Friday, 21. May 2010
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For most of us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach.
In Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Loretta takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they’re filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. With Loretta’s contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca’s old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who’s suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, “go-go-go” world.
Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday’s Sane Wisdom Into Today’s Insane World
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Thursday, 20. May 2010
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The aim of this book is to describe a didactic, cognitive-behavioural group therapy approach to the anxiety disorders. ‘Stress Control’ is a robust six session ‘evening class’ designed for either small or large group format – anything between 6 and 60 on each course. It is designed to be flexible to better meet the needs of routine clinical work. The therapy has, as its basic premise, the goal of ‘turning individuals into their own therapists’. It differs fundamentally from much therapy in that the role of the therapist becomes that of the teacher while the patient becomes the student. Re-conceptualising roles in this way helps the individual to take responsibility for change and to attribute change to the individual’s own coping skills rather than to the skill of the therapist. It is designed for the treatment of heterogeneous anxiety disorders and assumes the presence of co-morbid problems, some of which are tackled in the course. It attempts to teach individuals to understand their problems within both a psychological and social context.
The approach is clinically effective and efficient and has been empirically tested. It attempts, within a ’scientist-practitioner’ framework, to achieve the best compromise between best practice and best value in providing help to a large number of people. It relies heavily on the written material that accompanies the course. Course topics can be varied according to the composition of the group.
- Presents a clinically tested and cost effective group method of treating stress and anxiety
- Offers a flexible approach that can be used with small and large groups
- Supports the concepts and methods offered with good clinical examples
- Provides a wealth of useful illustrative and client orientated materials that the therapist can copy or adapt
This book is written for clinical psychologists, therapists, nurses and counsellors with a basic knowledge of CBT who will welcome this useful approach to what is a major problem area in most busy mental health services.
“This book is the culmination of years of systematic clinical practice during which Dr. White has developed and carefully evaluated a didactic CBT programme for stress and anxiety. It presents a thoughtful, well-written and practical guide to clinical management, as well as a challenge to conventional thinking on how best to deliver community-based services.”
Professor Colin A. Espie, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Treating Anxiety and Stress: A Group Psycho-educational Approach Using Brief CBT
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Wednesday, 19. May 2010
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As the children of Vietnam veterans reach the age at which their fathers went overseas, veterans and their families, especially their wives, face new stressors in mid-life. Even twenty-five years after the end of the war, in many families life is still neither easy nor reliable, and the rules continue to change. The recent anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam has focused attention on the long-term effects of the combat experience. In Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Life with Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress, Aphrodite Matsakis revisits the plight of the secondary victims of the war: the wives and children of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The book explores the many changes encountered by traumatized veterans and their families as they face the difficult developmental stage of mid-life: retirement, the “empty nest syndrome,” becoming grandparents, and, in many cases, separation and divorce. Matsakis deftly leads readers through the process of finding better ways to cope with new challenges and old. She explains post-traumatic stress disorder, its causes, symptoms, and the devastating long-term effects, including domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicidal feelings. To illustrate both problems and solutions, Dr. Matsakis extensively uses interviews with wives of Vietnam veterans who have lived through a variety of experiences. Intended primarily for wives of veterans, but of great interest to their extended families and close friends as well, this book provides compassion and support while pointing the way to recovery from post-traumatic stress.
Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Life With Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress
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Tuesday, 18. May 2010
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How to conquer stress, depression and anxiety, quickly, naturally and permanently without taking powerful drugs.
Conquering Stress
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Monday, 17. May 2010
- ISBN13: 9781929242337
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Is stress causing your dog’s behavior problems? Research shows that as with humans, many behavioral problems in dogs are stress-related. Learn how to recognize when your dog is stressed, what factors cause stress in dogs, and strategies you can utilize in training and in your daily life with your dog to reduce stress.
Stress in Dogs
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Sunday, 16. May 2010
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Now nearly double the size of the previous edition, the third edition of this classic reference provides a comprehensive, easy-to-access collection of elastic stress solutions for crack configurations. For each configuration, the handbook presents crack tip stress intensity formulas along with other relevant information, such as displacements, crack opening areas, basic stress functions source references, accuracy of solutions, and more. Throughout, it stresses formulas for application to test configurations. The introductory section details the methods of developing the information. A series appendicespresents special methods and special applications. Now in hardbound format, the current handbook offers a number of new features, including… *new stress solutions *cracked configurations *plates with pinching loads *dislocations and crack solutions *plastic zone instability (explaining a potentially interceding “elastic” failure mechanism) *estimation methods for stress intensity formulas *J-integral methods *pure shear plastic solutions
The authors provide 30 new solution pages, plus modifications of older solutions.
The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook
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Saturday, 15. May 2010
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Structural analysis is the corner stone of civil engineering and all students must obtain a thorough understanding of the techniques available to analyze and predict stress in any structure.
This textbook provides students with a comprehensive introduction to all types of structural and stress analysis, starting from an explanation of the basic principles of statics, normal and shear force and bending moments and torsion. Building on the success of the first edition, new material on structural dynamics and finite element method has been included.
Virtually no prior knowledge of structures is assumed and students requiring an accessible and comprehensive insight into stress analysis will find no better book available.
* Comprehensive overview of structural and stress analysis
* Invaluable to undergraduate civil engineers
* Numerous worked examples and problems
* Solutions manual available online
Structural and Stress Analysis, Second Edition
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Saturday, 15. May 2010
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Everybody knows what stress is-but Kicking Your Stress Habits helps people do something about it. This unusual workshop-in-a-book goes beyond lectures and statistics by encouraging readers to think, plan, and act for themselves.
Used as a stand-along stress resource or as a course text, Kicking Your Stress Habits helps groups and individuals learn the fundamental principles of stress management and wellness-then put those principles to work in their own lives. This book’s engaging style and easy-to-use format promote reflection, group interaction, and individual action.
Kicking Your Stress Habits: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Coping With Stress
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Saturday, 15. May 2010
- ISBN13: 9780452295629
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Stress relief that works-from the New York Times bestselling author of The ADD Answer and the chief content advisor for the Dr. Phil show
With his bestselling books, Frank Lawlis has brought psychological relief to millions. In his latest book, he addresses one of the most common challenges of everyday life-dealing with stress.
In Retraining the Brain, Dr. Lawlis clearly explains the neurological factors that make stress so traumatizing and lays out a powerful plan for changing our brains to improve the way we cope. The secret is to take advantage of our brain plasticity-our ability to essentially reprogram the way we think simply by following this forty-five-day program to change our behavior. Drawing on his work at his renowned clinic, Dr. Lawlis takes us through the different types of “stressors” and shows how we can apply the principles of brain plasticity to hardwire new, healthier response patterns. With its simple but effective exercises, Retraining the Brain offers an exciting new method for reducing stress and increasing our overall happiness.
Retraining the Brain: A 45-Day Plan to Conquer Stress and Anxiety
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