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Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement (New Approaches in Sociology)
by Linda J. MorrisonLinda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and inequality, to expose the darker side of psychiatry, and to promote alternatives for people in emotional distress. Talking Back to Psychiatry explores the movement's history, its complex membership, its strategies and goals, and the varied response it has received from psychiatry, policy makers, and the public at large.
Talking Men's Health: Understanding and Supporting Men with Long-Term Conditions
by Caroline FlureyThis book explores male health psychology in relation to chronic health conditions. Using data from men with rheumatic diseases as a starting point, this book draws on the wider literature to focus on how men talk about different aspects of living with long-term health issues. This includes how men discuss the impact of chronic illness on their sense of control and self-reliance, masculine identity, body image, mental health, sex and intimacy, and for those living with a life-limiting condition how they discuss facing their mortality. It also covers how men self-manage and what influences their help-seeking behaviours. Whilst men are often branded as ‘hard to reach’, the author argues that when given permission and provided with the right environment, men will talk about their health. This book takes the stance men are under-served by health services and includes suggestions for developing support services for health and mental health that meet men’s needs and preferences. Focussing on the experiences and support needs of men with long-term conditions, this is an ideal reading for clinicians, healthcare professionals, and practitioners working with men with long-term conditions, as well as early career researchers and students interested in male psychology, men’s health, and gender and society.
Talking Points on Deprescribing in Hospice Care
by Deepak ShrivastavaDeprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years. This book systematically addresses the groups of extremely useful medications to manage chronic disease conditions and prevent complications. It highlights the positive intervention of reducing polypharmacy, improving a terminally ill patient's quality of life, providing individual patient context and helping clinicians in deprescribing. It discusses good ethics, patient wishes and side effect protocols to discontinue no longer relevant medications, thus improving decision-making with the goal of enhancing the patient's quality of life during the time when it is needed the most.Key Features: Empowers the patient, their families, and the providers to have an open discussion about well-informed decision-making. Equips the hospice and palliative care clinicians to comfortably explain the rationale and the discontinuation process of the unessential medications. Highlights the most important facts in bullets along with a unique feature of providing ready-to-go conversational phrases.
Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Kylie SmithTalking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book demonstrates the inherently social construction of ‘mental health’, and highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry. After WWII, heightened cultural and political emphasis on mental health for social stability enabled the development of psychiatric nursing as a distinct knowledge project through which nurses aimed to transform institutional approaches to patient care, and to contribute to health and social science beyond the bedside. Nurses now take for granted the ideas that underpin their relationships with patients, but this book demonstrates that these were ideas not easily won, and that nurses in the past fought hard to make mental health nursing what it is today.
Talking with Doctors
by David NewmanWithout any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull. In the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers. The doctors offered drastically differing opinions; several pronounced the tumor inoperable and voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of any nonsurgical treatment. Talking with Doctors is the story of Newman's efforts, at a time of great stress and even impending death, to wend his way through the dense thicket of medical consultations in search of a physician and a treatment that offered the possibility of survival. It is the story, especially, of the harrowing process of assessing conflicting "expert" opinions and, in so doing, of making sense of the priorities, personalities, and vulnerabilities of different doctors. All too often, he found, the leading specialists to whom he was sent were strangers in the consulting room-and strangers who became stranger still, both cognitively and emotionally, when ambiguous findings pushed them to the outer limits of their training and experience. Newman writes poignantly of his sense of powerlessness and desperation, of the painstaking means by which he ascertained what could be known about his tumor, and of the fortuitous events that finally led him to life-saving help. Talking with Doctors is a compelling, absorbing, unsettling story that touches a collective raw nerve about the experience of doctors and medical care when life-threatening illness leads us to subspecialists at major medical centers. Probing the nature of medical authority and the grounds of a trusting doctor-patient relationship, Newman illuminates with grace and power what it now means for a patient to participate in life-and-death medical decisions.
