Product Description: This innovative manual presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes. Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy focuses on stabilizing moods by improving medication adherence, building coping skills and relationship satisfaction, and shoring up the regularity of daily rhythms or routines...read more

Product Description: Americans have fallen for the ticker tape. We watch our portfolios, happily or nervously. We know there were a few bad apples at Enron and World Com, but we also know:* The advent of mutual funds, low-cost brokerages, and the Internet has meant that the stock market is now more transparent, honest, and accessible to the small investor than ever before;* 401(k)s give the individual responsibility and control over their retirement savings, and that makes us more responsible citizens;* Federal deficits are bad for the economy, especially, somehow, when they're linked to social spending; and* Controlling inflation is the most important task of our economic policy...read more

Product Description: Americans have fallen for the ticker tape. We watch our portfolios, happily or nervously. We know there were a few bad apples at Enron and World Com, but we also know:* The advent of mutual funds, low-cost brokerages, and the Internet has meant that the stock market is now more transparent, honest, and accessible to the small investor than ever before;* 401(k)s give the individual responsibility and control over their retirement savings, and that makes us more responsible citizens;* Federal deficits are bad for the economy, especially, somehow, when they're linked to social spending; and* Controlling inflation is the most important task of our economic policy...read more

Product Description: The nineteenth edition of Real World Macro is a lively and thought-provoking supplement to introductory and intermediate macro-economics textbooks. Real World Macro asks the questions that standard textbooks largely neglect: What's so great about growth? Is unemployment "natural"? What's so new about the New Economy? Along with covering the basics -- monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment -- Real World Macro includes a chapter on major controversies in macroeconomics, such as the legacy of Keynesianism in the United States and the basics of Marxist economic theory...read more

Product Description: Starting in embryonic development, gender has profound influences on us. Endocrine receptors in the brain affect cognition, mood, and behavior differently in males and females, and gender roles inevitably affect our psychosocial experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This series of three clinical programs reveals additions and changes from DSM-III-R to DSM-IV for mood, psychotic, and anxiety disorders. Each videotape focuses on one particular area of psychiatric diagnosis and contains enactments of three outstanding clinicians& rsquo; actual patient interviews...read more

Product Description: Based upon and adapted from Aaron T. Beck's cognitive therapy for depressed adults, this long-awaited volume provides general strategies and specific tactics for the use of cognitive therapy with depressed adolescents. Featuring strategies derived from years of clinical work and repeated testing, Cognitive Therapy for Depressed Adolescents provides patient-therapist narratives that convey a clinical feel for how this therapy works, as well as actual case vignettes illustrating effective techniques for diagnosis and treatment...read more