Overview
Nutrition: weight/obesity control, diets, meal planning, vitamins and minerals, herbal supplements
Exercise, expressive movement, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness
Writing, from structured protocols/workbooks to less structured focused, expressive, and guided writing, including diaries and autobiographies
Sex, sexuality, affection, intimacy, friendship, and support groups
Mother/child bonding as well as couple and family togetherness.
Spirituality and forgiveness, and many other leading-edge interventions
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Introduction
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Primary Interventions: Nutritional Approaches
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Primary Nonverbal Approaches
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Secondary Writing Approaches
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About this book
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 mental health facilities are trying to cope with limited budgets and overworked and underpaid personnel.
Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health addresses both sides of this shortfall by offering either self-administered or easily administered verbal and non-verbal interventions designed to promote positive health behaviors while requiring little or no outside funding. Editor Luciano L’Abate continues his long tradition of prolific innovations by identifying major changes in today’s health care systems and explaining how targeted, prescriptive promotion/prevention strategies can enhance traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions in key behavioral and relational areas:
- Nutrition: weight/obesity control, diets, meal planning, vitamins and minerals, herbal supplements
- Exercise, expressive movement, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness
- Writing for mental health promotion, from structured protocols/workbooks to less structured focused, expressive, and guided writing, including diaries and autobiographies
- Sex, sexuality, affection, intimacy and fear of intimacy
- Mother/child bonding as well as couple and family togetherness
- Spirituality and forgiveness in dealing with inevitable life hurts and disappointments
- Friendships and support groups
- Plus leading-edge interventions, including emotional intelligence, animal companionship, and computer technology
Reviews of each promotional approach are engaging, effective, and consistent with standard psychological practice for lasting results, either away from or in addition to non-clinical and clinical settings (schools, hospitals, senior citizen centers, etc.). L’Abate and his fifty colleagues have designed a future-oriented sourcebook for mental and public health professionals who want to maximize their resources—and those of their participants.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"A volume that proposes to describe what is known about inexpensive approaches to health promotion is a welcome overview, indeed. This survey of health promotion has a cohesive, pleasing structure that reflects the organization created by the editor. … Overall, the qualities of the presented work, especially the sections devoted to mental health promotion, are sufficient that the book is a useful start for a discussion of the benefits and risks of health promotion." (Keith E. Isenberg, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (11), 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Luciano L’Abate is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Georgia State University. He has co-edited/authored two previous books with Springer: Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy and Personality in Intimate Relationships: Socialization and Psychopathology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research, and Practice
Editors: Luciano L’Abate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36899-X
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-36898-6Published: 16 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2273-1Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-36899-3Published: 06 June 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 526
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Psychology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention