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Book: Overcoming Panic Attacks

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Book Title:

Overcoming Panic Attacks – Effective Strategies for Facing Anxiety and Taking Charge of Your Life.

Author(s): David Shanley, PsyD.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Rockridge Press.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Prevail over panic attacks – evidence-based strategies for getting your life back

Whether you are new to having panic attacks or have suffered from them for many years, you can free yourself from the grip they have on your life. Overcoming Panic Attacks is filled with effective strategies that offer you different ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving so you can increase your flexibility in uncomfortable situations and go after the life you want.

Drawing from his personal experience, expertise, and clinical work, Dr. David Shanley unpacks the mystery around panic attacks across many different life situations and offers you hope and tangible strategies to effectively manage your panic attacks.

Overcoming Panic Attacks includes:

  • Evidence-based strategies: Discover practical strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
  • Anxiety vs. panic: Learn the important differences between anxiety and panic, including detailed symptoms and experiences of each.
  • Go deeper: Explore helpful suggestions on how to take some of the strategies to the next level by turning inward to complete more in-depth exercises.

Reduce the frequency and severity of your panic attacks with these scientifically supported strategies so you can get back to feeling and functioning like yourself again.

Book: Out of My Mind

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Book Title:

Out of My Mind: A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back.

Author(s): Shalom Camenietzki.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: University of Regina Press.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

On paper, psychologist Dr. Shalom Camenietzski seemed to have it all – a beautiful family, a thriving practice, and supportive friends and colleagues.

But in reality, he lived a life of turmoil – obsessive daydreams of taking his life, flamboyant periods of mania, disturbing acts of violence against his wife and son, and various episodes of psychosis, one of which would see him speeding his car the wrong way up Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway.

Able to understand the clinical profile of his bipolar disorder, he was nonetheless powerless to stop it.

A fascinating account of a “”mentally disordered healer,”” Out of My Mind reveals the strengths and fallibilities of traditional psychotherapies and shows how Dr. Camenietzki finally obtained a symptom-free life.

Book: NLP Dark Psychology

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Book Title:

NLP Dark Psychology – Neuro-Linguistic Programming Techniques: The Essential Guide To Persuade and Influence People, Learn to Detect Deception, Covert Manipulation and Brainwashing Behaviour.

Author(s): J.R. Smith.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback, Audiobook, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Has it come to your realisation that some people have the ability to dupe others using manipulative techniques and can as well get tricked by others using many secrets of dark psychology?

Some has the ability to victimise other people by preying on them. Whereas many restrain from this tendency, there are those who act on these instincts.

In this book you can discover Dark Psychology Techniques that are used by people to influence, manipulate, and coerce others to get whatsoever they want.

For so many years now, the concept of mind control has existed, and people have shown both fear and fascination of what would take place if an individual would control their thoughts and minds and lead them to do things that are against their wish and will.

There have been conspiracy theories on how government officials, as well as other influential persons, use their talents and capacities to control actions of the minorities and small groups.

Inside the book, you will come across interesting topics such as:

  • How We Receive Information.
  • The Animalistic Nature of the Brain.
  • The Dark Side of Manipulation.
  • How People Use Our Map of Reality Against Us.
  • Examples of Manipulation We Can Find in Our Day-To-Day Lives
  • Simple Mind Control Techniques to Use.
  • Personalities Likely to Manipulate.
  • Why Reframing is so Important.
  • NLP and Depression.
  • NLP and Anxiety.
  • Different Ways That You Are Persuaded Subliminally.

This is just a tiny fraction of what you will discover

Each of the mind control tactics works in a different way.

In the modern world, dark psychology is among the most powerful forces used by the most influential people to manipulate others.

People who are uninformed are in the danger of having it used against them.

Just imagine how different your life would be if you could get prospective customers, colleagues, employees, investors, friends, and literally anyone to do what you want them to do without you having to beg, cajole, or threaten.

So even if you have tried to learn these skills before but still feel lost and frustrated, this guide will give you the practical tools and knowledge to read and understand people in a way few others ever will.

On This Day … 25 September

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People (Births)

  • 1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010).

People (Deaths)

  • 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1878).
  • 2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (b. 1917).
  • 2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936).
  • 2013 – Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (b. 1930).

What is the Impact of COVID-19 & Lockdown on the Mental Health of Children & Adolescents?

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Research Paper Title

Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations.

Background

COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown has brought about a sense of fear and anxiety around the globe. This phenomenon has led to short term as well as long term psychosocial and mental health implications for children and adolescents.

The quality and magnitude of impact on minors is determined by many vulnerability factors like developmental age, educational status, pre-existing mental health condition, being economically underprivileged or being quarantined due to infection or fear of infection.

This paper is aimed at narratively reviewing various articles related to mental-health aspects of children and adolescents impacted by COVID-19 pandemic and enforcement of nationwide or regional lockdowns to prevent further spread of infection.

