Mental Health Books

There are so many books published about what cancer is but very few about how it really affects a family. Marvyl's way of telling about her experience is exceptional. The day to day ways she and her family coped with her illness was remarkable. I could compare this book to "First You Cry" by Betty Rollins but Marvyl's is so much better. I wish I had this book when my own family was coping with my aunt's cancer. This is a book I will pass on to my family members so they may all learn about Marvyl's love, compassion, and fortitude in the eyes of death. Marvyl wrote about her life threatening complications of cancer in a manner which makes it an enjoyable read. Her personal thoughts and feelings are shared throughout the 236 pages. When most of us would falter and turn away from God, Marvyl shows how she became stronger and more in tune with her religion, her family, and herself. Marvyl helped start "I Can Cope" groups, as well as hospice services, especially in Minnesota. This amazing woman continues to speak out about her illness wherever and whenever she is requested. I thoroughly agree with Minneapolis oncologist Barbara J Bowers, MD when she said, "All cancer patients should have the opportunity to see cancer through Marvyl's eyes." "Guide-Lines and God-Lines for Facing Cancer" was also reviewed by Midwest Book Review. This book is a must read for all cancer patients, their families, support groups, hospice centers, and libraries.

Marvyl Loree Patton is to be commended for writing an intense personal experience story that includes guide-lines for helping others. I found her story very touching. I'd recommend it to not only people suffering from cancer but to anyone who has to see someone suffer with this disease. Having a friend who died from breast cancer several years ago, I find myself going back to Patton's book to gain a better understanding of this terrible disease and for coping mechanisms on how I can get on with my life and not be trapped in my grief. Patton left a great contribution to the world when she wrote her story. We need more books like it--personal experience stories that includes guidelines for Christian living no matter what our circumstances may be. This book would make a nice gift or a special asset in a library--church or public libraries.

This is a fascinating contribution to understanding human brain functioning. Nico undergoes a hemispherectomy (removal of his right hemisphere) due to extreme epilepsy.
What follows is the amazing journey of Nico, through kinder garden, schooling, and socialization. Nico conveys the image of which the author so profoundly believes, that his left hemisphere isn't damaged, it's a brain it itself.
By reading this book, you'll realize that Nico has nearly no deficits resulting from his hemispherectomy. His left visual field is absent (due to the left eye normally transmitting information to the right - in this case absent - hemisphere. He also suffers from minor physical disability in his right limbs. Nonetheless, Nico performs or outperforms his peers when it comes to reasoning and intelligence, with the only deficit being in drawing.
It would do injustice to the author if it weren't mentioned about how he strongly believes in technology improving education for both the general public and especially handicapped children. By using a laptop Nico was able to further his verbal and spatial education regardless of his drawing and handwriting deficit.
Antonio M. Battro deserves credit and reading for this extremely concise and informative authoritative introduction to hemispherectomy & brain research in general.

Battro's insightful, inspirational, and sensitive study of a young boy whose functional hemispherectomy has left him with only a functioning left side of his brain is a challenge to many preconceptions regarding the limitations of the human brain and its adaptability. The successful adaptations made by the subject of the book, Nico, with the aid of computer technology to succeed in a regular academic environment will call into question standard lesion analysis in projecting the capabilities and potential of others who have undergone this surgery.

This handbook is a collection of chapters by many well-known Chicano (Mexican American) psychologists. Given that Mexican Americans are the largest subgroup of Latinos in the United States, and that Latinos are the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., this handbook is long overdue! It is perfect for the individual practitioner, as a text for undergraduate or graduate courses, or as a reference tool. Chapters cover such material as the history of Chicano psychology, identity development, psychological assessment, psychotherapy with men and women, and teaching. It is clear that a lot of work went into this book, and I am grateful to all of the contributors for publishing such a relevant reference tool!

This is an OUTSTANDING volume that features wonderfully comprehensive and extremely well written contributions by some of the most reputable scholars in Chicana/o psychology. It has been a very long time since I have been this excited about an academic book and can not imagine a library on US ethnic issues complete without a copy of it. I am sorry I waited this long to buy it. The contributors have definitely set a very high standard for edited volumes on this subject. One can but hope that other compilations extending this caliber of scholarship to other Latina/o groups are forthcoming.

This book is to the point in covering all aspects of Correctional Mental Health. I recommend this book all mental health professionals going into the field of corrections.

Excellent basic text on the context and content of providing mental health and substance abuse assessment and treatment in a corrections environment. Very helpful for start up programs as well as experienced clinicians.

This book was so thourough, covering everything from risk and protective factors, to intervention, assessment and psychopathology. I especially like the breakdown in the end of the cross-disciplinary training in infant mental health. Also the chapter on Early Chilhood Policy: Implications for mental health policy. We cannot look at children in isolated pockets of health. This book speaks to every step forward that we need to take to serve the social-emotional health of our children.

This book represents a comprehensive discussion of factors that influence the social and emotional health of very young children, when it goes well and when it goes awry. Many of the chapters deal with specific disorders of infancy and early childhood and with intervention techniques. It is essential reading for graduate students as well as professionals interested in infant/toddler mental health.

A very comprehensive work on Personality and it's related constructs. Highly rich in content and depth. I had procured it more for the portions of the book on the five factor model of personality and it's facets.

It is an excellent reference guide for consultants and even HR managers who want to know more on the field of personality. A worthwhile investment.

I just received this book and I think it is excellent. Chapters start with an introduction or summary, and end with either a conclusion or implications section, which makes it easy to preview the topic without having to read a lot. There are 3 things I should warn prospective buyers, though: it is expensive ($89.95 the paperback edition!), it is extensive (enciclopedic, with almost a 1000 pages), and it is written for "people in the know" (NOT a beginners' book). But because it is so extensive, it has a chapter on every topic on personality psychology theories I could think of. Great as a reference book!

I cannot say enough great things about skill development. I was introduced to it by a counselor I saw/see in Lancaster, CA who himself took the seminars by Gary Applegate (the author). It is a totally new way of thinking and it took some time but it paid off.

Applegate teaches that our actions and feelings are driven by our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions. When our thinking changes, so does our actions and feelings - it's kind of like a computer really. How many times have you thought that the boss was being a jerk? Your perception is that he is being a jerk, so your actions may to be cuss him under your breath or flame him with a co-worker - you feel resentment, hurt, anger. Then, what if you found out that his monther just died last night? Now you have a different perception and as a result, feel differently. When our actions don't match our thinking, our feelings are in tumoil. My belief is that should always tell the truth, so when I lie, I feel guilty. Our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions are shaped by many things such as experiences, childhood teaching, etc. But this just a tiny tip of the iceberg that Skill development offers.

I have been taught how to meet my emotional needs in ways I have control over doing so instead of just waiting for the world to meet them for me. But this just ONE concept of so many that I have embraced. The Magic Remote, the triangle, communication skills, etc.

Do yourself a favor - read and try some of these concepts. If they don't work for you, nothing is lost.

This book explains and outlines a method for realizing personal happiness. Personal happiness comes from within, and is based on 8 basic needs. The author outlines methods to change your attitude from external based happiness to internal based happiness. There is additional emphasis on the journey of life, not on outcomes. Very inspirational, worth reading.

Harm reduction philosophy seeks to reduce the harmful consequences resulting from drug use, which may or may not entail reducing usage of drugs. Harm reduction rejects the "disease model" of addiction, which says that addiction is a hereditary, progressive, degenerative, fatal disease. Instead, harm reduction says that substance use occurs on a continuum, ranging from being very problematic to non-problematic.

Because harm reduction promotes any treatment goal that reduces harm, rather than only abstinence, people who are unwilling or unable to stop using drugs or alcohol are able to find treatment goals that they are willing to work toward. If the person being treated doesn't want to stop and the only treatment goal is abstinence, the likelihood that they will quit is next to nothing.

Much empirical evidence suggest that this approach is the most effective form of treatment available, but for political reasons it is used only minimally in the United States.

This book reviews a wide range of studies that have been done on harm reduction. It provides basic descriptions of programs and makes recommendations on how to implement them more effectively. Topics covered include: moderation for alcohol usage, HIV/AIDS prevention, harm reduction for illegal drugs, methadone maintenance, needle exchange, and a variety of other topics.

If you've ever wondered what the effectiveness of these programs is, all the studies done on them are in this book. The last chapter presents an alternative public health approach to treatment as an alternative (likely to be more effective) to the war on drugs (which research suggests is having no effect on drug availability or rates of drug use).

This book is geared to addiction counselors and treatment providers, but would be good reading for parents, teachers, law enforcement officials or drug reform activists. I would recommend it to anyone who has interest.

If you are looking for an alternative to rigid, one-dimensional, abstinence-only approaches to substance abuse or HIV prevention, this book is the place to start. According to the harm reduction philosophy, abstinence is one end of a continuum of human behavior, and is not something that can be attained overnight by those most in need of help. As a professional working in this field, I find the book to be a welcome and thought-provoking summary of the various principles of the harm reduction model, and the basis of a reworking of outdated programs based on "one slip and you're out." Plenty of research data is provided to replace ideology with reality. Everyone will not agree with everything in this book, but it is going to be a point of departure for some time to come.

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This book helps professionals determine the risk level for suicidal or at-risk patients and recommends a suicide assessment protocal that can be effectively incorporated into clinical practice. The authors also provide guidelines for intervening when a person is at risk for harming himself or herself. If you're researching on suicide this is the right book to start reading. A "must" in all physicians library.

I have a much clearer understanding of this issue. PTSD is something unless you experience it - you don't understand it. This book helped me profoundly, in my own life as well as understanding the lives of others and those who serve our country....reguardless of gonernmental falshoods, unquestioning of mission, thinking they are doing the right thing (soldiers). They are not at fault, but suffer the consequences of war forever, things we are immune to and "could never happen here". Being at war changes lives forever - just because we don't see it in our safe cocoon doesn't mean it is not real for those who 'do' . Trauma is trauma. Until we experience it. Lets recognize that even our soldiers have a conscience to stuggle with...Haunting forever.

In the growing literature of combat-related PTSD, this slim volume by authors Paulson and Krippner is directed chiefly to practitioners but is also accessible for lay readers. The book is loosely organized to cover a review of the scholarly and scientific literature on the subject, while interjecting examples of PTSD from veterans of wars and conflicts from WWII to Iraq. Krippner is a psychology professor at Saybrook Graduate Institute and Research Center. Paulson, a psychologist, is a combat veteran whose harrowing story is told with gripping detail - both his experience as a Marine on the killing fields of Vietnam and his debilitating descent into a different kind of hell after his return. So is his discovery of a therapeutic path out of that hell and his recovery.

The two men define PTSD broadly, identifying it as a spectrum disorder with commonalities across individual cases but no specific model of symptoms or etiology. They note also significant differences between the experience of Vietnam veterans and the reservists who have served in the Gulf and Iraq Wars. In looking at types of therapy, they provide a survey of different approaches, and question the long-term effectiveness of purely pharmaceutical interventions. Meanwhile, they advocate forms of existential-humanistic therapy, based in part on the theories of Roberto Assagioli, the pioneer of psychosynthesis. The authors provide a helpful overview of the subject and offer positive encouragement for those trapped in the after-effects of life-altering trauma. Their book includes a 15-page bibliography and an extensive index.