"This book introduces students and practitioners to psychological knowledge and understanding, and helps them to apply sound psychological principles in clinical contexts. The text has been comprehensively updated to include new theoretical concepts and contemporary research. It…
Behavior and medicine
A discussion of illness and how it impacts our lives, giving each of us the decision to change our way of living so that we might continue to survive.
A discussion of illness and how it impacts our lives, giving each of us the decision to change our way of living so that we might continue to survive.
This book provides a behavioural change model that is solution-focused. It concentrates on finding a solution to a problem and setting that solution in place by way of a partnership between the carer and the person with the behavioural problem - difficulties are recognised and s…
"The idea that people experience positive change through their struggles with adversity is not new - it appears in the oldest cultural traditions. However, only recently has this idea generated widespread empirical research attention." "This book examines these issues in depth a…
"People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clearer sense of their own strengths and resilience, changed priorities about what is important in life, and various other positive changes after struggling with stressful or traumatic events. Wh…
"People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clearer sense of their own strengths and resilience, changed priorities about what is important in life, and various other positive changes after struggling with stressful or traumatic events. Wh…