Methods

The researchers conducted a review and collected articles and advisories on mental health aspects of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. They selected articles and thematically organised them. The researchers put up their major findings under the thematic areas of impact on young children, school and college going students, children and adolescents with mental health challenges, economically underprivileged children, impact due to quarantine and separation from parents and the advisories of international organisations. They have also provided recommendations to the above.

Conclusions

There is a pressing need for planning longitudinal and developmental studies, and implementing evidence based elaborative plan of action to cater to the psycho social and mental health needs of the vulnerable children and adolescents during pandemic as well as post pandemic.

There is a need to ameliorate children and adolescents’ access to mental health support services geared towards providing measures for developing healthy coping mechanisms during the current crisis.

For this innovative, child and adolescent mental health policies with direct and digital collaborative networks of psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatricians, and community volunteers are deemed necessary.

Reference

Singh, S., Roy, D., Sinha, K., Parveen, S. Sharma, G. & Joshi, G. (2020) Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations. Psychiatry Research. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113429. Online ahead of print.

Book: New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology – Volume 02

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Book Title:

New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology – Volume 02: Modelling and Measurement.

Author(s): William H. Batchelder, Hans Colonius, and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov (Editors).

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Type(s): Hardcover and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The field of mathematical psychology began in the 1950s and includes both psychological theorizing, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics motivated by substantive problems in psychology.

Central to its success was the publication of the first Handbook of Mathematical Psychology in the 1960s. The psychological sciences have since expanded to include new areas of research, and significant advances have been made in both traditional psychological domains and in the applications of the computational sciences to psychology.

Upholding the rigor of the original Handbook, the New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology reflects the current state of the field by exploring the mathematical and computational foundations of new developments over the last half-century.

The second volume focuses on areas of mathematics that are used in constructing models of cognitive phenomena and decision making, and on the role of measurement in psychology.

Book: New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology – Volume 01

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Book Title:

New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology – Volume 01: Foundation and Methodology.

Author(s): William H. Batchelder, Hans Colonius, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, and Jay Myung (Editors).

Year: 2016.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The field of mathematical psychology began in the 1950s and includes both psychological theorising, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics, motivated by substantive problems in psychology.

Central to its success was the publication of the first Handbook of Mathematical Psychology in the 1960s. The psychological sciences have since expanded to include new areas of research, and significant advances have been made in both traditional psychological domains and in the applications of the computational sciences to psychology.

Upholding the rigor of the first title in this field to be published, the New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology reflects the current state of the field by exploring the mathematical and computational foundations of new developments over the last half-century.

This first volume focuses on select mathematical ideas, theories, and modeling approaches to form a foundational treatment of mathematical psychology.

Book: Molecular Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery

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Book Title:

Molecular Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery: The 12 Steps Program and Fellowship (SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience).

Author(s): Kenneth Blum, John Femino, Scott Teitelbaum, John Giordano, Marlene Oscar-Berman, and Mark Gold.

Year: 2013.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Springer.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Since Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935, its 12 step programme of spiritual and character development has helped individuals overcome addiction.

This book takes a systematic look at the molecular neurobiology associated with each of the 12 steps.

Book: Minding Closely – The Four Applications of Mindfulness

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Book Title:

Minding Closely – The Four Applications of Mindfulness.

Author(s): B. Alan Wallace.

Year: 2012.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Snow Lion Publications.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Bringing his experience as a monk, scientist, and contemplative, Alan Wallace offers a rich synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions along with a comprehensive range of meditation practices interwoven throughout the text.

The guided meditations are systematically presented, beginning with very basic instructions, which are then gradually built upon as one gains increasing familiarity with the practice.

Book: Mindfulness Meditation in Psychotherapy

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Book Title:

Mindfulness Meditation In Psychotherapy – An Integrated Model For Clinicians.

Author(s): Steven A. Alper, MSW LCSW.

Year: 2016.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Context Press.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Embodying mindfulness allows both therapists and clients to make the most of treatment sessions. More than just a guide to techniques and benefits, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of mindfulness meditation, and shows how to effectively incorporate mindfulness into every aspect of the therapeutic process.

Mindfulness is not simply a therapeutic tool that can be used at a specific time. If you are a psychotherapist interested in implementing mindfulness practices into your therapy sessions, you must first embody a mindful presence yourself. In Mindfulness Meditation in Psychotherapy, psychotherapist Steven Alper presents the mindfulness pyramid model, an easy-to-use reference approach for integrating mindfulness into the very fabric of your therapy sessions – in every action you take.

A therapist’s mindfulness practice and the mindful activity during sessions forms the foundation of clients’ mindfulness practice. This practical guide will help demystify mindfulness meditation; elaborate on the psychotherapeutic benefits of practices such as body scan, breath awareness, sitting meditation, and lovingkindness; and offer helpful strategies for teaching formal and informal mindfulness skills to clients. This book conceptualises and explores the applicability of mindfulness and delves into the many ways in which mindfulness can manifest in psychotherapy.

This is a must-have resource for any therapist interested in honing their own mindfulness practice and incorporating mindfulness in treatment sessions.