Mental Health category: 18328 books
Clinical Gerontology
A Guide to Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Here is a major text in psychogeriatrics for all professionals in the field of aging and mental health. Leading authorities provide valuable insights into assessment and intervention techniques for use with the mentally impaired elderly. Topics include a depression scale for use in later life, family...
Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation Guide
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Geriatric psychiatry is a relatively young discipline within the field of North American psychiatry. The development of a workforce to meet the needs of an aging population has been identified as an urgent priority, but there is still much we don’t know about fulfilling the mental health needs of...
The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist
Psychopharmacosocioeconomics and the Treatment of Schizophrenia in Residential Care Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Discover an alternative realm of psychiatry-without offices or couches!
The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist: Psychopharmacosocioeconomics and the Treatment of Schizophrenia in Residential Care Facilities addresses the problems involved in the onsite treatment of mentally ill patients...
Liberation From Your Madness
the Tao of mental health and stability
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The total Taoist approach to retrieving and maintaining a state of mental balance, perspective calm, confidence, joyousness, clarity, authenticity, sanity, and ease, comprising all pertinent Taoist healing technique and philosophy to adjust mood, humor, energy levels, and strength of mind and body,...
by Jack Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
God, The Devil And I is a memoir/biography of Jack Jones. A Christian book at it's heart. God inspired. An epic journey and extraordinarily incomprehensible life alchemy experiences. Born an orphaned runt, mute, and into poverty.Unaided and lacking in support. Left abandoned. An underdog...
by Paivi Lehtinen, Minna Martin, Maila Seppa
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The book describes how to use breathing as a medium for self-regulation and self-reflection and how balanced breathing thus helps to promote mental and physical health and alleviate symptoms resulting from imbalanced breathing. The authors describe applications of psychophysical breathing therapy...
by Glen Brumby
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The book tells of lived experiences leading up to and after a young man’s suicide explaining in detail, from a male’s perspective, what the experiences feel like and what it’s like living after losing a son to suicide (Chapters Two and Three). Secondly, it tells the stories of other men who...
Conduct and Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Recent decades have seen a steady rise in the incidence of antisocial behavior in youth. Possible direct consequences aside, such behavior is predictive of chronic emotional, educational, vocational, and emotional impairment that is associated with hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to overtaxed...
Wilderness Therapy for Women
The Power of Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Wilderness Therapy for Women offers women risktaking adventure activities in the outdoors as an alternative to traditional therapy. The contributing authors illustrate the empowerment, confidence, and self-esteem women can derive from adventure and experiential activities. This is the first book of...
by Lucy Taylor, Mima Simic, Ulrike Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A quarter of adolescents engage in some form of self-harm and even experienced therapists can find working with these young people difficult. Based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), a highly effective method for working with emotional problems, Cutting Down offers a practical and accessible programme...
by Mary Beth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This book is the end result of the author trying to “get a handle on” her father who died when she was thirty-three. Beginning in her mid-forties she attempted to understand him. Endlessly calm and smiling, undisturbed by the yelling of his wife and the small spats of his children, he was like...
From Symptom to Synapse
A Neurocognitive Perspective on Clinical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This edited volume bridges the gap between basic and applied science in understanding the nature and treatment of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems. Topics such as brain imaging, physiological indices of emotion, cognitive enhancement strategies, neuropsychological and cognitive training,...
Basic Interviewing
A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book offers clear and direct answers to the questions most frequently asked by students and trainees learning how to talk to clients and extract critical data from them. Its development reflects the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention." For many years, the editors taught...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
In the last decade, mental health professionals have been under mounting pressure to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of their treatment choices and practices. Progress has been made, related in part to improvements and refinements in diagnostic classifications that are increasingly empirically...