A guide to prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines for healthcare professionals. It includes the widely accepted framework for the drug management of common diseases. It also includes details of medicines prescribed in the UK, with reference to their uses, cautions, contraindications, side-effects and dosage.

Discusses the concept of mentalising and considers three components of effective therapy - the therapeutic relationship, meaning making and change promotion - from both attachment and psychoanalytic perspectives.

Contains eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. This title includes stories that reveal the diversity of human motivation.

Presents knowledge you need to get through your pharmacology course and beyond. This book covers from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions to the clinical uses of the groups of drugs.

Suitable for students studying for their dental nurse qualification, this work features chapters on topics including communication skills and dental nurse registration, regulation and responsibilities.

Adresses the key principles of medical pharmacology that are central to medicine. This book explains the mechanisms involved in pharmacological processes and covers the mode of action and effects of drugs in clinical medicine. It also discusses the mechanisms of action of each drug, indicating the therapeutics of choice for specific conditions.

A guide to the basic theory, skills, and applications of CBT. This book sets out the core concepts and generic skills of CBT including: the method of Socratic dialogue; case formulation; the therapeutic relationship; and, therapeutic strategies - cognitive, behavioural, and physiological.

This text gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. It is for depressed people, their family and friends, and for all professionals and non-professionals who work with depressed people.

A manual that examines issues of sexuality and considers how sexuality-related issues can be introduced into therapy and training. It is suitable for the practicing therapist as well as those in training.

Discusses the theory behind multiplicity of the person and reveals thinking and research in the field. This title offers guidelines for using this information in practice.

Covers the minimally invasive techniques that have replaced major operations in vascular and interventional radiology. This title presents the details of the detection of blockages and abnormalities in veins and arteries, removal of common bile duct stones, postoperative abscess drainage, biopsies, delivery of drugs to specific sites, and more.

More than 120 short and long case questions and answers based on those given at recent Final FRCA viva examinations.

Integrates basic concepts and relevant scientific information to provide a foundation for understanding nutrition, energy transfer, and exercise training. This edition provides coverage of exercise physiology, uniting the topics of human performance, nutrition, energy expenditure and capacity, molecular biology, and more.

Presents an exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and suggests that the most important element in therapeutic work is the clinician's capacity to bring relatedness to the clinical encounter.

Offers practical tools for collaborating with families to achieve the best outcomes for K-12 students.

A guide to massage as a remedial therapy for sports training and injuries which covers the practical and theoretical aspects of the subject and shows how to work in a support role with medical practitioners treating more serious injury. It sees massage as a vital component in an athlete's training.

International edition.

Covers the topics in pediatric anesthesia that include various devices for difficult pediatric airway, the use of ultrasound in pediatric regional anesthesia, various concepts in treatment of pediatric traumatic brain injury, acute pain management, neurotoxicity of anesthetics in the developing brain, and concepts on managing sepsis in children.