Now in a revised an expanded second edition, this book presents a straightforward, multi-session coping skills training program that has proven effective in helping alcohol-dependent individuals.

Eating disorders such an Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia are maladaptive coping mechanisms, and recovery requires the learning of new, healthy coping skills. In this book, the author shares her personal story of recovery at the Renfrew Center and offers positive coping strategies, including practical advice about how and when to use them.

Offers an array of interactive assignments each keyed to the behaviorally based presenting problems found in The Addiction Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition and designed to fit various therapeutic modes. This resource provides mental health professionals with ready-to-copy blank exercises, and instructions on use of the assignments.

A comprehensive collection of measures and assessment tools intended for use by researchers and clinicians that work with people with problem eating behaviors, obese clients, and the associated psychological issues that underlie these problems. It is suitable for researchers who specialize in obesity research.

Updated to take account of developments in the field, this undergraduate text on language pathology includes: the WHO distinctions between impairment, disability and handicap; a focus on information processing approaches to language disorders; and revision questions and tutorial activities.

Providing insight into the lives and minds of those who self-injure, this book includes statistical data, diagrams, resources, case studies, testimonies, and self-help activities. It offers solace, hope, and direction to those who self-injure and guidance to family and friends supporting a loved one who self-injures.

This text addresses the practical issues of communications problems in children from a background of the underlying neurophysiological mechanics that cause them. It deals with clinical presentations, surveillance management and outcomes in terms which health care professionals will recognize.

Augmentative and alternative communications (ACC) is the result of multiple developments in several areas of educational sciences, clinical psychology, speech-language pathology, engineering, speech synthesis, sociology and psycholinguistics. This book focuses on ACC research.

Investigates the ways in which age, gender, socioeconomic circumstances, and genetics affect aggressive behavior and vulnerability to alcoholism.

POSP is a way of profiling oral skills development of children with oral function difficulty. Based on the work of five practising specialist speech/language therapists, it helps clinicians assess children up to 16 years of age, monitors change in oral function, and acts as a teaching aid.

Looks at current trends in prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of voice disorders. Examines anatomical and physiological aspects of the voice, overviews the assessment and treatment of specific voice disorders, and discusses etiological, demographic, medical, and social considerations.

This programme aims to provide the means to assess children's speech, language and family lifestyle, to identify children at risk and to plan appropriate treatment for the child concerned.

Offers step-by-step guide to the treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents. Unique in its focus on mobilizing parents and siblings as a resource in treatment.

This text describes the clinical heterogeneity and diagnosis of eating disorders. It presents advances in neurobiological research and also discusses treatments. The aim is to make accessible to clinicians the recent advances in the neurosciences and put the data in a treatment setting.

This superb high quality hypnotherapy CD by the UKs best selling hypnotherapist Glenn Harrold, combines powerful clinical hypnotherapy techniques with state of the art digital recording technology. This title is part of the highly successful Diviniti Publishing Hypnosis range, which is well established as the UKs best selling self-help audiotapes and CDs. This empowering 33 minute Hypnotherapy ...

Explores the contributory factors and underlying causes of eating disorders.

Presents and integrates virtually all that is known about eating disorders and obesity in a single practical volume. This book contains 112 concise chapters that encapsulate information on all pertinent topics. The contents are organized to highlight areas of overlap between lines of research that often remain disparate.