Mental Health category: 18328 books

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Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care

Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals

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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition. This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within...
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by Peter Ladd, AnnMarie Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert...
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Your Precious Life

How to Live it Well

by Shane Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

We all want a life worth living. The search for ‘the good life’ has been a driving force for humanity throughout history. But what exactly is a ‘good life’? For too long psychologists have concerned themselves solely with helping the mentally unwell – those who suffer from depression, anxiety...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely, this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services, rather than researchers. Just like its parent series,...
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50 Years after Deinstitutionalization

Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness...
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Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health

Issues and Implications for Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group. Based...
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by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...
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Changing Minds

The go-to Guide to Mental Health for Family and Friends

by Dr Mark Cross, Dr Catherine Hanrahan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

This compassionate and insightful guide will demystify mental health issues and help anyone concerned about themselves or loved ones. Leading psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross, from the acclaimed ABC TV series 'Changing Minds', feels strongly that everyone should have easy access to information they...
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Prescribing Mental Health Medication

The Practitioner's Guide

by Christopher M. Doran
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. It explains the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up for general medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, students, residents, prescribing nurses and...
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Mental Health Issues and the Media

An Introduction for Health Professionals

by Gary Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

Mental Health Issues and the Media provides students and professionals in nursing and allied professions, in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, with a theoretically grounded introduction to the ways in which our attitudes are shaped by the media. A wide range of contemporary media...
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The Disordered Mind

An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness

by George Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, and more. It is also an outstanding introduction to philosophy of mind from the perspective...
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by David Kingdon, Marie Finn
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems. David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. They reject current...
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Committed to the Sane Asylum

Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing

by Susan Schellenberg, Rosemary Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011

In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health...
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Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care

An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Charles E Rosenberg, Ralph B Little, Edward A Strecker
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
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