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      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        September 2022

        Alcohol, psychiatry and society

        Comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700–1990s

        by Waltraud Ernst, Thomas Müller, David Cantor

        The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising medical attitudes and theories regarding alcohol and the changing perception of alcohol consumption in psychiatry and mental health, it explores the shift from the use of alcohol in clinical treatment and as part of dietary regimens to the emergence of alcoholism as a disease category that requires medical intervention and is considered a threat to public health.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2023

        Understanding baby loss

        The sociology of life, death and post-mortem

        by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

        This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: 'trauma' 'emotions', 'decisions', 'care' 'technology' 'memory' and the role of 'social and biological relationships'. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2023

        Understanding baby loss

        The sociology of life, death and post-mortem

        by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

        This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: 'trauma' 'emotions', 'decisions', 'care' 'technology' 'memory' and the role of 'social and biological relationships'. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.

      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        September 2022

        Alcohol, psychiatry and society

        Comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700–1990s

        by Waltraud Ernst, Thomas Müller, David Cantor

        The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising medical attitudes and theories regarding alcohol and the changing perception of alcohol consumption in psychiatry and mental health, it explores the shift from the use of alcohol in clinical treatment and as part of dietary regimens to the emergence of alcoholism as a disease category that requires medical intervention and is considered a threat to public health.

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        Health & Personal Development
        September 2023

        Clusterf#ck

        Decoding your adult ADHD journey with confidence

        by Rosie Gee

        In this groundbreaking book, you'll embark on a transformative journey that explores the unique challenges faced by women with ADHD in the later stages of life. This comprehensive guide offers invaluable insights, practical strategies, and empowering advice to help you navigate the complexities of ADHD and unlock your full potential. Uncover the secrets to identifying how ADHD can often be your superpower: Deep Dive into ADHD Symptoms: Gain a thorough understanding of how ADHD manifests in women over 40, including the often overlooked symptoms and their impact on daily life. Tailored Strategies for Success: From time management techniques to stress reduction strategies, this book provides you with a toolkit of practical solutions to enhance your productivity and overall well-being. Navigating Hormonal Changes: Understand the intricate relationship between hormonal fluctuations and ADHD symptoms. Clusterf#ck is your go-to resource for reclaiming control over your life and embracing your unique strengths. It's time to break free from the limitations of ADHD and unlock your true potential. Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to a life filled with purpose, joy, and success

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2023

        Understanding baby loss

        The sociology of life, death and post-mortem

        by Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

        This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: 'trauma' 'emotions', 'decisions', 'care' 'technology' 'memory' and the role of 'social and biological relationships'. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.

      • Health & Personal Development
        October 2020

        Reading

        by Philip Davis, Fiona Magee

        Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups based on the work of The Reader, a charity dedicated to bringing serious literature to neglected communities, the authors showcase how a whole new demographic might get into reading, and in doing so unlock the emotional intelligence and benefits to health and wellbeing which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations. For more information about our series, Arts for Health: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/Arts-for-Health/

      • Health & Personal Development
        December 2015

        The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps

        Balanced Eating in 21st Century

        by Kushi, Gabriele / Kushi, Michio / Barnard, Neal D.

        The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps Gabriele Kushi with Michio Kushi   When you have a greater connection to your food, you have more power to control your health and your environment. The step-by-step approach for this book was developed over years of experience in macrobiotic counseling and teaching by the authors, and is most helpful in achieving a lasting, health-supportive lifestyle.     This exciting collaboration between Gabriele Kushi and her father in-law, globally acclaimed macrobiotic teacher Michio Kushi, will guide and support you as you learn to skillfully employ many techniques to help you enjoy the entire essential natural and whole food groups in each season.     • The Macrobiotic Kitchen in Ten Easy Steps supports healthy daily eating practices and offers suggestions for family meals as well as workable lifestyle solutions. • In addition to plans for regular meals, guidelines are included for healing meals that provideinspiration for a lifetime of wellness. • The book contains inspirational color photos of many dishes, as well as illustrations and charts that explain cooking techniques on how to prepare dishes for all seasons. • Vegan and gluten-free recipes as well as recommendations for suitable food proportions provide an easy way to create delicious, yin-yang balanced meals. • The authors clarify the unique macrobiotic wellness approach and profound holistic system of living in harmony with nature in relation to seasonal, local, and sustainable food and lifestyle choices. • This book also provides a significant amount of up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific documentation that supports major macrobiotic teachings on health and nutrition.

