Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Ruth Elder, RN, BA(Hons)
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental...
REACH Chronicles
A Community Mental Health Model for Children and Adolescents in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
An easy read with a “how-to” intent, this book provides the insights and process of a practical and viable community mental health team. The authors of the book have produced a book which is as close an account to the reality of making the REACH team a value add to the mental wellness of students....
Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment
Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions...
Mental Health Emergencies
A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Mental Health Crises
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Ready reference to mental and emotional health crises and concerns, providing overviews and expert guidance on more serious problems. Ideal for first-responders, teachers, counselors, and human resource professionals.
Developed from best-practices of psychiatry, psychology and mental health...
Faith in the Field
A Historical Theological Perspective on Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Although mental illness has not been eradicated, the move to equate mental illness with a physical legitimate illness has resulted in greater understanding on many aspects as to the particular course of the disease. In spite of the difficulties that remain, mental health treatment has come a long...
American Psychiatry and Homosexuality
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Interviews and first-hand accounts of an historic decision that affected the mental health profession—and American society and culture
Through the personal accounts of those who were there, American Psychiatry and Homosexuality: An Oral History examines the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric...
The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness
Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. This volume makes this point while describing...
by Mala Wijeweera
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
To improve the knowledge about mental health and to recognize mental sickness as any other disease. Mental health carry physical ,psycological conditions in individuals. There is a social stigma attached to mental patients and mental sickness and mental health.
Working with Dual Diagnosis
A Psychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance use problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem. Part of Palgrave's Foundations of Mental Health series, this book explores the intertwined issues of substance...
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...
Innovative Mental Health Interventions for Children
Programs That Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Children and families are in increasing need of mental health services that are more effective and less costly. Are you prepared to make this happen?
This vital book for clinical psychiatrists and trainers examines uniquely successful prevention programs addressing the most challenging mental...
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health
A Guide to Implementation and Issues for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.
It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each...
Managing Mental Health in the Community
Chaos and Containment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Managing Mental Health in the Community is a guide to best practice in the management of community care for people with mental health problems.
A major theme is how to balance the 'triangle of care' that represents the needs and concerns of the user, carer (professional or family) and community. Rather...
by Ruth Elder, RN, BA(Hons)
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental...