商品簡介
This book provides health care professionals and others with an understanding of over three decades of research on Transcendental Meditation and the treatment of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders as well as the use of Transcendental Meditation in effective health programs with a wide range of disorders and patient populations.
作者簡介
David F. O'Connell, Ph.D., M.S, CFC, DABPS,is currently a board certified forensic /medical psychologist in private practice in Pennsylvania and in primary medical care in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 40 years. He has written about it previously in the Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly and in a previous edited book entitled,Self Recovery: Treating Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayurveda(1994). O’Connell has taught graduate level courses in counseling psychology at Rosemont University and undergraduate psychology courses at Drexel University and Alvernia University. He has served on the editorial board of theJournal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency. This will be his 7th book.
Deborah L. Bevvino, CRNP, Ph.D., is currently a faculty associate in both the Family Practice Physician Residency Program at Reading Hospital & Medical Center and Penn State University School of Medicine. She coordinates the Behavioral Medicine training program for family practice residents and provides assessment and consultation services to several medical departments at Reading Hospital. She is an active psychotherapist in the Center for Mental Health at Reading Hospital and is also a Certified Registered Adult Nurse Practitioner. She was formerly a consulting psychologist to Caron Addiction Treatment Center. She has been the director of the BSN in Nursing program at Albright College in Reading, PA, and has been a head nurse in an intensive care unit and a community medicine nurse practitioner for many years. Bevvino has authored/coauthored several publications includingManaging Your Recovery (2007) with O'Connell andBehavioral Problems in Children (2010). She is an expert on post traumatic growth and has presented papers and workshops on women's issues in the U.S. and abroad.
