Mental Health category: 18328 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Being able to engage with service users and communicate effectively is a fundamental skill identified by the NMC and required of all mental health nurses. The reality is that building rapport and developing therapeutic relationships does not come instinctively for everyone. The authors have responded...
Keeping The Baby In Mind
Infant Mental Health in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Keeping the Baby in Mind builds on the expanding evidence pointing to the crucial importance of parents in facilitating their baby’s development, and brings together expert contributors to examine a range of innovative psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions that are currently being used...
by Ian Norman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A comprehensive core student text which combines theoretical foundations of mental health nursing with practical skills and interventions.
Effortless Mindfulness
Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Effortless Mindfulness promotes genuine mental health through the direct experience of awakened presence—an effortlessly embodied, fearless understanding of and interaction with the way things truly are. The book offers a uniquely modern Buddhist psychological understanding of mental health disorders...
Five Steps to Happiness
Learning to Explore and Understand Your Emotional Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Life is there to be enjoyed, not endured' In Five Steps to Happiness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Enda Murphy guides the reader through the five kinds of thinking and behaviour that lead to panic attacks, anxiety and depression. With a unique and simple style, free from psychobabble, Enda explains...
OCD, Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Related Depression
The Definitive Survival and Recovery Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
• An insight into mental health recovery that sufferers can
really relate to
• Detailed from the separate perspectives of a sufferer
and a psychologist
• First-hand evidence for sufferers that recovery
is possible
• A refreshing, compassionate and...
The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health
A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Emotions and values are considered the keys to understanding peoples' experiences and actions within the world they inhabit. The traditional symptom-led clinical interview is frequently criticised for ignoring the narrative of a patient's experience in favour of ticking-off symptoms that can be reduced...
by Dr Pravin Thevathasan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In some pastoral contexts the boundaries between Catholicism and psychiatry in mental health care can be contentious. This work shows that there should be no conflict between them. Through a brief history of psychiatry in secular and faith settings the author moves to examining the conflicts and agreements...
Arabs in Treatment:
Development of Mental Health System and Psychoanalysis in the Arabo-Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
When I was only starting the therapeutic work with the Middle Eastern patients, I was looking for some kind of guidance to enable my genuine understanding of the Muslim patient cases. However, the material was scarce, haphazardly scattered, and mostly referring to the traditional therapies. That was...
by Steven R. Pliszka, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Accessible and succinct, this book has given thousands of clinicians and students the basic understanding of neuroscience that is essential in contemporary mental health practice. Steven R. Pliszka synthesizes current knowledge on the neurobiological bases of major psychiatric disorders. He explores...
Abortion Counseling
A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The majority of women who have had abortions report feeling happy, satisfied, and relieved following their abortion. Some few women who have had an abortion may experience some feelings of guilt and sadness; however, this rarely lasts longer than a few days. Those very few women who present with prolonged...
by David Moyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Whimsical? Yes. Serious? Yes. Practical? Yes! How does a person keep their brain happy and in good repair? This unorthodox, slightly irreverent book goes beyond the psychiatric labels and medications. It provides specific leading-edge interventions readers can implement in consultation with their...
Mental Health in Children and Young People
Spotting Symptoms and Seeking Help Early
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
"I'm worried that my child is depressed and anxious."
"I'm worried that my child has an eating disorder."
"I'm worried about drugs."
Mental health difficulties affect about 1 in 10 children and young people, ranging from fears, phobias and panic attacks to obsessions,...
School-Based Mental Health
A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
This volume provides school-based practitioners with a comprehensive and comparative guide to the strategic interventions, therapeutic modalities, and treatment approaches that are most commonly and effectively used in educational settings. Three main sections of the text present a foundation of...