Books

New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being

Géraldine Mossière

Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes religious behaviors into a religious marketplace framed by consumerist and capitalist models, this volume draws on ethnographic fieldwork to discuss the assemblage between the well-being trope and the rise of new spiritualities, as well as their deep permeation within mainstream culture. Building on previous literature that addresses the relationship between spirituality, healing and well-being, this text discusses the religious roots of mind-body practices. The contributions offer a critical perspective on the scope, limits and impacts of the current celebration of spiritualities. Part I provides theoretical insights for thinking about ways in which the prevalent ethics of well-being reframes subjectivities within the margins of neoliberal order. Part II demonstrates how spiritual economies are promoted, shaped and regulated by institutional forces such as States, law and the labor market. In part III, contributors describe in detail how spiritual economies unfold in specific cultural and social settings. The text appeals to students and researchers working on the spirituality and sociology of religion.

The Spa Manager’s Essential Guide

Mike Wallace, Melanie Smith

The Spa Manager’s Essential Guide contains all the basic day to day information on how to run a wellness, beauty or thermal spa operation successfully. It focuses on those areas that industry leaders have identified as critical and missing in today’s spa leaders, combined with advice from over 40 spa experts.

Positive Health

100+ Research-based Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Tools to Enhance Your Wellbeing

Jolanta Burke, Pádraic J. Dunne, Trudy Meehan, Ciaran A. O’Boyle, Christian van Nieuwerburgh

This comprehensive compendium offers a wealth of research-informed tools that can boost both physical and mental wellbeing throughout the lifespan. Filled with more than 100 activities to help you live life better, this book is the first of its kind to integrate the latest research from the fields of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine. Striking a careful balance between theory and practice, the book first reviews what is known about positive psychology and health, presenting a novel approach to holistic wellbeing. It then goes on to provide more than 100 tools designed to increase physical, mental and social health and wellbeing, and also to decrease the risk of illness and disease. The tools described can be used by people of all ages, whether well or experiencing illness. It includes tools that you can use to improve your nutrition and sleep, to increase your physical activity, to develop positive relationships, to develop a positive mindset and to pursue a meaning in life. These tools provide research-informed, practical advice to help you to make lasting changes and become the best possible version of yourself. This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to maintain and enhance their health and wellbeing using tools that have been shown through research to be effective. It is also a key text for students in positive psychology and healthcare, as well serving as an evidence-based reference book for coaches and health professionals who wish to recommend research-informed tools to their clients and patients.

Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region

Domination, Resistance, Accommodation

Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin, Yoko Kanemasu

Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts to discuss these issues with a sole focus on the geographic Asia-Pacific region. Presenting a diverse range of empirical case studies, from bodybuilding in Kazakhstan and Thailand, karate in Afghanistan, and women’s rugby in Fiji to women’s soccer in North Korea and netball in Papua New Guinea, the book demonstrates how sports may be used as a lens to examine the historical, socio-cultural and political specificities of non-Western and post-colonial societies. It also explores the complex ways in which non-Western women resist as well as accommodate sport and exercise-related sociocultural oppression, helping us to better understand the nexus of sport, exercise, gender, sexuality and power in the Asia-Pacific area. This is a fascinating and important resource for students of sports studies, sports management, sport development, social sciences and gender studies, as well as an excellent read for academics and researchers with an interest in sport, exercise, gender and post-colonial studies.

The Ultimate Self Care Book

Improve Your Wellbeing; Build Resilience and Confidence; Master Mindfulness

Clara Seeger, Stephen Evans-Howe, Patrick Forsyth, Dena Michelli

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From confidence and assertiveness to managing stress and mindfulness, THE ULTIMATE SELF CARE BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Discover the main themes and key ideas, and bring it all together with practical exercises. This is your complete course in wellbeing at work. ABOUT THE SERIES ULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing.

Self-Help That Works

Resources to Improve Emotional Health and Strengthen Relationships

John C. Norcross Ph.D., Linda F. Campbell Ph.D., John M. Grohol PsyD, John W. Santrock Ph.D., Florin Selagea M.S., Robert Sommer Ph.D.

Self-help is big business, but alas, not always a scientific one. Self-help books, websites, and movies abound and are important sources of psychological advice for millions of Americans. But how can you sift through them to find the ones that work? Self-Help That Works is an indispensable guide that enables readers to identify effective self-help materials and distinguish them from those that are potentially misleading or even harmful. Six scientist-practitioners bring careful research, expertise, and a dozen national studies to the task of choosing and recommending self-help resources. Designed for both laypersons and mental-health professionals, this book critically reviews multiple types of self-help resources, from books and autobiographies to films, online programs, support groups, and websites, for 41 different behavioral disorders and life challenges. The revised edition of this award-winning book now features online self-help resources, expanded content, and new chapters focusing on autism, bullying, chronic pain, GLB issues, happiness, and nonchemical addictions. Each chapter updates the self-help resources launched since the previous edition and expands the material. The final chapters provide key strategies for consumers evaluating self-help as well as for professionals integrating self-help into treatment. All told, this updated edition of Self-Help that Works evaluates more than 2,000 self-help resources and brings together the collective wisdom of nearly 5,000 mental health professionals. Whether seeking self-help for yourself, loved ones, or patients, this is the go-to, research-based guide with the best advice on what works.

Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice

A Guide to Bibliotherapy

Jean A Pardeck

Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy introduces clinical social workers and other helping professionals to bibliotherapy, an innovative approach to helping individuals deal with psychological, social, and developmental problems. Literally meaning “treatment through books,” bibliotherapy actively involves the client in the therapeutic process through the reading of carefully selected and evaluated books. With this guide, the therapy you give will provide information and insight, stimulate discussion, communicate new values and attitudes, create awareness that others have similar problems, and provide solutions to problems. Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice offers a detailed approach for helping clinicians use bibliotherapy in practice. You’ll discover which types of problems best respond to bibliotherapy and you’ll learn how to select the most effective books to treat those problems. You’ll even find the structure of the book helpful, as it: introduces you to the basics of bibliotherapy provides a detailed examination of the techniques for using books in treatment reviews and analyzes the extensive research that has been conducted on bibliotherapy focuses on the problems most effectively treated with bibliotherapy--divorce and remarriage, dysfunctional families, parenting, adoption and foster care, self-development, serious illness, substance abuse offers an authoritative guide to over 300 books found to work most effectively--including summaries and levels of interest presents conclusions and a summary for the use of books in treatmentAlthough bibliotherapy is a well-established practice technique in other professions, including psychiatry and psychology, social work practitioners have not traditionally used bibliotherapy as part of their practice. Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice gives today’s helping professional an approach to problem solving that you and your clients will find refreshing and effective.

Wellbeing Journal

Drawing on Your Inner Power to Heal Yourself

Lucia Capacchione

Lucia Capacchione shares the unique method of journal-keeping that she developed while recovering from a life-threatening collagen disease. Her simple techniques include effective ways to listen to your body, and love and nurture yourself.

Promoting Men's Health

An Essential Book for Nurses

Tom Laws

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365 Ways to Feel Better

Self-Care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing

Eve Menezes Cunningham

"Pull[s] together 366 daily steps to help you live a happier, healthier, freer, and more fulfilled life. Let [Eve] be your inspiring guide for your year" (Nick Williams, bestselling author of The Work We Were Born to Do). 365 Ways to Feel Better offers simple but effective tools for each day of the year. Eve Menezes Cunningham integrates her background in coaching, counseling, yoga, and other therapies to share practical tools for mind, body, heart, and soul. With an overall aim of supporting people in feeling better in all areas of their lives, Eve encourages the reader to learn to trust in their own capacity to heal and feel better, with a playful approach to their self-care. From goal setting to inner child work, chakras to beneficial yoga poses, breath practices to psychological tools, meditation techniques to aura cleansing, this book offers a taste of a comprehensive range of mind-body tools to help you boost your health and wellbeing. 365 Ways to Feel Better is for anyone who wants to boost their wellbeing in a holistic, side-effect-free way. Self-help fans will enjoy it, but also complementary therapists, energy workers, yoga instructors and yogis, counselors, coaches, and more. "This book will transform your life. Radical self-care in easy baby steps, what's not to love?" —Suzy Greaves, author of The Big Peace: Find Yourself Without Going Anywhere "A fabulous book. So very well thought out, planned and executed and with a wonderful accessible yet respectful style." —Debra Jinks, coauthor of Personal Consultancy: A Model for Integrating Counselling and Coaching

Subject Guide to Books in Print

An Index to the Publishers' Trade List Annual

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The Diabetic's Total Health Book

June Biermann, Barbara Toohey

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Medical and Health Care Books and Serials in Print

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Self-Care for Mental Health - Key to Well-Being

Relieve Anxiety, Stress, and Burnout; Increase Resilience and Healthy Choices; Live Your Best Life

Susie Vanderlip, Ken Vanderlip

This book is about practical self-care tools for mental health. It focuses on managing anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, and fear. It offers ways to find peace and calm through healthy emotional life skills. These are not just temporary fixes but lifelong tools to guide you throughout your life journey.

Forthcoming Books

Rose Arny

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Current Awareness in Health Education

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Psychology

Health, Happiness, Success

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The Self-Care Handbook

Connect with Yourself and Boost Your Wellbeing

Gill Hasson

IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF. Are you taking care of yourself? Do you know that making some straightforward changes can help you become happier, healthier and more fulfilled? LOOK AFTER YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING BY INCORPORATING NEW WAYS OF THINKING AND HEALTHY BEHAVIOURS INTO YOUR LIFE. With practical guidance from bestselling personal development author Gill Hasson, you'll learn how to take care of your wellbeing; to balance your mind and body, and feel good about yourself. Providing an achievable, straightforward approach, The Self-Care Handbook will help you: Improve your mental and physical health in ways that fit with your life Develop a positive relationship with yourself Manage and simplify a busy life Know how best to switch off and enjoy yourself Look after yourself when you're going through difficulties, setbacks or a crisis The Self-Care Handbook will guide you to better mental, emotional and physical health and wellbeing, one step at a time.