Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents

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Thomas J. Huberty 2012 Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention Anxiety and depression are two of the most prevalent mental health problems of childhood and adolescence, affecting up to as many as one-third of children and youth over their lifetimes, but also are among the most under-identified or misdiagnosed syndromes and disorders. They are also highly comorbid with each other and […]

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Systems of Psychotherapy

Systems of Psychotherapy-1

Donald K. Fromme 2011 Dialectical Tensions and Integration The author’s principal thesis is that each of the existing therapeutic systems is based on a partial, incomplete picture of human functioning, problems, and change. Some focus narrowly on microcontextual factors affecting human problems; e.g., biomedical interventions typically focus on neurohormonal imbalances, while behavioral therapies focus on relatively small units of […]

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Resilience in Deaf Children

Resilience in Deaf Children-1

Debra H. Zand ● Katherine J. Pierce Editors 2011 Adaptation Through Emerging Adulthood Throughout much of history, deaf people have been misunderstood and misrepresented by societies that magnify their inabilities and try to change these to abilities that will allow for their seamless merging into the hearing population. For deaf people, this is a frustrating odyssey that often […]

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Families with Adolescents

Families with Adolescents-1

Stephen M. Gavazzi 2011 Bridging the Gaps between Theory, Research, and Practice All books, like everything else in life, have a beginning and an end, reflecting a storyline that the author has chosen to follow. Selecting an end for the present book– in this case, a review of the most recent literature pertaining to families with adolescents that would […]

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Self-Help in Mental Health

Self-Help in Mental Health-1

T. Mark Harwood · Luciano L’Abate 2010 A Critical Review This book aims to review the self-help (SH) movement in mental health (MH) through empirically based approaches in health promotion, prevention of illness, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation. Mental health is a vast field composed of multifarious aspects, including SH approaches that are self-administered or that can be administered by professionals, […]

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