Mental Health category: 18328 books
New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and...
Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services
"I Am More Than My Label"
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness
Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient’s personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have...
by Stefan Priebe, Mike Slade
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Mental health care increasingly faces a challenge to be 'evidence based'. However, despite much policy activity in the UK, it's still not clear what sort of evidence researchers should be producing for mental health services, or what purchasers should be looking for. Evidence in Mental Health Care...
A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice
Seeing the Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Drawing on the authors’ experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen is designed for mental health, public health, and primary care professionals new to this emerging area.
The...
Tie a Knot and Hang on
Providing Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Tie a Knot and Hang On is an analysis of mental health care work that crosses the borders of diverse sociological traditions. The work seeks to understand the theoretical and empirical linkages between environmental pressures and activities and how these intersect with organizations and individuals....
The National Mental Health Association
Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.
For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued...
by Luciano L'Abate
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Never has the need for a compendium of self-help workbooks been so great!
From the founder of the world’s first PhD program in Family Psychology comes an extensive guide to nearly all of the mental health workbooks published through 2002. Placed together in one volume for the first time,...
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
A Responsive Approach to Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals working in a range of ways. In particular, it provides examples of how an urban CAMH service has been responsive...
Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health
A Guide for Health Professionals and Support Workers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health focuses on how women and families suffering from perinatal mental illness can be supported by a wide range of practitioners. Based on the skills of attentive listening, it is designed for use by health professionals and support workers concerned with maternal...
The Physical Care of People with Mental Health Problems
A Guide For Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This accessible, practical text provides mental health practitioners with the core knowledge and skills they need to be able to care effectively for the physical health of those who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
Linked closely to professional standards, and with a clear values- and...
Health and Suffering in America
The Context and Content of Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Health and Suffering in America analyzes how we came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness," and argues that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, gave us this notion. Robert Fancher argues that the beliefs of mental health professionals have less to do...
Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality
Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities.
This book uses the rich narratives...
Your Complete Guide To Mental Health
Learn This Handbook’s Mental Health Information And Discover Mental Health Recovery Techniques, Benefits Of Mental Health Support Groups, Effective Mental Health Treatment, Mental Health Nursing And More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Unlike physical disorders, mental illnesses are often not recognizable and difficult to identify. This makes these disorders a lot harder to understand leading the sufferers to believe that they are alone in their suffering and that help is unavailable. Top these with their own conviction that there...
by Lloyd I. Sederer MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Advice on Helping Your Loved Ones, from the medical director of the country's largest state mental health system and the mental health editor of The Huffington Post
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity,...