Mental Health category: 18328 books
Ten Minutes for the Family
Systemic Interventions in Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The provision of suitable mental health care is one of the major tasks facing general practitioners and their teams. Family-oriented primary care has moved from doctor-controlled to patient-centred consultations, with a greater emphasis on collaboration. The systemic framework uniquely lends itself...
Self-Acceptance
The Key to Recovery from Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The author has over forty years of professional experience and expertise with patients diagnosed with serious mental illnesses, especially bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia
The writing is non-technical, user-friendly, and easy-to-understand.
The process of mental illness recovery...
A Primer on Mental Disorders
A Guide for Educators, Families, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
From four practicing physicians comes this down-to-earth, easy to understand introduction to mental disorders_essentially a 'what is it' book to help identify disorders, understand the ramifications, and assist teachers and families in providing a supportive environment for anyone who suffers from...
by Dermot Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Depression, anxiety and stress are so commonplace these days. 5% of the adult population suffers from some or other form of mental agitation, on a clinical level, and it appears to many, that peace of mind is a thing of the past.However, nothing is further from the truth!You can regain...
Primitive Mental States
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can...
Defying the Verdict
My Bipolar Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, a bestselling book on bipolar disorder, has agreed to blurb the book.
This frank and honest memoir charts Charita's personal struggle with bipolar disorder. Readers will appreciate...
by Dr. Leonard Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Psychiatrists assert that mental illness is a physiological brain disorder. The anti-psychiatry movement refutes this on grounds of lack of evidence claiming that mental illness is socially defined. Len Bowers offers a rational, objective and philosophical critique of the theories of mental illness...
NCLEX Psychiatric Nursing
Exam Preparation Plus 280 Questions/Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Intervention of Psychiatric Patients.- NCLEX Exam Preparation for Psychiatric Nursing exam Plus 280 Psychiatric questions, answers and rationales. Buying this book grants you FREE access to www.Nclex-masters.net online NCLEX preparation for unlimited time.
This book focuses on nursing psychiatric...
by Darrin Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Champion Mind Unbeatable Athlete So what separates the champions from the rest of the pack? Why do some underdog athletes topple the best in their sport almost daily? Is there a secret training method some of us don’t know about it? There is only one tool that creates a champion truly...
Behavioral Health
Integrating Individual and Family Interventions in the Treatment of Medical Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
In this age of accountability, and irrespective of whether they work in health-care settings or conventional mental health settings, all therapists will be increasingly expected to provide effective psychosocial treatment to individuals and families who face co-morbid medical conditions. Statistics...
The Four Domains of Mental Illness
An Alternative to the DSM-5
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The Four Domains of Mental Illness presents an authentic and valid alternative to the DSM-5, which author René J. Muller argues has resulted in many patients being incorrectly diagnosed and wrongly medicated. Dr. Muller points out where the DSM-5 is mistaken and offers a guide to diagnosis based...
Social Justice in Clinical Practice
A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention,...
Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions
Law, Medicine and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail...
by Valerie Widmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Do you often feel like you’re going to die from an anxiety or panic attack? Are you fed up of trying various treatments that do not seem to work? Are you afraid of being resigned to a life of anxiety and loneliness? Do you feel that nobody understands what you are going through? Are you someone...