      • Health & Personal Development
        January 2020

        The Art of Good Enough

        The Working Mom’s Guilt-Free Guide to Thriving While Being Perfectly Imperfect

        by Dr. Ivy Ge

        ★ 2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Silver Medal Winner ★ You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Happy.  What if there are proven methods to prevent you from feeling depleted, anxious, and unsatisfied in times of crisis? Imagine you become confident about your ability to handle stress and pressure, know how to make wise decisions, and find solutions to your problems.From an aspiring actress to becoming a pharmacy professor, Dr. Ivy Ge has transformed her life while balancing her role as a working mother. Using her life lessons as a new mom juggling work and school, she helps you navigate the complexity of motherhood in simple, meaningful ways. Read the reviews from working moms and see how they have benefited from Dr. Ge's real-life examples, great advice, and steps for applying that advice effectively. If you have trouble handling difficult emotions or improving your situation, read this book to discover the answers featured on PBS, Thrive Global, Working Mother magazine, Parentology, and The Times of India.In this book, you'll learn:*How to overcome difficult emotions and make wise decisions*How to handle adversity and overcome your obstacles using your hidden strengths*How to look and feel your best regardless of your size and age*How to simplify your life and get more done in less time*How to raise self-reliant children and resolve tension in your relationship*How to reverse engineer your life by going from where you want to be to where you are now... and much more.The secret to living your best life is to focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

      • Health & Personal Development

        A Potent Love

        The Power of Undivided Attention, One Moment at a Time

        by Mei C. Yao and Mama Shiangrue

        Parental love could gift a newborn with a lifetime of peace and harmony, and just as potently it could impose on it a lifetime of confusion and misery. All parents love their children and they always do so to the best of their ability. But why are so many people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation, and sometimes just collapsed at the height of their career and business success? And why are a few lucky others seemingly so able to keep calm and charge on even in the midst of severe crises? The majority of us, men and women, spend much of our adulthood trying to sort through vague feelings of unworthiness, injustice, and emotional turbulence. We cannot seem to come to terms with where this “pain body” is originated and, thus, unknowingly propagate similar tragedies -- outward and downward -- to almost everyone who comes into our sphere of influence. As concluded in The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Dr. Alice Miller said, “I have come to see that this [universal human] tragedy cannot be undone in a single generation.” Planet Earth is increasingly vibrating higher and higher in the frequency of pure love. The higher the Earth vibration rises, the more rapidly those who are bogged-down by emotional imbalance and mental stress -- because of having been deprived of the experience of “truth love” as elaborated in Thich Nhat Hanh’s 1997 book titled, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart -- will have a tough time thriving on the new planet of love: The New Earth. In this book, Mei Yao will share with us “the key” she uncovered for unleashing this most potent human energy -- parental love -- in the most beneficial and natural way, as demonstrated by her mother-in-law, Mama Shiangrue, an extraordinarily wise woman despite (or in spite of) her having never been formally educated. She was simply a woman who knew how to love, and in a very Thich Nhat Hanh way.

      • Health & Personal Development
        May 2016

        The Drug Conversation

        How to talk to your child about drugs

        by Owen Bowden-Jones

        The Drug Conversation is a guide for parents about how to raise the thorny issue of drugs with their children. It will help you begin a useful conversation about drugs with your child. The book provides information on the different types of psychoactive drugs available, their attractions and harms, how they work in the brain, and who uses them and why. It covers issues such as how to detect drug use, drug testing, synthetic drugs (‘legal highs’), accessing help, effective treatments and what to expect from professional medical services. The Drug Conversation also gives practical advice on how to prepare for and have a conversation about drugs with your child – including examples of actual conversations between parents and children. Case studies from the author’s own clinical practice are used to illustrate the main points. All parents will need this book at some stage. It will help you to feel properly informed about drugs, more confident in talking to your child, more able to keep drug-related problems from developing and better equipped to tackle problems if they do arise

      • Coping with death & bereavement
        February 2021

        A Quarter Glass of Milk

        The rawness of grief and the power of the mountains

        by Moire O'Sullivan

        A Quarter Glass of Milk details the twelve months after mountain runner Moire O’Sullivan’s husband, Pete, took his own life, leaving Moire with a stark choice: to weep forever over the glass of milk that had just spilt or to get on with the quarter that was still remaining.

      • Coping with personal problems

        Mourning: The Day After Loss

        Insights and practical Advice on Coping with Grief

        by Tamar Ashkenazi

        The notification of the death of a loved one is a devastating event. Once a loved one is gone, family and friends are left to cope with his memory and absence. But how? Mourning: The Day After Loss offers practical advice and insight into the process of coping with grief and bereavement based on extensive experience and research. It leads the reader on a journey through the various stages of bereavement - from the death notification to the formal days of mourning, the burial, and the weeks and months following. The book is based on the author’s experience as a hospital nurse and donors coordinator for the Israel National Transplant Center. It is a product of her doctoral research on adjustment to loss. The book focuses on Israeli protocols and traditions of grief but offers universal insight.   Practical insight on coping with grief and bereavement The death of a loved one surfaces pressing dilemmas: How should the deceased be commemorated in daily life and special occasions, such as holidays, birthdays, and memorials? How should his absence be regarded in school or at work? How does a marriage continue after death? How should the deceased’s clothes and belongings be handled? How should one remember, and how does one find the power to live on? Mourning: The Day After Loss delivers personal expressions of grief from parents and grandparents, siblings, spouses, and friends who have suffered loss or supported others in their grief. The author uses her experience as a group facilitator to bring the voices of participants in support groups for the bereaved, as well as the insights and testimonies of others who have dealt with life after loss. This book offers a comprehensive overview of bereavement and the approaches and methods of dealing with loss.

