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What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues
by Karen R. Koenig Publisher Comments Helping therapists treat clients whose eating issues aren't extreme or "disordered." Many books deal with obesity, anorexia, or bulimia. Yet, until now, no book has addressed those who have mild eating issues that do not fall into extreme categories of...
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Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse
by Leonard Jason Synopsis Victims of drug addiction, chronic illness, and mental illness all too often are overwhelmed with the affliction called hopelessness. Oxford Houses succeed because their substance abuse treatment approach instills the most powerful medicine-hope for...
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Conquering Eating Disorders: How Family Communication Heals
by Peggy Norton Publisher Comments One out of every one hundred young women is anorexic. Four out of every one hundred are bulimic. Overall, research suggests that eight million Americans—men and women—have an eating disorder. Yet in the face of these startling statistics...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
by Debra Waterhouse Synopsis By age ten, statistics show that 80% of American girls are dieting and 60% have a fear of gaining weight. Debra Waterhouse seeks to understand the source of the rampant self-destructive attitudes that females in our society have about their bodies and...
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New: $28.25 Hardcover available October 2008 add to wish list |
A Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Recovery: Integrating 12-Step Programs Into Psychotherapy
by Mark Schenker Publisher Comments The definitive guide for therapists working with clients who are in 12-step programs. This book helps mental health professionals make sense of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs so that practitioners can better integrate them into patients'...
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Mummy, Take Me Home: A Mother's Tug-Of-Love Torment
by David Leslie Publisher Comments "Mummy, take me home," sobbed little Jasmine Dodds as she was ripped from her mother’s arms. But there was nothing that Morag could do, as a court in Scotland had given custody of the child to her Texan father. When her parents’ relationship...
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Hi, I'm Bill and I'm Old: Reinventing My Sobriety for the Long Haul
by William Alexander Publisher Comments One July evening, William Alexander, an author and highly regarded lecturer on spirituality and recovery, had an all-too-real fantasy about getting drunk again. He had been sober for 23 years, so why was he suddenly craving the feeling of freedom that...
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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends
by Adriano Sack Publisher Comments aCuriouser and curiosera afun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every...
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Love First: A Family's Guide to Intervention
by Jeff Jay Publisher Comments The top-selling book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. Dispelling two damaging myths-that an addict has to hit...
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New: $14.95 Trade Paper available September 30, 2008 add to wish list |
Free from Addiction: Facing Yourself and Embracing Recovery
by Morteza Khaleghi Publisher Comments Addiction invades every region and demographic in the United States, affecting more than 23 million Americans and putting families though a heartbreaking cycle of recovery and relapse. Many people give up and never find the right treatment that will...
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Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection Is Harming Young Women
by Courtney E. Martin Publisher Comments This eye-opening look at twenty-first century culture and its impact on women reveals how food and weight obsession, driven in no small part by images of celebrities openly wasting away, threatens a new generation of girls as the feminist exhortation...
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Cocaine and Methamphetamine Addiction: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention
by Arnold Washton Publisher Comments A practical guide to understanding and overcoming addiction to cocaine and meth. Two experienced addiction treatment professionals present a practice-oriented approach to working with addicted individuals. Specific strategies are brought to life with...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
by Debra Waterhouse Synopsis By age ten, statistics show that 80% of American girls are dieting and 60% have a fear of gaining weight. Debra Waterhouse seeks to understand the source of the rampant self-destructive attitudes that females in our society have about their bodies and...
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ABC #48: ABC of Eating Disorders
by Jane Morris Publisher Comments This ABC charts the territory from diagnosis of different eating disorders to their management and treatment by GPs, dieticians, psychiatrists and through self help.Supports the work of general psychiatrists and physicians, community health teams and...
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Sought Through Prayer and Meditation: Wisdom from the Sunday 11th Step Meetings at the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock
by Gene W Synopsis An inspiring collection of meditations, prayers, and insights designed to facilitate the weekly practice of the Eleventh Step, heightening our conscious contact with God as we understand Him...
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Recent Developments in Alcoholism #18: Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery
by Marc Galanter Publisher Comments It was once taken for granted that peer-assisted groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous had no a oereala value in recovery from addiction. More recently, evidence-based medicine is recognizing a spiritual component in healinga especially when it comes to...
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Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
by Theodore Dalrymple Synopsis Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors...
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| New: $711.75 Hardcover available November 2008 add to wish list |
Ency Drgs Alchl 3 4v Set (Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol)
by Macmillan Reference Synopsis A follow-up to the 2001 award-winning second edition, the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, 3rd edition, will update and expand upon the social, medical, legal, and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated...
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Eating Disorders
by Suzanne Abraham Publisher Comments The eating disorders - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity - affect many thousands of people each year, particularly young women. Eating disorders are a subject which parents today cannot study enough; it is believed that over 1 million people...
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Bulimics on Bulimia
by Maria Stavrou Synopsis Thousands suffer from bulimia secretly and in silence. They are never diagnosed and their story goes untold. Bulimics on Bulimia is a collection of accounts by people who are living with the disorder, shedding new light on the day-to-day struggle of...
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