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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simona giordano”
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  • Exercise and Eating Disorders

    An Ethical and Legal Analysis

    by Simona Giordano ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from an ethical and legal perspective, identifying the rights and responsibilities of people with EDs, ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Children with Gender Identity Disorder

    A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis

    by Simona Giordano ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades ago. Yet stories of children with an in-between gender have always been, albeit symbolically, a ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Children and Gender

    Ethical issues in clinical management of transgender and gender diverse youth, from early years to late adolescence

    by Prof Simona Giordano ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older adolescents might apply for medical or surgical treatment, moral questions are likely to be asked: should children be enabled to ... Read more

    $80.39 CAD

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    The Science of Sexual Orientation

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    $26.39 CAD

  • Positive Psychology And The Body: The Somatopsychic Side To Flourishing

    by Kate Hefferon ...
    This positive psychology textbook focuses on the importance of the body within optimal functioning and highlights new research in this area. ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Health Psychology: A Textbook

    by Jane Ogden ...
    This new edition is a comprehensive and accessible guide, examining health behaviours through reviewing the key research in this growing field. ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • An Introduction to Gerontology

    Edited by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main subjects in gerontology, covering both traditional areas, such ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • The Psychology of Ageing

    An Introduction

    by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an important new chapter on death, dying and bereavement has been added.Providing a comprehensive overview of the psychological processes of ageing, the text examines what constitutes older age, and presents the ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • e-Pedia: Asperger Syndrome

    Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests

    by Wikipedia contributors ...
    Series series e-Pedia
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Models of Madness 2nd Edition

    Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis

    Edited by John Read, Jacqui Dillon ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are psychiatric drugs as effective and safe as the drug companies claim? Is madness preventable?This second edition of Models of Madness challenges those who hold to simplistic, pessimistic and often damaging theories ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Psychology of Aging 101

    by Robert Youdin, PhD ...
    A reader-friendly overview of geropsychology based on a wealth of evidence-based researchWritten by a renowned scholar and practitioner of gerontology and aging, this is a concise, reader-friendly overview of key concepts of geropsychology, the psychology of aging. Grounded in positive psychology, the text dispels common myths about the aging population with a wealth of evidence-based research. It ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • The Female Body in Mind

    The Interface between the Female Body and Mental Health

    Edited by Mervat Nasser, Karen Baistow, Janet Treasure ...
    The Female Body in Mind introduces new ways of thinking about issues of women's mental health assessment and treatment. Its multidisciplinary approach incorporates social, psychological, biological and philosophical perspectives on the female body.The contributions, from notable academics in the field of women's mental health, examine the relationship between women's bodies, society and culture, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD