Mental Health category: 18328 books
Not Broken
How to overcome mental health challenges and unlock your full potential
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Turn your Challenges into Superpowers
Do you feel broken, or know someone who does? Do you fight against the stigma or challenges of mental health and disabilities?
Everyone has challenges .... but some people have more than others. Brett Francis knows this from personal experience....
by Beng Yeong Ng, Daniel Fung
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book is a compilation by local mental health experts on the development of mental health services in Singapore after 1993. The year was the end point of an earlier book "Till the Break of Dawn — A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore (1841–1993)" that had been written...
Mental Illness and the Body
Beyond Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their ‘lived experience’.
With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and...
Recovering from Psychosis
Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering...
by John S Wodarski, M. Carolyn Hilarski
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children, adolescents, and adults
Comprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods...
The Hormone Factor in Mental Health
Bridging the Mind-Body Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Endocrine imbalances can cause a whole host of physical and mental health problems. Yet, there is currently no definitive source of information that shows how hormones can bridge the gap between mental health and medical health modalities.
This book is a bold crossover between the disciplines...
Treating Co-Occurring Disorders
A Handbook for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In the real world, caseloads include clients with substance abuse, psychiatric, and co-occurring disorders. Here you'll find reliable information and informative case examples to help you manage your caseload more effectively!
Caseloads that include mental health, substance use, and co-occurring...
by Michael Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
We can no longer ignore mental health care. In the United States and I‘m sure many places around the world, mental heath is ignored and stigmatized. This will no longer stand. We have neglected mental health prevention, care, and humane emergency services for far too long. Thankfully, this is slowly...
by Peter Manoleas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover a culturally competent model of clinical case management in mental health practice settings. In The Cross-Cultural Practice of Clinical Case Management, author Peter Manoleas synthesizes some of the existent thinking on case management in cross-cultural psychotherapy settings and develops...
Aspies on Mental Health
Speaking for Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights...
Prevention in Mental Health Care
Time for a new approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a new approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research. Many professionals working in mental health care, as well as patients with psychiatric symptoms, are dissatisfied with what is currently offered by the discipline, with...
Mental Health Services for Deaf People
Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2012. The eighteen...
by William Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The thrust of this book is nutrition and complementary therapies for digital addiction, anxiety, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. Truisms that have been passed down through the ages about mental health that have stood the rigors of scientific inquiry are presented. The role of nutrition in...
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools
The Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools brings together international experts from various disciplines to identify and address a range of current challenges in this rapidly-developing field of endeavour.
The opening chapter details lessons learned from research and practice,...