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The Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry is a practical guide for AIDS psychiatrists and other mental health professionals as well as for other clinicians who work with persons with HIV and AIDS and a companion book to the Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry (Cohen and Gorman, 2008). The Handbook provides insights into the dynamics of adherence to risk reduction and medical care in persons with HIV and AIDS as well as strategies to improve adherence using a biopsychosocial approach. Psychiatric disorders can accelerate the spread of the virus by creating barriers to risk reduction. Risky sexual behaviors and sharing of needles in intravenous drug users account for the majority of new cases each...
This is a warm and compassionate guide to understanding the emotions that underlie eating problems: shame, anger, guilt, sexual difficulties, and the fear of success. Clearly written for people concerned about food and weight issues, it is intended to help readers see food as their friend and nourisher, not their enemy. French Toast For Breakfast is filled with practical exercises, dialogues from actual therapy sessions, straight-forward answers to common questions, an in-depth comparison of treatment options, and a look at relapse - how to prevent it and what to do if it occurs. It also includes a unique questionnaire to help readers determine which path to peace is best for them.
This book is a practical guide in understanding how to prevent HIV transmission, to recognize risk behaviors, and to add something else to their repertoires. It aims to empower clinicians and provide a sense of security and competence with the recognition and understanding of some of the psychiatric illnesses that complicate and perpetuate the HIV pandemic that continue to persist throughout every area of the world despite the magnitude of the progress that has transformed the illness from a rapidly fatal to chronic illness that is no longer life-limiting. Missing in most of the literature on HIV is the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, contribution of psychiatric symptoms, psychiatric il...
Lasagna for Lunch: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating takes readers behind the scenes with Mary Anne Cohen, a psychotherapist with 40 years experience, to learn what works and why in finally resolving emotional eating. A comprehensive and compassionate guide that helps readers strategize their own unique strategies to compulsive overeating, bulimia, anorexia, chronic dieting, and body image problems.
This handbook will be a concise guide to important topics in psychiatry with an international focus. It constitutes a précis of the field of psychiatry with emphases on the therapeutic approach to the patient and on the proper diagnosis of major psychiatric disorders.All psychiatric diagnoses are encoded using both the US Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). Treatment options for psychiatric disorders will include approaches used in developed nations in North America, Europe, Asia, as well as in the developing world. Furthermore an invaluable brief history of psychiatry allows readers to trace the beginnings of their chosen field and gain awareness of the ethical and legal contexts.This handbook will provide a comprehensive introduction to psychiatry appropriate for students, trainees, and practitioners seeking an international approach.
Hearings on the restructuring of the IRS. Witnesses: Robert Rubin, Sec. of the Treasury; Charles Rossotti, Commissioner of IRS; Margaret Richardson, Donald Alexander, Sheldon Cohen, and Fred Goldberg, Jr.,former Commissioners of IRS; Stefan F. Tucker, chair-elect, section of taxation, Amer. Bar Assoc.; Douglas C. Burnette, Pres., National Soc. of Accountants; Paul Cherecwich, Jr., Internat. Pres., Tax Executives Institute and V.P., taxes and tax counsel, Thiokol Corp.; Michael E. Mares, chair, tax executive committee, Amer. Inst. of CPA's; and Bryan E. Gates, Chair, Fed. Regulatory Subcommittee, Nat. Assoc. of Enrolled Agents.