Mental Health category: 18328 books
Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care
Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition.
This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within...
Person-Centered Diagnosis and Treatment in Mental Health
A Model for Empowering Clients
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This reference manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert...
Your Precious Life
How to Live it Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
We all want a life worth living. The search for ‘the good life’ has been a driving force for humanity throughout history. But what exactly is a ‘good life’? For too long psychologists have concerned themselves solely with helping the mentally unwell – those who suffer from depression, anxiety...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely, this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services, rather than researchers. Just like its parent series,...
50 Years after Deinstitutionalization
Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness...
Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health
Issues and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group.
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by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...
Changing Minds
The go-to Guide to Mental Health for Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This compassionate and insightful guide will demystify mental health issues and help anyone concerned about themselves or loved ones.
Leading psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross, from the acclaimed ABC TV series 'Changing Minds', feels strongly that everyone should have easy access to information they...
Prescribing Mental Health Medication
The Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. It explains the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up for general medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, students, residents, prescribing nurses and...
Mental Health Issues and the Media
An Introduction for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Mental Health Issues and the Media provides students and professionals in nursing and allied professions, in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, with a theoretically grounded introduction to the ways in which our attitudes are shaped by the media.
A wide range of contemporary media...
The Disordered Mind
An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, and more. It is also an outstanding introduction to philosophy of mind from the perspective...
by David Kingdon, Marie Finn
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems.
David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. They reject current...
Committed to the Sane Asylum
Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...