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After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients
This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences. Using real life case...
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Boys and Men in African American Families
This important volume takes a life course approach in sharing empirical insights on the family experiences of African American males in socioeconomic...
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The Pathology of Communicative Capitalism
This book diagnoses the social, mental and political consequences of working and economic organizations that generate value from communication. It...
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Making Sense of Self-harm The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury
Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a...
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Leisure and Positive Psychology Linking Activities with Positiveness
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as...
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Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
"This much-needed volume brings to the clinician or student some of the best critical-minded analysis by some of the most insightful thinkers about...
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Mental Health Worldwide Culture, Globalization and Development
Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the develo** world. Rooted in...
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Sociology of Mental Health Selected Topics from Forty Years 1970s-2010s
This volume provides an overview of mental health research conducted by sociologists. It discusses dominant themes such as stress, the community and...
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Women's Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan
"In this book you’ll find a thoughtfully edited chronicle of the unique convergence of genetic, hormonal, social, and environmental forces that...
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The Sociology of Caregiving
This volume conceptualizes caregiving as an emerging sociological issue involving complex and fluctuating roles. The authors contend that caregiving...
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Autism A Social and Medical History
This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends....
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The Web of Violence Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse
There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for...
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Handbook of Social Psychology
This handbook provides a broad overview of the field of social psychology and up-to-date coverage of current social psychological topics. It reflects...
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Breaking the Silence on Spiritual Abuse
Providing a balance of empirical research and practical concerns, this book explores the definitions and historical context of spiritual abuse,...
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Mental Health Practitioner's Guide to HIV/AIDS
Although efforts have been made and continue to be made to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in the U.S. and globally, the rates continue to...
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Contemporary Clinical Practice The Holding Environment Under Assault
Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact...
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Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Healthfeatures theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach...
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Art Education Beyond the Classroom Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between...
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Early Adulthood in a Family Context
Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18thannual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of...
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The Chinese Face in Australia Multi-generational Ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese
The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and...