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The Intuitive Eating Treatment Manual: An Essential Guide for Nutrition and Mental Health Professionals

April 02, 2025 05:39 PM
Structured around the 10 principles of intuitive eating, this comprehensive professional manual offers psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists session-by-session techniques to effectively teach others how to implement the core tenets of intuitive eating, and promote a healthy and nourishing relationship to food. The Intuitive Eating Treatment Manual begins with a complete overview of intuitive eating and its supporting evidence base. You'll be presented with an intervention strategy that includes 10 sessions--each focusing on one of the ten core principles of intuitive eating.

Uploaded April 2025

Schneider's Introduction to Public Health

April 02, 2025 05:29 PM
Offering a thorough, accessible and lively overview of public health for students new to the field, Schneider's Introduction to Public Health offers a broad-reaching, practical framework for understanding the forces and organizations of public health today. Through engaging, nontechnical language, illustrative real-world examples, and the current political, economic, and cultural news of the day, students gain a clear understanding of the scope of today's public health problems and possible solutions.

Uploaded April 2025

Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations

April 02, 2025 05:26 PM
Regardless of their position or level within an organization, all healthcare managers need to understand the financial effects of their decisions. Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations provides an accessible overview of financial management concepts and their application in a variety of healthcare settings. This revised ninth edition features current data, an economics appendix complete with terminology, and a new comprehensive case study at the end of the book.

Uploaded April 2025

Hysterical: A Memoir

April 02, 2025 04:57 PM
Acclaimed humor writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women in this medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. In her witty and incisive debut, Bassist explains how girls and women internalize and perpetuate directives about their voices, making it hard to “just speak up” and “burn down the patriarchy.” But then their silence hurts them more than anything they could ever say.

Uploaded April 2025

Healthcare Strategic Planning

April 02, 2025 04:53 PM
Healthcare Strategic Planning provides guidance for every stage of strategic planning and implementation: analyzing the environment, crafting strategy, putting the plan into action, and assessing the results. It describes the crucial decisions that must be made and the preparatory steps that must be taken for effective planning. This new edition contains the most recent research on strategic planning as well as updated best practices in light of current issues such as access to care, the national focus on health equity, and patient expectations in the wake of the pandemic.

Uploaded April 2025

Health Extension: Community-based Healthcare and the Future of Cooperative Extension

April 02, 2025 04:46 PM
Health Extension: Community-Based Healthcare and the Future of Cooperative Extension advocates for Health Extension as an integral part of the Land Grant University system and a significant partner in providing community-based healthcare in the United States and worldwide. The contributions of a diverse array of scholars challenge the status quo in the Cooperative Extension System (CES) by characterizing the introspection, understanding, creativity, partnerships, and leadership that will be required to improve lives and communities in the twenty-first century through an enhanced focus on health and public health.

Uploaded April 2025

Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to Change the Culture of Mental Health

April 02, 2025 04:43 PM
This powerful follow-up to the first Drop the Disorder! book (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles 40 contributors who are challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis and disorder. This book's message is 'do something', and its hard-hitting and inspiring chapters tell us why and how.

Uploaded April 2025

Change is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health

April 02, 2025 04:37 PM
In Change Is Possible , public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset.

Uploaded April 2025

The Third Net : The Hidden System of Migrant Health Care

March 11, 2025 08:36 AM
This “Third Net” provides free or low-cost health care for the undocumented, low-income, and uninsured migrants who are excluded from the formal system. This groundbreaking study sheds light on the existence of the Third Net and its implications for the overall inequalities in the US health care system.

Uploaded March 2025

Sick of it : The Global Fight for Women's Health

March 11, 2025 08:29 AM
Across the globe, women's health is being caught in the crossfire of politics: from the repeal of abortion rights and the bombing of Ukrainian maternity hospitals, to lesser-known issues like healthwashing and the exploitation of vulnerable patients as well as women health workers. Exploring urgent questions including populism, big data and the undervaluing of women's work, Sick of It also offers smart solutions on how to fix this crisis through activism and political work.

Uploaded March 2025

Mike Goates

Life & Geological Sciences Librarian
michael_goates@byu.edu