Talking with Patients About the Personal Impact of Ilness: The Doctor's Role
by Leonore Buckley Dennis J. ShaleThis book explores the psychosocial impact of serious illness - its effect on a person's identity and relationships - and the doctor's role in counseling patients. Even the most seasoned physician often feels inadequate when it comes to discussing the personal impact of disability and serious illness with patients. It takes time, attention, and skill. Most physicians who are good at this learn what to say from observations of physicians they respect and the conversations they share with patients over many years of practice. Like everything else in medicine, there is a continuous learning curve. This book offers a beginning. It includes first-hand experiences and reflections on serious illness by physicians and patients, concrete advice on how to initiate discussions of difficult psychosocial issues, topics for organising discussion, suggested readings, and guides for patient interviews.'Much is written about patient-centered care and the patient experience.What sets this book apart is, first, Lenore Buckley's ability to tell stories about her own medical experience. These teaching tales give young physicians a sense of the task that their profession requires of them, while keeping that task within human proportions. Second and complementing that is her excellent compilation of quotations and stories from the memoirs of patients and physicians, especially physicians as patients. 'I hope this empathic, useful collection of materials for teaching and reflection finds its way into medical school curricula, and I hope it is one of those books that physicians return to during years of practice, especially when they sense that the treatment expert is crowding the witness out of the room. Patients need both doctors. Lenore Buckley shows how doctors are able to expect nothing less of themselves' - Arthur W Frank in the Foreword.
Talking with Patients and Families about Medical Error: A Guide for Education and Practice
by Robert D. Truog David M. Browning Judith A. Johnson Thomas H. GallagherMore than a million patient safety incidents occur every year, and medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Illuminating the experiences of those affected by medical error—patients, their loved ones, and physicians and other medical professionals—Talking with Patients and Families about Medical Error delves deeply into the challenges of communicating honestly and openly about mistakes in medical practice.ccBased on guidelines from the Institute for Professional and Ethical Practice and the authors' own experiences, the practice-based approaches outlined here offer concrete guidance on• initiating discussions • dealing professionally and compassionately with patients' reactions • who should be included in the conversation• what information should be documented in the medical record• how to respond to questions about financial compensationAimed at promoting resolution and healing, this book stresses the importance of clear, empathetic communication that will improve clinical and organizational responses to medical missteps and mismanagement. It emphasizes five features of the physician-patient relationship deserving of special attention: transparency, respect, accountability, continuity, and kindness (TRACK). Narrative examples of common situations demonstrate how conversations about medical error can lead to healing.
Tamed by the Renegade
by Emily ForbesThe only man to tame her...? Caring nurse Ruby Anderson has always been a free spirit. After a rocky childhood, her instinct might be to flee when things get tough, but with her baby sister desperately ill this is the one time Ruby can't run away... Offered a job as private nurse for deliciously hot racing-car driver Noah Christiansen, Ruby knows he'll be the perfect distraction! But as Noah breaks down Ruby's hard-earned barriers she's faced with the ultimate decision: flight or fight for the only man to tame her?
Taming The Black Dog: How To Beat Depression. A Practical Manual For Sufferers, Their Relatives And Their Colleagues
by Patrick EllvertonThis self help manual is for those for whom depression arises from the impact of exceptional circumstances such as childbirth and menopause, commercial and professional failure, accident, grief, divorce or debt as well as for those more permanent owners of the Black Dog.Contents: 1. Preface; 2. Your first step; 3. Medication; 4. Causes; 5. Manage your life; 6. Repulsing attacks; 7. Habits for repairing damage; 8. Utilising your subconscious computer; 9. Praying; 10. Vitality; 11. Sleeping; 12. Healthy eating; 13. Alcohol; 14. Fitness
Taming The Black Dog: How to Beat Depression - A Practical Manual for Sufferers, Their Relatives and Colleagues
by Patrick EllvertonThis self help manual is for those for whom depression arises from the impact of exceptional circumstances such as childbirth and menopause, commercial and professional failure, accident, grief, divorce or debt as well as for those more permanent owners of the Black Dog.Contents: 1. Preface; 2. Your first step; 3. Medication; 4. Causes; 5. Manage your life; 6. Repulsing attacks; 7. Habits for repairing damage; 8. Utilising your subconscious computer; 9. Praying; 10. Vitality; 11. Sleeping; 12. Healthy eating; 13. Alcohol; 14. Fitness
Taming Chronic Pain: A Management Guide for a More Enjoyable Life
by Amy OrrLife Beyond Pain“Clear, engaging, and with the authenticity of personal experience.” —Patricia Morley-Forster, MD, FRCPC Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Founder Status; Professor Emerita Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, Western University, London, Canada; 2013 Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society Gold Medal Winner#1 New Release in Chronic Pain and Pain MedicineLong-term pain management. Living with pain offers more than just physical challenges. For those of us navigating the treacherous waters between self-care and normal daily life, there are an overwhelming number of obstacles to overcome. Taming Chronic Pain takes a brutally honest—and at times humorous—look at the major issues associated with long-term pain management, offering practical advice, insight, exercises and discussion of everything from basic scientific knowledge to the psychological effects of chronic pain.Written by a Fellow Pain Sufferer. While dealing with her own chronic pain, Amy has done years of extensive research on every aspect of long-term physical suffering. Her scientific skills and personal experience have given her the expertise to provide this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, knowing glimpse into the many areas of living with chronic pain that no one but a fellow sufferer would recognize. Taming Chronic Pain clarifies with easy to understand diagrams and cartoons.Taming Chronic Pain is a must-have for any chronic pain sufferer. Discover:Tools to help you live your life with chronic pain, whether back, neck, or shoulder pain; arthritis; migraines; or nerve painA helpful approach to pain management that takes medicine, meditation, and psychology into accountLifestyle suggestions to lessen the effects of painTips and tricks for managing relationships while managing pain, and advice for caregiversReaders of books like Mind Over Mood, Pain Free, or 7 Steps to a Pain-Free Life will find answers, companionship and more in Taming Chronic Pain.
Taming Her Hollywood Playboy
by Emily ForbesRedeemed……by his fake fiancée!Hired as the on-set paramedic on Hollywood actor Oliver Harding’s latest film, Kat Angelis finds herself equally as charmed by his off-screen persona. And when his playboy reputation threatens his hard-earned career, she’s the first person Oliver turns to—to pose as his fiancée! Kat’s warm personality and commitment to her family open Oliver up to something he’s never had. Is this girl from the outback the key to unlocking his heart?“Overall, Ms. Forbes has delivered a delightful read in this book where emotions run high because of everything this couple go through on their journey to happy ever after…and where the chemistry between this couple was strong; the romance was delightful and had me loving these two together….”—Harlequin Junkie on Rescued by the Single Dad“This is the best book I’ve read by Ms. Forbes so far and I was hooked right from the beginning…the ending left me completely satisfied….”—Harlequin Junkie on Reunited with Her Brooding Surgeon
Taming Her Navy Doc
by Amy RuttanThe one woman to tame him... Finally the injured navy SEAL who had once been brought to surgeon Erica Griffin in the dead of night has a name: Captain Thorne Wilder-her new commanding officer! Five years later he's just as gorgeous as Erica remembers...but now he's totally off-limits! Thorne has been left damaged, brooding and untamable after the loss of his dreams-and beautiful Erica is an unwanted complication! She might be as wary of relationships as he is, but fighting temptation will be the biggest battle of all...
Taming Hollywood's Ultimate Playboy
by Amalie BerlinForbidden to the A-lister When Grace Watson last saw Liam Carter, she was in black lingerie and a trench coat at his door, while he gently-mortifyingly!-turned her down. Now Liam is Hollywood's hottest property, and Grace is the top physical therapist he needs to literally get him back on his feet. Grace tempted him then and she tempts him even more now. As her kindness banishes the demons that have always haunted him, is it possible that their second chance can heal his damaged heart?
The Taming of Dr. Alex Draycott
by Joanna NeilThe Taming of Dr Alex Draycott A troublesome little niece and nephew to look after, a crumbling cottage to repair and a busy A&E to run gives Dr Alex Draycott plenty on her plate even before she meets the rebelliously charming Dr Callum Brooksby! Feisty Alex can handle a challenge but it seems Callum is out to tame her heart The Man Behind the Badge However hard citygirl and newdocintown Kayla Morgan tries, she cant resist being impressed by the horseriding, cattleherding, lawenforcing Tom Jamieson! But taking a bullet in the line of duty has made cop Tom rethink his work hard, party harder lifestyle will he ever let Kayla see the real man behind the badge?
