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Written for both conventionally and nonconventionally trained mental health care professionals, the book provides both an ideal reference for clinicians whose patients inquire about CAM therapies and a critical, balanced review of the nonconventional modalities most widely used in Western countries to treat mental or emotional problems.
The book is written from the perspective of clinicians who practice in both traditional and alternative medicine. The book covers the major areas in CAM, including herbal medicine and nutrients, acupuncture, meditative therapies, and yoga.
The rapid transformation of clinical care models in new health systems means that competence in integrated and split/collaborative care is vital for both long-established clinicians and psychiatric professionals in the early stages of their careers.
Community Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides insight into the public system of care and the requisite tools to manage the rapidly changing clinical, political, and administrative landscape. Trainees, practitioners, and administrators alike will welcome this indispensable road-map to a higher level of practice in community settings.
A high level of exhaustion, an increased feeling of depersonalisation, and a low sense of personal accomplishment-the hallmarks of burnout-are on the rise in medicine. Combating Physician Burnout, the first book of its kind to focus on the field of psychiatry, aims to educate psychiatrists about the three key concepts of stress, burnout, and ......
Mastering cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) for the common, yet difficult-to-treat aspects of severe mental illness has now been made easier with Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness. A proven, effective treatment for patients with severe mental illness, CBT is illuminated in an insightful volume that boasts an abundance of learning ......
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents will be an invaluable and worthy reference for all mental health practitioners who work with this distinct population. No other text on the subject will match it.
In this compact, richly detailed volume, 13 distinguished contributors show how CBT's primary focus of identifying and changing maladaptive patterns of information processing and related behaviors is fully compatible with biological theories and treatments and can be combined with pharmacotherapy to optimize treatment results in clinical practice.
This volume examines those aspects of the unconscious mind most relevant to the psychiatric practitioner, including unconscious processing of affective and traumatic experience, unconscious mechanisms in dissociative states and disorders, and cognitive approaches to dreaming and repression.
