Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Ronald S. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The key to mental fitness is through commitment to a process of consciously making small and manageable changes that encompass a variety of healthy behaviors – including physical health and fitness, interpersonal relationships, intellectual growth, habit control, and the development of outside interests...
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,...
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...
Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals
in Forensic Settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system
Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with...
The Forensic Mental Health System in Ontario
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
People who have a mental illness and who come in contact with the law have special needs. The mental health system or the criminal justice system alone cannot always meet those needs. The forensic mental health system is the place where the mental health system and the criminal justice system meet.
The...
Mental Health Across the Lifespan
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Mental wellbeing is an integral part of being, and feeling, healthy, and it is estimated that one in four people will suffer from some form of mental illness during their lifetime. In spite of this, it is often overlooked in mainstream healthcare. The overall aim of this book is to provide knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Examine the psychosocial factors that affect lesbian and bisexual women’s mental health
This essential guide presents up-to-date, evidence-based information that can be implemented to improve mental health services for lesbian and bisexual women in a variety of settings. It examines the systemic...
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...
Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
Supporting Children who are, or have been, in Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively...
The Madness of Our Lives
Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
`The Madness of our Lives is a worthy contribution to the literature on first person accounts of mental distress and illness. Its strength is in the range of experiences it canvasses, and in the freedom given to interviewees to tell their own stories. This is a highly readable and informative book.'
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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...
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
The craft of caring
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This new edition of a bestselling, evidence-based textbook provides a comprehensive overview of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Keeping service users and their recovery at the centre of care, the holistic approach will help nurses to gain the tools and understanding required to work in this...
The Mental Health of Refugees
Ecological Approaches To Healing and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
It is estimated that at least 33 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes by war or persecution. Numerous studies have documented high rates of psychological distress among these survivors of extreme violence and forced migration, yet very few have access to clinic-based...