The Republic Of Therapy

Author : Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822393506
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Therapy written by Vinh-Kim Nguyen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and 2000, when the global health community acknowledged a right to treatment, making the drugs more available. During the intervening years, when antiretrovirals were scarce in Africa, triage decisions were made determining who would receive lifesaving treatment. Nguyen explains how those decisions altered social relations in West Africa. In 1994, anxious to “break the silence” and “put a face to the epidemic,” international agencies unwittingly created a market in which stories about being HIV positive could be bartered for access to limited medical resources. Being able to talk about oneself became a matter of life or death. Tracing the cultural and political logic of triage back to colonial classification systems, Nguyen shows how it persists in contemporary attempts to design, fund, and implement mass treatment programs in the developing world. He argues that as an enactment of decisions about who may live, triage constitutes a partial, mobile form of sovereignty: what might be called therapeutic sovereignty.

Author : Christina Hoff Sommers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429908955
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under Therapy written by Christina Hoff Sommers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Being "in touch with one's feelings" and freely expressing them have become paramount personal virtues. Today-with a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every conceivable problem-we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges. Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. Help is offered everywhere under the presumption that we need it: in children's classrooms, the workplace, churches, courtrooms, the media, the military. But with all the "help" comes a host of troubling consequences, including: * The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hypercompetitive, and depressed or suicidal schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication * The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, addiction, and other foibles and vices * The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedy, offering dubious advice while billing plenty of money * The expansion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from an affliction of war veterans to nearly everyone who has experienced a setback Intelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.

Author : Dieter Kotte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527541746
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Forest Therapy written by Dieter Kotte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first International Handbook of Forest Therapy defines the scientific domain of this innovative, evidence-based and timely public health approach. More than 50 authors from around the world are brought together to offer their expertise and insights about forest therapy from a variety of research perspectives. The theoretical discussion of the effects related to the biophilia hypothesis presented here is complemented by research results compiled across the last three decades in the fields of forest medicine and biochemistry from Asia. The book also highlights the latest developments with regards to forest therapy in a number of different countries, ranging from China and Australia to Germany and Austria. The handbook constitutes a major milestone in research in this field. It sets the baseline for forest therapy to be implemented worldwide as a powerful and financially prudent public health practice.

Author : Feng Zhao
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464815240
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tackling the World's Fastest-Growing HIV Epidemic written by Feng Zhao and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Europe and Central Asia region has the world’s fastestgrowing HIV epidemic. Although still concentrated, the epidemic has diversified, affecting several key populations in many countries. This change has increased the number of people in need, the ways the epidemic can spread, and the complexity of formulating an effective strategy to combat it. At the same time, international funding is insufficient to cover the growing need, and domestic plans to cover the funding gaps, in many cases, fall short. In this environment, the need to use data to make the best possible decisions about using available funds is essential. Tackling the World’s Fastest-Growing HIV Epidemic tells the story of how, in 11 countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, small groups of decision-makers and experts came together to carry out innovative, groundbreaking analyses for each country. It details the steps these nations have taken to strengthen their HIV programs based on the findings while highlighting critical issues for the road ahead. In so doing, the book also shows the potential of what can be done with a mathematical model and how it can support real-life improvements in policy and more efficacious budget allocations. It is the record of a unique undertaking to improve public health investments that offers lessons for many communities.

Author : S. S. Abdool Karim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139487931
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS in South Africa written by S. S. Abdool Karim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the book provides up-to-date information on new drugs, new proven HIV prevention interventions, a new chapter on positive prevention, and current HIV epidemiology. This definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region.

Author : Christine Cynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814254981
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prevention written by Christine Cynn and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of HIV prevention media demonstrating the intertwining of politics and economics, media and morality, and heteronormativity and neoliberalism.

Author : Diane Dirette
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 1975154967
Total Pages : 2008 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction written by Diane Dirette and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help students become effective, reflective practitioners, this fully updated edition of the most widely used occupational therapy text for the course continues to emphasize the “whys” as well as the “how-tos” of holistic assessment and treatment. Now in striking full color and co-edited by renowned educators and authors Diane Powers Dirette and Sharon Gutman, Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction, Eighth Edition features expert coverage of the latest assessment techniques and most recent trends in clinical practice. In addition, the book now explicitly integrates “Frames of Reference” to help students connect theories to practice and features a new six-part organization, thirteen all-new chapters, new pedagogy, and more.

Author : A. D. Harries
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241546344
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TB/HIV written by A. D. Harries and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is designed for health professionals working in high HIV and TB prevalence countries. It summarises the characteristics of both diseases and their interactions. It concentrates particularly on the problems of diagnosis and management both in adults and children and summarises the other HIV related illnesses the clinician might encounter.

Author : Eve K. Nichols
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674414808
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Gene Therapy written by Eve K. Nichols and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nichols explores the potential for gene therapy and identifies those who are candidates for it. Having provided a biomedical background for understanding somatic cell gene therapy, she takes a thoughtful look at complex and sensitive issues surrounding ethical, economic, and policy aspects of manipulating human genes.

Author : Kathryn Karusaitis Basham
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231509235
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Legacy written by Kathryn Karusaitis Basham and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To serve the increasing numbers of individuals who have survived interpersonal and domestic violence, or as refugees, have sought asylum from political violence, armed conflict, or torture, Transforming the Legacy presents an innovative relationship-based and culturally informed couple therapy practice model that is grounded in a synthesis of psychological and social theories. This unique couple therapy model encompasses three phases of clinical practice: Phase I entails a process of establishing safety, stabilization, and a context for changing legacies of emotional, sexual, and/or physical abuse. Phase II guides reflection on the trauma narrative. The goal of phase III is to consolidate new perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors. Within these phases, the model—illustrated with rich case studies—focuses on specific issues, including: intersubjectivity between the client and clinician (such as transference and countertransference, vicarious traumatization, and racial identity development); intrapersonal, interactional, and institutional factors; the role of the "victim-victimizer-bystander" dynamic in the couple and therapeutic relationships; preserving a locus of control with clients; flexibility in decisionmaking regarding clinical processes; and specific practice themes, such as the composition of a couple, the role of violence, parenting, sexuality, affairs, dual diagnoses, and dissociation. A dramatic departure from formulaic therapeutic approaches, this biopsychosocial model emphasizes the crafting of specific treatment plans and specific clinical interventions to show how couple therapy can transform the legacies of childhood traumatic events for a wide range of populations, including military couples and families, gay lesbian/bisexual/transgendered couples and families, and immigrant and refugee couples and families. This thorough attention to issues of cultural diversity distinguish Transforming the Legacy from the current literature and make it an invaluable resource for clinicians in a wide range of professional disciplines.