Mental health services

Beginning Your Counseling Career provides a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession and equips students with the clinical and administrative skills they need to progress in the field.

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings draws on empirical studies of real-world settings to demonstrate contemporary practice-based evidence, providing effective strategies for communicating with patients/clients in mental health settings.

The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia.

This book examines the recovery principle of co-production within mental health services, defining it as the creation of a space where all stakeholders - including service users, family members, carers and supporters - come together in a partnership to improve all aspects of mental health services.

In children, mental health challenges and communication differences typically combine in complex and inter-related ways.

Here is the first practical guide for dealing with the moral issues that regularly confront clinicians in their work.

How the insane asylum became a laboratory of democracy is revealed in this provocative look at the treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century France.

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine.

What causes a person to flourish or languish?

Why Cope When You Can Heal?

Pediatric Palliative Care: A Model for Exemplary Practice lays out a road map for health-care providers interested in optimizing care for seriously ill children and their families.

Endangered Private Practice explains how health care reform, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, affects and will be affecting those providers within the delivery system section of health care.

This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.

A comprehensive epidemiological overview of schizophrenia including findings from social, genetic, developmental and classical epidemiology.

A comprehensive introduction to one of the most common psychiatric disorders, a condition that results in intrusive, irrational thoughts and/or repetitive, illogical physical or mental actions.

Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research develops a new framework for mental health research.

Tells the human story of the litigants involved in landmark legal cases that changed how mental health treatment is practiced.

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

Drawing on the authors' experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen is designed for mental health, public health, and primary care professionals new to this emerging area.

The S, 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.

Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress.

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

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.

The use of the telephone as a tool for counselling is increasingly appealing, providing clients with a service that combines accessibility and convenience.

Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time.

This new volume, Disaster Recovery: Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the ?

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.

Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities.

This invaluable text provides a rigorous guide to the assessment and evaluation of treatment programs through a multi-disciplinary, holistic model of care.

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.

This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women's rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry.

In 2003 the Bush Administrations New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting recovery rather than churning out long-term, chronic mental health service users.

A unique exploration of how the ''self'' influences psychopathology, psychotherapy, emphasizing the need to integrate self-constructs into evidence-based conceptual models.

Healing War Trauma details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war.

This practical and accessible book of case studies takes a new look at self-harm, focusing particularly on the under-explored area of `hidden' self-harming behaviour.

Provides a detailed analysis of the theory and practice of exercise intervention for different mental disorders across the life span.

The Living Well with Dementia Course: A Workbook for Facilitators will be an indispensable guide to providing support to people after they have received a dementia diagnosis.

One of the most critical developments within 'welfare' in recent years, has been the transformation of service users from 'passive recipients' to 'active subjects' of welfare policy and practice.

Sich wieder mit der Welt und sich selbst verbindenWas genau sind Psychedelika und warum spielen sie eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle in den Bereichen Medizin, Resilienz und Spiritualität?

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings.

A guide to treating mental health issues in children and adolescents Diagnosis and Treatment of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a resource tailored to the particular needs of current and future counselors, behavioral healthcare clinicians, and other helping professionals working with this vulnerable population.

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (MI) into evidence-based psychotherapy and counseling.

“Antipsychiatry,” Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s.

This evidence-based text puts a human face on mental disorders, illuminating the lived experience of people with mental health difficulties and their caregivers.

This is a volume on loneliness and what can be done to address its pain.

‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside.

This book provides mental capacity practitioners with accessible ethical guidance and applicable tools for applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005.