Mental health services

Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice.

This timely volume addresses issues related to the mental health and health-related quality of life of adolescents through a study with three groups: those with physical, intellectual, and other developmental disabilities, specifically fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

This book explores children's mental health and wellbeing issues using a developmental systems perspective that is grounded on established theoretical frameworks and supported by evidence-based research.

Though recent legislation embedded with the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act mandates the use of evidence in school-based practice to demonstrate positive outcomes for all students, school social workers - especially those long out of school - often lack the conceptual tools to locate, evaluate, and apply evidence in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of their work.

Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling, and human services.

Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities.

As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.

This informative new volume presents the Culturally Integrative Family Safety Response (CIFSR) model that is currently being used by the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI) in London, Ontario.

"Ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns", schrieb einst Franz Kafka.

An exceptional opportunity is being missed.

Research-based guidance for educators, teacher educators, and community learning partners to effectively support LGBTQ+ students of color

A fear of vomiting is estimated to impact 119 million adults, teenagers, and children in the English-speaking world.

Unlike any other text that discusses day hospital programming, A Guide to Creative Group Programming in the Psychiatric Day Hospital contains protocols for the invention of new groups, saving you the time and effort needed to create one yourself.

Originally published in 1987, this book presents papers from the First Conference of European Clinical Psychologists, held at the University of Kent Canterbury in July of that year.

The enormous health and social burdens associated with mental disorders have global reach and persist in the setting of unmet needs.

Though schools have become the default mental health providers for children and adolescents, they are poorly equipped to meet the mental health needs of their students.

A self-help workbook for people with a gambling problem and their loved ones, featuring practical exercises and worksheets.

This volume offers a collection of ten case studies from clinical social workers who work in the field of sexual trauma, with the objective of challenging and informing social work practice with survivors and perpetrators of sexual trauma.

When Jose And His Grandfather Build A Bird House And Plant Vegetable Seeds Together, Jose Learns About The Rewards Of Patience.

Are you kinder to others than you are to yourself?

Emerging from an era of changing mental health and addiction services, Different Diagnoses, Similar Experiences is the first work in its field to gather narratives of mental health, addiction and dual diagnoses into one publication, as well as to critically examine the differences and similarities of these experiences.

The second edition Handbook of Psychological Assessment in Primary Care Settings offers an overview of the application of psychological screening and assessment instruments in primary care settings.

Many of the world's population have no access to appropriate diagnostic, neurorehabilitative or support services following brain injury.

The Rapids is an exploration of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder).

An authoritative, evidence-based overview of the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities and how to manage these needs appropriately.

There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue.

Community psychology is a diverse field.

Many of the world's population have no access to appropriate diagnostic, neurorehabilitative or support services following brain injury.

This essential guide is designed for mental health practitioners and primary care providers without advanced training in geriatric psychiatry.

Over the past two decades considerable progress has been made in developing specialist psychosocial treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet the majority of people with BPD receive treatment within generalist mental health services, rather than specialist treatment centres.

Social work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.

This book provides updated coverage on the mental health systems in Eastern and Central Europe.

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Mental Illness in the Family traces the development of treatment approaches with families of the mentally ill over the past three decades.

Suicide Risk Management: A Manual for Health Professionals is a short, clearly written book that provides practical guidance on how to manage the suicidal or potentially suicidal patient.

The Handbook of Liaison Psychiatry was first published in 2007 and is a comprehensive reference book for this fast-growing subspecialty.

In India about 123,000 people take their own lives each year, the second highest total in the world.

This is the first book to address the clinical and neurobiological interface between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

It's Sometimes Hard To Be Honest But This Book Teaches Students The Importance Of Being Honest At Home, In School, And In Their Everyday Lives.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

This thoroughly expanded edition of Howard Rosenthal's Human Services Dictionary is an essential resource for counselors tackling licensing and certification exams such as the National Counselor Examination (NCE) and human service workers who wish to pass the Human Services Board Certified Practitioner's Examination (HS-BCPE).

Despite the steady acceptance of psychological interventions for people with psychosis in routine practice many people continue to experience problems in their recovery.

Interprofessional collaboration in the health and social care services has become a commanding force, spear-headed by the Government's modernisation programme to improve partnership.