Mental Illness category: 868 books
by Shafiq Yasin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Mental Health Awareness is a concise manual of mental health conditions and their treatment for patients and their families. Dr Shafiq Yasin is an experienced consultant psychiatrist working in private practice in Brisbane, Australia. He is particularly interested in educating the layperson about mental...
First Stage Trauma Treatment
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Working with Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been recognized for some time, only recently have therapists begun to recognize and address complex post-traumatic stress responses in female clients who have a history of early or chronic abuse.
Most mental health service providers recognize...
The Origins of Family Psychotherapy
The NIMH Family Study Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and...
Crisis In The American Heartland -- Disasters & Mental Health In Rural Environments
An Introduction (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?
Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical...
Disaster Mental Health Interventions
Core Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Disaster Mental Health Interventions uses DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and the latest research to help build disaster mental health intervention skills that will last a lifetime. Students and emerging professionals across the fields of mental health counseling, social work, school counseling, spiritual...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Typically, borderline personality disorder is defined as a mental health disorder that causes people to have turbulent feelings which result in turbulent actions. More often than not, these feelings and actions occur over an extended period of time. Therefore, a diagnosis of borderline personality...
by George S. Everly Jr., Jeffrey M. Lating
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Psychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stress and trauma and assist those in crisis to cope effectively with adversity. PFA is designed to be applied in emergencies, including disasters and terrorist attacks. In this essential guide, George S. Everly, Jr., developer...
Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made and Natural Disasters
Models, Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
"In this latest insightful volume gathered and edited by Marilyn Luber, the authors have combined the lessons learned with personal accounts of how they proceeded. There is still much to be done to integrate mental health care effectively into disaster response worldwide, but this volume will...
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
A Clinician's Guide and Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis. The book contains guidance on adapting the approach for use in individual treatments, and on providing...
Reaching Out
The Psychology of Assertive Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Assertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services. Reaching Out examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach – a process which involves forming new relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
For those struggling with experiences of psychosis, therapy can be beneficial and even life changing. However, there is no single type of therapy, and a great range and diversity of therapeutic approaches have been developed to help different individuals’ needs, which makes deciding which approach...
Hope for Children of Trauma
An international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms of complex trauma – such as abuse, neglect and war violence – and also presents a real advance...
An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.
Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while...
His Bright Light
The Story of Nick Traina
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death.
I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want...