Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health Theory, Research, and Practice - L'Abate, Luciano; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health -- Primary Interventions: Nutritional Approaches -- Diets, Health, and Weight Control: What Do We Know? -- Low-Cost Obesity Interventions: The Market for Foods -- Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Health -- Vitamins, Minerals and Health -- Herbal Medicines in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders -- Primary Nonverbal Approaches -- Daily Practices for Mindful Exercise -- Relaxation and Meditation -- Expressive Movement -- Pleasant, Pleasurable, and Positive Activities -- Secondary Writing Approaches -- The Recording of Personal Information as an Intervention and~as~an Electronic Health Support -- Teaching to Remember Ourselves: The Autobiographical Methodology -- Expressive Writing: An Alternative to Traditional Methods* -- Workbooks for the Promotion of Mental Health and Life-Long Learning -- Computers and the Internet -- Secondary Relational Approaches -- Maternal-Infant Contact and Child Development: Insights from the Kangaroo Intervention -- Touch Interventions Positively Affect Development -- Non-Erotic Physical Affection: It's Good for You -- Sex, Sexuality, and Sensuality -- Intimacy and Fear of Intimacy -- Low-Cost Interventions for Promoting Forgiveness -- Spirituality in Achieving Physical and Psychological Health and Well-Being: Theory, Research and Low Cost Interventions* -- Tertiary Multi-Personal Approaches -- Friendship, Social Support, and Health -- Animal Companions -- Applications of Emotional Intelligence to Schools and Workplace -- Conclusion -- Implications of Prescriptive Approaches for Policy, Health Promotion, Epidemiology, and Public Health.
Keywords: Health psychology; Health promotion; Health Psychology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention