Mental category: 19657 books
by Peter Cockersell, Musthafar Oladosu, Rena Kydd-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book looks at ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.
The chapters explore the issues involved in working with individuals...
by Matthew Martins
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
January 2013 was the beginning of the most traumatic period in my life, in the 7 months that followed I experienced many of the symptoms commonly associated with mental health disorders. As I suspected however there was more to my experience than 'chemical imbalance' in my brain, I set out...
Exercise For The Brain: 70 Neurobic Exercises To Increase Mental Fitness & Prevent Memory Loss
How Non Routine Actions And Thoughts Improve Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
If you are interested in learning the best ways possible to improve mental health then you need a copy of "Exercise For The Brain: 70 Neurobic Exercises To Increase Mental Fitness & Prevent Memory Loss." This text is written in a fashion that is easy to understand and the author himself...
by David Smail
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any...
A Promise Of Hope
The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted With Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Some children inherit "the family nose." Autumn Stringam and her brother Joseph inherited the family bipolar disorder, a severe mental illness that led to their mother's and grandfather's suicides. Autumn, at 22, was psychotic and in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch; Joseph, at 15,...
All the Things We Never Knew
Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A reporter chases the biggest story of her life-her husband’s descent into mental illness.
Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David’s mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant,...
by Panos Vostanis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being. The authors, from a range of professional...
by Dominick Bosco
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
"An eye-opening experience. A troubling book, difficult to put down...." --Library Journal
"Educational, uplifting, heartbreaking. What more could you want from a delicious read?" --S'Parks' 5-star Amazon review
"By the time I reached the final chapter I found...
by John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the...
Mom, Mania, and Me
Surviving and Changing a Volatile Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
FINALIST Tucson Festival of Books Competition
TROPHY AWARD Australian NNAAMI and WAYMI
Hope and heartbreak describe Diane Dweller’s struggles to improve her dysfunctional relationship with Dixie, her mother. Dixie has periodic spells that start with laughter, parties, and shopping....
Get the Diagnosis Right
Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Dr. Jerome Blackman, author of 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself, has once again crafted an extraordinarily user-friendly book that demonstrates to all readers, from trainees to advanced analysts, the process of diagnosing mental disturbance. Get the Diagnosis Right provides a systematic method...
Treating Concurrent Disorders
A Guide for Counsellors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Understanding how co-occurring substance use and mental health problems relate to and affect each other can be challenging — how do they interact, and how can you help?
Treating Concurrent Disorders: A Guide for Counsellors gives you the information you need to offer effective, comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The diagnosis of mental illness is frequently accompanied by sleep problems; conversely, people experiencing sleep problems may subsequently develop mental illness. Sleep and Mental Illness looks at this close correlation and considers the implications of research findings that have emerged in the...
Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Meeting the Needs of Young Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Written for practitioners and policymakers, this book will help professionals across health, education, social care and juvenile justice services to understand the needs of young offenders and adolescents at risk of entering the criminal justice system. Developmental in approach, the textbook provides...