Mental Health category: 18328 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
From the much-referenced and highly acclaimed Textbooks of Military Medicine series, Military Psychiatry: Preparing in Peace for War addresses the multiple mental health services provided by the military during peacetime. Although military psychiatrists and other mental health professionals must view...
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
An Interpersonal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
This psychiatric-mental health undergraduate textbook, based on the theories of Hildegard Peplau and Joyce Travelbee, is the first recent book devoted to interpersonal relations as the foundation for therapeutic practice in psychiatric nursing. It guides the student through the essential phases of...
Mental Health
A Person-centred Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach aligns leading mental health research with the human connections that can and should be made in mental health care. It seeks to deepen readers' understanding of themselves, the work they do, and how this intersects with the lives and crises of people with mental...
Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth
A Strengths and Well-Being Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Use a strengths perspective for working with your younger clients!
Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. This book explores the continuum...
Mental Health and Later Life
Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.
The book takes an interdisciplinary...
Journey to Healing
Aboriginal People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today’s generation of Aboriginal people carry. They...
Mental Health and Well-Being
Alternatives to the Medical Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and...
by Carol A. Kivler
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Mental Health Recovery Boosters is a book of inspiration and reflection designed to move readers from mental illness to mental wellness. The 68 short but powerful essays stand alone with messages of encouragement and personal accountability. Based on lessons the author learned during her journey out...
The Campus Cure
A Parent's Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Did you know that one of four college students was diagnosed with a mental health disorder in the last year? College students are experiencing anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, and other mental health issues at alarming rates in a landscape of growing academic, social, and financial pressures. As...
Challenges & Choices
Finding Mental Health Services in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Finding your way around the mental health system can be confusing, frustrating, scary -- and difficult. Written in easy-to-understand language, Challenges & Choices gives practical information about mental health services in Ontario and how to find them. You could be looking for services for yourself...
Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health
A guide to clinical practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the fifty years since its inception, John Bowlby’s attachment theory has been powerfully influential on developmental psychology and, more recently, mental health. Bringing together the experience of a diverse range of mental health practitioners and researchers who routinely use attachment theory...
Spirituality and Mental Health Care
Rediscovering a 'Forgotten' Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
A person's sense of spirituality informs his or her awareness of self and of the society around them, and is intrinsic to their mental well-being. In this balanced and thoughtful book John Swinton explores the connections between mental health or illness and spirituality and draws on these to provide...
by Maddie Burton, Erica Pavord, Briony Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is. To help prepare you, the authors have produced a clear introduction to child and adolescent mental health that takes you step-by-step on a journey through the subject. Beginning...
A Court of Refuge
Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The story of America’s first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren—from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nation
As a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped...