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Cómo ayudar a tus hijos a limpiar su enredo mental

Autor: Caroline Leaf

Número de Páginas: 307

Esta es una guía para que los padres puedan apoyar la salud mental de sus hijos. Cada vez más, los niños de 3 a 10 años luchan contra la ansiedad, la depresión y los problemas de salud mental. Estos pueden ser provocados por muchos factores (estrés en el hogar, cambios en la sociedad, interrupciones en la rutina, aislamiento de los amigos, intimidación o presión social) y, si no se abordan, siguen a los niños hasta la adolescencia y la edad adulta, lo que les provoca trastornos mentales y emocionales, y problemas relacionales que les robarán la paz y la alegría. Pero hay esperanza. La autora de éxitos de ventas, la Dra. Caroline Leaf, le ayuda a enseñarles a sus hijos a: reconocer los sentimientos negativos y responder de manera saludable navegar por un mundo que puede resultar aterrador y abrumador manejar situaciones incómodas o desafiantes reemplazar los pensamientos tóxicos con prácticas de desarrollo cerebral que producen mejores resultados desarrollar resiliencia y fortaleza emocional Basado en investigaciones actualizadas, claramente ilustrado con estudios de casos y aplicado de manera práctica a los problemas que enfrentan los niños hoy en día, Cómo...

Hyperactive

Autor: Matthew Smith

Número de Páginas: 250

Each year, doctors diagnose an average of nine percent of children between the ages of five and seventeen with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. One of the most common childhood disorders, it is also one of the most controversial—since first identified in the late 1950s, everyone from medical professionals to politicians have debated its causes, its treatment, and its implications for children. Today, physicians believe it is an inherited neurological disorder best treated with stimulants. Hyperactive provides the first history of ADHD, addressing why children were first diagnosed with the disorder, why biological explanations became predominant, how powerful drugs became the preferred treatment, and why alternative explanations have failed to achieve any legitimacy. Contending that hyperactive children are also a product of their social, cultural, and educational environment, Matthew Smith demonstrates how knowledge about the history of ADHD can lead to better choices about its diagnosis and treatment. A revealing and accessible study of this controversial subject, Hyperactive is an essential book for psychologists, teachers, policymakers, and parents.

ADHD

Autor: Jacqueline Langwith

Número de Páginas: 156

About 11,000,000 people in the U.S. suffer with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In the majority of cases, it persists throughout the lifespan of the sufferer. This guidebook provides essential information on ADHD, but also serves as a historical survey, by providing information on the controversies surrounding its causes, and first-person narratives by people coping with ADHD. Patients, family members, or caregivers explain the condition from their own experience. The symptoms, causes, treatments, and potential cures are explained in detail. Essential to anyone trying to learn about diseases and conditions, the alternative treatments are explored. Student researchers and readers will find this book easily accessible through its careful and conscientious editing and a thorough introduction to each essay.

Conversations in Critical Psychiatry

Autor: Awais Aftab

Número de Páginas: 635

Conversations in Critical Psychiatry brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry by engaging with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo. These conversations advance our understanding of psychopathology and offer a pluralistic vision of psychiatric practice. The series includes interviews with many leading scholars such as Allen Frances, Anne Harrington, Paul McHugh, Nassir Ghaemi, Dainius Pūras, Joanna Moncrieff, Jonathan Shedler, Sanneke de Haan, Nev Jones and Kenneth Kendler, among others. The discussions cover a wide array of philosophical, clinical, and scientific topics and present a sweeping overview of psychiatrys relationship to critique. A detailed introductory essay 'Psychiatry and the Critical Landscape' offers a synthesis of themes and makes the case for mainstream psychiatry to embrace the critical tradition, while urging critical psychiatry to engage with a philosophically informed view of psychiatric...

Examining Mental Health through Social Constructionism

Autor: Michelle O'reilly , Jessica Nina Lester

Número de Páginas: 374

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress. Mental health research has traditionally been dominated by genetic and biomedical explanations that provide only partial explanations. However, process research that utilises qualitative methods has grown in popularity. Situated within this new strand of research, the authors examine and critically assess some of the different contributions that social constructionism has made to the study of mental distress and to how those diagnosed are conceptualized and labeled. This will be an invaluable introduction and source of practical strategies for academics, researchers and students as well as clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, and others working with mental health such as educationalists and social workers.

Medicalization

Autor: Anne Zimmerman

Número de Páginas: 251

This book examines the phenomenon of medicalization and the increasingly large, invasive, and coercive role of medicine in society. Medicine today impinges territory formerly left to families, parents, society, and social and economic policy. Expanding disease definitions and allowing ever-milder conditions to qualify for medicine, ‘disease creep’, influences public policy and social behavior. Medicalization redirects those experiencing stress, sadness, or distraction to medicine, and impacts how society defines health and wellness. Medicalization in the contexts of diet, lifestyle, education and athletics, growing old, public safety, and mental and physical health, are all explored. Medicalization has adverse consequences both in that it may demonize those who do not go along, and it offers a false promise to remedy non-medical problems with a simple pill. The pharmaceutical industry profits from disease creep, and doctors are complicit in furthering a narrative that relies on medicine. Laws often support a medical approach to societal problems despite notable financial conflicts of interest. Written in a clear and accessible style, Medicalization is a valuable addition to...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Autor: Jacqueline Langwith

Número de Páginas: 170

The ailments and conditions that afflict people today can be confusing, disturbing, and painful-both emotionally and physically. The Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders series provides clear, careful explanations that offer readers and researchers insight into what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the latest about treatment and prevention. All volumes in the series include primary and secondary viewpoints, bibliographies, detailed indexes, and lists of organizations to contact for additional information. Book jacket.

BMJ

Número de Páginas: 484

Facilitating Young People's Development

Autor: Michael Behr , Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-white

Número de Páginas: 260

Facilitating children's and adolescents' growth has been a challenge and major concern for person-centred work since the beginning of the approach in the 1940's. During the past decade, a shift in this domain has generated numerous new concepts, research and practice, making a considerable impact on both the professional tasks and training of educators, counsellors, and psychotherapists. Fifteen original chapters and a foreword from Brian Thorne describe this development. The chapters began as presentations from a symposium at the Potsdam PCE 2006 World Association conference, thus reflecting international perspectives emerging around the world today. Framed by two chapters from the editors, the book provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art person-centred work with children, adolescents and parents, and identifies emerging themes in the field.

Making and Breaking Children's Lives

Autor: Craig Newnes , Nick Radcliffe

Número de Páginas: 204

Making and Breaking Children's Lives examines how children are hurt in modern society.

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Psychological Issues

Autor: Brent D. Slife

Número de Páginas: 436

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Psychological of Issues, Fifteenth Edition, is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies on psychological issues. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading psychologists, educators, and researchers, reflect opposing positions and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. For each issue, the editor provides a concise introduction and challenge questions. The introduction sets the stage or the debate as it is argued in the "yes" and "no" readings. The challenge questions provoke further examination of the issue. The editor also provides additional suggested readings on the controversial issue under discussion. By requiring students to analyze contradictory positions and reach considered judgments, Taking Sides actively develops students' critical thinking skills. It is this development of critical thinking skills that is the ultimate purpose of each of the volumes in the widely acclaimed. Taking Sides program. Book jacket.

Taking Sides

Autor: Brent D. Slife

Número de Páginas: 392

This fourteenth edition of taking sides: psychological issues presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual with testing material is available for each volume. Using taking sides in the classroom is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each taking sides reader features an annotated listing of selected world wide web sites and is supported by our student website.

The Lancet

Número de Páginas: 880

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

Autor: Bradley Lewis

Número de Páginas: 224

A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge

ADHD

Autor: Andrea C. Nakaya

Número de Páginas: 120

Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full-color illustrations this title examines ADHD.

Searching for Normal

Autor: Dr Sami Timimi

Número de Páginas: 231

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'A welcome antidote to the dangerous cult of overdiagnosis and the commodification of normal distress' PHILIPPA PERRY How can we reconsider the way in which we think about, treat and care for those in distress? More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole – their family context, their culture, their personal resilience – and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.

Rethinking ADHD

Autor: Sami Timimi , Jonathan Leo

Número de Páginas: 436

This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how diagnoses have increased in recent years and the reasons behind this. Topics range from genetics to social culture, offering a comprehensive overview of this area.

Makeover Nation

Autor: Toby Miller

Número de Páginas: 232

Life is very much a project in the United States--but not a straightforwardly individual one. A duality of individual free choice and disciplinary institutional governance is the grand national paradox. Simply being--leading life without a bumper sticker avowing one's elective institutional affinities--seems implausible in a country consumed by the makeover--the idea that what you were born as need not define you forever. As Toby Miller writes in his introduction: "I come neither to bury the makeover nor to praise the makeover, but to criticize it, even as I stand alternately bewildered, amused, appalled, and attracted by it." In Makeover Nation he does just that in a witty, no-holds-barred style. Miller looks at the power of various forms of knowledge about people and their emotions as they have been applied to the US population, from talk therapy to drug treatment. He is particularly interested in young people--in examining how childhood is constructed--and pays close attention to the much-favored (and overused) diagnosis and treatment of ADHD/ADD. He also focuses his attention on metrosexuals and right-wing Christians to disclose how these opposing groups manifest their drive...

The British National Bibliography

Autor: Arthur James Wells

Número de Páginas: 1884

Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Autor: Sami Timimi , Begum Maitra

Número de Páginas: 240

Bringing together knowledgeable specialists across the spectrum of child & adolescent psychiatry, this text questions many of psychiatry's cherished assumptions, & offers different ways of thinking about theory & practice. It also explores the influence of drug companies, the impact of trauma, the crisis in academic medicine & more.