The scientific study of grief, accompanied by its vast eclectic approach of available therapeutic techniques, gives rise to the significance and importance of this emerging field. No longer pushed aside in favor of other pursuits, grief research, theories, and therapies have made their presence known in the myriad of occupations. This reader-friendly book offers a holistic approach to understanding and treating normal, complicated and traumatic grief. There are many changes on the horizon surrounding the subject of grief, and this book simplifies and clarifies the developing definitions, terminologies and diagnostic criteria. Based on a thorough review of previous and current literature, Dr. Schupp has succinctly extracted the most pertinent and grief related "nuggets" from different theoretical foundations. The reader will appreciate the immediate applicability of the physiological, psychological, and therapeutic techniques. If your time is limited and you've wished for practical information on diagnosing and treating grieving clients, then this resource will be a welcome addition to your library.

Grief: Normal, Complicated, Traumatic

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Schupp, Linda J., Ph.D.

Mental Health

Pesi Pub & Media

This entertaining and practical book points out a basic fact about changing harmful addictions - that many people need to develop a devotion to a healthy, positive addiction - to which they can cheerfully "just say yes!" Based on thousands of observations made by the author during 23 years of active participation in the addiction recovery and treatment field, this ground-breaking new book describes five naturally-occurring stages of change on an Addiction Recovery Learning Curve that many people with the most serious harmful addictions will usually have to go through on the long road to lasting recovery. Addiction, Progression, &amp; Recovery illustrates how harmful addictions often develop gradually with many identifiable signs and symptoms emerging over time in a series of progressively worsening stages, and it clearly describes the lifelong learning process normally followed by people who successfully make the difficult transition from active progression into permanent recovery. In this pioneering work, Dale Kesten introduces readers to the FACE to FACE Unified Addiction Recovery Model. This promising new developmental learning model offers a realistic and individualized approach to addiction treatment. It can help clinicians simultaneously assess, educate, motivate, and empower clients to eventually control or stop harmful addictive behavior by reframing their past, present, and future experiences as an honest and open-minded series of "Formal Addiction Control Experiments and Failed Addiction Control Experiments." This innovative new model is not based on any abstract, academic, scientific, or partisan theory about how people might or should be able to change harmful addictive behavior. Rather, it accurately describes the natural and readily observable process by which most people actually do change or ultimately fail to change such behavior in the long run.

Addiction, Progression & Recovery: Understanding the Stages of Change on the Addiction Recovery Learning Curve

Kesten, Dale

Addiction & Recovery

It is estimated that 1 out of every 6 people experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime. These symptoms affect one's ability to cope with daily life as well as the ability to manage stressful situations.This workbook is written to provide a better understanding of mental illness, how medications help to treat symptoms, and the necessary steps to take for mental health recovery. Having an understanding of one's mental illness and symptoms is the first step towards wellness. This workbook provides a step by step journey on the road to recovery. It is specifically designed for the patient and doctor to use together along with other members of the patient's treatment team. By using this workbook, patients will be able to better understand their illness and how to manage their recovery.

My Mental Health Medication Workbook

Miller, Fran

This book is designed to teach and assist you in increasing your proficiency in using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). DBT is a model that was created by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., at the University of Washington. DBT has been supported in numerous research studies to be effective with high-need, challenging clients such as Borderline Personality Disorders. It is also helpful when treating other personality disorders, significant depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, addictions, and dual diagnosis difficulties. It is effective when treating both youth and adult clients. While it is useful with severe pathology, it is also a strengths-based model that fosters healthy development, increased life satisfaction, and optimal levels of functioning. This book explains DBT in a clear and easily understandable way. By reading this book, you will learn about the classic and innovative DBT skills. You will explore how to appeal to learning styles and tailor interventions to attention span. There are many suggestions about how to make learning the skills fun, interesting, and relevant for a variety of clients. This book focuses on the history, philosophy, dialectics, skills and additional tools, to cement your clinical competency with DBT. In this book you will find many useful ideas, clinical examples, and practice vignettes. Novice and experienced clinicians will enjoy Dr. Moonshine's perspective about DBT and her useful suggestions about how to increase your proficiency with this complicated model. As a clinician, clinical supervisor, and clinical director, Dr. Moonshine has written a book that will increase your resiliency at work as well as provide you with the tools to increase clients' engagement, retention, goal attainment, increased level of functioning and life satisfaction. This book will be a valuable resource for years to come in your clinical practice. In addition to this book, there is a companion text, Volume II: The Worksheets, that contains over 150 client worksheets that can be used right away. In the companion text, you will find streamlined diary cards, chain analysis forms, relapse prevention plans, and recovery plans.

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Clinician's Guidebook

Moonshine, Cathy, Ph.D.

This is an invaluable resource for anyone using DBT with youth or adult clients during individual sessions, group therapy, family meetings, classroom settings, recreational activities, and milieu environments. These worksheets can be completed in sessions and as homework assignments. There are a plethora of worksheets included in this volume along with a crosswalk of all the D.B.T. in Life skills. The worksheets are designed to assist clients in learning and practicing skills in their lives. The skills are defined in concrete, easy to understand language that is accessible to a wide range of clients. Most worksheets provide information about the skills as well as opportunities for the clients to think through how the skills will assist them in building a life worth living. The worksheets can be used to appeal to all three learning styles. They are also responsive to attention span by focusing the client on the task at hand of learning DBT skills. Clinicians will find this volume full of innovative perspectives and engaging activities. Clinicians are encouraged to use these worksheets in individualized manners to meet the clients' needs and enhance their strengths. There is no particular order or way to use these worksheets. With all of these DBT tools in their clinical toolkit, clinicians can easily customize their DBT practice. Chapter 3 contains general worksheets that orient individuals to DBT along with streamlined versions of diary cards, chain analysis, relapse prevention plans and recovery plans. Chapter 4 has many worksheets that make mindfulness in general and specific skills accessible and relevant for clients of all ages. Chapters 5 &amp; 6 teach clients a variety of strategies for distress tolerance and emotional regulation to foster emotional competency, frustration tolerance and impulse control. Chapter 7 is dedicated to empowering clients to be effective in their interpersonal relationships through boundaries, assertiveness, self-respect and investing in healthy relationships. Using both Volumes I &amp; II will increase your clinical competency along with making DBT fun, interesting and relevant to a variety of individuals, families and groups.

Acquiring Competency and Achieving Proficiency With Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The Worksheets

Here's the guide for healthcare professionals who need to understand psychotropic medications to improve client outcomes. Created by a licensed clinical pharmacist who is also a clinical social worker, this guide has been written in a straightforward, user-friendly style that simplifies complex concepts and enables practitioners to best utilize their expanded knowledge. Here's what you'll find: -Detailed descriptions of the disorders for which medications are most often prescribed -The most up-to-date psychotropic medication models -Case studies from the field you can apply to your own clients -Tips on medicating special populations: children, older adults and expectant mothers -A look at alternative medications: Do they work? Are they safe? -Answers to frequently asked questions -A glimpse at the future of psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology: Straight Talk on Mental Health Medications

Wegmann, Joseph

Psychiatric Emergencies, now in its second edition, presents an easy-to-read, contemporary and evidence-based approach to managing psychiatric emergencies. Health care providers in a wide variety of settings will find this newly updated and expanded handbook a necessity in recognizing and assessing psychiatric problems promptly and accurately, intervening safely, and initiating appropriate treatment and resultant case disposition decisions. The scenarios presented are reflective of the author's extensive experiences and clinical expertise in managing psychiatric emergencies. Author Deborah Antai-Otong analyzes principles of psychiatric emergencies and prominent pryshiatric disorders seen in diverse clinical settings, including alcohol and drug-related emergencies, delirium, suicidal and violent behaviors, domestic violence, rape, depression and anxiety disorders, acute psychosis and others. This book offers a holistic approach to managing psychiatric emergencies with an initial focus on staff safety, and details the role of critical incident stress debriefing as part of working with staff exposed to violent or traumatic situations. Each psychiatric problem presented describes: -Relevant clinical findings including differential diagnosis, physical findings, mental status data, and diagnostic and laboratory studies -Strategies to individualize treatment approaches to clients with psychiatric crises -Psychosocial interventions that help health care providers to maintain personal safety, establish appropriate environments and de-escalate potentially volatile situations -Evidence-based pharmacological interventions that are effective in the management of acute psychiatric symptoms -Client and family education that promotes mental and physical health -Legal and ethical considerations, including the right to treatment, confidentiality, informed consent, dealing with minors, competency, emergency petitions, the right to refuse treatment, duty to warn and protect, and documentation

Psychiatric Emergencies: How to Accurately Assess and Manage the Patient in Crisis

Medical Books

Antai-Otong, Deborah

Medicine

Don't get stuck in life's holes! The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life is a book about resiliency. Using Swiss Cheese as a metaphor for life itself, you will explore ways to get through the holes rather than get stuck in them. Swiss is not like any other cheese - and neither are you! This self-help health and wellness book is sure to delight and enlighten - with a thick-sliced sense of humor. While it is whimsical in style, it deals with many serious and universal topics that affect our everyday lives. We distill important concepts from many sources, slicing them up into easily digestible chunks of information. After all, Swiss is not like any other cheese and neither are you like anyone else! This wellness book is about thriving in the face of life's adversities, overcoming challenges, developing stress resilience, and making effective and long lasting changes for a happier life. Important training concepts are easily related through a light-hearted holistic approach that will touch your mind, body and spirit. Our expertise as psychotherapists and wellness speakers has reached thousands of people throughout the country - and now we want to reach out to you! Couldn't everyone benefit from Swiss Cheese Life resiliency training to help them move through life's holes instead of getting stuck in them? Take the Swiss Cheese Theory of Life Challenge! -Are you trying to make changes in your life, yet you find yourself digging deeper into a hole? -Do you know better but can t seem to get out from under your unhealthy patterns or habits? -Do you often have why does this happen to me thinking? -Are you looking for happiness in all the wrong places? -Are you ready to make healthy changes in your life ... physically, emotionally, spiritually? If you answered yes to any of these questions help is here!

The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life!

Self-Help

Judith Belmont

Lora Shor

Happiness

X-rays are valuable diagnostic tools that help you visualize patient progress, document outcomes of nursing interventions, target care to specific problems, and communicate more effectively with other healthcare professionals. This reference set will help you learn to distinguish improper tube and line placement; common respiratory conditions; abdominal and respiratory foreign bodies; ARDS; abnormal air and fluid collections; chest, neck, abdominal and head trauma; abnormal bowel patterns; strains, sprains, dislocations and fractures.

Understanding X-rays: A Plain English Approach

Reference

Rothenberg

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Reduce Anxiety. Express Emotions. Be More Present. The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live In the Moment combines the benefits of mindfulness and the intuitive expression of doodling to help you relax, find focus, and creatively express emotions through spontaneous artmaking. Mindful doodling is fun, calming and deeply moving. Grab a pen or pencil and explore the 75 doodle exercises that draw on emotions, thoughts, hopes and sensory awareness. The Mindful Doodle Book is a therapeutic tool that mental health clinicians can use directly with their clients, but anyone can find this doodle book meaningful and useful to navigate a hectic world.

The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live in the Moment

Isis, Patricia, Ph.D.

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