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.

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.

Presents an introduction to the psychodynamic approach. This book describes the psychodynamic counselling process from initial meeting to the end of the relationship. It sets out the main theory and principles involved in psychodynamic work and shows how these can be applied creatively and effectively within the process.

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.

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.

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.

Concise, highly illustrated text covers the key aspects of all imaging modalities of relevance to anaesthetists and intensivists.

Offers an introduction to psychodynamic practice. This book addresses the competencies and techniques identified as central to the delivery of effective psychodynamic practice. It is suitable for trainees on psychodynamic counseling and psychotherapy courses.

Illuminates the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. This book discusses much-debated theories such as the impact of religious belief on the cultural traditions of child abuse.

Narrative Tools for Stimulating Process and Dialogue in Therapy Groups for Children and Adolescents.

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.

Reflective Practice has become established as an essential feature of practice in psychotherapy and counselling in the UK, Europe, USA and some other parts of the world. However, the writing on reflective practice is arguably fragmented and scattered, and much of it is highly theoretical and abstract. This book draws together conceptual and ethical issues regarding reflective practice, including .

Explores the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis. Approaching the link between dissociation and enactment via hermeneutics, metaphor, and narrative, among other perspectives, this book weaves an experience-near theory of psychoanalytic relatedness that illuminates dilemmas clinicians find themselves in every day.

Explores the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis. This book features chapters that are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings emerge. It theorizes enactment as the interpersonalization of dissociation.

Teaches clinicians to apply a variety of treatment strategies that empower patients to control depression and live healthier lives.

Emphasizes the process of learning essential clinical competencies. This title illustrates competencies in action with evidence-based treatment protocols and clinical simulations to foster learning and competency. It promotes learning of the 20 essential clinical competencies needed for effective and successful clinical practice.