Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Research, and Practice /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: L’Abate, Luciano (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Health promotion.; Health psychology.; Health Psychology.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Most physical and mental health professionals will agree that their time, space, and funds are generally in short supply, even under optimal conditions. Their participants (clients or patients), too, will admit to similar deficits of time and patience, even with optimal motivation. Overburdened ment...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health
• Primary Interventions: Nutritional Approaches
• Diets, Health, and Weight Control: What Do We Know?
• Low-Cost Obesity Interventions: The Market for Foods
• Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Health
• Vitamins, Minerals and Health
• Herbal Medicines in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders
• Primary Nonverbal Approaches
• Daily Practices for Mindful Exercise
• Relaxation and Meditation
• Expressive Movement
• Pleasant, Pleasurable, and Positive Activities
• Secondary Writing Approaches
• The Recording of Personal Information as an Intervention and~as~an Electronic Health Support
• Teaching to Remember Ourselves: The Autobiographical Methodology
• Expressive Writing: An Alternative to Traditional Methods*
• Workbooks for the Promotion of Mental Health and Life-Long Learning
• Computers and the Internet
• Secondary Relational Approaches
• Maternal-Infant Contact and Child Development: Insights from the Kangaroo Intervention
• Touch Interventions Positively Affect Development
• Non-Erotic Physical Affection: It’s Good for You
• Sex, Sexuality, and Sensuality
• Intimacy and Fear of Intimacy
• Low-Cost Interventions for Promoting Forgiveness
• Spirituality in Achieving Physical and Psychological Health and Well-Being: Theory, Research and Low Cost Interventions*
• Tertiary Multi-Personal Approaches
• Friendship, Social Support, and Health
• Animal Companions
• Applications of Emotional Intelligence to Schools and Workplace
• Conclusion
• Implications of Prescriptive Approaches for Policy, Health Promotion, Epidemiology, and Public Health.