Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Intellectual Disabilities Curriculum Planning Committee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Based on the psychiatry residency curriculum at the University of Toronto, which includes teaching in and exposure to developmental disabilities (DD), Guidelines for Managing Patients with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency Room can contribute to a better outcome for ER clients and the ER staff...
The Practical Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy
Things My Training Supervisor Never Told Me
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
It is a truism among therapists in most mental health disciplines that the most important aspects of clinical practice are learned only after one has left graduate school and entered “the real world.” While many of the basics could be covered in graduate school, supervisors of new therapists often...
Theory and Cases in School-Based Consultation
A Resource for School Psychologists, School Counselors, Special Educators, and Other Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This casebook provides an applied perspective regarding school-based consultation, including an overview of mental health consultation, behavioral consultation, social learning theory consultation, Adlerian consultation, and ecological/organizational consultation. Along with relevant discussion of...
Borderline Personality Disorder
Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still...
Creativity in Times of Constraint
A Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human...
by Pei Chen Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
"I feel stressed out, tired, angry, depressed and worried today. What shall I do? I will read and re-read Visualization and Desensitization Therapy to help my own physical and mental health. Using visualization and desensitization exercises, I will relax my mind and body. I will develop strong coping...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This ground-breaking textbook gathers contributions from service users, expert practitioners and leading academics to help students develop the core knowledge and skills they need to qualify as mental health nurses. Focusing in particular on helping students apply person-centred, compassionate and...
by Sandra Walker, Diane Carpenter, Yvonne Middlewick
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Assessment is an essential part of mental-health nursing and as such a core learning requirement for pre-registration nursing students. Getting assessment right is essential for the nursing student in order for them to become an effective practitioner. Many books on assessment are very theoretical....
by Brian D Satterfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 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...
by Toby Williamson, Ann Howarth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This accessible and affordable book will show mental health nurses how to apply the law in practice and how it affects them and their service users.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders
Speedy Study Guides
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The diagnostic and statistical manual is the official measure by which mental health professionals diagnose disorders, and it also details changes in how diagnoses are done. This means that students will have to have extensive knowledge of the diagnostic and statistical manual, and so it is a good...
by Herman Medow
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Neuroplasticity refers to recent discoveries in brain science about an unusual capacity of our brain; it makes durable changes in its own internal biology as part of any learning experience. The spin-off from these discoveries is immense, disrupting decades of accepted wisdom that has dominated understanding...
Conflict, peace and mental health
Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health problems. Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation uses a cognitive approach to de-mystify the processes involved in linking traumatic incidents to their effects.
Kennedy,...