A prescription for recovery from obsessive-compulsive disorder, this new paperback combines the latest in scientific knowledge with case histories and practical suggestions for self-help, offering new hope to those touched by this insidious and widespread malady. The authors have distilled their years of research, experimentation, and practice into a readable how-to manual.

Over and over Again: Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Neziroglu, Fugen

Yaryura-Tobias, Jose A.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lexington Books

Diseasing of America is a classic that marked a turning point in the addictions field. Stanton Peele dared to assert that while alcoholism and drug-taking may be addictions, they are not diseases. In this plainspoken and courageous critique of America's approach to addiction, Peele attacks the "addiction as disease" model promoted by Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous, and drug treatment centers. He argues that more practical therapies - behavioral, family oriented, and community based - and normal maturational experiences help people more than AA. Peele documents the scientific fallacies and institutional corruption of the addiction-as-disease movement. In a sweeping historical and social commentary, Peele points the way to positive personal and social change by showing how we can support people in living non-addicted lives. Ultimately, he asserts, the only effective response to addiction is to recreate living communities that nurture constructive human capacities and give people a real stake in life.

Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control

Peele, Stanton

Addiction & Recovery

This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on computer crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide. This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics have been updated.

Crime Classification Manual

Allen G. Burgess Ann W John E.; Burgess

Reference

Based on an examination of more than twenty campus lawsuits involving rape, this study analyzes why so few women report an assault, why many cases are mishandled, and how to deal with a sexual assault when it occurs

Sexual Assault on Campus: The Problem and the Solution

Politics & Social Sciences

Parrot, Andrea

Bohmer, Carol

Social Sciences

Innovation remains an arduous and painful process for many companies, doing untold damage to brands, profitability, and careers. Some have used line extensions to mitigate risk, but all too often they have ended up extending the core brand into oblivion. Others have used test markets to help gauge opinion before a national rollout, only to have competitors snatch ideas and undermine results. Given the problems with conventional approaches, it's not surprising that 90% of new products and services fail. Market New Products Successfully is the definitive guidebook for using simulated test marketing (STM), a technology that can help companies dramatically improve the odds of introducing a successful new product or service. The book examines why STM is important, what the differences are between the major systems, how to do a simulation, and what insights it offers a marketing plan. It is the ultimate guidebook for any smart marketer looking to improve the financial outcome of the innovation process.

Simulated Test Marketing: Technology for Launching Successful New Products

Business & Money

Clancy, Kevin J.

Krieg, Peter C.

Wolf, Marianne McGarry

Management & Leadership

The first edition of Staying Home Instead has been called the "bible for every mother who has wondered if she could afford to stay home and care for her children while maintaining her sanity and a decent balance in her checkbook." Many of the issues examined in the first edition have moved to the forefront of today's national agenda. Recent polls show that nearly two-thirds of married mothers either work part-time or stay home full-time with children and more than 50% of women who work full-time would prefer not to. Further, while in the late 1970s researchers believed it was probably "not harmful" to the infant-parent bond to place the children in institutional daycare, those same researchers now caution parents against it. As a result, an increasing number of working couples are having second thoughts about whether they want to raise their children in a two-paycheck family. This revised edition examines the issues faced by the "parent" or "parents," rather than just the "mother." Christine Davidson, herself a former beleaguered working mother, urges parents to attend to their emotions and reasserts the value, excitement, and sheer joy of caring for children. She also recognizes the modern mother's need to earn a living and use her education, and to that end she has expanded chapters on resume writing, computerized home businesses, and flex-time professional work. Appendices have been updated to include more practical resources to help parents economize, find part-time work, or start an entrepreneurial home business. They also include profiles of parents who have created full- or part-time businesses that enable them to care for their children with minimal or no outside daycare. Staying Home Instead offers alternatives to the dilemma of modern American families with young children. It is filled with practical information on how to develop new interests and skills at home, how to avoid becoming a household drudge, and how - when it becomes necessary or desirable - to reenter the workforce. Davidson celebrates the stimulation and delight and the challenge of caring for children and asserts that staying home should never be regarded as a retreat from work or life.

Staying Home Instead: Alternatives to the Two-Paycheck Family

Parenting & Relationships

Davidson, Christine

Parenting

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Forker, Olan

Ward, Ron

Investing

Today the majority of adults incarcerated in the United States are parents, affecting an estimated 1.5 million children nationwide. The arrest and imprisonment of a parent is a significant trauma for children, and they often react by demonstrating a pattern of aggression, anxiety, hyperarousal, depression, attention disorders, developmental regression, and "survival guilt." These children of offenders can display behaviors similar to those of children with a parent who has committed suicide or is murdered, as well as behaviors stemming from other forms of parental loss. Children of criminal, jailed, or imprisoned parents have long been identified as being at high risk for juvenile delinquency, and statistics reveal an alarming trend toward second-generation incarceration. This one-of-a-kind book outlines for professionals working with these children the optimum time to provide intervention following significant trauma, and shows that direct preventative and early intervention services to children of offenders can help them cope and can steer them away from a life in which crime plays an all too familiar role. The authors and their contributors, including Meda Chesney-Lind, offer guidance to aid social workers, psychologists, and others who work with children whose parents are in prison to help meet the children's needs and prevent future delinquency, adult offenses, and ultimately, cross-generational incarceration.

Children of Incarcerated Parents

Beyond Infertility: The New Paths to Parenthood

Glazer, Ellen Sarasohn

Cooper, Susan Lewis

Fertility

The Long-Awaited Stork: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility

Offers advice for coping with the special problems of parenting after infertility and discusses new reproductive technologies, adoption, multiple births, and special-needs children

Psychology & Counseling

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