Mental category: 19657 books
by Jennifer Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Mental Health Social Work provides students and practitioners in social work, human services and welfare studies with a thorough understanding of contemporary mental health theory and practice required for beginning practice as a mental health social worker. Testimonials from readers of previous editions...
by Katie M. Sandberg, Taryn E. Richards, Bradley T. Erford
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
As healthcare costs rise, so too do the costs of assessment instruments, critical tools for mental health professionals. While some traditional assessment instruments have become prohibitively expensive, as with many other fields, the Internet offers a host of more affordable and equitable alternative...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The treatment of mental disorders has changed with the evolution of new technologies. The use of the web and computing tools to treat mental illness provides the ability to reach a higher number of users with innovative and proactive interventions. Web-Based Behavioral Therapies for Mental Disorders...
Thrive
How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Mental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, and...
by Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective...
by Caroline Elwood-Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A Guide To Positive Mental Health The aim of this guide is to promote positive mental health in sport and football in particular. Mental health issues can be harder to spot than a physical injury, but how much support the sufferer receives can make a big difference to their recovery. This easy to...
From Crisis to Recovery
Proceedings of the 6th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Events around the world continue to present challenges for first responders and mental health professionals. Natural and man-made disasters continue. Evidence mounts concerning potential events such as global warming and the effects this may have worldwide. Avian Flu remains a concern as do forms...
Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment
A Guide for Pastoral Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness!
This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry...
Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care
Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition.
This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within...
by Todd Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
It’s Not About Us is a guide to improving the client experience with the mental health and addiction system across Canada. It examines the traditional and current pathology-oriented medical model, within which all of our services are built, and looks at how that model actually prevents the transformation...
Entrena tu mente
20 pasos para mejorar tu salud mental y tomar el control de tu vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Un programa de ejercicios en el hogar para mejorar tu salud mental y tu estado físico.
Es bien sabido que si queremos mantener nuestros cuerpos en forma, debemos realizar ejercicio de manera regular. Pero cuando se trata de nuestra salud mental, pocos nos tomamos el tiempo para mantenerla...
Person-Centered Diagnosis and Treatment in Mental Health
A Model for Empowering Clients
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert...
Your Precious Life
How to Live it Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
We all want a life worth living. The search for ‘the good life’ has been a driving force for humanity throughout history. But what exactly is a ‘good life’? For too long psychologists have concerned themselves solely with helping the mentally unwell – those who suffer from depression, anxiety...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely, this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services, rather than researchers. Just like its parent series,...