Mental category: 19657 books
Treating Psychosis
A Clinician's Guide to Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Approaches within the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Psychosis can be associated with a variety of mental health problems, including schizophrenia, severe depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders. While traditional treatments for psychosis have emphasized medication-based strategies, evidence now suggests that individuals...
by RS Bhogal
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
What is inside this book?
* Mental Health through Yogic Methods: towards unfolding our potentials for a better Self Management & Self Evolution.
* Practical Stress Management through Yoga: in tackling Stress, Anxiety, Depression and other Existential Disorders.
* Practical Yoga Meditation...
Scenes of Madness
A Psychiatrist at the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois,...
by Perry Ritthaler
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Those suffering from schizophrenia see the world in a different way, although they may share with others the same feelings, thoughts, and reactions to the world around them. It is their interpretation of those feelings, thoughts, and reactions and communicating with others that can make life a challenge...
Dual Disorders
Counseling Clients with Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
The leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental illness and addiction, Dual Disorders contains important resources for individuals and their families.
Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric...
My Child is Depressed: How Can I Help?
A Parent's Guide to Depression in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book will show a parent or caregiver how to identify the symptoms of depression in his or her child, teen or young adult one--and how to help the child get effective treatment. In the process, we will explore the phenomenon of caregiver burnout, which too often occurs when someone is caring for...
Bipolar Disorder
A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Bipolar disorder is not only one of the most difficult mental health issues to treat, but also one of the most stigmatized and misunderstood. For these reasons, a diagnosis of bipolar is a major turning point in a person’s life. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosedhelps readers process...
by Lembi Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The mental health community is now more divided than it has ever been before with considerable opposition to the biomedical model of illness. This report explores that polarization as the author reviews the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of the recovery movement as well as the anti-psychiatry...
by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Older Adults
Innovations Across Care Settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A one-stop resource for core discipline practitioners who provide mental health services to the geriatric population, Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Older Adults presents strategies for integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills and therapies into various healthcare settings for aging...
CBT for Psychosis
A Symptom-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book offers a new approach to understanding and treating psychotic symptoms using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT for Psychosis shows how this approach clears the way for a shift away from a biological understanding and towards a psychological understanding of psychosis.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Counseling psychologists have always been vitally involved in promoting good health and preventing mental, physical, and social disorders. This volume focuses on how their efforts can foster and build optimal human strength and well-being. The chapters show how counseling psychology plays a major...
Contesting Psychiatry
Social Movements in Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research,...
Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones
The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological...