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

Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Research, and Practice / edited by Luciano L'Abate.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: L'Abate, Luciano (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Health psychology.
Health promotion.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 and̃as̃an 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.

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