Mental health services

The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family.

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary.

This comprehensive, go-to volume features cutting edge discussion of the emergency department management of mental health patients.

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help.

This practical, user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches.

Every couple has disagreements, but what happens when recurring conflicts start to pull your relationship apart?

This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally.

Basic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea - it's being tested worldwide.

First Published in 1989.

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of a large iceberg.

Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence.

The Nine Degrees of Autism presents a much-needed positive tool for understanding the developmental process of autism, and to facilitate the improved mental health and well-being of individuals on the spectrum.

For too long, studies lumped women's mental health with that of men, notwithstanding profound differences.

A comprehensive and practical guide to understanding the links between mental health and school attendance in children and young people.

In 2006, Social Work Education produced the first special edition (vol.

This volume presents a state of the art account of the clinical specialty of mental health care of deaf people.

This book examines public policy in physical education and sport and provides insights into practices of school curriculum and after-school sport programs from a global context.

Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization.

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people.

This highly regarded book offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice.

Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks.

Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health critically explores the current theory and practice of ethno-psychiatry and multicultural mental health practices and policies.

This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice.

Analyses and assesses the techniques of outcome measurement and looks at ways it should be implemented.

A Counseling Primer, second edition, introduces students to the profession of counseling, reviews its training curriculum, discusses current professional standards, and presents basic counseling skills.

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk tells the survival story of Sheena McDonald, who in 1999 was hit by a police van and suffered a very severe brain injury.

A complete guide to evidence based interventions for children and adolescents The past decade has witnessed the development of numerous interventions proved to be highly effective; several treatments are now considered to be "e;well established"e; or "e;probably efficacious"e; interventions for children.

This new edition provides essential reading on crisis intervention for social workers, mental health nurses and other human services practitioners and managers.

Advocating for Women with Postpartum Mental Illness takes the reader into the world of one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses.

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!

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.

Working on the Frontline of Mental Health is an account of the day-to-day work in psychological therapies, highlighting not only the complexities clients present but also their remarkable and moving stories of recovery after many years of adversity.

First Published in 2012.

The second edition of Advanced Principles of Counseling and Psychotherapy covers advanced helping- skills topics, including inductive reasoning, Socratic questioning, and creatively creating second- order change.

This book will equip carers, family members and friends with the skills to support a person with schizophrenia or other psychoses.

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences.

If you need help having a baby, reproductive technology can supply the answer.

Career Counseling, 3rd edition, provides a comprehensive, holistic overview of the foundations of career counseling, information on the most effective skills and techniques, and contextual perspectives on career and lifestyle planning, all by nationally and internationally recognized experts.

For parents fed up with constant challenges to their authority-but who dread becoming tyrants in their own homes-this book provides a powerful new alternative to "e;because I said so.

A need for comprehensive services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services has been identified and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) at this level.

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.

In the Aftermath of the Pandemic is an accessible treatment manual enabling psychotherapists to use Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) to address the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and other large-scale disasters.

Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors, 2nd ed, is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, during the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "e;hurting the body"e; such as bingeing, purging, starving, substance abuse and other addictive behaviors.

Courage is having the strength to beat your fears.

This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents.

This book will assist health and social care professionals to improve and open up further awareness of the characteristics of self-neglect.