Mental category: 19657 books
Contemporary Mental Health
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The authors explore theoretical developments and policy and practice initiatives in the complex and changing area of mental health services. They examine the tensions, dilemmas and opportunities now operating, including those relating to gender and ethnicity and places the involvement of users/survivors...
Hope for Children of Trauma
An international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms of complex trauma – such as abuse, neglect and war violence – and also presents a real advance...
Ultra-Brief Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
A New Practice Model for Mental Health and Integrated Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Ultra-Brief Cognitive Behavioral Interventions showcases a new practice model to address both physical and psychological health issues in mental health and integrated care settings, utilizing focused interventions in brief treatment formats.
This unique text offers a toolkit of effective interventions...
Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness
Me and, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
How does a bullied teacher recover from Bipolar and PTSD? An Australian teacher reveals how she’s repeatedly harassed and bullied by parents at her school to breaking point, triggering bipolar disorder and PTSD. In a fit of desperation, she escapes and runs. Police and medical professionals discover...
Preparing for the Unimaginable
How Chiefs Can Safeguard Officer Mental Health Before and After Mass Casualty Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
While most government agencies are trained in how to react to a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster, few are prepared to deal with the psychological fallout for first responders. Preparing for the Unimaginable fills that void. This book is the product of the National...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Psychosocial and holistic approaches to assessment have become a central feature of modern mental health care. This practical and comprehensive book guides students through the theory and practice of psychosocial assessments to help them integrate the data as preparation for the effective planning...
How Not to Fall Apart
Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**"She’s [Maggy is] really funny . . . If I had a self-destructive young adult in my life . . . this is probably the book I’d get her.” —The New York Times Book Review
“How Not to Fall Apart is the book that finally understands mental health, and it'll make you feel infinitely less...
Teaching the World to Sleep
Psychological and Behavioural Assessment and Treatment Strategies for People with Sleeping Problems and Insomnia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Sleep problems are ubiquitous in the modern world, significantly impacting on quality of life, mental health, and performance at work and at home. More significantly, sleep problems accompany almost every mental health condition and are a significant driver in the development and maintenance of poor...
The Mental Health Survival Guide
Managing the Severities of Multi-Mental Health Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
It's a memoir of Brian's severe struggles associated with coping with a multi-mental **health diagnosis and is full of documented skills, tools and tips he developed as an action plan to cope and manage. The first memoir in a series written to manage chronic illness of body and brain. **
Brian...
Understanding Mental Disorders Due To Medical Conditions Or Substance Abuse
What Every Therapist Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This text is a unique handbook that will heighten the awareness of all mental health professionals and students toward organic factors in mental illness.
by Hugh Macnab
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Traditional approaches to the most common Mental Health conditions treat the symptoms, not the cause. In this book, not only do I explain what is causing many of the most common conditions, but I also explain how to recover quickly and effectively - without even talking to anyone. The techniques I...
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health
A Handbook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings.
It offers practical guidance on how practitioners can take positive steps to improve the quality...
Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness
A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness offers practitioners an integrative treatment model that will stimulate and harness their creativity, allowing for the formation of new ideas about wellness in the face of profound suffering. The model, Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy...
Understanding Mental Disorders
A Philosophical Approach to the Medicine of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Understanding Mental Disorders aims to help current and future psychiatrists, and those who work with them, to think critically about the ethical, conceptual, and methodological questions that are raised by the theory and practice of psychiatry. It considers questions that concern the mind’s relationship...