San Antonio College Library

Offers information on understanding and applying the steps in everyday life and interprets the principles behind the AA program.

"Rehabilitation professionals face a key challenge when working with clients with acquired cognitive impairments: how to teach new skills to individuals who have difficulty learning. Unique in its focus, this book presents evidence-based instructional methods specifically designed to help this population learn more efficiently. The expert authors show how to develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized training plan. They provide practical guidelines...

Tells the stories of some of the animals that have been cared for at the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas.

A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning...

A guide to yoga for breast cancer patients that provides poses aimed at helping manage stress, relieve pain, gain strength, and improve awareness of one's body, thoughts, and feelings.

For writers, artists, musicians, and creators in every field, this book offers a complete addiction recovery program specifically designed for the creative person. Full of explanations and exercises, this book presents ways to use your own innate creative abilities in service of your recovery and at each stage of the recovery process. Topics include: the biological and developmental risks unique to creative people ; the special personality traits...

Challenges popular beliefs about tough-love and intervention techniques for families of addicts, outlining a program through which loved ones can stay engaged with an addict until he or she can be coerced into treatment.

"Developed by an author with work experience in both nursing and psychology environments, Addiction Treatment presents the caregiver with a brief global perspective of different types of addictions, techniques for identifying and assessing the addicted client, and strategies for effective change. The book utilizes assessment, planning, and intervention summaries to enable the reader to scan for immediate recall and application. Chapter objectives...

"[This book] demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people affected by severe head trauma. Divided into three parts, the first section provides an introduction to the effects of brain injury on a person's quality of life. The second is a comprehensive review of available literature on the use of music therapy in the neurorehabilitative setting. The final section examines three...

In this book leading experts in the field of addictions report on key aspects of addictive disorders. They focus particularly on relapse, the long-term course of addiction to drugs or alcohol, and interventions to prevent relapse and promote recovery. A critical and highly complex public health problem, addiction is seen today as having biological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects. This important volume brings together the major perspectives...