Presents an integrated healthcare team approach that helps patients manage opioid use in a structured, safe, and supportive environment while also exploring all of the factors that impact the patients' pain experience. This whole-person approach to care allows for cross-cutting strategies to be applied and maximizes the reduction of suffering.
Shows how the author approaches work with clients with chronic diseases such as Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, or lupus. This biopsychosocial approach helps fill in the gaps in medical interventions, which do not look at the broader cultural and psychological effects of a disease on a patient.
Collaborative Medical and Psychoeducational Interventions
Provides diagnostic and treatment information on a range of chronic health-related disorders that tend to be first diagnosed in childhood. This work addresses common ailments, such as intestinal and respiratory disorders, as well as less frequent disorders such as neurocutaneous syndromes and disorders arising from sex chromosome anomalies.
Provides research on interpersonal processes of depression and develops an explanatory framework for this persistent mental illness. This book surveys the sources of chronic depression, discussing negative feedback-seeking, conflict avoidance, and blame maintenance. It is for students, researchers and therapists working with cases of depression.
A compilation of virtually everything that is known about the association between children's peer relations and the development of peer rejection, aggression, and antisocial behavior.
Race plays a pivotal role in the experiences of children in the child welfare system. This book offers mental health professionals insights and recommendations for supporting children of color in the child welfare system.
It is important to equip children in therapy with tools and strategies to effectively handle stressful situations and learn how to face their fears. In this video, Dr Bonnie Zucker works with a young female client to demonstrate specific CBT techniques and strategies to help the child face her fears in a gradual, step-by-step fashion.
Evidence Base and Contextual Factors for Psychosocial, Psychopharmacological, and Combined Interventions
A comprehensive report, based on a review of the literature, on the effective use, sequencing, comparative risks/benefits, and integration of psychotropic medications and psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents.
Dr. Bruce G. Bender demonstrates his approach to counseling children with asthma so as to reduce the behavior that exacerbates this respiratory condition. Dr. Bender uses a family-management approach to treat young clients with asthma. Because a child lives within a family system, it is important to involve parents and other family members in ......
