Prescription For Anger

This fully revised and expanded edition includes insightful self-assessment tools for greater self-awareness, a selection of the most popular handouts from Hankins's anger management workshops, and a new comprehensive reference list and suggested readings.

This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.

The guide to drug-free, mindful techniques to improve your mental health. “This groundbreaking book is not just a book to read. It’s a book to use.” —Toni Bernhard, author of How to Be Sick Have you ever wanted relief from feeling discouraged, worried, irritated, locked in habits that ultimately harm you? These negative states—depression, anxiety, anger and addictive habits—are the common colds of mental health. Like mild physical illnesses however, they can cause much distress and, if left untreated, can lead to worse difficulties. Prescriptions Without Pills offers techniques for resolving the problems that have been provoking your uncomfortable emotions. Prescriptions guides you back to feeling good and then shows you how to sustain feelings of well-being. Avoid the risk of negative side effects like weight gain and mental dullness that can result from taking pills to reduce your negative emotions. Instead implement these drug-free prescriptions. Use the prescriptions on your own or with help from a therapist. Illustrated with engaging stories from the many clients Dr. Heitler has worked with in her forty-plus years as an internationally known psychologist and psychotherapy innovator, Prescriptions Without Pills aims to help you navigate the route back to well-being and learn skills that can help you to stay there.

Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.

Book covers a broader range of topics than other books in this area. Notably, extensive coverage of the neurobiology of anger in context of psychology and sociology is unique. Book provides broad, integrative coverage while avoiding unnecessary duplication. Contributors have read each others’ chapters and there is extensive cross-referencing from chapter to chapter. Book contains a guide to content and organization of chapters and topics, along with interpolated commentary at the end of each section.

The definitive treatment textbook in psychiatry, this fifth edition of Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders has been thoroughly restructured to reflect the new DSM-5® categories, preserving its value as a state-of-the-art resource and increasing its utility in the field. The editors have produced a volume that is both comprehensive and concise, meeting the needs of clinicians who prefer a single, user-friendly volume. In the service of brevity, the book focuses on treatment over diagnostic considerations, and addresses both empirically-validated treatments and accumulated clinical wisdom where research is lacking. Noteworthy features include the following: Content is organized according to DSM-5® categories to make for rapid retrieval of relevant treatment information for the busy clinician. Outcome studies and expert opinion are presented in an accessible way to help the clinician know what treatment to use for which disorder, and how to tailor the treatment to the patient. Content is restricted to the major psychiatric conditions seen in clinical practice while leaving out less common conditions and those that have limited outcome research related to the disorder, resulting in a more streamlined and affordable text. Chapters are meticulously referenced and include dozens of tables, figures, and other illustrative features that enhance comprehension and recall. An authoritative resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses, and an outstanding reference for students in the mental health professions, Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Fifth Edition, will prove indispensable to clinicians seeking to provide excellent care while transitioning to a DSM-5® world.

Improve the Quality of Mental Health Care This Companion Workbook to the Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control Problems DVD follows each section of the DVD, summarizing important content and providing section reviews as well as test questions and answers to enhance learning of the material. The Workbook can be used as an individual self-paced learning tool or in classroom or workshop settings. Designed to be used in conjunction with the DVD, this Companion Workbook includes: Summary highlights of content shown in the DVD Chapter review questions covering key chapter concepts Test questions of selected chapter concepts References to empirical support, clinical resources, and training opportunities for the empirically supported treatments (ESTs) discussed Scripts and critiques of the role-played scenarios demonstrating selected aspects of the ESTs Online links to client homework exercises consistent with the therapeutic techniques described and demonstrated Explanations of correct and incorrect answers to the test questions from each chapter Also available: Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control DVD/Workbook Study Package / 978-1-1180-2891-9 This study package includes both the Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control DVD (978-0-470-41788-1) and the Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control DVD Companion Workbook (978-0-470-56845-3). Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control DVD / 978-0-470-41788-1 (sold separately) This DVD offers clear, step-by-step guidance on the process and criteria for diagnosing anger control and using empirically supported treatments to inform the treatment planning process. Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Anger Control DVD Facilitator’s Guide / 978-0-470-56844-6 (sold separately) The Facilitator’s Guide assists professionals in leading an educational training session.

The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planner. The prewritten progress notes can be easily and quickly adapted to fit a particular client need or treatment situation. Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the freedom to develop customized progress notes Organized around 39 behaviorally based presenting problems, including nightmares, post- deployment reintegration, combat and operational stress reaction, amputation and/or loss of mobility, adjustment to killing, and depression Features over 1,000 prewritten progress notes (summarizing patient presentation, themes of session, and treatment delivered) Provides an array of treatment approaches that correspond with the behavioral problems and DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories in The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planner Offers sample progress notes that conform to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies, including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA Presents new and updated information on the role of evidence-based practice in progress notes writing and the special status of progress notes under HIPAA