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Includes material on "genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence ... explains what happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress, and he reveals how today's innovative treatments are helping ease children's pain, allowing to become healthy adults.
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Contiene explicaciones claras y sencillas sobre los diferentes aspectos de los trastornos psiquiátricos de niños y adolescentes. Aborda conceptos básicos como el interrogatorio clínico y las teorías del desarrollo infantil para mayor compresión de los trastornos. Escrito por psiquiatras infantiles, psicólogos y neuropediatras que dan un enfoque más integral a los diferentes trastornos que se desarrollan en el texto. Presenta útiles recomendaciones...
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Raising a child with mental illness is complex by itself, but the way society views and treats mental health issues makes it even harder. In Life in the House of Cards: Parenting a Child with Mental Illness, author Dr. Irene Abramovich talks openly about painful issues encountered by children with mental illness and their parents, including educational struggles, medical challenges, parenting issues, and the effect on other siblings and partners....
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Calling upon knowledge and experience from her roles as child psychiatrist, mother and one time child, Dr. Pressman demonstrates that psychiatry's marriage to a binary paradigm deters open enquiry, imaginative ideas and innovative approaches. Or navigates the waters of many islands of knowledge including psychiatry, self-help and integrative medicine. In a style that ranges from the academic to the philosophical to the homey, this quixotic narrative...
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Este libro es una selección de trabajos que Raúl Levin ha publicado a lo largo de su desempeño académico y ahora lo presenta a un grupo más amplio de lectores, y que refieren a distintos temas tratados desde el psicoanálisis, como la subjetividad y sus transformaciones, lo irrepresentable, la clínica en la persona real del analista y la transferencia, la contratransferencia y el malestar, los sueños y las pesadillas, Auschwitz y el psicoanálisis,...
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Invisible Shrapnel: The Legacy of Emotional Abuse provides an overview of the types of emotional abuse children and youth may encounter, anecdotes that illustrate impacts on the functioning of young people exposed to such abuse, potential developmental disturbances, and strategies adults can use to mediate the effects of abuse. One does not need to be a therapist to take corrective action. The research on resilience makes it clear that teachers, coaches,...
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A classic in its field, Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple offers everything you need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language.
This fully revised and updated fourth edition offers new information on sleep disorders, sleep medication, and substance abuse. You'll also find up-to-date DSM-5 definitions, information...
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Do you ever worry about the escalating mental health crisis facing our kids today, and silently hope your child does not end up as part of those statistics?
Do you want to teach your kids the habits, skills and mindsets that lay the foundation for positive mental health and wellbeing?
Have you ever wished there was a way to build strong protective fences at the top of the cliff, so you don't have to be the ambulance picking up the pieces at the bottom?
The...
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Trauma's lasting aftershock: misunderstood emotional disability
No one is immune from the pain of loss and abandonment. A beloved figure's death, a betrayal of trust, or abuse can inflict a degree of pain that is seriously traumatic. Those suffering such trauma may react with mistrust and depression, becoming unwilling or unable to reach out to others or accept attention and love. Their learning potential and life performance are impaired and their...
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It is one thing to recognize that you have been betrayed by your father, your brother, your husband, your culture, and your country. It takes a deeper level of insight to see that you have also betrayed yourself. "This is more than just another survivor story. It is the pilgrimage of a woman who dared to go deeper, to penetrate beneath the surface, and to uncover the roots of fear, abuse, and lies. Nadia has the courage not only to identify the narcissists...
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You might have trouble imagining your world without your social media, but former Fortune 500 IT consultant & engineer turned clinical mental health researcher & crisis intervention counselor, J.A. Thomas insists that we're far better off without it. In D.S.M. 7 Steps to Social Media Abstinence: The Desktop Guide to Deleting Social Media. Why Big Social is Ruining You and No, It's Not Just a 'Digital Native' Dilemma. Why It's Time to End The Social...
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Renowned by law enforcement and clinical mental health experts nationwide, Delete Me: D.S.M. 7 Steps to Social Media Abstinence, was formerly only circulated through DRUGFR33.ORG.
Swipe left. It's time to delete the social media disease. There are currently no specialized treatments for social media addiction and anxiety type conditions attributed to social media usage. Whereas most "remedies" for social media abuse call for "vacations", "breaks",...
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“The Inheritance of Shame” is the true story of author Peter Gajdics' six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Virtually imprisoned in a cult-like therapeutic house called the Styx with other heavily medicated psychiatric patients, they were all under the total authority of a violent, dominating rogue psychiatrist named "Dr. Alfonzo." Their treatment devolved into intense primal scream...
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When Heather Korbmacher's 10-year-old son began having extreme emotional responses to otherwise normal situations, she began to wonder what was happening to her child. When these responses erupted into violent rages, severe panic attacks, debilitating anxiety and phobias, an inability to eat, and a rigid need for everything to be just right, this mother knew something was profoundly wrong.
In this true story, one mother shares her journey to find...
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Parent Teenagers in Loving and Thoughtful Ways
"A source of lovingly gentle perspective with powerful relationship saving tools that every parent of teenagers should have to refer back to"-Becca Anderson, Bestselling Author of Badass AffirmationsEven when your relationship appears hopelessly beyond repair, you can reach past the bad days and reconnect. In this funny parenting book, find guidance on how to parent teenagers and rebuild a loving bond.
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Toddler Discipline: The Toddler Parenting Guide Book During Those Happy Toddler Years Are you looking at books on toddler discipline? It helps to read advice by those who have children and who have successfully made it through the toddler years. The advice given in this book are in line with the thought that many experts agree upon, to train a child with loving kindness, patience and positive reinforcements. One thing parents will realize once they...
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A mental health guide to stand by you when everything is NOT okay
How do you stay healthy and realistic when you're also dealing with depression, mania, or anxiety? What do you do when, actually, you don't feel f*cking fine? In this blackly funny, deeply compassionate, and extremely practical book, Emily Reynolds gives personal account of what it's like to live with mental illness and the lessons that can help you start your own mental health journey.
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