Providing a valuable new tool for practitioners, Experiential Therapies for Eating Disorders is the first text to focus solely on the application of expressive therapies and experiential techniques to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
A comprehensive, school-based crisis intervention program can do a great deal to prevent teenage suicide, and to help the school community survive if a tragedy cannot be averted. In this important book, Scott Poland, who has written and lectured extensively on the topic, provides professionals with practical, step-by-step guidelines for setting up ......
Through its discussion of research findings, theory, and actual case examples, this book illustrates clinical and forensic issues encountered by clinicians who must deal with difficult cases involving juvenile homicide.
The role of factors outside the province of the physical and biological sciences in the onset of illness has long been a source of speculation. While early efforts in psychosomatic medicine focused on the relationship between mental states and illness, the effects of personal status and social circumstances on physical health are only now ......
The book provides information on resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), brain electrical activity mapping (BEAM), single photon emission computer tomography (SPECT), and positron-emission tomography (PET). Each chapter contains both introductory information for the novice and more advanced technical information for the expert
This book is written from the perspective of divorce as a catalyst. It ilustrates and discusses how such a life event, which is usually so destructive and traumatic, can eventually result in positive growth for the individual.