Mental Health category: 18328 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Senel Poyrazli's and Chalmer Thompson's International Case Studies in Mental Healthpresents a variety of global cases from both developed and developing countries, detailing descriptions of the people who are seeking help to eliminate their distress and of the exceptional practitioners who provide...
Therapeutic Communication in Mental Health Nursing
Aesthetic and Metaphoric Processes in the Engagement with Challenging Patients
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Awarded first place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
This book introduces an innovative technique for therapeutic communication in mental health nursing, expanding the toolkit for nurses seeking to engage challenging patients who have not responded...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Exercise is well known to be beneficial to physical health; however, increasing research indicates that physical exercise is also beneficial to brain health and may alleviate symptoms of mental disorders. This book, written by international experts, describes and explores the theory and practice of...
by Neil Glickman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This book provides a model for adapting best practices in cognitive-behavioral therapy to consumers whose language and cognitive deficits make it difficult for them to benefit from traditional talk oriented psychotherapy.
The book focuses primarily upon the mental health care of those deaf...
It’S All About You
A Guide to Good Mental Health and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Life has many experiences for which we rejoice and celebrate. Challenging situations present and sometimes the answer or solution requires a go to resource. Mental health conditions and concerns are often one of the challenges we face and need information. Where do you start? What do you do about...
The Diagnostic System
Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify...
by Mental Health and Me Competition Winners
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Mental health is something we should all be interested in. After all, we know that 1 in 3 GP appointments in Liverpool are related to it. But, whilst statistics can be dull and impersonal the writing in this book is anything but – it’s engaging, entertaining, funny, heart-breaking and alive! Read...
Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care
A Short Guide for Children's Agencies and Post-adoption Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care provides a concise, step-by-step guide for children’s agencies on how to carry out mental health screening and monitoring for children and adolescents growing up in alternative care.
Michael Tarren-Sweeney outlines unique universal...
Lead on a Page
The Poetic Leadership of a Laureate
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
A. Gregory Frankson, also known as Ritallin, provides a poetic form of leadership within the global mental health movement - a movement that seeks improved services, greater awareness, reduced stigma and full acceptance for consumers / survivors / service users no matter where they live in the world. ...
My Schizophrenic Life
The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Vancouver artist Sandra Yuen MacKay has an abnormality of the brain - a disease called schizophrenia. As she says, "my life is schizophrenic because I have schizophrenia. It will always be there". Much of her life has been a struggle to cope with the symptoms of her disease and the side...
by Rebecca Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
I had a break down in my recent life. I went to a hospital to get help for the anxiety that really scared the poopy out of me. Anxiety does that. The first thing I had done was wrote a poem about my son and husband. They are my world and always will be. As I was going into the hospital, I had begun...
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined...
The Wellness Diaries
My Journey out of Mental Illness Through Nutrition and Lifestyle Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The Wellness Diaries takes readers on a unique roller coaster journey through the eyes of a paranoid college student while battling mental illness, to the darkness of planning suicide, to a remarkable recovery.
It offers an account of the authors experience of mental illness-early symptoms,...
Thrive
How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Mental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, and...