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.

As mental-health professionals see increasing numbers of women arrested for domestic violence, the need for effective resources also increases.

Conventional parenting is not adequate to address the needs of children whose emotional development has been frozen, distorted or interrupted as a result of trauma.

Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a new approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research.

In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes, Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding to psychological distress.

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

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields.

Understanding and addressing the impact of racial trauma is vital for providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care.

First Published in 1989.

An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature.

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

Brief Narrative Practice in Single-Session Therapy emphasizes collaboration, meaning making, and relational ethics in single-session conversations.

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression.

In 1963, President John F.

How can a psychological framework improve the success of risk management?

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence.

Health and welfare professionals increasingly have to collaborate and co-ordinate their practice in order to provide a more integrated service for the consumer.

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject.

This book gives readers an understanding of the theoretical foundations of social support communication along with practical tools to ethically and justly connect with and support others in daily life.

The long-awaited report of the APA's Work Group to Revise the APA Guidelines on Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities, Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities comes at a time of growing incarceration rates, more rigid sentencing policies, harsher sanctions, and tougher public attitudes toward crime.

Social Work Approaches to Conflict Resolution helps readers understand the nature and causes of conflict and offers suggestions for coping with conflict effectively.

Assertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services.

Can YouLearn to BeHappy?

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition, The Group Therapist's Notebook, Second Edition offers an all new collection of innovative ideas and proven interventions that will enhance any group therapy practice.

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

This book offers a critical examination of the ethical and moral challenges in conducting research about domestic abuse or sexual violence from the perspectives of studentpractitioners and novice researchers within various professional disciplines, offering rich insights based on the experiences of each author.

First published in 1994, this in-depth and long-term study presents an ethnography which is comprised of personal narratives of victims of domestic abuse and homelessness.

Most of us walk through each day expecting few surprises.

Psychiatry regularly comes under attack as a way of caring for and controlling the mentally ill.

Drawing on the latest evidence from the disparate worlds of mental health and criminal justice, Managing Personality Disordered Offenders in the Community provides a practical guide to the management and treatment of a group who comprise some of the most troubled offenders, who provoke the most anxiety in our society.

This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and methodological contributions critically exploring the connections between leisure and wellbeing.

Entwickeln Sie Ihre eigenen BewältigungsstrategienViele kennen das: Schwitzen, Herzrasen und Katastrophengedanken - das sind nur einige der Symptome, die auftreten können, wenn Ängste Sie übermannen, sei es beim bevorstehenden Flug oder bei Smalltalk-Situationen im Beruf.

Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment.

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject.

Written by a clinical psychologist and illustrated with vignettes from the author's experience, this book offers a clear understanding of how suicidal thought develops, how we can help prevent death from suicide, and how suicidal people can recover and change their way of thinking.

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 how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality.

Discovering that your teen ';cuts' is every parents nightmare.

With the emphasis in the 1980s on effectiveness and efficiency in health services, evaluation of practice was increasingly important.

During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and threatened.

Mental distress is not exclusive to any particular group but touches the lives of people in all societies and walks of life; one in four of us will be affected by it in our lifetime.

What does 'care' mean in contemporary society?

Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider.

Better Living With Dementia: Implications for Individuals, Families, Communities, and Societies highlights evidence-based best practices for improving the lives of patients with dementia.

An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives.

Annotated Psychotherapy demonstrates how an experienced psychotherapist develops and carries out the right treatment plan through interactions with the patient or client.

Social support is the everyday assistance offered by family, friends, neighbours and colleagues, as well as the foundations of support in a range of non-clinical settings, and plays a vital role in a person's mental health and wellbeing.

In 2004, recovery was adopted by the United States Federal government as the most important guiding principle in mental health services and intervention.