Mental Health category: 18328 books
Note to Self
A Seven-Step Path to Gratitude and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
• Self-value is on the decline. Global suicide rates have increased 60% in the past 45 years. On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world. (Suicide.org) • Women are 60% more likely than men to experience an anxiety disorder over their lifetime. (The National...
Experiencing Psychosis
Personal and Professional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Extensive scientific research has been conducted into understanding and learning more about psychotic experiences. However, in existing research the voice of subjective experience is rarely taken into consideration. In this book, first-person accounts are brought centre-stage and examined alongside...
by Sophia Richman
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between trauma and creativity. It is about art in the service of healing, mourning, and memorialization. This book addresses the questions of how artistic expression facilitates the healing process;...
by Liezel Anguelova
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This book provides a framework for addressing the extended treatment needs of adult survivors of child sexual abuse. It is based on a therapeutic intervention model that provides flexibility for therapists to work according to their training and skills set while incorporating practical techniques...
Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior
Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home--Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members.
Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, MD, a leading advocate...
After the War Zone
A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
From the Director and Associate Director of the VA's National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a highly practical, user-friendly guide that answering all conceivable questions about returning from war--for veterans and families
Two experts from the VA National Center for PTSD provide...
Trauma-Informed Care
How neuroscience influences practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations. The book explains how trauma can alter brain structure, identifies the challenges and commonalities for each population, and provides emergent treatment intervention options to assist...
by Alan G Mackie
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
Elements laying the foundations for the onset of mental illness abounded in Alan Mackie’s childhood and adolescence. Feeling unwanted, neglected, and emotionally and physically abused in his home, he became prey and a victim of childhood sexual abuse. A journey with drugs as his companion helped...
by Jonathan Hale
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This text depicts the inner workings of a disturbed mind as observed and understood by the subject himself. Emotional neglect is not only against the law, but it is one of the most damaging situations that a young mind can encounter. Symptoms will carry over into adulthood and will have a dramatic...
Depression in Later Life
An Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention has been...
by Lady Tracilyn George
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Do you or a loved one have a mental illness? Have you ever wondered what you can do to help? This book is your answer!To fully understand depression, you must listen intently and attentively to those of us afflicted. It is important for anyone with mental illness to be treated with kindness, respect...
by John Rhodes, Simon Jakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Designed to meet the complex needs of patients with psychosis, Narrative CBT for Psychosis combines narrative and solution-focused therapy with established techniques from CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) into one integrated flexible approach.
In this book John Rhodes and Simon Jakes bring...
Dangerous People
Policy, Prediction, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to “dangerousness” and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of those deemed dangerous by society vary according to culture, place, and time, and the contributors to this text have gathered...
Radical Psychoanalysis
An essay on free-associative praxis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Only by the method of free-association could Sigmund Freud have demonstrated how human consciousness is formed by the repression of thoughts and feelings that we consider dangerous. Yet today most therapists ignore this truth about our psychic life. This book offers a critique of the many brands of...