      • Self-help & personal development
        April 2020

        SMILING DEPRESSION

        by Hung Pei-Yun

        When we think of depression we imagine someone crying in a corner, all tears and frowns. The reality is, the more positive a person’s presentation, the more likely they are to be suppressing their most intolerable feelings. In the case of smiling depression, the state of depression is successfully hidden away behind a mask of positivity. The sufferer appears content and successful, but feels intense self-loathing and hopelessness on the inside.   In the current era of social media, which rewards positive thinking and proactive lifestyles, people feel pressured to create a positive image online. This kind of culture makes it difficult to accept our imperfect selves, to the point where we fear the gaze of others. To deal with smiling depression, we have to learn to go easy on ourselves, and to honestly face the vulnerability and fear inside us, so we can slowly transform our inner state towards one of self-acceptance.   Smiling depression manifests at the societal level in the increasing number of celebrity suicides. Starting from these well known cases, Smiling Depression moves into the issues we face in the various roles we play in life, revealing the origins of depression, and how it can develop unnoticed. Practical tips for those suffering from smiling depression include: learning not to hide your sorrow, finding safe places to express yourself, and seeking help when needed.   Clinical psychologist Hung Pei-Yun explores the issue of smiling depression from the perspective of the social environment and the relationship between outside expectations and our inner psychological states. She pays special attention to the unique challenges faced by gifted children, managers and bosses, members of the LGBT community, men who have difficulty with emotional expression, and members of the “sandwich generation” who have to juggle the twin responsibilities of raising children and caring for elderly parents.

      • Health & Personal Development
        November 2020

        Film

        by Steven Schlozman

        Our world is inundated by film. Our best stories are told on movie screens, on televisions, on smartphones and laptops. Film argues that on-screen storytelling is the most ubiquitous format for art to intersect with health and well-being, offering a way for us to appreciate, understand and even celebrate the most nuanced and complex notions of what it means to be healthy through the stories that we watch unfolding. Clinicians use film to better understand their patients, and individuals use film to better understand themselves and each other.   Using case histories and based on academic research from a range of disciplines, this book explores how film can be used by clinicians and healthcare practitioners to better understand patients; by individuals to better understand themselves and others; and – perhaps most important of all – by societies as a tool in the fight against the stigma of illness. This book not only makes the case that film keeps us healthy, but also tells us how. After all, nothing quite moves us like the movies.   For more information about our Arts for Health series: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/Arts-for-Health/

      • Health & Personal Development
        September 2021

        Happy Hour

        How to survive personal crises and come out healthier and stronger

        by Silke Franzen

        The roadmap out of any crisis And suddenly nothing is the same as before. Whether we have to deal with a breakup, losing a job, or falling ill: Personal crises leave us uncertain of how to carry on. Silke Franzen knows this problem well. For decades, she has been looking after survivors of traumatic events worldwide, both after the events of 9/11 and the Germanwings air disaster of 2015. Her new book accompanies readers along the three stages of any crisis. She begins by helping readers understand their own reaction and then helps them develop ten skills that will enable them to deal with the situation proactively, for example: - Recognizing your own resources. - Stop brooding over the matter. - The art of finding moments of happiness even in the midst of crisis In the final stage, she offers advice for how to purposefully build up a new life and emerge from the crisis with confidence.   • Happiness in the face of crisis: successful strategies for dealing with crises • Contains many real-life examples • Author is a leading expert in crisis counselling

      • Trusted Partner
        Health & Personal Development
        September 2021

        21 Hacks to Rock Your MID Life

        Release the Past, Dare to Dream and Create your Legacy

        by Cat Coluccio

        Have you hit one of those “big” birthday milestones that end with a 0? You know the ones: the big 4-0, the big 5-0 or *gulp* the big 6-0! And have you found yourself wondering “Is this it?” “Is this really it?” “Is this all my life was meant to be?” Then you have found the right book, as Cat Coluccio, takes you through the process of releasing the emotions and memories – good and bad – of your younger years, so that you can determine the purposeful life and legacy you want to create going forward. Follow along with practical action steps as Cat walks you through her 7 step model of : Awakening, Releasing, Creating Space, Project You, Ready to Launch, Lift Off Legacy  Once you've hit the big "4-0.", it feels like the clock is ticking that bit faster. Isn’t it time that you choose to truly ROCK your Midlife season and beyond?

      • Coping with personal problems
        April 2009

        The Twelve Sacred Traditions Of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law

        by Haywood Smith

        A very Southern mother-in-law's humorous advice to mothers-in-law everywhere. From the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club. Bestselling author Haywood Smith and her pals have lots of personal experience in the joys, sorrows, pitfalls and flat-out hysteria of Mother-in-Lawness. Now Smith offers a handy and fun booklet of pithy advice to mothers-in-law everywhere. Smiths sassy observations and gentle wisdom are delivered with her trademark southern charm, packing the sweet, heady punch of bourbon ice cubes melting in a mint julep. The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law is the perfect gift book for showers, engagement parties, family celebrations or just to share with that special DIL (Daughter-in-Law) or SIL (Son-in-Law). It can even safely be given to a Mother-in-Law

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