Mental category: 19657 books
Stop Wondering, Start Knowing
A Mental Health School Video Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Mental health is becoming a key topic in education, but it is a topic that is not always easy to discuss.
Stop Wondering, Start Knowing is designed to help teachers and their students:
To better understand and be more aware of mental health
To recognize the early signs of mental...
Revenge of the Windigo
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the...
Reflective Practice in Mental Health
Advanced Psychosocial Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health.
Featuring contributions from eminent experts, the book uses case studies to illustrate and address the complexities and dilemmas faced by practitioners involved...
Breaking Down is Waking up
The connection between psychological distress and spiritual awakening
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Razzaque explores an entirely new way of understanding psychological and mental distress based on clinical case studies from a mental hospital. His extraordinary conclusion: mental illness can be a form of spiritual awakening. The book describes new forms of treatment for mental illness inspired by...
Darla the Elephant has Bipolar Disorder
What Mental Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Often when people are given a mental health disorder diagnosis the weaknesses are clear and overwhelmingly emphasized, while the strengths are ignored or forgotten. The mental health children's book series 'What Mental Disorder?' challenges the stigma against therapy and diagnosis. It enlists the...
Vinny the Fox has PTSD
What Mental Disorder, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Often when people are given a mental health disorder diagnosis the weaknesses are clear and overwhelmingly emphasized, while the strengths are ignored or forgotten. The mental health children's book series 'What Mental Disorder?' challenges the stigma against therapy and diagnosis. It enlists the...
The Last Taboo
A Survival Guide to Mental Health Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
At any given time, three million Canadians are living with some kind of mental illness. But despite its prevalence, the public and even some health practitioners are badly misinformed about its causes and treatment.
This book is an essential road map to hope and recovery. It tells the reader...
Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment
Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Get the tools for practical family-based interventions for children or adolescents with mental illness
Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity...
by Dr. PS Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Many students and trainees starting their work with people having mental retardation find it difficult to understand the similarities and uniqueness with which they present and the need for good management. There are a variety of service inputs and models to meet some of the mental health needs of...
Mental Health and Later Life
Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.
The book takes an interdisciplinary...
by John V. Wylie, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
This is an updated edition of a revolutionary little book about understanding mental illness from the perspective of how people actually experience it. Dr. Wylie believes that mental illnesses are segments of normal emotional function that have escaped into an unregulated, hyperactive emotional state....
by Natasha Devon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
‘Am I normal?’
‘What’s an anxiety disorder?’
‘Does therapy work?’
These are just a few of the questions Natasha Devon is asked as she travels the UK campaigning for better mental health awareness and provision. Here, Natasha calls upon experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience...
Rural Mental Health
Issues, Policies, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
Addressing the needs of America's most underserved areas for mental health services, Rural Mental Health offers the most up-to-date, research-based information on policies and practice in rural and frontier populations.
Eminent clinicians and researchers...
Journey to Healing
Aboriginal People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today’s generation of Aboriginal people carry. They...