Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics showcases the first collection of treatment chapters devoted entirely to a systematic behavioral analysis of drinking and nondrinking offspring of alcoholic families. The author identifies the functional and behavioral characteristics that make up the adult children of alcoholics (ACOA) syndrome. This compendium combines current innovations in behavioral medicine with multi-componential interventions shown effective with the variety of disorders evident in this patient population. This handbook for practitioners is richly laced with case examples and addresses the needs of therapists seeking fast, effective and proven treatments for longstanding clinical symptoms of children of alcoholics.<ul>
<li>First book to use behavioral analysis to talk about Adult Children of Alcoholics</li>
<li>Gives introductory principles of conditioning in opening chapters for novice readers</li>
<li>First book to say ACOA patterns are predictable, measurable, and treatable in a short time</li>
<li>Gives scientifically based criteria to "rate your date" and prevent repeated relationship failures</li>
<li>Introduces a new assessment device to diagnose ACOAs</li>
<li>Warns therapists of recovery sabotage and how to overcome it</li>
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Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Behavioral Approach (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ruben, Douglas H.

Mental Health

Academic Press

Publicity for Mental Health Clinicians: Using TV, Radio, and Print Media to Enhance Your Public Image

Winston, William

Routledge

Lists 787 articles, books, research documents, and convention papers drawn from a pool of international disciplines in eight chapters on alcohol, drugs, epidemiology, mental health, geriatrics, education, and institutionalization.

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Scarecrow Press

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Family Addiction: An Analytical Guide (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Avoidance Syndrome: Doing Things Out of Fear

Psychology & Counseling

Warren H. Green

No More Guilt: Ten Steps to a Shame-Free Life

Mills & Sanderson Pub

Teaches methods for stopping temper tantrums and noncompliance, for dealing with everyday child rearing problems

Brat Busters

Parenting & Relationships

Skidmore-Roth Pub.

Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers sent back to the front again and again under duress. Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depression or acute stress, all symptoms of PTSD. Other soldiers poorly adjust when they get home. This self-help manual provides urgent relief to the soldiers of long and multiple deployments in Iraq or just retuning home. Chapters are first-aid kits of fast, practical and effective strategies to defuse stress and feel emotionally alive again.

The Human War: Ptsd Recovery Guide for Returning Soldiers

Outskirts Press

TANTRUM SURVIVAL KIT is a compendia of the latest empirically-based techniques documented for disruptive (tantrum, other) children ages preteen to teenage years. Simple-to-use manual provides rapid solutions facing professionals and parents. Especially for nontraditional parents (e.g., grandparents, foster parent, stepparent, adopted parent), user-friendly steps conveniently describe the logical way to control tantrums, classified into three categories. Category I is garden-variety verbal escalations universally present in most preteen to teenage households. Category II deals with more seriously aggressive tantrums in preteen children, from self-injurious to maliciously property destruction. Category III spells out a remedy for explosively violent tantrums in teenagers without parents falling into traps. Readers also get a privileged look at the reasons why commercially-favorite and even some research-favorite methods do not work and have nasty side-effects. Chapter on Impulsiveness and Attention Span provides succinct explanations for behavior problem and how to cure it. Steps show how to bypass labels of ADD, and ADHD, and deal directly with the child's behavior. Chapter on Tantrums in School guides parents and therapist on why programs fail, and how to liaison with teachers and personnel in repairing school behavior problems. No other book on the trade market comprehensively covers the inner workings of schools and how to navigate the maize. Unlike other tantrum manuals, this book is encyclopedic in its detailed review of tantrums, tantrum-related problems, and solutions to obstacles encountered during interventions

Tantrum Survival Kit: The Definitive Guide to Tantrum Management

Parenting

This personal guidebook shows professionals how to capitalize on media resources for clinical advancement within their local community and even nationwide. It describes direct and specific strategies that general practitioners in all human services fields can follow to increase their public visibility and broaden their careers. Media exposure in television, radio, and print expands basic marketing efforts far beyond traditional word of mouth and agency referrals. Publicity for Mental Health Clinicians presents advanced insights and information for rapidly expanding the provider's public image through the media to reach public consumers to sell products or advice. Readers will discover that self-marketing success can be a solo achievement without the financially draining retainers and expenditures of advertising and marketing firms, agents, and managers.Very user-friendly, Publicity for Mental Health Clinicians contains step-by-step methods for media involvement that are specific, direct, and tested by the author. He breaks the approach into 4 sections that cover mainstream areas of media and how to get started in each area: 
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<li>Television: inside secrets for identifying and using news interviews, local talk shows, infomercials, local access cable shows, and education/business video 
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<li>Radio: advantages of using local and national radio shows 
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<li>Print media: techniques for properly executing efforts in newsletters, newspapers, magazines, self-help books, and multimedia and electronic media 
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<li>Commercial industry: how to break into movies with technical script writingAuthor Doug Ruben presents tips and strategies for getting started in each area and he explores common setbacks and pitfalls that may occur. He describes prerequisites which practitioners should develop when embarking on career shifts and warns of obstacles to anticipate along the way. He explains how to prevent trouble in converting academic writing or talking styles to consumer styles and how to establish stage-smart savvy and a keen business diplomacy.Publicity for Mental Health Clinicians is an ideal handbook for clinical practitioners in all allied health fields who wish to branch out into different career areas. It provides them with a new perspective on self-promotion for venturing into new areas instead of settling into their practices. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family practitioners, nurses, and physical and occupational therapists will find a goldmine of usable information in this book to help them determine if and how to shift their career focus. Students in these fields will also find a vast array of nontraditional career choices.</li>
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Publicity for Mental Health Clinicians: Using TV, Radio, and Print Media to Enhance Your Public Image (Haworth Marketing Resources)

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