Mental health services

First published in 1985, this book is designed to help professionals in caring professions understand and deal with the problem of violent behaviour.

This is a self-help book for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as a sufferer, friend, family member, or care- giver.

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

Disaster Mental Health Interventions uses DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and the latest research to help build disaster mental health intervention skills that will last a lifetime.

Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health.

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.

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir.

Nancy Andreasen, a leading neuroscientist who is also Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry as well as the winner of the illustrious National Medal of Science, offers here a state-of-the-art look at what we know about the human brain and the human genome--and shows how these two vast branches of knowledge are coming together in a boldly ambitious effort to conquer mental illness.

The most current information--in the words of the top men in their fields!

Children and Young People's Mental Health equips nurses and healthcare professionals with the essential skills and competencies needed to deliver effective assessment, treatment and support to children and young people with mental health problems and disorders, and their families.

This book explores how insights from evolution can transform our understanding of mental health and mental disorder.

Traumatische Erlebnisse können das Leben eines Menschen tiefgreifend verändern.

Self-harm in adolescence and late teens is known to be increasing, though it is difficult to detect and inconsistently recorded.

Provides new and updated questions to help readers prepare for ABPN exams and earn CME and MOC credits towards re-certification.

Community psychology is a diverse field.

This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.

The purpose of this book is to present a spectrum of women's experiences with depression.

Providing a comparative analysis of both vulnerable witnesses and vulnerable suspects, this book discusses the increasingly difficult issue faced by many in modern policing, forensic psychology, criminology, and social justice studies.

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing is a groundbreaking work that addresses the biases and inequalities within the field of forensic psychology.

This comprehensive, go-to volume features cutting edge discussion of the emergency department management of mental health patients.

Dieses Schulungsbuch wendet sich an Zielgruppen, welche in ihrer Arbeit mit Alkoholkranken-Menschen direkt und indirekt in Berührung kommen und sich mit dem Thema Alkoholismus aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beschäftigen wollen.

A need for comprehensive services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services has been identified and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) at this level.

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.

Today, most substance abuse treatment is administered by community-based organizations.

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

Why do some substance abuse populations need to inflict pain on themselves?

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

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

Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues!

This book presents valuable insights into the realities faced by security personnel as they deal with life-threatening situations in a high-stress security environment.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Depression: the imprisoning experience of isolation and fear which comes when we realise that there is a serious discrepancy between what we thought our life to be and what it actually is.

Becoming an Effective Counselor is a textbook for advanced clinical courses that guides counselors in training through the most challenging phases of their academic preparation.

Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services, there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since the early 1960s.

This ground-breaking book combines research and practice in the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology with the fastest-growing medical speciality of Lifestyle Medicine.

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

Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention.

This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group workers approach diversity.

Cultural neuroscience and global mental health is an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience to address the major challenges in global mental health.

The care home sector is large, with over 400 000 residents in the UK and a similar number employed within the homes.

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings.

Working Alliance Skills for Mental Health Professionals provides expert guidance to mental health providers who wish to develop and augment their skills and competence in this area of practice.

Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday.

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.