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(More customer reviews)Book arrived in perfect condition. It is a valuable tool in the quest for a healthy body and mind. Another great book offered by Fc & a Medical Publishing.
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7/06/2012
Eat and Heal Review
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(More customer reviews)Book arrived in perfect condition. It is a valuable tool in the quest for a healthy body and mind. Another great book offered by Fc & a Medical Publishing.
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6/27/2012
The Changing Face of Health Care Social Work: Professional Practice in Managed Behavioral Health Care, Second Edition (Springer Series on Social Work) Review
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(More customer reviews)I received this book and it was in excellent condition. There was a short period of time between ordering and receiving.
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Updated and revised, this text advocates a proactive stance for health care social workers, as a practical guide that addresses the principles of practice in our current health care environment.
With the advent of numerous health care changes, such as managed health care with its focus on behaviorally-based outcomes and objectives, this volume illustrates the "new" face of health care social work. This comprehensive text is full of practice-oriented tips, professional "profiles" in diverse arenas (emergency room, home care, case management, and hospice), questions for further study, and Website resources in each chapter. It will help prepare social workers for the practice change needed in order to become viable clinical practitioners.
4/01/2012
Principles of Neural Science Review
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(More customer reviews)I read this book in medical school. Although I would agree that it is probably to basic science oriented for a medical school neuroscience course, it was enjoyable, thorough, and inspirational. There are few books in my life that took as complex a topic as how the brain works and made it comprehensible. It is not a crib sheet for passing medical school exams. It is the first book I would recommend for anyone seriously interested in an understanding of the brain, sensory processes, etc... For anyone for whom a fundamental grounding in neuroscience is important this is the book.
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A Doody's Core Title for 2011!
5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!"This is a simply wonderful book that makes accessible in one place all the details of how the neuron and brain work. The writing is clear. The drawings are elegant and educational. The book is a feast for both the eye and mind. The richness, the beauty, and the complexity of neuroscience is all captured in this superb book."--Doody's Review Service
Now in resplendent color, the new edition continues to define the latest in the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter is thoroughly revised and includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental processes and in the pathogenesis of disease. Important features to this edition include a new chapter - Genes and Behavior; a complete updating of development of the nervous system; the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disease; cognitive neuroscience of perception, planning, action, motivation and memory; ion channel mechanisms; and much more. (20011101)
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2/20/2012
Hyperactivity Hoax: How to Stop Drugging Your Child and Find Real Medical Help Review
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(More customer reviews)After years of unsuccessful psychiatric work, school problems, and Ritalin, my parents found Dr. Walker. I was eight, and my parents and teachers were at a point where I was probably no longer going to be able to attend school and there was a possibility of being institutionalized. The rages that I would fly into would take a room apart. The animals and three other siblings in my family were continually terrorized. Babysitters refused to stay with us.
It is hard to talk about this stuff now, as I am a thirty-something adult with a very healthy and happy life. I have a wonderful husband, a 17-month-old daughter, and a baby on the way. Dr. Walker diagnosed me as being allergic to gluten and as being a borderline diabetic who with strict diet management would hopefully never have to take insulin. My diet went into effect when I was eight, immediately after my parents brought me home from Dr.Walker's multi-day visit. It worked. I don't know how long the diet took to work because I was so young, but my parents said that the change was like night and day. A normal, healthy, child without Ritalin. In adulthood I still do not need insulin.
It is not always easy to find out what the problem is. In fact, my parents probably spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars, many hours, and many trips to different doctors. (We visited Dr.Walker who practiced in CA, while we lived in AZ.) Boy do I owe my parents! But there can be reasons for such behavior that take some serious digging. Ritalin, often, is just a cover-up and a heck of a lot easier to do. But for sake of the health of the child please consider alternatives.
