Health, Family and Children's Medical Guides and Mental Health Books
Tony Smith
A complete quick reference to symptoms and how to deal with them. It includes sections on how the body works; maintaining health and fitness for all the family; first aid; and common medical tests. There are diagnostic charts and illustrations that detail anatomy and medical procedures.
Bernard Valman
This guide contains over 40 easy-to-follow children's symptoms charts, which enable the reader to identify problems and make informed decisions. It also provides information on major childhood diseases and disorders, and gives instructions on handling an emergency and giving first aid.
Updated edition of a guide which is produced in conjunction with and fully endorsed by the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Topics range from conception to birth, feeding, sleep, and child development, through toilet training and play to relationships.
Offers a new approach to a lifetime of healthy eating, discussing problems with the USDA's Food Pyramid, the difficulties with conventional nutritional wisdom, and key foods that help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other ailments.
This guide suggests practical ways of improving many aspects of our lives - our relationships, moods, health, and work. These methods have been developed from the authors' personal experience to help people with the stresses and strains of life and enable them to increase their effectiveness in management.
A well written and clearly designed general reference book on mental health for use by patient, client, family, and practitioner alike. Written from an American perspective that combines professional knowlege and common sense advice on how to go about finding practical treatment and solutions for the wide range of mental problems that any one of us may face at some time in our lives.
This guide is intended to help anyone interested in mental health to search for and find online useful Internet and World Wide Web resources information in psychology, psychiatry, and related areas such as self-help and patient education. It explains and evaluates various search tools, newsgroups, and databases; describes specific mental health sites; and provides specific advice on how to research particular disorders.
Based on the results of five national studies involving over 2500 mental health professionals, the book reviews and rates more than 600 self-help books, autobiographies, and popular films. In addition, hundreds of helpful Internet sites are described and evaluated by a clinical psychologist, and listings are provided of national and online support groups.
