Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Lee Knifton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book will provide readers with an overview of the core knowledge and issues in public mental health, and a guide for students and practitioners on the evidence and tools available to help them develop Public Mental Health programs that work in practice.
Broken Spirits
The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD,...
by alan watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
From a critique of historic and current thinking about depression and mental health through to personal examples of the challenges facing individuals, families and societies in modern life, Depression: The Way I Think, The Way I Feel helps you and your loved ones take practical steps to become more...
Neurobiology and Mental Health Clinical Practice
New Directions, New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book illustrates the current findings of interpersonal neurobiology that inform knowledge building and clinical practice. Contributions cover an impressive range of material including how neurobiology interfaces with clinical work with children, individuals with substance abuse issues, couples...
Clinician's Guide to the Assessment Checklist Series
Specialized mental health measures for children in care
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Assessment Checklist series, created by Michael Tarren-Sweeney, provides the world’s first standardised caregiver-report measures of a range of attachment- and trauma-related mental health difficulties experienced amongst children growing up in foster, adoptive, kinship and residential care....
Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health
History, Theory and within Group Differences
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their...
by Steve Onyett, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Developing mental health team effectiveness requires that we explore both how people work together and the context of the team itself. This text, by an acknowledged authority in the field, examines the historical, social policy, political and organisational context alongside the design and the management...
Technology-Assisted Delivery of School Based Mental Health Services
Defining School Social Work for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Learn how computer technology is helping school social workers collect information and synthesize it into meaningful data!
Technology-Assisted Delivery of School Based Mental Health Services: Defining School Social Work for the 21st Century explores the many technological advances in school...
by Elizabeth Jane Holland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The Nurse's Guide to Mental Health Medicines is an invaluable, pocket sized guide to a complex subject. Each chapter provides a short and easy-to-read overview of the different drug types used in mental health nursing, focusses only on the need to know information and the associated risks and side...
Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness
Me and, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
How does a bullied teacher recover from Bipolar and PTSD? An Australian teacher reveals how she’s repeatedly harassed and bullied by parents at her school to breaking point, triggering bipolar disorder and PTSD. In a fit of desperation, she escapes and runs. Police and medical professionals discover...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Psychosocial and holistic approaches to assessment have become a central feature of modern mental health care. This practical and comprehensive book guides students through the theory and practice of psychosocial assessments to help them integrate the data as preparation for the effective planning...
How Not to Fall Apart
Lessons Learned on the Road from Self-Harm to Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**"She’s [Maggy is] really funny . . . If I had a self-destructive young adult in my life . . . this is probably the book I’d get her.” —The New York Times Book Review
“How Not to Fall Apart is the book that finally understands mental health, and it'll make you feel infinitely less...
Teaching the World to Sleep
Psychological and Behavioural Assessment and Treatment Strategies for People with Sleeping Problems and Insomnia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Sleep problems are ubiquitous in the modern world, significantly impacting on quality of life, mental health, and performance at work and at home. More significantly, sleep problems accompany almost every mental health condition and are a significant driver in the development and maintenance of poor...
Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health
A Handbook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This book enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings.
It offers practical guidance on how practitioners can take positive steps to improve the quality...