Mental health services

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.

Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease.

This book is a study of infant mental health which blends knowledge and understanding from three perspectives: international research, theory, and intervention.

Throughout the world, the population of older adults continues to grow.

Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending.

This book provides a concise overview of sexuality and gender identity in clients with intellectual disabilities for therapists, social workers, educators, and healthcare providers.

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

Traditional approaches in the Criminal Justice System have focused on societal causes of crime, addressing them through punitive measures with mixed efficacy.

From Pregnancy to Motherhood: Psychoanalytic aspects of the beginning of the mother-child relationship explores the mental states associated with pregnancy, birth and the early days of motherhood from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Uncovering the Resilient Core provides a comprehensive and inclusive methodology that guides the therapist into the nuances and complexities of the therapeutic relationship throughout the entire course of treatment.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Liaison psychiatry, that is, psychiatry with patients with organic disorders or physical symptoms in general hospitals, is a field that grew rapidly in the 1980s.

Originally published in 1968, Language of Social Casework considers the way in which social workers commonly neglect language.

This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda.

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda.

Police families are brave, resilient, and proud--and they face remarkable challenges, sometimes on a daily basis.

When bipolar disorder afflicts the person you love, you suffer too.

Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts.

A team of expert academics and practitioners examines the life circumstances that impact Latino/a youth growing up in two cultures-their native culture and that of the United States.

This exciting new resource offers a comprehensive guide to ADHD, the most frequently diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder and one of the most researched areas in child mental health.

Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge presents some of the best new work being done in the field of medical sociology.

Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia.

Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families.

Mealtimes are about much more than just re-fuelling, and the importance of mealtimes in the care of people with dementia cannot be overestimated.

This book presents the etiology, assessment, prevention and cessation of eleven focal addictions within an appetitive motivation framework of addiction.

Written by internationally renowned equine-assisted mental health professionals, this edited collection teaches counselors how to design and implement equine-assisted mental health interventions for different populations and various challenges.

Accessible and comprehensive, this textbook portrays the real people behind the DSM-5 criteria, the theories, and the research.

Getting Started as a Therapist provides students and new therapists with a bridge between education and practice.

Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost-effectiveness of current face-to-face (f2f) mental health based on talk, and, offer an alternative in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches.

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Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma.

In How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, Arabella Kurtz explores the use of reflective practice in the modern healthcare context.

Treating Addictions: The Four Components offers a unique and coherent understanding of addiction.

Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics.

This is an innovative text aimed at social work students and designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of social policy and how to best apply this in practice.

A comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers in their fields.

This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis.

Beauty is often an invisible yet potent presence in clinical work.

The mental health of teachers in school is just as important as the well-being of the pupils they support.

704 pages, 12 images, 62 contributors

Mental Health Issues of Child Maltreatment provides the most up-to-date knowledge on the causes and consequences of childhood trauma.

This new book by international experts in psycho-oncology has arisen from the teaching academies offered by the International Psycho-oncology Society.

We all share identical properties that mark us out as human beings.

A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems.

Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child's healthy development.

Now more than ever there is a need to ensure that best practices are being used in residential programs.

Most people who die by suicide see a clinician prior to taking their lives.

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of 'vulnerable' groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings.