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Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 (Hardcover, New ed of 2 Revised ed): R.D. Laing Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 (Hardcover, New ed of 2 Revised ed)
R.D. Laing
R5,951 Discovery Miles 59 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian view of unconsciou phantasy, as developed by Susan Sutherland Isaacs. He emphasizes the overwhelming presence of social phantasy systems. In Part 2, Laing discusses the extent to which an individual is or is not invested in their own actions, using ideas drawn from Martin Buber and Sartre

The HIV-Negative Gay Man - Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being (Hardcover): Steven Ball The HIV-Negative Gay Man - Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being (Hardcover)
Steven Ball
R2,585 Discovery Miles 25 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The HIV-Negative Gay Man: Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being, you ll get instant access to some of the most recent information on the market today about remaining HIV-negative. You ll come in contact with a wealth of information concerning the psychosocial and psychosexual needs of HIV-negative gay men and discover strategies for staying uninfected and cultivating a meaningful way of life in the face of HIV/AIDS.Compiled by both professionals and peers, The HIV-Negative Gay Man goes to the front-lines of HIV prevention to help you understand the most beneficial and dependable ways of preserving the value of life and living it to the fullest. Radically reshaping and rehumanizing traditional HIV prevention efforts, these updated and personalized approaches will give you many individual strategies for survival in a world in which the link between sex and survival has been turned upside-down. You ll find new ways to expand and enrich your own coping repertoire as you explore these topics: how the HIV-negative gay man 's complex emotional reactions change what peer groups can do when creating and experimenting with new identities and roles when group work needs to be short-term or long-term why a sex life vocabulary needs to be built where Latino Men can learn critical thinking about internalized homophobia and transgression survival mechanisms changing attitudes as a result of the development of protease inhibitors and new drug therapies in HIV preventionIn The HIV-Negative Gay Man, you ll find that the road to survival is a long one but a road that can be travelled and enjoyed if the right strategies are applied. This book is a "road map" for survival. In it, you ll meet many brave professionals who are currently fighting on the front lines of HIV prevention and coming forward to share their own personal stories of survival. In turn, you ll learn from them and eventually tell your own survival story to someone else along the way.

Knots: Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7 (Hardcover, New edition): R.D. Laing Knots: Selected Works of RD Laing: Vol 7 (Hardcover, New edition)
R.D. Laing
R6,245 Discovery Miles 62 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1970, Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together. Each brilliantly demonstrates Laing's insights into the intricacies of human relationships.

When Love Is Not Enough - The Management of Covert Dynamics in Organizations That Treat Children and Adolescents (Paperback):... When Love Is Not Enough - The Management of Covert Dynamics in Organizations That Treat Children and Adolescents (Paperback)
Donna Piazza Phd
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Love Is Not Enough relates how a multitude of factors--the competence of staff; the safety, nurturing, and protective elements of the emotional, physical, and political setting; and all overt and covert organizational dynamics--determine whether or not a treatment setting accomplishes its therapeutic aims. Authors in When Love Is Not Enough continue the emphasis on the group-as-a-whole "Group Relation" model of organizational and group processes begun with Wilfred Bion's work at the Tavistok Clinic in London in the 1940s. This model helps those providing services to children and adolescents evaluate their treatment programs and make the necessary changes toward improvement.Chapters in When Love Is Not Enough are dedicated to improving the psychological treatment of children and adolescents in postmodern society, a society in which life in interdependent communities is becoming increasingly important for the health and survival of all persons. Topics covered include: the Tavistok approach to understanding group and organizational behavior the emphasis on group-as-a-whole in problem solving and treatment design narrowing the gap between plan and outcome the dynamics involved in the psychiatric treatment of children issues of staff selection, training, and development in programs designed to treat children countertransference responses in the treatment of children and adolescents revitalizing organizations the subjective experience of school lifeWhen Love Is Not Enough helps organizations realize the ways in which they may, inadvertently, undermine the emotional and cognitive functioning of the staff or the identified patients and set serious limits on the growth of members of the organization, staff and patients alike. It urges organizations to conduct an ongoing self-scrutiny concerning their rational and irrational processes, as this self-examination is crucial to the health and vitality of the treatment offered to others. The book also promotes thinking of the conscious and unconscious dynamics of the group-as-a-whole to more completely inform organizational decisions concerning changes that may enhance the treatment of children and adolescents.When Love Is Not Enough serves as an invaluable guide for mental health professionals who treat children and adolescents, group therapists, hospital and clinic administrators, psychoanalysts, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture - Shattered Lives (Hardcover): Joan Gormley, Elizabeth Hagan HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture - Shattered Lives (Hardcover)
Joan Gormley, Elizabeth Hagan
R3,918 R2,745 Discovery Miles 27 450 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this startling new collection of case studies entitled HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture: Shattered Lives, you ll take an eye-opening and informative look at the lifestyle and culture of the HIV/AIDS intravenous drug users (IVDUs). You ll see how health care providers and caregivers can update their methods and mindsets in order to meet the needs of this special cross-section of patients.In each chapter of HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture, you ll gain instant access to full medical and psychosocial histories. You ll also find summaries of important events, clues to recognize, and strategies to safely manage each problematic situation that might arise, all of which will speed you on your way to more effectively and professionally administering to current and former intravenous drug users. Specifically, you ll read about: facts about needle exchange programs, injection drug use, and seroprevalence among IVDUs developing and assessing coping skills applying harm reduction models relapse prevention identifying and dealing with manipulative behaviorsBecause most health care providers only deal with a small number of HIV/AIDS IVDU cases, they lack the opportunity to construct valuable and viable plans for dealing with such patients. Now, finally, you have this guide to help you. So, if you re a nurse, social worker, health care provider, case manager, therapist, or someone interested in learning about the latest information regarding health care and intravenous drug use, let HIV/AIDS and the Drug Culture introduce you to the culture of the drug user and the best plans for meeting his or her health care needs. "

