ISBN: 9781877431708
PB. 224 pp. 217x150 mm (8.5"x 5.9"). Illus. Mono.
PB. 224 pp. 217x150 mm (8.5"x 5.9"). Illus. Mono.
Dr Peter Parkinson is a highly qualified specialist physician with an open and inquiring mind who writes in a light and easy style. Smash Asthma is both an easy read and a deeply informed journey of discovery about asthma, its origins, myths and new healing outcomes. This book encompasses new concepts of health and wellness, artfully blending in Maori spiritual healing.
In each step of the journey, Dr Parkinson shares the relevant medical knowledge of how the body works, together with lots of common sense. Whether you are an asthmatic, treating an asthmatic, a friend or family member, you will come to the end of this book with a fresh and enthusiastic perspective.
Smash Asthma sheds new light on what asthma really might be, including its relationship to post-traumatic stress disorder. The value and potential dangers of anti-asthmatic medication and directions on raising an asthma free child are shared. Using asthma as the example, a pathway is plotted that will take you closer to good overall health, and, in the process, provide you with an invaluable set of skills and insights into fulfilling day-to-day relationships and effective parenting.
Backed up with the spontaneity theater of psychodrama, light shines on the fascinating and formative truths that contribute to asthma. The supportive nature of this real life theater alters lives affected by asthma from that of illness to thriving health encompassing the physical, the emotional and the influence of medications on asthma.
For the enthusiastic researcher a set of tools for assessing skills of health and well-being is introduced. With this, post-traumatic stress disorder can be understood and its recovery plotted.
Smash Asthma opens a whole new dialogue in the understanding of illness, and the creation of thriving health.
In each step of the journey, Dr Parkinson shares the relevant medical knowledge of how the body works, together with lots of common sense. Whether you are an asthmatic, treating an asthmatic, a friend or family member, you will come to the end of this book with a fresh and enthusiastic perspective.
Smash Asthma sheds new light on what asthma really might be, including its relationship to post-traumatic stress disorder. The value and potential dangers of anti-asthmatic medication and directions on raising an asthma free child are shared. Using asthma as the example, a pathway is plotted that will take you closer to good overall health, and, in the process, provide you with an invaluable set of skills and insights into fulfilling day-to-day relationships and effective parenting.
Backed up with the spontaneity theater of psychodrama, light shines on the fascinating and formative truths that contribute to asthma. The supportive nature of this real life theater alters lives affected by asthma from that of illness to thriving health encompassing the physical, the emotional and the influence of medications on asthma.
For the enthusiastic researcher a set of tools for assessing skills of health and well-being is introduced. With this, post-traumatic stress disorder can be understood and its recovery plotted.
Smash Asthma opens a whole new dialogue in the understanding of illness, and the creation of thriving health.
ISBN: 9781877431708
PB. 224 pp. 217x150 mm (8.5"x 5.9"). Illus. Mono.
Click here to order.
PB. 224 pp. 217x150 mm (8.5"x 5.9"). Illus. Mono.
Click here to order.
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