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
by Daniel CallahanWhy health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone?In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst.Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.
Taming the Hot-Shot Doc
by Susan CarlisleHe&’s lost everything…Dare he risk his heart?When renowned Chicago surgeon Matt Chapman agreed to testify against a notorious crime family, he lost his family, his fiancée and his career. Now he hopes to start again in an idyllic Mississippi town. But his efforts to keep to himself are threatened by his new boss, Dr. Shay Lunsford, who seems just as alone as he is. Dare Matt get closer to Shay and risk his heart again? &“Ms. Carlisle wrote a wonderful, flirty, and enjoyable romance that should not be missed. She provided a tale rich with emotions, sizzling chemistry, vivid scenic descriptions, and realistic characters…. I highly recommend Reunited with her Daredevil Doc to other readers.&”-Goodreads &“…Susan Carlisle was quick to nab my heart in The Single Dad&’s Holiday Wish. Great character interaction, several medical situations to heighten the drama and so many instances of pure holiday joy made this story a winner from start to finish! I highly recommend this book….&”-Goodreads
Tamoxifen: Pioneering Medicine in Breast Cancer
by Russell E. Mcdaniel Philipp Y. Maximov V. Craig JordanTamoxifen is a pioneering medicine for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. It is the first drug targeted therapy in cancer to be successful. Tamoxifen targets the tumor estrogen receptor. The therapy is known to have saved the lives of millions of women over the past 40 years. This monograph, written by V. Craig Jordan - known as the "father of tamoxifen" - and his Tamoxifen Team at the Georgetown University Washington DC, illustrates the journey of this milestone in medicine. It includes a personal interview with V. Craig Jordan about his four decades of discovery in breast cancer research and treatment. V. Craig Jordan was there for the birth of tamoxifen as he is credited for reinventing a "failed morning after contraceptive" to become the "gold standard" for the treatment of breast cancer. He contributed to every aspect of tamoxifen application in therapeutics and all aspects of tamoxifen's pharmacology. He discovered the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) and explored the new biology of estrogen-induced apoptosis.
Tandem Repeats in Genes, Proteins, and Disease
by Danny M. Hatters Anthony J. HannanThe genomes of humans, as well as many other species, are interspersed with hundreds of thousands of tandem repeats of DNA sequences. Those tandem repeats located as codons within open reading frames encode amino acid runs, such as polyglutamine and polyalanine. Tandem repeats have not only been implicated in biological evolution, development and function but also in a large collection of human disorders. In Tandem Repeats in Genes, Proteins, and Disease: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field detail many methods covering the analysis of tandem repeats in DNA, RNA and protein, in healthy and diseased states. This will include molecular genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, proteomics, biophysics, cell biology, and molecular and cellular approaches to animal models of tandem repeat disorders. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular BiologyTM series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoratative and Practical, Tandem Repeats in Genes, Proteins, and Disease: Methods and Protocols aids scientists in continuing to study the unique methodological challenges that come from repetitive DNA and poly-amino acid sequences.
Tandheelkundige kennis voor tandartsassistenten (Basiswerk AG)
by Berry Duizendstra-PrinsHoe word je een goede tandartsassistent? De eisen die gesteld worden aan de moderne tandartsassistent worden steeds hoger. Van een tandartsassistent wordt verwacht dat ze proactief denkt en handelt. In de loop der jaren is het takenpakket uitgebreid met zelfstandige behandelingen. Het patiëntencontact wordt steeds intensiever. Een gedegen theoretische achtergrond wordt steeds belangrijker. Vakspecifieke onderwerpen die uitgebreid behandeld worden, zijn onder meer: preventie en parodontologie, restauratieve tandheelkunde, kindertandheelkunde en orthodontie, mondziekten, kaak- en aangezichtschirurgie, röntgenologie. Ook algemeen medische onderwerpen als anatomie en fysiologie van het hoofd-halsgebied, algemene ziekteleer en geneesmiddelenkennis maken deel uit van de aangeboden kennis. Het biedt hiermee een volledig overzicht van de belangrijkste tandheelkundige kennis voor de tandartsassistent. De tekst wordt ondersteund door tekeningen en full color afbeeldingen. Het boek wordt middels een website ondersteund met verdiepingsstof, vragen & opdrachten en kennistoetsen. Het is hiermee een onmisbaar basiswerk voor tandartsassistenten (in opleiding).
