Marie L. Thompson - Mental Illness

Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare andmedical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. Websites andweblogs provide information from activists and partisans intent on presenting their side of a story. But where canstudents - or even ordinary citizens - go to obtain unbiased, detailed background on the medical issues affectingtheir daily lives? This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides readers and researchers abalanced, in-depth introduction to the medical, scientific, legal, and cultural issues surrounding mental healthand its import in today's world of healthcare. Mental Health is organized to provide researchers with easy accessto the information they need: BLSection 1 provides overview chapters on the background information needed tointelligently understand the issues and controversies surrounding mental health, such as the history of mentalhealth issues and standard diagnostic criteria BLSection 2 offers capsule examinations of the contemporary issuesand debates that provoke the most heated disagreements and misunderstandings, such as debates over whether mentalillness is actually a disease, and the use of medications to treat the problem BLSection 3 includes referencematerial on mental health, including primary source documents from important players in debates over mentalhealth, a timeline of important events, and an annotated bibliography of useful print and electronic resources.This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides everything a student requires to understand theissues involved in mental health and provides a springboard for further research into the issue.

Author:Marie L. Thompson
Title:Mental Illness
Paperback:240 pages
Publisher:Greenwood Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2006-12-30
ISBN:0313335656
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Michael C. Roberts - Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, 3rd Edition

This volume provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice at the interface of psychology andpediatric medicine. Sponsored by the Society of Pediatric Psychology, the Handbook comprises carefully structured,peer-reviewed chapters from recognized leaders in their respective areas. Current knowledge is presented onpsychosocial aspects of a wide range of child and adolescent medical problems and developmental, emotional, andbehavioral disorders. Evidence-based applications are described for promoting health, preventing disease andinjury, and helping children and families cope with medical conditions and their treatment.

Author:Michael C. Roberts
Title:Handbook of Pediatric Psychology, 3rd Edition
Paperback:772 Pages
Publisher:The Guilford Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years: 2003
ISBN:1572309067
Size:2.79 MB

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Andrew C. Page, Werner G. K. Stritzke - Clinical Psychology for Trainees

Andrew C. Page, Werner G. K. Stritzke - Clinical Psychology for Trainees:Foundations of Science-Informed Practice.This book describes the practice of clinical psychology with specialemphasis on providing trainee therapists with the skills and strategies to achieve the core competencies requiredfor a science-informed clinical practice. It will support the reader in making the transition from the lecturetheater to the consulting room. The approach incorporates a contemporary perspective on the multiple roles ofclinical psychologists within a competitive healthcare market, where professional psychologists not only need tobe accountable for their outcomes and efficient in achieving them, but also need to be conscious of the social andpolitical context in which psychology is practiced. Chapters are organized around the acquisition of keycompetencies and linked within an evidence-based, science-informed framework. Case studies, handouts, graphics andworksheets are employed to encourage the implementation of the skills described. This book should be read by allthose enrolled in, or contemplating, postgraduate studies in clinical psychology.

Author:Andrew C. Page, Werner G. K. Stritzke
Title:Clinical Psychology for Trainees
Paperback:300 Pages
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years: 2006
ISBN:0521615402
Size:5.45 MB

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Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn - Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

In Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn draw on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating discussion of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis and related disciplines.Adopting a Lacanian framework of reference, this book clarifies the status of knowledge in psychoanalysis and the implications of this for knowledge construction, acquisition and transmission across a variety of humanities and social sciences. The authors provide an original perspective on psychoanalytic epistemology and methodology, including discussion of central questions such as that of the status of psychoanalysis as an art, science or religion.This provocative discussion of the dialectics of knowing and not knowing, and how they inform Freudian and Lacanian theory, will be welcomed by practicing Psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalytic studies, cultural studies, sociology and philosophy.

Author:Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn
Title:nowing Nothing, Staying Stupid
Paperback:251 pages
Publisher:Routledge
Language:English
Format: PDF
Years:edition 2005
ISBN:1583918671
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The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology [Four Volumes]

The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology [Four Volumes]

Cognition, mind, counseling psychology, lesson plans, learning styles, and Vygotsky are just a few of the manysubjects discussed in this exciting work. Educators, students, counselors, parents, and others will find newunderstanding as they read and browse. How does the immigrant experience affect student outcomes? What are theeffects of poverty on standardized testing? How can a teacher or parent develop study skills in the special needslearner? What is the effect of the school environment on students? What are the larger issues at work in educatingstudents of diverse race, culture, and class? This work, a rethinking of the field of school psychology, will bean essential resource for anyone interested in teaching and learning. It combines effective, traditional knowledgewith contemporary insights into the nature of today’s schools and students. Currently, there is an information gapbetween scholars and practitioners in the field of educational psychology concerning recent and on goingdevelopments. At this time there is no one source that provides a broad and comprehensive presentation of thesechanges. This work bridges the gap by providing a much needed explication of how educational psychology can meetthe needs of diverse students, families, and schools.

Author:JOE L. KINCHELOE
Title:The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology
Paperback:1064 pages
Publisher:Praeger Publishers
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:edition 2006
ISBN:0313331227
Size:4,34 mb

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Geoffrey R. McKee - Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook

Few crimes generate greater public reaction than those where a mother murders her child. We are repelled, yet mesmerized, by the emerging details of cases such as Andrea Yates and Susan Smith. Annually, hundreds of infants and young children perish at the hands of their mothers. How could a mother destroy the first and most fundamental relationship we experience?
In Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook, Geoffrey R. McKee, Ph.D. uses more than a dozen case studies from his 29-year forensic psychological evaluation practice to help us, and most importantly, prevent these horrific events from occurring. He applies current research findings to analyze, explain, and suggest practical interventions to alter the personal, familial, and situational circumstances that may influence some mothers to kill. With an emphasis on prevention, Dr. McKee sets out specific strategies that might have been employed at various "risk intervention points" occurring before the child's death.
Through the use of extended narratives the author brings to life the thoughts and emotions experienced by women in each of the five categories of mothers he has identified from his years of practice. Additionally, the author presents the Maternal Filicide Risk Matrix which he developed to help mental health and medical professionals determine the risk and protective factors that lead mothers to kill their children.
Students, as well as mental health and medical professionals will find this an important and unique resource.

Author:Geoffrey R. McKee
Title:Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook
Paperback:304 pages
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2006-03-16
ISBN:0195182731
Size:1,3 MB

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Dr. Norman Vincent Peale - The Power of Positive Thinking

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, “The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to Mastering The problems Of Everyday Living (4 CD Set)” Translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold, The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this insightful program, Dr. Peale offers the essence of his profound method for mastering the problems of everyday living. You will learn:
How to eliminate that most devastating handicap — self doubt
How to free yourself from worry, stress and resentment
How to climb above problems to visualize solutions and then attain them
Simple prayerful exercises that you can do everyday, throughout the day, to reinforce your new-found habit of happiness.Eliminating all the negative thoughts that prevent you from achieving happiness and success, The Power of Positive Thinking is an inspiring program that will help you create a positive change in your life.

Author:Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Title:The Power of Positive Thinking
Language:English
Format: MP3
Years:2001
ISBN:0743507800
Time:3 Hours 55 Minutes
Size:311 MB

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Self Continuity: Individual and Collective Perspectives

 

This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology. The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms. Topics include environmental and cultural influences on self-continuity; the interplay of autobiographical memory and personal self-continuity; the psychological function of self-continuity; personal and collective self-continuity; and resistance to change. The volume is rounded off with commentaries on the central issues and themes that have been discussed. The book provides a unique sourcebook for this important topic and will appeal not only to upper-level students and researchers in social psychology, but, in view of the multiple perspectives represented in the volume, it will also appeal to cognitive, developmental, and personality psychologists.

 

Author:Fabio Sani
Title:Self Continuity
Paperback:296 pages
Publisher:Psychology Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2008-04-15
ISBN:080585701X
Size:2,6 MB

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Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben - Gender Development

This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book's current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about children's everyday experiences. The book's accessibility is further enhanced with the use of bold face to highlight key terms when first introduced along with a complete glossary of these terms. All three of the authors are respected researchers in divergent areas of children's gender role development and each of them teaches a course on the topic.The book's primary focus is on gender role behaviors - how they develop and the roles biological and experiential factors play in their development. The first section of the text introduces the field and outlines its history. Part 2 focuses on the differences between the sexes, including the biology of sex and the latest research on behavioral sex differences, including motor and cognitive behaviors and personality and social behaviors. Contemporary theoretical perspectives on gender development - biological, social and environmental, and cognitive approaches - are explored in Part 3 along with the research supporting these models.The social agents of gender development, including children themselves, family, peers, the media, and schools are addressed in the final part. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this the perfect text for those who have been searching for an advanced undergraduate and/or graduate book for courses in gender development, the psychology of sex roles and/or gender and/or women or men, taught in departments of psychology, human development, and educational psychology. Although chapters have been designed to be read sequentially, a full author citation is included the first time a reference is used within an individual chapter rather than only the first time it is used in the book, making it easy to assign chapters in a variety of orders. This referencing system will also appeal to scholars interested in using the book as a resource to review a particular content area.

Author:Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben
Title:Gender Development
Paperback:528 pages
Publisher:Psychology Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2008-10-09
ISBN:0805841709
Size:3,8 MB

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David A. Karp - Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants

By the millennium Americans were spending more than 12 billion dollars yearly on antidepressantmedications.Currently, millions of people in the U.S. routinely use these pills. Are these miracledrugs, quickly curingdepression? Or is their popularity a sign that we now inappropriately redefinenormal life problems as diseases?Are they prescribed too often or too seldom? How do they affectself-images?David Karp approaches these questionsfrom the inside, having suffered from clinicaldepression for most of his adult life. In this book he explores therelationship between pills andpersonhood by listening to a group of experts who rarely get the chance to speak onthe matter--those whoare taking the medications. Their voices, extracted from interviews Karp conducted, colorthe pages withtheir experiences and reactions--humor, gratitude, frustration, hope, and puzzlement. Here, thepatientsthemselves articulate their impressions of what drugs do to them and for them. They reflect ondifficultissues, such as the process of becoming committed to medication, quandaries about personalauthenticity,and relations with family and friends.The stories are honest and vivid, from a distraught teenagerwhoshuns antidepressants while regularly using street drugs to a woman who still yearns for a spiritualsolutionto depression even after telling intimates "I'm on Prozac and it's saving me." The book providesunflinchingportraits of people attempting to make sense of a process far more complex and mysteriousthan doctors orpharmaceutical companies generally admit.

 

Author:David A. Karp
Title:Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants
Paperback:304 Pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2007-10-30
ISBN:0674025512
Size:1.3 MB

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Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming AmericaA’s Failed Mental Health System

Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that manywould preferto sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. Wehave come a long wayover the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its potentialtreatments. Yet, tragically,many across the country who struggle with serious mental illness are unableto find effective, quality medicaltreatment. As a federal commission on mental health concluded, thesystem of care is in shambles. But why? And howdo we fix it?Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner ofVirginiaA’s Department of Mental Health, Retardation, andSubstance Abuse, brings his three decades ofexperience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, andclinician to bear in confronting thiscrisis in AmericaA’s mental health care system. In clear and accessibleterms, he exposes the weaknessesin the current system, examining how and why one of the worldA’s richest and mostadvanced countries hasallowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to helpthem.Armed withthe latest statistics, a lifetime of experience, and heartrending life stories, Kelly argues thatthepatchwork of care traditionally employed to treat mental illness is simply not up to the task, and thatwhat weneed is profound, fundamental, and system-wide change. He then goes on to provide aneasy-to-follow road map forachieving lasting transformation, centered on five recommendations forcreating a truly effective mental healthsystem of care that enables patients to achieve a lastingrecovery.Mental illness is not going to just go away,but Kelly prescribes a comprehensive plan to maketreatment accessible and effective so that those who suffer canrejoin their families and theircommunities. He shows how a transformed system of community-based care allowsthose with serious mentalillness to finally be able to go home.

 

Author:Timothy A. Kelly
Title:Healing the Broken Mind
Paperback:193 Pages
Publisher:NYU Press
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2009-08-01
ISBN:0814748120
Size:1.3 MB

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A Better Look at Intelligent Behavior

The basic purpose of this book is to communicate a new understanding of human behaviour by taking into accounthow both cognition and emotion exist at a neurological level. Neurological evidence can now explain how cognitionand emotion work interactively. This means that whenever the brain is mentally operating, both cognition andemotion are working. The final outcome of this internal activity is/may be an external behaviour. In this sense,speaking, reading, learning, eating, depression, anxiety, and so on are all behaviours produced by centralneurological mechanisms we have been aware of since the 1990s. The neurological evidence is based on severalmethods of study, one example is the latest functional magnetic resonance in humans. This book presents anexplanation of normal function to be followed by an explanation of dysfunctional behaviour.

Author:Frederic Perez-alvarez, Carme Timoneda-Gallart
Title:A Better Look at Intelligent Behavior
Paperback:131 Pages
Publisher:Nova Science
Language:English
Format:PDF
Years:2008-03-30
ISBN:1600217427
Size:1 MB

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