This updated edition of Maxine Aston's workbook is packed full of insightful, helpful and easily accessible activities for couples where one partner is on the autism spectrum to understand and accept their differences. This book expands on topics including verbal and non-verbal communication, sexual issues, socialising and parenting, with case ......
You can try self-employment! Successfully self-employed autistic author Robyn Steward shares her keen insights about the valuable skills and unique visions self-employed autistic people bring to the job market. This book will teach you how to bring these strengths into the world of self-employment, so that you can follow your passions as part of ......
A Five-Step Plan for Treating Chronic Pain, Depression, Anxiety, Fatigue
Millions of people experience issues related to brain health yet can't figure out what's causing their problems and can't find any relief. David Younger, a world-renowned physician, provides diagnostic techniques and treatment protocols will help readers identify the true cause of their symptoms and put them on a clear path to healing.
In this empowering guide, Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose set out honest advice and strategies to help autistic trans and/or gender divergent teens to thrive exactly as they are. Covering a huge range of topics including coming out, masking, building a sense of pride and much more, it is an essential resource for living happily and authentically.
Bring out the best in each person with dementia each day with more than 140 versatile, easy-to-implement ""Best Friends"" activities. The approace means thatanyone on staff can turn any interaction with a resident or client into an activity that satisfies essential physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
The ""Best Friends"" approach to Alzheimer's care improves the quality of life not only for clients with Alzheimer's disease but also for the staff providing care. Readers can hear stories and ideas from real staff in facilities worldwide who are already implementing the Best Friends approach with their residents.
This edition covers changes in the classification, management, and treatment of dementing illness. It includes a world-class presentation on the molecular and genetic basis of Alzheimer's disease; a chapter on neuroimaging, and discussions of mild cognitive impairment, the frontotemporal dementias, and the dementias associated with Lewy bodies.
Quick, Convenient, Great-Tasting Recipes for Following a Low-Ratio Ketog
Including tips, strategies, and an abundance of great-tasting, simple to prepare recipes, The Modified Keto Cookbook makes following a low-ratio ketogenic diet easy. With a focus on fresh, clean eating and simple, everyday meals and snacks requiring minimal effort and time, this cookbook will help even the busiest families or individuals ......
The dental needs of people living with dementia are often overlooked, particularly in the care home and hospital community. It is challenging to maintain good standards of oral care with people living with dementia, and poor care can increase the fear and anxiety levels of those living with dementia. Very few dentists have the training that equips ......
This book introduces the idea of the social brain networked in the world. The author's foundational thesis is that humans appear in evolution always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes.
Validation is a practical way of communicating with and managing problem behaviour in older adults with Alzheimer's-type dementia. It helps reduce stress, enhance dignity, and increase happiness. Since its inception in 1989, Validation has helped thousands of professional and family caregivers improve their relationships with residents and loved ......
This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma cancause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on theautism spectrum. Gordon Gates draws on his academic research, professional knowledgeas a counsellor, and lived experience with Asperger's syndrome to provide a uniqueframework ......
This clearly written book provides a comprehensive overview of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents, with a focus on school-based assessment and intervention strategies.
The book offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders, including acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the dissociative disorders.
The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
This comprehensive text, with contributions from an international group of leading authorities, covers all that is currently known about traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment.
Presents a fresh approach for treating somatization disorder and related problems, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome. This program integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques with strategies to build emotional self-awareness and interventions to help patients understand and alter their illness behavior.
This authoritative guide has introduced many tens of thousands of clinicians to Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), a leading evidence-based treatment for traumatized children and their parents or caregivers. Preeminent clinical researchers provide a comprehensive framework for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ......
Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship
This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track. Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience as well as cutting-edge research on ......
Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP)
Describes the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP), a research-based approach designed to motivate depressed clients to change and to help them develop needed problem-solving and relationship skills.
Now in its third edition, Ultimate Review for the Neurology Boards is the definitive study guide for anyone preparing for the neurology board exam, RITE, or MOC exam. This comprehensive point form review presents the latest research, data, and knowledge on all aspects of neurology that you need to know to succeed on these exams.
This handy paperback is an essential tool for Board preparation and can be used independently or as a supplement to any review book. Ultimate Review for the Neurology Boards: Question and Answer Companion contains structured test questions, answers and explanations designed to help the busy Clinician prepare for the neurology boards, the AANs RITE ......
This thoroughly updated and expanded second edition continues to be the singular reference for comprehensive clinical instruction in the use of high-frequency ultrasound for assessing peripheral nerves and their disorders, particularly focal neuropathies. Revised to integrate current advances in the field, new applications, and next-generation ......
Covering basic functional neuro-anatomy and what can go wrong, assessment of difficulties, interventions and approaches to rehabilitation for frontline staff, carers and students.
This authoritative volume addresses difficulties in diagnosing adult ADHD, including the debate about whether the disorder exists as a valid entity. Dr. Doyle covers the genetic and biochemical bases of the disorder and explains how understanding ADHD in children illuminates current thinking about the disorder in adults.
Anxiety is a prevalent and often debilitating condition for individuals on the autism spectrum. This book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to intervention and treatment of the condition, providing professional understanding of the underlying causes and available treatments.
It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.
Unemployment can be an isolating experience. In this much-needed book, Michael John Carley reassures readers who are unemployed and have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that they are not alone. Offering guidance on how you can cope with unemployment in a constructive and emotionally healthy manner, Michael John Carley writes with a ......
Now with 620 questions - more than 250 completely new to this edition - this review guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect current science and clinical knowledge. This edition includes improved diagnostic-quality images, an emphasis on new drugs, and added chapters devoted to anatomy, clinical trials and ethics, neuro-ophthalmology, and case ......
Explores how the latest virtual reality interventions can be used to treat patients with anxiety disorders. Virtual reality therapy enables the patient to experience a realistic, yet carefully controlled exposure to an anxiety-provoking scenario, in the therapist's own office.
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer's disease, the medical profession now distinguishes various types of "other" dementias. This book is the first and only comprehensive guide dealing with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), one of the largest groups of non-Alzheimer's dementias. The contributors are either specialists ......
Discusses headaches in terms of risk symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and risk factors. It covers headache basics, includes information on how to build your healthcare team, discusses over a dozen headache types based on the American Headache Society classification, and examines headache care, including coping measures, support.