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1/26/2012
Phobia Free: A Medical Breakthrough Linking 90% of All Phobias and Panic Attacks to a Hidden Physical Problem Review
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(More customer reviews)A lot of people suffer -- and I do mean suffer -- from one or more phobias, and a lot of techniques are offered by various therapists to treat phobias. Unfortunately, while some of these treatments may reduce phobic symptoms somewhat, relatively few phobics are actually cured. In this excellent book, Dr. Harold Levinson explains the reasons for this situation. One is that there are three different types of phobias, a fact not generally recognized. About 5% or so of phobias are caused primarily by a neurotic condition of some sort. These phobias often respond to conventional psychotherapy whereas most phobias do not. Another 5% or so of phobias are caused by a severe trauma, such as being bitten by a dog or being in a plane that almost crashes. These phobias are often helped by desensitization therapy. But if phobias that are caused primarily by neurosis or trauma account for only about 10% of all phobias, what is the primary cause of the other 90%? Dr. Levinson's brilliant discovery is that the root cause of most phobias is a disorder of the cerebellar-vestibular sustem, called in lay terminology "the inner ear." Dr. Levinson also found that inner ear disorders are the primary cause of dyslexia and that there is a very high correlation between dyslexia and phobias. About 90% of people who are phobic or dyslexic are both phobic and dylexic. Fortunately, Dr. Levinson has found that about 80% of cases of both phobias and dyslexia respond to at least one of the inner ear medications currently available, including dramamine, scopolamine, and Benadryl. Inner ear disorders are relatively easy for trained audiologists to detect and verify by the battery of tests available to them, but they seldom are detected by routine examinations made by general practitioners or even ear, nose, and throat specialists. If you suffer from phobias and/or dyslexia -- as I do -- please read this book with an open mind. It may literally change your life for the better. In my case, thorough audiological testing -- as described in this book -- revealed that I do indeed have an inner ear disorder which was not detected by routine examinations. Based on this finding, my physician tried the inner ear medications listed by Dr. Levinson and found one that has given me significant relief. Therefore, I am recommending this book from personal experience.
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1/16/2012
Medical Neuropsychology (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology) Review
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(More customer reviews)R. E. Tartar, M. Butters, and S. R. Beers (Eds.), Medical Neuropsychology (2nd ed.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001
A lecturer in neurology once stated, "The human body is nothing more than a case for the human brain; it is made up of organs that are designed to protect and nurture it." This statement, though perhaps skewed, underscores a marvelous aspect of the human organism.
Medical Neuropsychology is an outstanding text that brings home the point that the brain is exquisitely dependent on other less glamorous natomical structures and their interactions. Behind every well-functioning brain is a healthy body.
This edited volume introduces the reader to a wealth of information concerning the relation between nonneurological medical disease and cognitive/emotional functioning. This text is unlike the many volumes devoted to specific neurobehavioral functions, neuropsychological
syndromes, assessment techniques and test measures, or neuroanatomic substrates of behavior.
The focus here is on the relation between body and brain, and between organ/system pathology and neuropsychological functioning. A total of 29 authors contribute their expertise to this 346-page volume in areas that encompass neuroendocrinology, pulmonary disorders, cardiovascular
disease, liver disease, renal dysfunction and its treatment, pancreatic disorders, thyroid disorders, gonadal steroid abnormalities, toxic chemical exposure, systemic autoimmune disease, sleep disorders, and HIV
infection. The 13 chapters are well written and neatly organized. In most cases, organ anatomy, physiology, and function are initially reviewed, followed by a thorough review of related diseases. The focus on pathology
and its physiological relation to brain function is then followed by a literature review of the cognitive and emotional correlates of these diseases. The literary flow is easily digestible.
This book achieves the editors' stated goal of providing a compendium of the empirical literature documenting the neuropsychological sequelae of organ and system pathology. Although several chapters are less than comprehensive in addressing the relevant neuropsychological literature, this book would be invaluable to any neuropsychologist, particularly anyone working in a general medical setting.
A challenge for all neuropsychologists, regardless of clinical setting, is to develop a better understanding of processes that occur outside the realm of the central nervous system and yet are vital to and constantly interactive with the operations of the brain. This volume will facilitate this understanding and guide the clinician in assessing and treating individuals whose cognitive and emotional functioning are subjected to the potentially adverse affects of common medical disorders.
Medical Neuropsychology is a solid reference text worthy of a four-star rating.
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Neuropsychologists have an important role in potentiating thepsychosocial adjustment and quality of life of patients througheffective diagnosis and rehabilitation of cognitive and psychomotordeficits caused by acute and chronic disease.Thoroughly updated and expanded, this second edition of the highlyacclaimed Medical Neuropsychology contains a complete review ofthe rapidly developing literature pertaining to the associationbetween cognition and medical diseases. As a compendium of the empirical literature documenting theneuropsychological sequelae of organ and system pathology, this volumewill be of interest of all practitioners interested in the integrationof neuropsychology into the mainstream of health service delivery.
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11/16/2011
Psychiatry for Medical Students, Third Edition Review
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(More customer reviews)This is a great review book for the most commonly found conditions in psychiatry as well as covering geriatric AND pediatric issues. It has the DSM-IV criteria for these conditions, a great section on differentials (which comes in SUPER handy at test time).
Took off 1 star as a few items (mainly treatment related) are outdated or not present as it is from 1997.
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For medical students taking their first course in psychiatry or entering their first clinical clerkship, their early encounters with psychiatric patients and their need to master vast amounts of new information on complicated illnesses can be a bewildering, grueling, and intimidating experience. Fortunately, these newcomers have a reliable and trusted source that makes psychiatry more accessible to them. Widely used in medical schools and allied mental health curricula, the third edition of Psychiatry for Medical Students is the standard against which all psychiatric texts for beginning medical students are measured. This popular book gives medical students, primary care physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists a jargon-free introduction to the basics, including topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers.The text also helps the reader develop the basic skills needed to carry out a diagnostic evaluation and provides systematic coverage of common psychiatric disorders, groups of patients, specialized psychiatric fields, special problems encountered among patients with a broad range of psychiatric conditions, and psychotherapies and somatic therapies. This updated edition incorporates the changes in DSM-IV and contains discussions of recent developments throughout the field. Filled with new references and the latest research, this book can be used as a quick reference during clinical work and a starting point for further reading.
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10/19/2011
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America Review
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(More customer reviews)Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals the damage that can and very often does result from long-term use of psychotropic drugs, and, along with it, the alarming rise in chronic mental illness in this country since such drugs as Thorazine were introduced in the 1950s. Because this drug could cause tardive dyskinesia and other permanent nervous system damage, the pharmaceutical industry got to work on new generations of drugs that are being used now.
The rise in drug use corresponds with psychiatry staking a renewed claim to therapeutic expertise and market share, which had begun to erode due to competition from counselors, social workers and others (see the Selling of DSM by Kirk and Kutchins -- [...]-- and Making Us Crazy by the same authors). The prescription pad, and the power of academic psychiatry in collaboration with Big Pharma, allowed psychiatry to open up a very large market, one that today seems to encompass the entire population.
Whitaker documents the alarming rise of disability and increasing number of people on SSI and SSDI due to mental illness over the last 50 years, including the increase since the 1980s, when serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac were introduced, and again, with the introduction of what are called atypical antipsychotics (e.g., Risperdal, Zyprexa), and reliance on drugs in the benzodiazepine family (Valium). But perhaps the most tragic of all cases with drugs used to treat what were once considered within the range of "normal" behavior (e.g., shyness) is the prescribing of amphetamine-like agents such as Ritalin or Adderall for so-called attention deficit disorder (ADHD) in children, and, even worse, powerful psychotropic drug cocktails to treat a newly introduced category of illness, childhood-onset bipolar disorder. In all of these cases, Whitaker documents how long-term use of such drugs can lead to severe debilitating effects and what may be irreversible brain damage. He also reveals that there is no scientific evidence, none whatsoever, for the psychiatric storyline that psychotropic drugs compensate for chemical imbalances in the brain.
Impeccably researched and documented, Whitaker's book is based on long-term outcome studies that have received almost no publicity from psychiatry and other guardians of the psychiatric establishment, including, of course, the pharmaceutical companies that keep churning out new generations of magic bullets. It's a multibillion dollar industry with a lot to lose were the full truth about the drug risks disclosed and understood.
While far from an anti-psychiatry or anti-drug polemic, Whitaker's interviews with patients who are on psychiatric medications are nonetheless heartrending. Also revealing is his disclosure of the brutal treatment meted out to maverick doctors like Peter Breggin, David Healy and Loren Mosher, who all questioned the efficacy of pharmaceutical treatment of mental disorders, from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder and other maladies. Harvard Medical School-trained Breggin was in effect blacklisted. Mosher lost his position with the NIMH over his successful drug-free treatment of patients through the Soteria project he founded. And Healy promptly lost a job offer after publicizing his criticism of SSRIs and their possible relation to suicide.
In a TLS April 2009 review of Healy's book Mania, the reviewer says Healy "goes on to describe how Big Pharma has captured almost total control over the research process, to say nothing of buying up academic experts and turning them into marketing shills." Whitaker essentially reports the same thing; especially telling is the chapter titled Tallying Up the Profits, including a subsection titled the Money Tree.
On top of this, there is the DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (the fifth edition soon to be released; see Ofer Zur's critique at the Zur Institute site), with its ever-expanding list of disorders. No longer are only those thought to be suffering from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder entreated to take their medication, without which, they are told, they would be like a "diabetic without insulin." Now everyone suffering from problems such as grief or the blues or any number of things -- in the case of children, ADHD, "oppositional defiant disorder" or childhood-onset bipolar disorder -- are also told they should take drugs, as if they needed the psychological equivalent of insulin. The tragedy in the case of children is that often, after taking stimulant drugs, they begin to experience psychotic symptoms. Then, more drugs are used to treat the additional symptoms, a fact that accounts for more and more young people ending up on disability rolls.
I hope everyone who sees a primary care doctor or counselor or any kind of therapist will read this book and think twice or a dozen times before attempting to solve any type of emotional problem or bedeviling symptoms with Big Pharma remedies. While Whitaker does explain how such medicines can be useful in taking down severe symptoms on a short-term basis, this book sounds the alarm to proceed with caution. Once "treatment" is begun, brain chemistry is altered, and an insidious dependence on the drugs can develop. Withdrawal from the drugs also sounds as if it might be more challenging than withdrawal from heroin or cocaine.
On a positive note, Whitaker has started a blog that accompanies description of this book at his Mad in America book site. Here, he not only lists results of the long-term studies he documents, but also lists promising alternative treatments, including exercise, that are helping people. I admire Whitaker's courage in writing this book, which can give hope to all the people psychiatry may have condemned to chronic illness. Disclosure: After meeting Robert Whitaker for the first time and hearing him speak about his book last week, we are now friends on Facebook.
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Social Work With Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change Review
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(More customer reviews)Had to read this book for a class during my Master's in Social Work. Interesting points of view from a wide variety of authors. Not something that you would just pick up and read for fun. Although having different authors is a nice idea in reality it make the flow of the book difficult to follow.
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Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice! Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms the way her fellow senior living center residents participate in their world. Fathers of children with spina bifida who help one another through an online discussion group. These and other examples you'll discover in Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change will help you to assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create change in their own lives and communities. In Social Work with Groups: Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change you'll also find:
definitions of social justice within the context of social work
a proposal to help focus on social justice in teaching
guidelines for group facilitators making decisions about self-disclosure
studies of innovative group work
discussion of the challenges to achieving social justice in group work
valuable ways to ground social group work in rich cultural traditions
This new book rides the crest of the growing wave of justice in social work with groups. Culled from the proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, it gives you the innovations and current thinking of professionals who, while coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds, are focused on helping all people enjoy the same rights and opportunities. If you want to use group work to challenge social inequality, Social Work with Groups will be a welcome addition to your library. Social action that gets results has to start somewhere-let it begin with you!
10/09/2011
High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It Review
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(More customer reviews)This book opened my eyes and made me realize that we are a nation of addicts. I was stunned by the fact the the US is 4 percent of the world's population, but consumes more than half the world's illegal drugs. Once you get through the mind blowing statistics, you begin to really understand the scope of this problem and how it is slowly destroying our society. I agree with Mr. Califano in saying that substance abuse is a disease and not a moral failing. Addict means addicted and when someone is addicted to something, they just can't stop. We must stop writing people off because they have a disease and focus on treating them - all of them. We are looking for cures for cancer and AIDS, we talk about them in the open and pour money into the research. Mr. Califano is right - we should do the same for substance abuse and addiction. This book offers a refreshing way to look at this horrible problem that plagues so many of our brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, spouses, children and friends. More importantly, it offers hope and a solution. Sign me up for the revolution , I want to do my part!
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