the AS young person with common problem areas such
as social vulnerability and peer relationships, self-esteem,
anxiety and coping with change. This will be an invaluable
companion for parents, carers and family members of an adolescent
or young adult with AS.
This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary
texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political,
economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As
part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social and
cultural life, these narratives pose ethical, aesthetic, and
political questions about subjectivity, agency, and care that help
us to interrogate the cultural discourse of dementia. Contemporary
Narratives of Dementia is a seminal book that offers a sustained
examination of a wide range of literary narratives, from
auto/biographies and detective fiction, to children's books and
comic books. With its wide-reaching theoretical and critical scope,
its comparative dimension, and its inclusion of multiple genres,
this book is important for scholars engaging with studies of
dementia and ageing in diverse disciplines. Sarah Falcus is a
Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of
Huddersfield, UK. She has research interests in contemporary
women's writing, feminism and literary gerontology. She is the
co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative (DCN) network.
Katsura Sako is an Associate Professor of English, at Keio
University, Japan. Her main field of research is in
post-war/contemporary British literature, and she has particular
interests in gender, ageing and illness. She is a member of the
steering committee of the DCN network.
Astrocytes play diverse roles in central nervous system (CNS)
function and dysfunction, and the connections that the astrocyte
makes with other cells of the brain are essential for a variety of
important neural tasks. Bringing together contributions from
international experts at the top of their field, Astrocytes: Wiring
the Brain emphasizes cellular connections and surveys the most
current findings on astrocyte activity. The first section of the
book identifies major astrocyte biomarkers and describes how they
define the different connectivity domains. Next, the book examines
the role of these connections. It explains how their function can
be manipulated under physiological conditions and how dysfunction
of the connectivity leads to aberrant brain performance. The final
section explores the alterations of glia that have been observed in
specific diseases of the brain. These include epilepsy, autoimmune
encephalitis, Alzheimer's disease, autism, and major depression.
The book identifies key mechanisms responsible for these
alterations. An important and emerging field, astrocytes and their
functions are critical to neuroscientists and neurologists, both in
academia and in industry, particularly in the search for and
development of new drugs to combat a variety of diseases affecting
the CNS. As research continues to grow in this area, this volume
will spur heightened advances and understanding into the effects of
these neural cells on a range of pathologies.
Spasticity is a common symptom that arises in a wide range of
neurological conditions. Unfortunately, a poor understanding and
inadequate management of spasticity often results in it having a
greater impact on patients than necessary. Using a
multidisciplinary approach, Spasticity Management: A Practical
Multidisciplinary Guide provides the essential knowledge for the
effective management of spasticity as well as the practical tools
for developing wide-ranging services. In line with the previous
edition, this book emphasises the importance of all team members
being involved in educating the individual with spasticity and, if
appropriate, their carers and families. Thoroughly updated, this
edition discusses new medications available for spasticity
management, increased coverage of postural management via
occupational therapy input, and pragmatic guidance using
illustrations, algorithms and linkages to real-world clinical
practice. New chapters have been added to address individuals
making the transition from paediatric to adult services as well as
the provision of optimal end-of-life care. Also included are
real-life case studies to emphasise learning points while engaging
the reader, making this a valuable guide to any practitioner
involved in managing spasticity.
The clinical management of patients with acute brain and spinal
cord injury has evolved significantly with the advent of new
diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Acute Brain and Spinal Cord
Injury presents the latest medical science and highlights
controversies in the clinical management of patients with acute
brain and spinal cord injuries. Divided into five
sections-traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, intracerebral and
subarachnoid hemorrhage, and spinal cord injury-this text:
Delineates diagnostic and monitoring tools, pharmacotherapies, and
interventional and surgical treatments Examines and explores
recently published laboratory trials and research Incorporates over
50 diagrams and figures for concise communication of scientific
information This stand-alone reference is a powerful tool in
helping today's neurologists and neurosurgeons keep abreast of
current advancements in brain and spinal cord injury.
This honest, to-the-point guide illuminates the experience of young
Autistic girls and explores the situations they can easily fall
victim to. Powerful case studies show how easily misunderstandings
can arise for Autistic girls and help the reader to identify common
patterns of abuse. Providing professionals with access to
safeguarding strategies that are straightforward to implement and
highly effective, this is essential reading for everyone who wants
to better understand the challenges faced by this vulnerable group,
and ensure they have access to the same opportunities to secure a
good education and build safe and happy relationships as their
peers.
Dysphagia is a complex condition that can have significant social,
developmental and psychological effects. Alongside the physiology
and pathophysiology of the condition, dysphagia can rob patients of
the most basic pleasures, such as eating and drinking, causing
ongoing difficulties for individuals in social situations
throughout the lifespan. As an acknowledged component of
evidence-based practice, the humble case report encourages clinical
reflection and may be the spark that generates new thinking and
motivation for future research. Clinical Cases in Dysphagia
provides an opportunity to gain insight into the unique and varied
presentation and management of dysphagia across a range of
different conditions. With chapters provided by expert clinicians
and based on clinical examples 'from the trenches', the reader may
gain insights into their own practice patterns, refining their
clinical problem solving and valuing the education that is offered
to each of us by our patients. With additional online resources to
support the case-based approach, the book emphasizes the importance
of multidisciplinary care and reflects everyday clinical practice,
making it a must-read for clinicians and students.
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