Product Description: This significant book explains why family psychology―an entirely different field from family therapy―provides a cutting-edge description of human behavior in context and as such represents the wave of the future in psychology...read more

Now in its second edition, this volume aims to cover most of the situations a paediatrician will encounter in an ambulatory setting. Included is a new section on the newborn, and new chapters on AIDS in children, cystic fibrosis, Lyme Disease and home medical care.

Family therapy trainees are inundated with a multitude of family therapy theories. They also have difficulty shifting from an individualistic view to one of seeing interactions and systems. How do therapists hone their own methods with all of these choices? And how do they learn how to best treat families with all of the focus being taken away from their clients and redirected instead on processes? Perhaps most importantly, how can they learn through an inductive process of exploring what has occurred during the therapeutic session? Veteran therapist and founder of Structural Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin, goes back to basics with his two co-authors Michael D. Reiter and Charmaine Borda in The Craft of Family Therapy. In this book they teach readers basic communication and family therapy skills using some of Dr. Minuchin’s most interesting and illuminating cases. Not only do readers re-learn basic techniques, such as reframing and joining, but they are treated to an in-depth commentary on each case, with Dr. Minuchin emphasizing the techniques he uses that allow him to refocus attention from the Identified Patient to the family as a whole. The book ends with three supervision transcripts from Dr. Minuchin’s students, whose commentary illuminates the struggles, fears, and insecurities that new family therapists face and how they can overcome them. Each of these chapters ends with a consultation interview that Dr. Minuchin conducted with each supervisee’s case family.

Product Description: Established for over 15 years as “the gold standard in its discipline” (JAMA), Dr. Corman’s best-selling classic is now in its Fifth Edition. This encyclopedic and abundantly illustrated text provides comprehensive coverage of all diseases and traumatic injuries affecting the colon, rectum, and anus and offers step-by-step instructions on every operative procedure currently used to treat these disorders...read more

Employing a range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper - moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a mind stretcher and gives a picture of the whole.

Product Description: A reference providing practical guidelines on patient care issues and medical problems that arise in office-based paediatric practice. All chapters follow a consistent format designed for quick information retrieval and many chapters include treatment algorithms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)