Contiene explicaciones claras y sencillas sobre los diferentes aspectos de los trastornos psiquiátricos de niños y adolescentes. Aborda conceptos básicos como el interrogatorio clínico y las teorías del desarrollo infantil para mayor compresión de los trastornos. Escrito por psiquiatras infantiles, psicólogos y neuropediatras que dan un enfoque más integral a los diferentes trastornos que se desarrollan en el texto. Presenta útiles recomendaciones...

Este libro es una selección de trabajos que Raúl Levin ha publicado a lo largo de su desempeño académico y ahora lo presenta a un grupo más amplio de lectores, y que refieren a distintos temas tratados desde el psicoanálisis, como la subjetividad y sus transformaciones, lo irrepresentable, la clínica en la persona real del analista y la transferencia, la contratransferencia y el malestar, los sueños y las pesadillas, Auschwitz y el psicoanálisis,...

En esta época, el psicoanálisis es una teoría y una práctica que subvierte lo ya dado en una sociedad en la que la cotidianidad está tomada por las urgencias, la eficiencia y en la que se suele recurrir a la vía más corta para acallar los síntomas. Escuchar el sufrimiento de niños y padres, dejar que se desplieguen historias, entender los síntomas como un llamado, un grito a decodificar, es lo que el libro quiere transmitir. El psicoanálisis...

Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The authors have provided care to thousands of diabetic teens and their families from initial diagnosis to leaving home for college. Any professional working...

Songs for the Forgotten: A Psychiatrist's Record combines pivotal moments from Julia Burns's Southern upbringing in the 1970s with case histories accumulated through three decades of treating psychiatric patients, particularly those drowning in the cultural epidemic of child abuse. This book is her journal of rupture and return. The reader will follow the author's hard-won reconciliation. In telling panoply of stories, including her own, Burns argues...

Do you ever worry about the escalating mental health crisis facing our kids today, and silently hope your child does not end up as part of those statistics? Do you want to teach your kids the habits, skills and mindsets that lay the foundation for positive mental health and wellbeing? Have you ever wished there was a way to build strong protective fences at the top of the cliff, so you don't have to be the ambulance picking up the pieces at the bottom? The...

“Working with Transgender Young People and their Families” advocates a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental literature on gender. It clears a path to understanding gender development for transgender young people by providing a detailed account that spans early childhood through to late adolescence. In doing so, it demonstrates how clinicians can work more effectively...

You might have trouble imagining your world without your social media, but former Fortune 500 IT consultant & engineer turned clinical mental health researcher & crisis intervention counselor, J.A. Thomas insists that we're far better off without it. In D.S.M. 7 Steps to Social Media Abstinence: The Desktop Guide to Deleting Social Media. Why Big Social is Ruining You and No, It's Not Just a 'Digital Native' Dilemma. Why It's Time to End The Social...

Defeat depression in 10-steps with CBT-focused exercises from the Depression Relief Workbook. CBT therapy is an effective, evidence-based method to take control of your depression. In the Depression Relief Workbook, Dr. Simon Rego, a professor and expert in CBT therapy with over 20 years of experience treating depression, teams up with mental health advocate and CEO of Stigma Fighters, Sarah Fader, to break CBT therapy down into an easy-to-follow...

From time to time in the field of healthcare, an exciting new development emerges to challenge and potentially transform thinking and behaviour. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and its framework is undoubtedly one of these transformative resources and is increasingly widely used in the field of childhood disability. This accessible handbook introduces the ICF to professionals working with children with...