Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Rob Poole, Robert Higgo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Interviewing and assessment are integral to the practice of psychiatry, and this book helps psychiatrists and other mental health professionals develop the skills needed to gain the right information to make diagnostic formulations and build therapeutic relationships with their patients. The text...
Bipolar Disorders
Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Over the past two decades, driven by the enormous public health importance of bipolar disorder, research initiatives have begun to elucidate the pathophysiology of this prevalent and debilitating condition. These research initiatives have led to breakthroughs in our understanding of causation, and...
by Z Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
I want you to think of all the little cuts and scrapes you’ve suffered throughout your life and now I want you to imagine that every one of them didn’t heal. They simply became infected.
Emotional injuries are like that. A little knock here and a little bruise there. You never notice them in your...
Racial Identity Theory
Applications to Individual, Group, and Organizational Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Racial identity theories have been in the psychological literature for nearly thirty years. Unlike most references to racial identity, however, Thompson and Carter demonstrate the value of integrating RACE and IDENTITY as systematic components of human functioning. The editors and their contributors...
The Dream Experience
A Systematic Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The Dream Experience provides the mental health professional with a systematic scientific basis for understanding the dream as a psychological event. Milton Kramer’s extensive research, along with the findings of others, establishes that dreams are structured, not random, and linked meaningfully...
Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 27
Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 27 of Adolescent Psychiatry focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma on its victims, especially the young. Schonfeld Award papers offer a historical perspective on adolescent violence in America, and...
by Krista Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
"There is great tension that so many of us feel within our private, inner spaces. I am deeply worried by our tendency to repress our emotional struggles and then unleash them into the environment with our behaviour, affecting the lives of those around us. I have committed my childhood, my education...
Stand Tall Little Girl
Facing Up To Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
'I know how anorexia makes you feel: you think she is your friend, you think she can solve everything and make you feel amazing … but she will destroy you and everything around you, piece by piece.’ - Hope Virgo.
For four years, Hope managed to keep it hidden, keeping dark secrets from...
by Linda Pearl Ramnath
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Soul Food - Look up! is another great book on Self Help, which offers motivation and inspiration to its readers. Linda Pearl Ramnath is an author and blogger who writes candidly on real life stories, especially those pertaining to mental health. After suffering a career burn out 9 years ago, she has...
Bariatric Surgery
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
This book provides mental health professionals with a basic overview of the types of procedures involved in bariatric surgery and the specific psychological impacts such operations can have on their patients. It also serves as a valuable resource to surgeons, nurses, doctors, and support staff who...
The Relation between Physical and Mental Illness
The Physical Status of Psychiatric Patients at a Multiphasic Screening Survey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
The relation between mind and body has been keen of interest since antiquity. The author surveys the approaches to the subject from the observational to the experimental level. He presents the findings of a study carried out, at a community health screening survey, to test the association between...
Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism
How Priests and Nuns Become Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
An inside look at the reasons Catholic priests and nuns commit sexual abuse
Sexual Abuse and the Culture of Catholicism digs beneath the public scandals to explore the underlying causes of sexual abuse by priests and nuns from the unique perspective of an abuse victim/survivor who is an experienced...
Christopher's Story
An Indictment of the American Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Part biography, part social commentary, and part cold case, a compelling tale of the author's descent into his son's problems and the madness of the perpetual dysfunction of the country's mental health system. There is an astonishing level of detail taken from reports, evaluations, and the author's...
Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator...