ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENTAL HEALTH

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BOOK • EMHB775W

Price $75.95

Program Contents:  520 pages

Captioning: N/A

Copyright Date: 2008

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, mental health disorders led to more than 40 million doctor visits and 2 million emergency room visits in 2002.

The Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Third Edition is a revised and updated A-to-Z reference covering all aspects of general mental health topics. This accessible guide sorts through a maze of professional jargon to provide incisive definitions of theories, syndromes, symptoms, treatments, and contemporary issues, in language that everyone can understand, bringing readers the most up-to-date information on this subject. Presenting more than 2,000 new and updated entries with approximately 70,000 words of new text, this volume is the perfect resource for anyone dealing with this mental disorder.

Entries include:

• Adoption
• Depression
• Domestic violence
• Environmental hazards
• Holistic medicine
• Life-change rating scale
• Nervous habits
• Performance anxiety
• Pharmacology
• Reflexology
• St. John's wort
• Type A personality
• The workplace.