Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life: Strategies for Managing Your Gambling and Improving Your Finances, Relationships, and Health
by Howard Shaffer, Ryan Martin and John Kleschinsky
Jossey-Bass
From Howard Shaffer, HMS associate professor of psychology and a noted expert on gambling addiction, comes Change Your Gambling, Change your Life, a new book which explains how gambling problems are related to other underlying issues: such as anxiety, mood fluctuation, difficulty with impulse control, and substance abuse problems. With compassion and insight, Shaffer offers a series of self-tests to help evaluate the degree of gambling problem and analyze the psychological and social context of the behavior, with specific strategies and approaches for ending the problems with simple tools that anyone can do.
If you or someone you love has a problem with gambling, this research-based guide offers a practical approach to controlling the destructive urge to gamble. The book includes a toolbox of easy-to-apply strategies and approaches for ending the impulse to gamble, as well as commonsense advice for avoiding slips and preventing backslides.
The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be
by Martha Herbert with Karen Weintraub
Ballantine Books
After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, Martha Herbert, HMS assistant professor of neurology, offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism, she writes, is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and destined to remain fixed forever. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor: perhaps a genetic mutation, some toxic exposures, a stressful birth, a vitamin deficiency and a series of infections. And while other doctors may dismiss a child’s physical symptoms—the diarrhea, anxiety, sensory overload, sleeplessness, immune challenges and seizures—as coincidental or irrelevant, Herbert sees them as vital clues to the underlying problems and how to help.
In The Autism Revolution, she advises parents to approach autism as a collection of problems that can be overcome—and talents that can be developed. Each success achieve gives a child more room to become healthy and to thrive. Drawing from the newest research, technologies, and insights, as well as inspiring case studies of both children and adults, Herbert guides the reader toward restoring health and resiliency in a loved one with autism.
Her recommendations aim to provide optimal nutrition, reduce toxic exposures, shore up the immune system, reduce stress and open the door to learning and creativity—all by understanding and truly meeting the child’s needs. Herbert describes dramatic benefits for a child with autism, and for parents, whole families and the next baby as well.
A paradigm-changing book that offers hope and healing for millions of families who have autism in their lives, The Autism Revolution shows that there’s plenty one can do every day to give a loved one the best possible gift: a life lived to the fullest potential.
