Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Luciano L’Abate is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Georgia State University. He has co-edited/authored two previous books with Springer: Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy and Personality in Intimate Relationships: Socialization and Psychopathology.

Reviews

From the reviews: "A volume that proposes to describe what is known about inexpensive approaches to health promotion is a welcome overview, indeed. This survey of health promotion has a cohesive, pleasing structure that reflects the organization created by the editor. … Overall, the qualities of the presented work, especially the sections devoted to mental health promotion, are sufficient that the book is a useful start for a discussion of the benefits and risks of health promotion." (Keith E. Isenberg, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (11), 2008)