Reclaiming Unlived Life - Experiences in Psychoanalysis (Paperback): Thomas Ogden Reclaiming Unlived Life - Experiences in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
Thomas Ogden
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Reclaiming Unlived Life, influential psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden uses rich clinical examples to illustrate how different types of thinking may promote or impede analytic work. With a unique style of "creative reading," the book builds upon the work of Winnicott and Bion, discussing the universality of unlived life and the ways unlived life may be reclaimed in the analytic experience. The book examines the role of intuition in analytic practice and the process of developing an analytic style that is uniquely one's own. Ogden deals with many forms of interplay of truth and psychic change, the transformative effect of conscious and unconscious efforts to confront the truth of experience and how psychoanalysts can understand their own psychic evolution, as well as that of their patients. Reclaiming Unlived Life sets out a new way that analysts can understand and use notions of truth in their clinical work and in their reading of the work of Kafka and Borges. Reclaiming Unlived Life: Experiences in Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as postgraduate students and anybody interested in the literature of psychoanalysis.

Caregiving Across Cultures - Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations (Hardcover): Ramon Valle, Helen... Caregiving Across Cultures - Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations (Hardcover)
Ramon Valle, Helen Cook Gait
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Seeking to assist professionals and care providers looking to develop culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders, this book first presents the need for culturally sensitive care, and then describes how this method of care may be utilized, developed, approved, and evaluated. The book includes numerous case studies, and highlights the authors' model.; Dealing with facets of intercultural practice, Part 1 of the text centres around the professional or provider already engaged or seeking to engage in day-to-day contact with ethnically diverse clientele. The emphasis is on highlighting those skills which serve the practitioner to establish intercultural rapport on their daily cross- ethnic assignments. The central tenet of this section is that the worker's attention has to be on maintaining both the dementia-affected elders' and the ethnic family members' cultural dignity.

Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships (Paperback): Jan Norre, Stephan Van den Broucke, Walter Vandereycken Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships (Paperback)
Jan Norre, Stephan Van den Broucke, Walter Vandereycken
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis (Hardcover): Michael A. Hallett Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis (Hardcover)
Michael A. Hallett
R2,430 R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Save R1,300 (53%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of "activism" as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect policy and public images of the disease more so than activist efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV disease is fundamental to adequate forms of present and future AIDS activism. Chapters in Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis demonstrate how, despite what is thought of as the "successful activism" of the past decade, the claims of the HIV-positive are still being ignored, still being marginalized, and still being administratively "handled" and exploited even as the plight of those who find themselves HIV-positive worsens. Although chapters reject the assertion that activism has been a highly effective remedy to HIV-positive voicelessness, authors do not deny that activists have been vocal, but that they continue to be ignored despite their vocality.Contributors in Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis offer numerous examples of institutional control and demonstrate that institutional structures, and not activists, are controlling the public meaning of HIV-related issues. Readers learn how messages about HIV/AIDS are produced, negotiated, modified, and sustained through institutional mechanisms that serve mostly institutional interests rather than those of the HIV-positive. In gaining an understanding of these issues, readers will begin to learn how to modify and strengthen activist efforts with valuable insight on: the lack of HIV-positive voices in mainstream news portrayals of HIV/AIDS research on constructions of HIV-disease at the state government level social constructions and how they affect HIV/AIDS policy the political construction of AIDS and interest-based struggles the emergent "bio-politics" of HIV and homosexuality in the U.S. how institutional power works to govern public understanding of HIV diseaseInstitutional structures are defined in this book as groups engaged in and defined by the production of various "truths" which sustain them. Institutional power may be defined as the capacity to regulate, constrain, and disseminate versions of "truth." Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis reveals how HIV activist groups have been outmaneuvered when it comes to the production and dissemination of various "truths" about HIV/AIDS by institutional structures more deeply steeped in social legitimacy and which have a superior capacity for message dissemination.HIV/AIDS activists, HIV-positive persons and those with AIDS, HIV/AIDS educators, public and institutional policymakers, health professionals, and the general public will find this book essential to understanding the social constructions of HIV/AIDS, how these affect HIV/AIDS-related policy and public opinion, and how to begin to cipher through the plethora of information to find and promote the "truth."

The Assessment of Object Relations Phenomena in Adolescents: Tat and Rorschach Measu - Tat and Rorschach Measures (Hardcover):... The Assessment of Object Relations Phenomena in Adolescents: Tat and Rorschach Measu - Tat and Rorschach Measures (Hardcover)
Francis D. Kelly
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers clinicians a long-awaited comprehensive paradigm for assessing object relations functioning in disturbed younger and older adolescents. It gives a clear sense of how object relations functioning is manifest in different disorders, and illuminates how scores on object relations measures are converted into a therapeutically relevant diagnostic matrix and formulation.
Outlining the process of object relations assessment, Kelly presents vividly detailed cases of a range of disorders including anorexia nervosa, borderline states, depressive disorders, and trauma. The cases portray the vicissitudes of object relations functioning and disruption that result in a unique structural developmental composite for a given adolescent.
A major concern is demonstrating the utility and validity of two object representation measures--The Mutuality of Autonomy Scale (MOA) and The Social Cognition Object Relations Scale (SCORS)--that are the main ones employed in the assessment of adolescents. MOA and SCORS scores facilitate a multidimensional understanding of the nuances of an adolescent's object relations functioning, and provide clinicians with organized, theory-based data leading to clear, specific treatment directions and guidelines and appropriate therapeutic programming. The book addresses the following questions:
* Is individual psychotherapy indicated--will this adolescent benefit from an insight-oriented approach?
* What are the likely directions that transference parameters will take in the treatment?
* What types of countertransference reactions are likely to be anticipated in a given patient?
* Is medication likely to be helpful in making this adolescent more accessible for treatment?
Focusing only on adolescents, covering both the TAT and the Rorschach, and utilizing object relations theory as its major interpretive foundation, the book offers practitioners an alternative to general references based on a more actuarial, nomothetic, and atheoretical interpretive approach. It reflects one school of contemporary thought in projective assessment--one that advocates a more phenomenological, theory-based approach to test application and interpretation.

A Clinician’s Guide to Functional Neurological Disorder - A Practical Neuropsychological Approach (Hardcover):... A Clinician’s Guide to Functional Neurological Disorder - A Practical Neuropsychological Approach (Hardcover)
Egberdina-Józefa van der Hulst
R3,788 Discovery Miles 37 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on a newly developed, practical and relatable ‘Pressure Cooker Model’ which bridges the gap between theoretical models of FND with non-FND specific CBT models. Psychology-led and firmly rooted in psychological principles: written and created by a psychologist who is passionate about psychology treatment for FND. Places a larger emphasis on the active formulation and treatment of social and environmental processes in FND to actively increase awareness of FND and help improve recovery and reduce stigma. Model has wide-spread applicability for different populations with FND, different professionals involved in FND and different therapy formats. Accompanied by an appendix of resources and templates for clinicians

Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism - Britain and University Education for Africans 1860-1960 (Hardcover, annotated edition):... Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism - Britain and University Education for Africans 1860-1960 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Apollos O. Nwauwa
R3,483 Discovery Miles 34 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Of all the aspects of British 'cultural imperialism' the one which Africans found most seductive was formal western education. They were quick to realise that University education opened up prospects for economic advancement and would ultimately provide the keys to political power and self government. Using a wide range of papers from the British Colonial Office and colonial governments in Africa, the archives of several libraries and the writings of African nationalists, Dr Nwauwa examines the surprisingly long history of the demand for the establishment of universities in Colonial Africa, a demand to which the authorities finally agreed after the Second World War.
Educated Africans first put forward requests for a university in South West Africa in the 1860's, but from the 1880's through to the 1930's British colonial regimes constantly shunned such aspirations. But starting in 1939 colonial reformers in Britain began to advocate the creation of universities in Africa and by 1943 the idea was taken up by the Colonial Office as a means of 'managing' African nationalism. The creation of university colleges became a reality in 1948, they were one of the most important colonial reforms which led to decolonisation.

Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice, Volume 3 - Theory and practice 3 (Hardcover): Sue Jennings Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice, Volume 3 - Theory and practice 3 (Hardcover)
Sue Jennings
R3,938 Discovery Miles 39 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The third volume of Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice brings the reader up-to-date with the latest developments in the profession of dramatherapy and tackles key issues in contemporary social relationships. It shows how dramatherapy is evolving its own theory and methodology as well as specific models for supervision and assessment. Dramatherapy is now being used in a broad continuum of care and contributors give many examples of its practice in contexts of prevention, maintenance and cure.
This new volume has twenty-nine international contributors and covers major new themes of gender, race and politics as well as incorporating the latest method, theoretical concepts and research.

Women and the Ownership of PMS - The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder (Paperback, New): Anne Figert Women and the Ownership of PMS - The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder (Paperback, New)
Anne Figert
R1,123 R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Save R446 (40%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA's decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R. Figert examines why the decision was controversial and consequential in three main domains where people, their interests, and claims to ownership coincide: the Health and Mental Health Domain, the Woman Domain, and the Science Domain.

The Mythomanias - The Nature of Deception and Self-deception (Hardcover): Michael S. Myslobodsky The Mythomanias - The Nature of Deception and Self-deception (Hardcover)
Michael S. Myslobodsky
R3,946 Discovery Miles 39 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recently, there has been a renewal of interest in the broad and loosely bounded range of phenomena called deception and self-deception. This volume addresses this interest shared by philosophers, social and clinical psychologists, and more recently, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors provide timely, reliable, and insightful coverage of the normal range of errors in perception, memory, and behavior. They place these phenomena on a continuum with various syndromes and neuropsychiatric diseases where falsehood in perception, self-perception, cognition, and behaviors are a peculiar sign. Leading authorities examine the various forms of "mythomania," deception, and self-deception ranging from the mundane to the bizarre such as imposture, confabulations, minimization of symptomatology, denial, and anosognosia. Although the many diverse phenomena discussed here share a family resemblance, they are unlikely to have a common neurological machinery. In order to reach an explanation for these phenomena, a reliable pattern of lawful behavior must be delineated. It would then be possible to develop reasonable explanations based upon the underlying neurobiological processes that give rise to deficiencies designated as the mythomanias. The chapters herein begin to provide an outline of such a development. Taken as a whole, the collection is consistent with the emerging gospel indicating that neither the machinery of "nature" nor the forces of "nurture" taken alone are capable of explaining what makes cognition and behaviors aberrant.

Inside Managed Care - Family Therapy In A Changing Environment (Paperback): Judi Aronson Inside Managed Care - Family Therapy In A Changing Environment (Paperback)
Judi Aronson
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons (Hardcover): E. Mark Stern, Peter R. Breggin Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons (Hardcover)
E. Mark Stern, Peter R. Breggin
R1,634 Discovery Miles 16 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons. Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons empowers counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to trust their intuitive and clinical understanding of how to help seriously disturbed people through humane, caring approaches.Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons introduces mental health professionals to an array of psychological and social alternatives that are available for helping patients considered "psychotic" or very emotionally disturbed. Focusing on psychological and social approaches to helping people who become labeled "psychotic" or who carry serious psychiatric diagnoses, contributors show mental health professionals psychological, social, and spiritual alternatives for approaching or treating these individuals. Readers learn about: a successful model for nonmedical, non-drug residential treatment centers utilizing the artwork of psychotic patients case histories of psychoanalytic therapy group therapy to help families with a "schizophrenic" member improve communication Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) with disturbed individuals psychoanalytically-oriented therapy World Health Organization research which demonstrates the positive effect of extended family and social relationships and the negative effect of modern biopsychiatric treatment research demonstrating the efficacy of psychotherapy with persons labeled "schizophrenic"These chapters combined with a review of empirical studies demonstrate to readers the efficacy of psychotherapy with psychotic patients. Students or experienced professionals in any of the mental health fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, clinical psychology, clinical social work, and Re-evaluation Counseling will find Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons a necessity for most effectively and humanely treating clients with serious psychiatric diagnoses.

Mending the Torn Fabric - For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them (Hardcover): Sarah Brabant Mending the Torn Fabric - For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them (Hardcover)
Sarah Brabant
R5,081 Discovery Miles 50 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know what it looks like." In "Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them", the author expands the metaphor to include earlier and future or potential losses as well as losses associated with the death that may be unrecognized or minimized. This book includes chapters that examine complications that may be present or may arise, suggestions for mending even the most torn fabric, and a chapter dedicated to friends who want to help. Stories bereaved persons have shared with the author through the years are interspersed throughout the book to provide examples of loss and mending.

Neurology - A Clinician's Approach (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2016): Andrew Tarulli Neurology - A Clinician's Approach (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2016)
Andrew Tarulli
R3,692 Discovery Miles 36 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This concise, thoroughly updated text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of neurology and will serve as a highly practical resource for neurology residents and medical students. Emphasizing a practical approach to common neurologic disorders, the author blends chapters that cover the evaluation of specific complaints (confusion, dizziness and vertigo, visual loss, headache and facial pain) with others that focus on particular disorders (Parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis, dementia). Noting the core practice of neurology is largely unchanged from years ago and still largely done at the bedside, the author emphasizes the importance of acquiring expertise in the time-tested, classical techniques of history taking, directed examination, and localization. Toward that, the author encourages a focus on the key clinical pathways for diagnosis and management. A wide range of clinical pearls are provided and the diagrams and illustrations are well-designed and comprehensible, as are the clinical images (EEGs, CT, MRI) which provide excellent examples of a variety of neurologic disorders. The discussions and algorithms offered are evidence-based and state-of-the-art. Importantly, the author discusses a range of new, powerful treatments available for various disorders, including stroke, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. Concise and well-written, Neurology: A Clinician's Approach, 2nd Edition is an invaluable resource that will again serve as a very useful, gold-standard resource for trainees.

Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies - Conceptual and Measurement Issues (Hardcover): Mark R Somerfield, Barbara... Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies - Conceptual and Measurement Issues (Hardcover)
Mark R Somerfield, Barbara Curbow
R3,624 Discovery Miles 36 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies reviews the literature on selected psychosocial resource variables in cancer in order to raise and examine conceptual and methodological issues and to offer suggestions for future directions in the field. It provides investigators and clinicians with a systematic treatment of the state of the art in research on specific resource factors and provides a careful consideration of more generic methodological and statistical issues in this research context.Editors Curbow and Somerfield define resources as aspects of a person or environment that are brought to bear on the maintenance or restoration of adaptation under taxing conditions. They hope Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies is just the beginning of an ongoing discussion within the field of psychosocial oncology on the nature and use of resource variables. The book's topics are crucial since researchers appear to be committed to using resource variables to explain outcomes. Also, resource variables are increasingly considered as explanatory concepts in quality-of-life research.Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies offers critical reviews of the major resource variables investigated in contemporary psychosocial oncology research. It provides timely information on vital issues in this research, emphasizing studies of the influence of personal and social resources on adaptation to cancer. Chapters cover topics such as: the use of resource variables in the explanation of individual differences in adaptation to cancer and cancer treatment theories, measures, and methodological issues in the use of perceived control the use of the transactional model of coping to examine issues surrounding coping and the management of cancer demands religion and spirituality as resources in coping with cancer social support in adaptation to cancer and survival the clinical usefulness of research on psychosocial resources major measures of psychological functioning in psychosocial oncology research statistical and analytical issues in the use of resource variables roles of qualitative and quantitative approaches in exploring resource variablesThe editors begin with an overview of the oncology field and offer comments on issues that can be generalized to all psychosocial resource variables. Next is a presentation of a series of review papers on selected resource variables, including perceived control, coping, religion and spirituality, and social support, followed by a discussion of the clinical utility of research on these resource variables. The book concludes with a discussion of important cross-cutting methodological issues, including the selection of psychological functioning outcome measures, the statistical analysis of resource variables, and quantitative versus qualitative approaches.Psychosocial Reource Variables in Cancer is a valuable reference and guide for health psychologists, clinical health psychologists, clinical social workers in oncology, medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, and oncology nurses. It may also serve as important reading material for courses in health psychology, physiological factors in health and illness, personality and diseases, and stress and coping.

The Projective Use Of Mother-And- Child Drawings: A Manual - A Manual For Clinicians (Hardcover): Jacquelyn Gillespie The Projective Use Of Mother-And- Child Drawings: A Manual - A Manual For Clinicians (Hardcover)
Jacquelyn Gillespie
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Clinical Disorders of Social Cognition (Hardcover): Skye McDonald Clinical Disorders of Social Cognition (Hardcover)
Skye McDonald
R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides an up to date overview of social cognition deficits in clinical populations. Describes how social cognition manifests across a range of neurodevelopmental and acquired conditions, across the lifespan Summarizes how social cognition is assessed and measured Reviews the current status of research on intervention to prevent or remediate poor social outcomes

AIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs - Evaluation and Outreach (Hardcover): Dennis Fisher, Richard Needle AIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs - Evaluation and Outreach (Hardcover)
Dennis Fisher, Richard Needle
R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Delve into the uncharted territory of the "hidden" drug addict--users who are not in treatment, not incarcerated, and not officially accessible for research purposes through traditional means. AIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs describes short-term interventions used to reduce the odds that these drug users will get infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The book explains new methods that are being developed, such as targeted sampling, social network analysis, geomapping, and other amalgams of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, that need to be forged to overcome the challenges of the war against AIDS. The research described in this important book was conducted under the Cooperative Agreement for AIDS Community-Based Outreach/Intervention Research funding mechanism of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Chapters include research on several ethnic groups, including Alaska natives, Puerto Ricans, and Navaho teens. AIDS and Community-Based Drug Treatment Programs, written by experts in the field, is a broad-based treatment of the subject by those who are actually doing the work in the trenches. Authors cover topics such as: the use of goal-oriented counseling and peer support to reduce HIV/AIDS risk quantitative and qualitative methods to assess behavioral change among injection drug users (IDUs) the importance of sampling from hidden populations in research a public health model for reducing AIDS-related risk behavior among IDUs and their sexual partners characteristics of female sexual partners of IDUs strategies used to implement random sampling strategies in the recruitment of out-of-treatment crack and IDUs ethnographic analysis of intravenous drug use analysis of contact tracing strategies employed to combat the AIDS epidemic the use of pile sorts to enhance other tools used by drug prevention programsAIDS and Community-Based Drug Intervention Programs is full of current research and useful information for professionals interested in learning about strategies for conducting HIV/AIDS research among hard-to-reach populations. Substance abuse researchers, treatment professionals, and people involved in AIDS prevention programs, state and county health departments, and criminal justice systems will find much relevant and important information to use in their daily work.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Paperback): Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Paperback)
Oliver Sacks
R333 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R63 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities, and yet are gifted with unusually acute artistic or mathematical talents. If sometimes beyond our surface comprehension, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human. A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Treating Nonepileptic Seizures - Therapist Guide (Paperback): W. Curt LaFrance Jr, Jeffrey Peter Wincze Treating Nonepileptic Seizures - Therapist Guide (Paperback)
W. Curt LaFrance Jr, Jeffrey Peter Wincze
R2,384 Discovery Miles 23 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The primary aim of Treating Nonepileptic Seizures: Therapist Guide is to equip physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, and other practitioners with a validated, step-by-step treatment for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (NES) that can improve the lives of patients with this disabling disorder. Patients with NES frequently present in neurology, psychiatry, psychology, and emergency departments. The disorder has been documented in the medical literature for centuries, and much is known about the phenomenology, seizure characteristics, psychiatric comorbidities, neuropsychological testing, and psychosocial aspects in NES. However, until recently, much less was known about the effective treatments of patients with psychogenic NES. This intervention provides guidance for clinicians in treating patients with NES and is designed to be used in conjunction with the patient workbook, Taking Control of Your Seizures. Session by session, the Workbook facilitates communication between treatment providers and individual patients with seizures. The authors' clinical experience with epilepsy and NES and research in developing the treatment approach for seizures directly informed the treatment model described. Many patients treated with the intervention have demonstrated improvements in seizures, symptoms, and quality of life.

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