Mental category: 19657 books
by Maddie Burton, Erica Pavord, Briony Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is. To help prepare you, the authors have produced a clear introduction to child and adolescent mental health that takes you step-by-step on a journey through the subject. Beginning...
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools
The Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools brings together international experts from various disciplines to identify and address a range of current challenges in this rapidly-developing field of endeavour.
The opening chapter details lessons learned from research and practice,...
by Jasenn Zaejian
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Throughout the author's career as a clinical psychologist and well trained psychotherapist, he has seen people struggling with depression and anxiety, often without an understanding that they can heal themselves. As a consequence, many have been driven to take on the extravagant...
by Kwame McKenzie, Trudy Harpham
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
`The effects of social context and social structure on health are well documented. The concept of social capital provides a slightly different take on the issue, as it attempts to discover the features of populations in different areas that are crucial in determining the extent and the quality of...
Promoting Public Mental Health and Well-being
Principles into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
What causes a person to flourish or languish? Or to be well or ill? How can the mental health and well-being of society as a whole, and individuals, be promoted and enhanced?
This book explores the social, economic, political, cultural and environmental factors that affect mental health and...
by Mala Wijeweera
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
To improve the knowledge about mental health and to recognize mental sickness as any other disease. Mental health carry physical ,psycological conditions in individuals. There is a social stigma attached to mental patients and mental sickness and mental health.
Return to Equilibrium
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Much discussion follows disasters and critical incidents about returning to normal, but "normal" is never the same again. "Return to Equilibrium", involving integrating the event, its effects, meanings and recognition it's part of one's life can build a new balance and create a...
by Stewart E. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Everything you didn’t know about the effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy in the university setting
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Practice in College Mental Health presents an overview of EBP theory, research, and practice with a focus on the key issues in this growing field. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Care offers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists. Although many books explore the ramifications of managed care for psychotherapy, this...
Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy examines the intersection of meaning systems, mental health culture, and counseling and psychotherapy. By viewing mental health care through the lenses of culture and history, James T. Hansen...
by Ruth Elder, RN, BA(Hons)
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental...
Mental Health in China
Change, Tradition, and Therapeutic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and...
Neuroscience for Psychologists and Other Mental Health Professionals
Promoting Well-Being and Treating Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This book presents the latest neuroscience and physiological explanations behind the major diagnostic categories of mental illness—including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and addiction—and explains the physiological bases that underlie traditional pharmaceutical treatment interventions....
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health
Understanding Risks and Promoting Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national...