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Self-Help in Mental Health
Harwood, T. Mark; L'Abate, Luciano
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Description for Self-Help in Mental Health
Hardback. More people seek mental health advice from self-help books and sites rather than seeking therapy. This book guides readers through this maze of materials, evaluating and recommending clinically valid resources for specific clinical and sub-clinical problems. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1430.
Self-help is big business, but alas not a scienti c business. The estimated 10 billion—that’s with a “b”—spent each year on self-help in the United States is rarely guided by research or monitored by mental health professionals. Instead, marketing and metaphysics triumph. The more outrageous the “miraculous cure” and the “r- olutionary secret,” the better the sales. Of the 3,000 plus self-help books published each year, only a dozen contain controlled research documenting their effectiveness as stand-alone self-help. Of the 20,000 plus psychological and relationship web sites available on the Internet, only a couple hundred meet professional standards for accuracy ... Read more
Self-help is big business, but alas not a scienti c business. The estimated 10 billion—that’s with a “b”—spent each year on self-help in the United States is rarely guided by research or monitored by mental health professionals. Instead, marketing and metaphysics triumph. The more outrageous the “miraculous cure” and the “r- olutionary secret,” the better the sales. Of the 3,000 plus self-help books published each year, only a dozen contain controlled research documenting their effectiveness as stand-alone self-help. Of the 20,000 plus psychological and relationship web sites available on the Internet, only a couple hundred meet professional standards for accuracy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441910981
SKU
V9781441910981
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Reviews for Self-Help in Mental Health
"Harwood and L’Abate’s Self-Help in Mental Health is an information-packed reference volume for the mental health practitioner that provides a wealth of material on self-help resources and the research-based strengths and weaknesses of each as applied to just about all of the common mental health diagnoses, with a few of the more common medical diagnoses thrown in. As a bonus, ... Read more