Mental health services

This groundbreaking new book brings together policy, evidence, practice, service development and children'snarrative to provide a far-reaching overview of this vulnerable and traumatised group.

Here is an authoritative reference on a range of subjects vital to supervisory personnel whose responsibilities include children with learning and/or behavior problems.

In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair.

Originally published in 1995, this book describes and analyzes the way urban parents view the problems of their adolescent children, and the way they have tried to cope with and seek help for them.

'This book explores with refreshing clarity the complexities and challenges of working with child sexual abuse in the family environment.

A course book on LGBTQ+ affirmative counselling for graduate students and new practitioners.

Explores how a values-based and person-centred approach can be applied to every aspect of the experience of dementia.

Changing one's diet not only improves physical health, but benefits mood, behaviour and cognitive function at a fundamental level.

This book highlights the current epidemiology of suicide among children and adolescents, as well as identifying important risk factors and evidence-based treatment options.

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M.

Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes.

Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care.

This is a comprehensive yet practical guide to the care and management of patients with dementia from the time of diagnosis to the end of life.

This practical workbook contains 45 experiential and creative activities intentionally created to facilitate counselor professional identity development.

Exploring creative ways to implement solution focused practice, this book is packed full of ideas to inspire ways of working with clients which focus on their strengths as a means to finding solutions.

Despite its importance, youth policy is an often-ignored area of Government planning and legislation, and policy initiatives seem to lack any guiding theme or relevance to the needs of young people.

Guided by the Spirits is a case study of youth suicide in the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Published in 1997, Managed Mental health Care is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology.

How do you teach tolerance, self-awareness, and responsibility?

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M.

This book is an accessible and practical guide to all of the key issues and practices in mental health care for children and young people, aimed at all health and social care professionals working with this age group and partner agencies who work alongside child and adolescent mental health services.

A father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.

This textbook balances methodological rigor with the practicalities of becoming a successful evaluator in service-oriented settings.

It is a well known fact that our population of persons aged 65 and over are growing at a faster rate than any other demographic.

This practical guide about what first responders should do after a suicide, offers advice on identifying and recording a death as suicide, breaking the bad news and dealing with the impact of suicide in the short, middle and long term.

Although often depicted as aggressive and unpredictable in movies, people with schizophrenia are actually far more likely to be the victims of violence than perpetrators of it.

Over the past few decades, the use of the arts in health has blossomed.

Lean Behavioral Health: The Kings County Hospital Story is the first lean book that focuses entirely on behavioral health.

Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner.

Offering practical advice for arts therapists and health care professionals, this book emphasizes the importance of putting the individual before the illness to provide holistic, person-centred support for people with dementia.

Addiction: A Behavioral Economic Perspective focuses on the behavioral economics of addiction to explain why someone decides and act against her own well-being.

Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition.

Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.

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

** WINNER of the the 2023 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award** Through an intersectional and inclusive lens, this book provides mental health professionals with a detailed overview of the mental health issues that Black women face as well as the best approach to culturally competent psychological practice with Black women.

This ground-breaking volume provides an encompassing and detailed account of clinical psychologists' highly varied work on the psychiatric ward in mental health inpatient settings.

Using the Socratic Method in Counseling shows counselors how to use the Socratic method to help clients solve life problems using knowledge they may not realize they have.

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).

Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men.

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

The Si, Yo Puedo (SYP) program manual is a step-by-step, culturally specific, 11-week curriculum for Spanish-English graduate level licensed mental health professionals (e.

This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations.

According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders.

Integrated care incorporates behavioral and physical health services into primary care and specialty medical environments.

When Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease that would kill him six years later.