Published April, 2013
By Paul Ahmed
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Mental Health
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The purpose of the book is to examine the multiple issues growing out of the hospital closings: Why are the state hospitals being closed? What is the impact of closings on patients, hospital staff, and the communities where the hospitals are located?

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Published February, 2013
By George V. Coelho
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Mental Health
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Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities.

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Published March, 2012
By Rudolf Moos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Mental Health
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This book discusses how human beings cope with serious physical ill ness and injury. A conceptual model for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of illness is provided, and basic adaptive tasks and types of coping skills are identified.

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Published March, 2012
By Stanley Plog
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Mental Health
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The emphasis of most consultations is on improving the quality of life for various groups of people, on making impossible living situations more bearable, and "broadly on assisting people to face the daily challenges in their lives.

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Published November, 2011
By P. I. Ahmed
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Mental Health
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It is generally recognized today that the United States has a need to contri bute to the improvement of health throughout the world. The need stems from the interrelationships that exist between the health of Americans and the health status of the rest of the people on "Spaceship Earth."

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