David Harper

Paula Reavey

John Cromby

This core text explores the complex web of factors interacting in cases of mental distress. Aligned with current mental health practice, its innovative approach integrates evidence with critique and fully covers the debates raised in abnormal psychology courses.

Psychology, Mental Health and Distress

Andrew R. Thompson

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena. Chapters are written by leading researchers and the editors are experienced qualitative researchers, clinical trainers, and mental health practitioners Provides chapter-by-chapter guidance on conducting a qualitative study from across a range of approaches Offers guidance on how to review and appraise existing qualitative literature, how to choose the most appropriate method, and how to consider ethical issues Demonstrates how specific methods have been applied to questions in mental health research Uses examples drawn from recent research, including research with service users, in mental health practice and in psychotherapy

A Guide for Students and Practitioners

Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy

John Maynard Smith

The late John Maynard Smith

Why are most animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical studies made, but a considerable amount of confusion still remains. The authors, one a theoretician the other a fieldworker, introduce a sense of order to this chaos. They disentangle the complex and often confusing terminology that characterises the subject, and then challenge the widely held assumption that there is only one correct explanation for signal reliability. The authors argue that the reliability of signals is maintained in several ways, relevant in different circumstances, and that biologists must learn to distinguish between them. In this book they explain the different theories, give examples of signalling systems to which one or another theory applies, and point to the many areas where further work, both theoretical and empirical, is required.

Animal Signals

Provides descriptions and the most recent prices for coins of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in eleven grades of condition, and covers popular collections, mint errors, and profiting from Internet selling and buying.

2008 North American Coins & Prices

Harry Miller

Your all-in-one guide! Featuring more than 50,000 individual coin listings and updated coin prices for the United States, Canada and Mexico, North American Coins & Prices is the perfect all-in-one guide for coin collectors, enthusiasts and dealers. Organized by country, denomination and date of issue, the catalog provides a clear, detailed and easy-to-use resource to a vast array of coins. The U.S. section begins with early Colonial coins and tokens of the 17th and 18th centuries and follows through Federal issues from 1792 forward. The listings for Mexico begin in 1701 while Canada's listings begin with its earliest unified coinage in 1858. Inside you will find: • Pricing, descriptions and photos for current coin issues of the United States, Canada and Mexico • A photo-grading guide to help in making informed assessments of coin conditions • A guide to identification and valuation of error coinage • Graphs tracking price performance of "key date" U.S. coins

A Guide to U.S., Canadian and Mexican Coins

2015 North American Coins & Prices

2007 North American Coins & Prices

Playing for the Lostbhoys 2

Musing and Contemplation from a Poetic Mind

Academic and scientist Dr. David Harper offers a new approach to eating healthy: a low-carb, moderate-protein, high-fat plan that works with the body's natural processes to improve health and reverse decades of damage wrought by our collective carb addiction. Drawing on the latest research in nutritional science, this isn't a quick fix designed to help shed ten pounds before beach season - it's a lifestyle choice that will leave you happier and healthier for life.

The Scientifically Proven, Ketogenic Way to Lose Weight and Improve Health

BioDiet

What does the word 'schizophrenia' mean to you? Perhaps your first thought is of someone with a medical condition that involves some kind of brain disease? But what if you knew that the person in question had been through a traumatic childhood? Would that change how you thought about their mental health? And what impact does this have on how we as a society interact with people with mental distress? Psychology, Mental Health and Distress is the first mainstream textbook that reconsiders the traditional emphasis on the biological and psychiatric models for what is commonly, but contentiously, known as 'abnormal psychology' or 'psychopathology'. It provides a fully rounded account of mental distress, including social and relationship causes, and challenges your preconceptions about what you think you know about mental health. Key features: * Reflects new approaches to mental health and the kinds of psychological interventions (or 'treatments') for those experiencing distress, moving away from a limited diagnostic model * Offers a wealth of case stories to portray the reality of living with distress, building your empathy to encourage sensitive practice * Fully informed by current experimental, qualitative and theoretical psychological research including research into hearing voices * Written by a team of leading clinical and social psychologists with additional contributions by renowned figures including Richard Bentall, a bestselling Penguin author whose Madness Explained won the 2004 BPS Book Award * Includes a chapter authored by those with first-hand experience of mental health services, ensuring you understand the nuances of this emotionally charged, and often controversial, topic The authors draw from a range of experience, examples and approaches to present this student-friendly and engaging text: core reading for anyone serious about understanding mental health issues.

Playing For The LostBhoys

Out of desperation, following a tragic loss, a unique engineer with unusual autistic traits is forced out of his lone obsession with Nature, evolution, and life in an attempt to save humanity. He knows and is confident that he can prove that life is programmed to evolve based on generational persistent stress. He is also confident that he can point out the telltale signs of how humanity is slowly changing and will ultimately become something much different. His goal is to somehow figure out a way to get humanity to see this so they can save themselves. To help him, he enlists his friend Jessica and shows her this programming that is within all life. He reveals to her a hidden world within Nature showing her how it truly works.The journey takes them through the birth of humanity at the bottleneck from hominid to human, the origin of empathy in the human race, the cause of the Cambrian explosion, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the power of the epigenome, the evolutionary controller inside of us and how giraffes got their long necks, among many other things.Ever since the dawn of the industrial revolution, humans have been altering the planet and the environment more and more to what we see today. For billions of years, life and all life forms existed in a natural equilibrium to now one species dominating every reach of the planet.Yet, to achieve this dominance we have created a world far beyond our original evolutionary adaptation. In other words, we have unknowingly created our own new persistent stresses. Pesticides, food manipulation, air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, work stresses. The list is nearly endless for things now in our environment beyond our original adaptation. Life, as you will learn, is programmed to measure these new stresses and pass this information to future generations. Meaning, as humanity tries to push further and further forward, our biology will ultimately react, respond and physically change itself to resolve these stresses. Follow two engineers as they uncover what is truly happening to the human race and their ultimate attempt to save them.

Nature Correcting the Anomaly

This book provides detailed, up-to-date knowledge that will help property professionals become successful in the hotel market. The book includes a range of valuation practices and shows the reader the most effective way to read, manage and work their way through this highly competitive market. The author focuses on current methodology and practice within the hotel market, the market trends and legalities which will change or amplify those practices, and further sets out property investment options with real examples.

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