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Coaching the Mental Game: Leadership Philosophies and Strategies for Peak Performance in Sports and Everyday Life Whoever claims winning isn’t everything obviously has not spoken with an athletic coach.Coaching the Mental Game offers coaches of all sports a definitive volume for effectively understanding an athlete’s mental awareness, which in turn will help drive success. Author H.A. Dorfman details appropriate coaching strategies aimed at perfecting the player’s mental approach to performance. Coaching the Mental Game will become the Bible for coaches who strive to make their athletes the most complete performers possible. Not only a wonderful asset to athletic coaches, this book…. Click Here to Read More

Community Psychology and the Socio-economics of Mental Distress: International Perspectives Providing a uniquely global perspective of community psychology, this is exciting and important reading for students and researchers at a variety of levels, written by leading experts in this area. Drawing on a wealth of experience and examples, it offers an essential guide to the political global context of this developing area of psychology. List Price: $ 49.00 Price: $…. Click Here to Read More

Islamic viewpoint on mental illness, schizophrenia and depression. Mental illness and possession states. possession by evil spirits. Video Rating: 0 /…. Click Here to Read More

by smiteme Recreational Therapy to Treat Mental Illness Article by Groshan Fabiola Learn More about Affinity Treatment Centers. For More Resources please visit…. Click Here to Read More

by smiteme Psychotherapist NYC Treats Mental Illnesses In An Effective Way Article by Riza Alley Before trying to understand the value and importance of a psychotherapist NYC, you really have to know the details about the treatment, which these therapists give to their patients. Psychotherapy is the term, which is assigned to the treatment of all types of ailments, which are related to the mind and thinking of a human being. Do you know a fact that the treatment of mental diseases is far more complicated than the treatment of those diseases, which has a relationship with the disorder in any organ of your body? Mind is all about thinking. And when the thinking of a person become…. Click Here to Read More

by ninasaurusrex Mental Illness in Children Article by Tanya More and more American children and teens are getting mental illness, this is not new problem. Research shows that half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14. For the parents of children who are diagnosed with a mental illness, it can especially be a great challenge. Some mental health problems are mild, while others are more severe. And the time length that they last also differs. Pay attention to excessive anger, fear, sadness or anxiety. Sudden changes in your child’s behavior can tip you off to a problem.Helping young children and their parents manage difficulties early in life may prevent the…. Click Here to Read More

Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative) As a teenager, DeQuincy Lezine nearly ended his own life, believing it was the only way to escape the emotional pain that was overwhelming him. Instead, Lezine was able to find expert psychiatric care, and went on to found the first university campus-based chapter of the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA. Now a researcher at the University of Rochester’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Lezine has devoted his life to preventing suicide in adolescents, and he brings the wealth of his personal and professional experience to bear in…. Click Here to Read More

From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure As a neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system–including perception, memory, and language–from the study of the cognitive difficulties arising from neurological damage and disease. He distinguishes two type of theories of normal function–primarily modular and primarily non-modular–and argues that the problems of making valid inferences about normal function from studies of brain-damaged subjects are more severe in the latter. He first analyzes five areas in which modularity can be assumed. He then examines these inferences, from group studies,…. Click Here to Read More

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nation’s children. What is going on? Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what…. Click Here to Read More

A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness Dorothy Winans ‘Dede’ Davis had worried, fussed, and obsessed for the last time. Her heart stopped beating in a fit of anxiety, soon after her wobbly legs gave way. In the wake of his mother’s death, Tom Davis knew one thing: Helplessly self-absorbed and severely obsessive compulsive, Dede led a tormented life. She had moved from nursing home to mental institution in recent years, but what really caused her death? The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madness relays Tom Davis’s journey to uncover, and ultimately understand, the history of mental illness that led…. Click Here to Read More

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness is a landmark volume, which integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives – firstly as a positive state of well-being and personal and social functioning and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context. Unique features include: – a broad and inclusive view of the field, providing depth and breadth for the reader – a team of international, multi-disciplinary editors and contributors, and – discussion of the many of the unresolved debates in…. Click Here to Read More

Personal Recovery and Mental Illness: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Values-Based Medicine) Recovery is a concept which has emerged from the experiences of people with mental illness. It involves a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations such as managing risk and avoiding relapse, towards new priorities of supporting the person in working towards their own goals and taking responsibility for their own life. This book sets an agenda for mental health services internationally, by converting these ideas of recovery into an action plan for professionals. The underlying principles are explored, and five reasons identified for why supporting recovery should be the…. Click Here to Read More