Mental Illness category: 868 books
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...
Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome
A Six-step Mission to Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A comprehensive guide for service members, veterans, and their families dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and musculoskeletal injury, and substance abuse.
Written...
Beyond Trauma
Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
TIR, or Traumatic Incident Reduction, is a unique regressive, repetitive, desensitization procedure--highly focused, directive, and controlled, yet at the same time wholly person-centered, non-interpretive, and non-judgmental. Developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., Gerald French, and others, TIR is...
US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare
New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
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During Vietnam War (1965-1973), the US Army suffered a severe breakdown in soldier morale and discipline in Vietnam -- matters that are not only at the heart of military leadership, but also ones...
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...
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...
They'll Never Be the Same
A Parent's Guide to PTSD in Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Despite advances in understanding and treatment for trauma-related problems, PTSD still goes undetected in most individuals who have it. Clinicians who consider themselves experts miss the diagnosis the vast majority of the time. Parents are being inappropriately blamed for their children’s problems...
Optimizing Learning Outcomes
Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today’s schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources—including links to video segments—that promote understanding,...
A Path in the Dark
A Journey Through Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In 1992, Lim Ling began her doctoral studies, looking forward to a bright future and a career in geology. They were days filled with promise.
But as she began to face difficulties in her research, running up against roadblocks and personality clashes with academic supervisors, her stress levels...
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel
Strengthening Your Mental Armor
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families. Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician and researcher as well as a former police...
Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers
A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Humanitarian aid workers are trying to make a difference in an increasingly dangerous world. Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care highlights the risks of such work, educates professionals responsible for their duty of care, and brings together...
Group Therapy for Voice Hearers
Insights and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Based on extensive interviews with expert facilitators from around the world and grounded in empirical evidence, Group Therapy for Voice Hearers includes numerous tips, strategies, case examples, and reflection questions to bring the material to life in a practical way.
Chapters address the...
Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity
A study of schizophrenia and culture in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience...