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41. Epidemiology of Sleep

    Age, Gender, and Ethnicity

    By Kenneth L. Lichstein, H. Heith Durrence, Brant W. Riedel, Daniel J. Taylor, Andrew J. Bush

    What is the prevalence of insomnia in a particular age group, in men and women, or in Caucasians and African Americans? What is the average total sleep time among normal sleepers among these groups? How does the sleep of Caucasians and African Americans differ? These are just some of the questions...

    Published June 9th 2004 by Psychology Press
42. The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

    Volume 3: Instruments for Adults, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Mark E. Maruish

    Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient...

    Published May 2nd 2004 by Routledge
43. The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

    Volume 1: General Considerations, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Mark E. Maruish

    Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient...

    Published May 2nd 2004 by Routledge
44. The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

    Volume 2: Instruments for Children and Adolescents, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Mark E. Maruish

    Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient...

    Published May 2nd 2004 by Routledge
45. Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing

    Edited by Uwe P. Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish, Juris G. Draguns

    Emotional, as well as physical distress, is a heritage from our hominid ancestors; it has been experienced by every group of human beings since our emergence as a species. And every known culture has developed systems of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it. The editors have brought...

    Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
46. The Mental Health of Refugees

    Ecological Approaches To Healing and Adaptation

    Edited by Kenneth E. Miller, Lisa M. Rasco

    It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based...

    Published March 17th 2004 by Routledge
47. Children With Cancer

    The Quality of Life

    By Christine Eiser

    Cancer is a very rare disease in children. There have been impressive gains in survival in recent years, and these have been achieved through the use of chemotherapy and national and international clinical trials. The diagnosis of cancer in a child imposes considerable stress on the whole family....

    Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge
48. Emotional Expression and Health

    Advances in Theory, Assessment and Clinical Applications

    Edited by Ivan Nyklícek, Lydia Temoshok, Ad Vingerhoets

    Emotional Expression and Health looks at the role emotional expression and inhibition may play in staying healthy or falling ill. Written by leading experts in the field, chapters focus on: * how we can measure emotional expression or inhibition and how we can distinguish between their various...

    Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge
49. Pain

    Psychological Perspectives

    Edited by Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Kenneth D. Craig

    This invaluable new resource presents a state-of-the-art account of the psychology of pain from leading researchers. It features contributions from clinical, social, and biopsychological perspectives, the latest theories of pain, as well as basic processes and applied issues. The book opens with an...

    Published November 30th 2003 by Psychology Press
50. Core Processes in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

    Advancing Effective Practice

    Edited by Denise P. Charman

    Many students enter graduate programs with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than systematic and beginning psychotherapists have not always been encouraged to think about what they are doing and why they are doing it from...

    Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge