Dr. Stevic-Rust has written six books on topics ranging from depression, heart disease, and wellness, a personal memoir on the art of aging with gratitude, Greedy for Life, a women’s empowerment book, Put on Your Big Girl Shoes: Stepping into Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude and her most recent children’s book, Lily’s Red Shoes of Courage.
Heart Therapy: Regaining Your Cardiac Health
This book offers strategies for living with and controlling heart disease. It explains medical procedures associated with coronary events, and it offers practical suggestions for coping with anxiety and making necessary personal and family adjustments immediately after a heart attack. Learn how to establish healthy diet and exercise habits. Deal with nontraditional risk factors through techniques for managing stress and for dealing with anger, depression, and other harmful emotions. The book also discusses the special issues related to heart disease in women.
“Heart Therapy is one of the most important books ever written. As a heart patient, I know this full well. It breaks new ground in the medical and psychological approach. Major work.”
Treating Depression in the Medically Ill: A Clinician’s Guide
This professional guide is designed to help therapists and other mental health professionals accurately assess depression in their medically ill patients, understand how medical symptoms and the effects of medication can mimic depression, and provides a comprehensive twelve-session treatment plan.
“This book provides a comprehensive and scholarly treatment of depression in the medically ill in a clear, straightforward style. The authors have integrated a huge and diverse literature into a very readable book. This book should be required reading and a well-used reference manual for anyone attempting to treat depression. Although the book is written for professionals, many patients who are highly motivated and informed will also appreciate the authors’ sensitivity and clarity. With this empowering book, no longer will it be accepted that illness and depression inevitably go hand in hand.”
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