Spinal Network News - December 2017

NEW ADDITIONS DECEMBER 2017
CHECK OUT THESE GREAT BOOKS!
These items, and much more, are available to borrow for free! Not a member? It’s free to join; just phone the
library on: 03 383 9484 (Ext. 99484) or email us at: abclibrary@nzspinaltrust.org.nz
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: HOW ENERGY TAPPING TRANSFORMS YOUR LIEFE’S WORST
EXPERIENCES, BY CAROLINE E SAKAI, 2017
Caroline Sakai shares a treasure-trove of clinical examples of how Thought Field Therapy (TFT),
an Energy Psychology technique, can help people with issues related to trauma, pain, fears, phobias,
relationship challenges, and many other issues.
TFT involves tapping on specific series of acupressure points that are prescribed by the TFT
practitioner in accordance with the problems being addressed. TFT has been confirmed to be
effective in relieving varieties of problems, including physical and emotional pains, anxieties, phobias,
self-image and relationship issues, and even severe post traumatic stress disorders (PTSDs).
COLLABORATIVE AND INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY: TATAIHONO –
STORIES OF MAORI HEALING AND PSYCHIATRY BY WIREMU NIANIA, ALLISTER BUSH
AND DAVID EPSTON, 2017
This book explores a collaboration between traditional Maori healing and clinical psychiatry. It
demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by
balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. With a forward by Sir Mason
Durie, this book is essential reading for psychologists, social psychiatrists, and students interested
in bicultural studies.
PROMOTING EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE: COGNITIVE-EFFECTIVE STRESS MANAGEMENT
TRAINING BY RONALD E. SMITH AND JAMES C. ASCOUGH, 2016
This book re-examines the philosophical foundations of rehabilitation, expanding the concept of
movement beyond the physical body. Drawing from disability studies, sociology, anthropology,
philosophy, cultural studies, and bioethics, the book:
Explores the limitations of biomedicine as the organizing framework of rehabilitation, evaluates
new directions to diversify contemporary rehabilitation practice and establishes the parameters
for a reconfigured ethics of rehabilitation.
EXPLAIN PAIN SUPERCHARGED: THE CLINICIAN’S MANUAL BY LORIMER MOSELEY AND
DAVID BUTLER, 2017
Explain Pain Supercharged is for all health professionals treating pain. In this brand new book,
Moseley & Butler apply their unique style to take the neuroimmune science of pain further and
deeper.
WE CAN GO ANYWHERE: MY ADVENTURES’ ON DADDY’S CHAIR BY GLEN DICK, 2016
In this beautiful example of a child’s innocence we are taught that a little imagination can take us
a long way. What the rest of the world sees as a limitation becomes a great source of adventure
and freedom. Little Elaina shows her dad there is much more to him than meets the eye, and in
the process proves that love knows no limitations.
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