Mental category: 19657 books
Working with Immigrant Women
Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Working with Immigrant Women addresses the gap between the needs of newcomer women and established structures and practices in Canada’s mental health care system.
With an interest in changing paradigms in mental health practice, the multidisciplinary group of authors—including researchers,...
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Mental Health and Mental Disorders: An Encyclopedia of Conditions, Treatments, and Well-Being [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Conditions, Treatments, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
A three-volume ready-reference encyclopedia, this up-to-date work supplies a holistic introduction to the fields of mental health and mental disorders that is written specifically for high school students and college students. Covering the full continuum of mental health, the set describes typical...
Working in Mental Health
Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening—both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers. The landscape is being changed by a more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered...
by David Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
This text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, agencies, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental...
by Carol A. Kivler
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Mental Health Recovery Boosters is a book of inspiration and reflection designed to move readers from mental illness to mental wellness. The 68 short but powerful essays stand alone with messages of encouragement and personal accountability. Based on lessons the author learned during her journey out...
by ven choice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Can Prayer Cure Mental Illness Today ? Can people fully recover from mental illness ? This book is all about Mental Health. Mental illness is little understood and difficult to properly diagnose, because the symptoms can be aggressive and anti social, the sufferer is often ostracized socially...
Healing the Broken Mind
Transforming America’s Failed Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that many would prefer to sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its...
The National Mental Health Association
Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.
For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued...
Reaching Our Neediest Children: Bringing a Mental Health Program into the Schools
A Guide to Program Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
It makes sense to invest in mental health services in public schools. Addressing the emotional and situational issues children live with can make an enormous difference in learning opportunities. In Reaching Our Neediest Children: Bringing a Mental Health Program Into the Schools, authors Jennifer...
Communication and Mental Illness
Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
`This is a unique book that addresses an interesting aspect of work in mental health settings.' - Mental Health OT
Communication and Mental Illness is a comprehensive and practical textbook written by a multidisciplinary group of experts in the field of mental health which will be of interest...
Mental Illness and the Body
Beyond Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their ‘lived experience’.
With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and...
by Paul Komarek
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Imagine a book that accomplishes for mental illness what the Big Book did for sober recovery.
Defying Mental Illness makes mental health disorders and treatment understandable. It takes the fear and mystery out of mental illness along with the technical jargon. This approach keeps people focused on...
by Wendy Austin, Cindy Ann Peternelj-Taylor, Diane Kunyk
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Meet the challenges of mental health nursing—in Canada and around the world. Optimized for the unique challenges of Canadian health care and thoroughly revised to reflect the changing field of mental health, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 4th Edition, is your key...
The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals
Echoes from the Corridors
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history of mental health nursing, and during this period the landscape has transformed as the large institutions...