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Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know: A Research Agenda for Improving the Mental Health of Our Youth

Dwight L. Evans · Oxford University Press; 1st edition
Pages: 818
Format: Hardcover

Following on the heels of the widely acclaimed A Guide to Treatments That Work (OUP, 2002) by Nathan and Gorman, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders brings together a distinguished group of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists to provide a groundbreaking, evidence-based...
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Randi Kreger · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel as though you are constantly trying to avoid confrontation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should remember this: It's not your fault. And you're...
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

HECTOR GARCIA · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." - Japanese proverb According...
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50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health

James Whitney Hicks · Yale University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

This compelling book introduces a wide range of psychiatric symptoms and their treatments. Written for anyone concerned about his or her own mental health or about symptoms observed in family members or close friends, the book is packed with useful and reassuring information. It is both...
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction

Meghan Cox Gurdon · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
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Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism

Paul Collins · Bloomsbury
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that...
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The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success

ALBERT-LASZLO BARABASI · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn't get the promotion; we played hard but weren't...
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Mental Health, Naturally: The Family Guide to Holistic Care for a Healthy Mind and Body

Kathi J. Kemper · American Academy of Pediatrics; 1 edition
Format: Print book

In Mental Health, Naturally, internationally-recognized holistic health expert and pediatrician Dr. Kathi J. Kemper presents natural, affordable, safe, and effective treatments for mental health issues such as ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, and substance abuse.With up-to-date research,...
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side

Julia Shaw · Abrams Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique...
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The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You

Karyn D. Hall PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Format: Book

Its a commonly heard phrase Stop being so sensitive. These words can be frustrating to hear, and if you are an emotionally sensitive person, they often have the opposite of the desired effect. You cannot simply switch off your emotions like you would a TV show or a radio station playing...
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

NADINE BURKE HARRIS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego - a boy who had stopped growing...
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i before e

Judy Parkinson · Reader's Digest Association
Pages: 168
Format: Book

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adult. Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important...
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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

Sandra Blakeslee · Random House; 1 edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of “body maps” in the brain–and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do you still feel fat after losing...
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