Tangled Autumn & The Edge of Winter: A Classic Doctor Romance Anthology
by Betty NeelsDiscover two classic romances from fan-favorite author Betty Neels Tangled Autumn Anxious to leave London and her cheating ex-fiancé behind, Sappha Devenish jumps at the chance of a job in Scotland. And if the scenery won’t take her mind off her heartbreak, then gorgeous but brooding Dutch doctor Rolf van Duyren will! But how will the object of her affection react when her ex makes an unexpected return…? The Edge of Winter Araminta Shaw is beginning to think her run ins with the guarded Dr. Crispin van Sibbelt are fated… And when he helps her care for a sick relative, she can’t help but fall into the attractive physician’s arms. Only, with marriage on the horizon, to Araminta’s dismay it seems that Crispin has a secret that could stand in the way of their happiness…
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
by Sarah LeavittWhat do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother Midge—and her family—forever.In spare black and white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions—shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration—all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. Midge, a Harvard-educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words; Sarah's father Rob slowly adapts to his new role as full-time caretaker, but still finds time for word-play and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge get to sleep, rage about family friends who have disappeared, or collapse in tears at the end of a heartbreaking day.Tangles provides a window on the complexity of Alzheimer's disease, and ultimately opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.
The Tantrum Survival Guide: Tune In to Your Toddler's Mind (and Your Own) to Calm the Craziness and Make Family Fun Again
by Rebecca Schrag Hershberg Daniel J. SiegelIf you are the parent of a toddler or preschooler, chances are you know a thing or two about tantrums. While those epic meltdowns can certainly be part of "normal" toddler behavior, they are still maddening, stressful, and exhausting--for everyone involved. What can you do to keep your cool and help your child calm down? Rebecca Schrag Hershberg, child psychologist and mother of two, has a unique understanding of both the science behind tantrums and what works in the heat of the moment to nip blowups in the bud. With her customizable plan, you'll learn: *Why your toddler's developing brain is hardwired for "big emotions." *What you may be doing (unintentionally) to encourage outbursts. *Ways to use structure and routines to help your child feel secure. *How to reduce tantrums at tough times of day, from wake-up to bedtime. *Strategies for managing tantrums under difficult circumstances, from travel to moving to divorce. *Ways to deepen your parent–child connection--starting right now.
The Tao of Fertility: A Healing Chinese Medicine Program to Prepare Body, Mind, and Spirit for New Life
by Daoshing Ni Dana HerkoAn esteemed doctor who has helped countless women achieve their dream of having a child offers his program for enhancing fertility through traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Dr. Daoshing Ni, descended from more than 70 generations of Taoist masters, has achieved renown among high-tech infertility specialists, TCM practitioners, and his many devoted patients. The Tao of Fertility is the first book combining a practical plan for conceiving using TCM with empowering Taoist principles that can carry you through pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Structured according to a woman’s journey to conception, The Tao of Fertility includes: A questionnaire assessing fertility potential A 28-day fertility enhancement programSimple meditations and acupressure points to improve reproductive circulation and relaxationGuidelines for mapping your fertility using Chinese methods of diagnosisInformation on how herbs and acupuncture can increase fertilityEating plans for pregnancy, postpartum, and while breast-feeding. and much moreEnriched by moving stories of women who became pregnant using TCM, this is a compassionate, comprehensive handbook.
The Tao of Natural Breathing
by Dennis Lewis Master Mantak ChiaDennis Lewis draws on his many years of study in the Gurdjieff work, Advaita Vedanta, and Taoism to show how natural, whole-body breathing can improve health, increase energy, and support the quest for inner growth. Along with breathing practices designed to open the three primal energy centers, the book defines natural breathing; provides a clear, illustrated description of the physiology of breathing; and offers suggestions on how to use spacious breathing both in times of stress and in everyday life.