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Amazon.com Books: Pica disorder
Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why? Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera Young creates a portrait of pica, or nonfood cravings, from humans' earliest ingestions to current trends and practices. In engaging detail, she describes the substances most frequently consumed and the many methods (including the Internet) used to obtain them. She reveals how pica is remarkably prevalent (it occurs in nearly every human culture and throughout the animal kingdom), identifies its most avid partakers (pregnant women and young children), and describes the potentially healthful and harmful effects. She evaluates the many hypotheses about the causes of pica, from the fantastical to the scientific, including hunger, nutritional deficiencies, and protective capacities. Never has a book examined pica so thoroughly or accessibly, merging absorbing history with intimate case studies to illuminate an enigmatic behavior deeply entwined with human biology and culture. (6/16/2011)Author: Sera Young Hardcover: 240 pages Company: Columbia University Press (2011-02-14) ISBN: 0231146086 List Price: $29.50 Amazon Price: $14.65 Used Price: $13.05 Avoiding hard-to-understand medical jargon, the four-volume “Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health” uses language that parents can understand, while still providing enough depth to benefit today's health science students. The set provides in-depth coverage of pediatric diseases and disorders, along with issues related to physical and cognitive/behavioral development. Author: L., Jr., MD, DrPH Fallon Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2006) List Price: $2.45 Amazon Price: $2.45 
This leading text and clinical guide offers best-practice recommendations for assessing a comprehensive array of child and adolescent mental health problems and health risks. Prominent authorities present evidence-based approaches that can be used in planning, implementing, and evaluating real-world clinical services. Coverage encompasses behavior disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, developmental disorders, maltreatment, and adolescent problems. The volume emphasizes the need to evaluate clients' strengths as well as their deficits, and to take into account the developmental, biological, familial, and cultural contexts of problem behavior. Paperback: 866 pages Company: The Guilford Press (2009-12-23) ISBN: 1606236156 List Price: $50.00 Amazon Price: $38.30 Used Price: $40.00 
This much-needed resource comprehensively reviews the current status of research on nutrition in chronic diseases and developmental disorders of children and helps translate this research into clinical practice. It provides a wealth of information on the nutritional implications of diseases' states; how nutrition can affect brain development, learning child behavior and how to impove the health status of pediatric patients through nutritional measures. Assessment, prevention, and treatment are all covered. The chapters focus on biochemical and clinical abnormalities, techniques for evaluating nutrition including behavior, nutritional management, and follow-up procedures. Well-organized and user-friendly, the book will continue to be of great value to pediatricians, nutritionists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, family practitioners, and dietitians as well as students and residents in those fields. The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on botanicals, genetics and nutritional aspects of birth defects, vegetarianism, obesity/eating disorders, autism, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, among other topics. Also available from the author is a Self-Study Guide with multiple choice questions and a few case studies 35 CPE/CME credits are available until 2015. For more information contact Dr. Ekvall at ekvallr@aol.com or shirley.ekvall@uc.edu or call 513-522-1403.Hardcover: 560 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2005-03-03) ISBN: 0195165640 List Price: $85.00 Amazon Price: $78.16 Used Price: $65.11 
'There is no how-to manual when it comes to helping teenagers with the multitude of issues they'll face during their adolescence. Whether you work with teens or are trying to parent them, you've probably already run into a few things that you felt completely unprepared or ill equipped to deal with. You are not alone! In this hard-hitting series of books, you'll find answers to the difficult questions you face when challenges arise. Knowing that ninety-five percent of all the people with diagnosed eating disorders are teenage girls, it's likely that you'll encounter this issue if you interact with teens. In What Do I Do When Teenagers Struggle with Eating Disorders?, Dr. Steven Gerali will help you: * Understand eating disorders, along with the underlying issues that typically contribute to the disorders * Recognize warning signs that may mean a teen is developing an eating disorder * Realize the role and responsibility the Church has to mobilize help for teens with eating disorders * Create interventions when teens or their parents deny the problem * Develop a referral strategy for teens who need help addressing their eating disorder In this practical book, you'll discover how to identify and help a teen who is struggling with an eating disorder, and you'll find plenty of resources for help beyond what you're able to give.'Author: Steven Gerali Paperback: 128 pages Company: Zondervan/Youth Specialties (2010-07-20) ISBN: 0310291976 List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $1.05 Used Price: $4.33 This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 1462 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. The third edition of this authoritative, comprehensive, in-depth medical guide features information on medical topics in language accessible to adult laypersons. Disease/disorder articles typically cover definition; description; causes and symptoms; diagnosis; treatments; prevention; and more. Test/treatment articles typically cover definition; purposes; precautions; preparation; risks; normal and abnormal results; and much more.
Author: Stefanie, M.S. Dugan, Rebecca, PhD Frey Digital: 4 pages HTML Company: Gale (2006) List Price: $4.90 Amazon Price: $4.90 
Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Eating behaviors.Author: Hephaestus Books Paperback: 188 pages Company: Hephaestus Books (2011-08-31) ISBN: 1243287357 List Price: $22.75 Amazon Price: $17.39 The “Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders” is a comprehensive two-volume set providing detailed information on mental disorders and conditions, in an easy-to-use format. It includes entries for all 150 disorders classified in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” and also features entries for prescription, alternative and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders. Author: L. Fleming, Jr., M.D., Dr.P.H. Fallon Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2003) List Price: $2.45 Amazon Price: $2.45 
This major professional reference and text offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems. Leading contributors present applications for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, ADHD, autistic spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, the effects of maltreatment, substance use, and more. Hardcover: 884 pages Company: The Guilford Press (2006-03-22) ISBN: 1572309210 List Price: $95.00 Amazon Price: $73.07 Used Price: $61.39 
Updating and expanding a critically acclaimed and widely adopted work, this new edition offers a thorough, authoritative examination of empirically established treatments for serious psychological problems in childhood. Providing complete coverage of contemporary approaches and techniques, chapters include such timely topics as accountability in treatment, cultural sensitivity, integrated treatment practices, and new approaches to early intervention and prevention. Hardcover: 771 pages Company: The Guilford Press (1998-07-03) ISBN: 1572302763 List Price: $75.00 Amazon Price: $10.00 Used Price: $5.00 |
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