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Understanding and facing alcohol and drug addiction
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is increasing due to the social, environmental and cultural characteristics of our society. It tends to present itself more and more in the form of “poly-abuse” or be associated with behavioural addictions such as gambling or the pathological use of the internet. Despite this, drug addiction has been and still is the Cinderella of psychiatric disorders, considered “chronic and relapsing” and not very responsive to treatments. This book is intended to provide recent information on the disorder and the main factors that contribute to the increasing the vulnerability to it, as well as indications on the main treatments available.
It includes worksheets and materials that the patient can use to undertake an initial monitoring of their symptoms and analyse their determination to change, and provides valuable information to family members and acquaintances on the most effective strategies to be implemented when the typical problems that accompany SUD arise.
Introduction
1. Preliminary Information
2. Etiopathogenesis of SUD
3. Psychopathology of SUD
4. Treatment of SUD
5. Practical indications for the patient
6. Practical indications for family and friends
BEAT YOUR OBSESSIONS
UNDERSTANDING AND DEALING WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
This book illustrates in detail the characteristics and possibilities of treatment and proposes a cognitive behavioural therapy based self-help program. Designed for those affected by this problem and their families, it is also an excellent tool for professionals to use during psychotherapy treatments. Find out more!
MANAGING SOCIAL ANXIETY
Strategies for controlling and dealing with shyness
Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, this book offers a programme for bringing anxiety down to manageable levels. It starts with a short test which assesses the «temperature» of our anxiety; then the following are presented – strategies and practical exercises, accompanied by detailed descriptions and worksheets to complete, in order to face anticipatory anxiety and post-event processing, cognitive restructuring techniques and mediation exercises for facing the most difficult situations. Find out more!
Overcoming depression
A cognitive-behavioral therapy program
Overcoming depression is difficult, but possible, often without the help of medication. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy helps to modify the negative behavior and the modes of dysfunctional thinking that trigger and maintain it. With simple but precise language and through numerous examples and practical exercises, this self-help manual accompanies the reader step-by-step on a therapeutic path. Find out more!
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MENOPAUSE
Psychological strategies to deal with symptoms and difficulties
The volume offers various strategies and practical advice to help women recognize the physical and psychological effects of menopause and strengthen their ability to react constructively and effectively to the condition they are experiencing. It is complete with information, exercises, suggestions, and reflection points to independently identify and correct thoughts and behaviors that work against well-being. The volume is intended as a practical and immediate self-help manual. Find out more!
THE ART OF HEALING YOUR HEART
Overcoming the break-up and returning to happiness
Starting in childhood, human beings learn to bond with others, to share experiences and predict the behaviour of their fellows. They are made to build relationships. The art of repairing a heart will accompany the reader, through ten steps, in the various phases that follow the end of love, in the re-acquisition of trust and self-esteem, and in the development of a greater awareness of oneself and relationships. Find out more!
Do I love you or don’t I?
Overcoming obsessions about relationship and partner
A self-help manual for people suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in relationships, to help them understand the mechanisms involved in the origin and maintenance of obsessions with relationships and with partners. This volume proposes a programme and self-assessment tools with the aim of understanding how this disorder works, what the exactly typology that concerns the reader is and learn easy-to-use techniques and strategies to alleviate anxieties and improve the quality of life and relationships. Find out more!
Understanding and overcoming trauma
A guide to coping with psychological trauma
This book offers concrete help to victims of traumatic experiences to help them recognize, understand and normalize their reactions to those experiences. However, the volume is also addressed to the people (family members, relatives, friends) who offer them support, and to workers in the fields of medicine and psychology. Thanks to the effective psychological interventions proposed, the volume will help trauma victims obtain relatively fast and lasting meaningful results. Find out more!
FEAR OF FEELING
How to manage the “danger” of emotions
This book describes the many ways we devise to distort and deceive our emotions, and shows the negative consequences that this entails. Drawing on strategies from sensorimotor psychotherapy and from mindfulness techniques, the book presents practical exercises aimed at mastering body sensations and emotions that will help the reader to gradually overcome their fears. Emotions are analyzed through techniques that don’t depend on conscious thinking, but are grounded in innate and spontaneous emotional and bodily processes. Find out more!
AM I OK?
Self-esteem and assertiveness
Am I ok? is a self-help manual providing advice and suggestions on how to develop our potentialities and get the best out of our professional and personal relationships. This book is full of examples and exercises that will help discover the behaviors and thoughts which limit or disturb our social relations. It provides guidance on how to deal with life situations that can undermine our self-confidence and teaches us to appreciate ourselves along the way. Find out more!
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Dealing with colitis with cognitive behavioral therapy
With simple but scientific language, illustrative examples and numerous exercises, this self-help manual accompanies the reader step-by-step on a path aimed at modifying behaviors and styles of thought that feed the problem, as well as managing the stress and difficulties caused by gastrointestinal symptoms. Find out more!
Living with fibromyalgia
Psychological strategies for dealing with chronic pain
This book offers the most up-to-date scientific information regarding the characteristics, causes and possible treatment of fibromyalgia and accompanies readers step by step in a psychological self-help programme that will help them more effectively deal with pain, significantly improving their quality of life. Find out more!
Substance use and abuse
Understanding and facing alcohol and drug addiction
This book is intended to provide recent information on the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and the main factors that contribute to increasing the vulnerability to it, as well as indications on the main treatments available. Find out more!
EXERCISE BOOKS FOR SELF-HELP
A series of practical workbooks designed to help people learn how to take care of themselves and improve their quality of life by independently practising strategies and techniques used in cognitive behavioural therapy. Through specific, structured exercises, readers can address particular psychological difficulties by applying CBT strategies and techniques entirely on their own. The workbooks can be used by those who do not wish to, or are unable to, undertake a therapeutic pathway, as well as by clinicians who want their patients to practise between sessions. The psychological difficulties addressed include: ADHD, social and generalised anxiety, assertiveness, emotional dependency, obsessions.
