Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book looks at ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.
Psychology: An Introduction for Health Professionals will appeal to the undergraduate nursing and health science student seeking to understand patient responses and behaviours to various diagnoses, interventions and health outcomes.
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners.
El desarrollo de los conocimientos relacionados con los procesos morbosos de la mente ha evolucionado de tal forma en los últimos años que muchos de los planteamientos sobre la psicopatología que habían sido directrices para muchas escuelas se han vuelto obsoletos y, por lo tanto, pertenecen más al terreno de la filosofía y la especulación que a la ciencia de los trastornos mentales que se estudian en la psicología y la psiquiatría contemporáneas.
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.
This practical handbook, written by a mental health nurse and an expert by experience, provides a shared understanding of bipolar disorder and recovery.
This textbook aims to educate students across all mental health disciplines on the importance of using strengths-based resilience as a tool when working with military families.
This textbook is a comprehensive and sequential guide designed specifically for undergraduate students entering internships in the human services field and for the faculty serving as their internship supervisors.
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 psychiatric-mental health undergraduate textbook, based on the theories of Hildegard Peplau and Joyce Travelbee, is the first recent book devoted to interpersonal relations as the foundation for therapeutic practice in psychiatric nursing.
This is the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed in March 2010, includes provisions to expand the scope of mental health care available to most Americans.
La migraña es un tipo de dolor crónico que afecta a amplios sectores de la población y, al mismo tiempo, pone en cuestión los modos de reconocer y legitimar socialmente un malestar ya que carece de evidencias empíricas, de respuestas certeras desde los saberes biomédicos, y su diagnóstico emerge luego de realizar estudios que dan bien y de descartar algo grave.
From pioneering family-based treatment developer James Lock, this is the first comprehensive guide to adolescent-focused therapy (AFT) for anorexia nervosa (AN), an evidence-based individual approach.
This guide introduces a humanistic, solution-focused coaching model, using lived experience to demonstrate how profound changes in our healthcare experiences and system, for patients and staff, are possible; while also supporting readers to develop their own coaching skills.
This book documents the journey of the Mental Health-General Practitioner (MH-GP) Partnership Programme in Singapore's Institute of Mental Health since its inception in 2003 and how it has developed over the years as a model of successful tertiary-primary care partnership in mental health.
Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.
Este libro brinda elementos conceptuales sobre la fisioterapia en salud mental y surge como respuesta desde la disciplina a la problemática creciente de la situación de la salud mental en Colombia.
This book provides insights on how creative and expressive approaches can promote psychosocial well-being among children, youth, and their caregivers living in conditions of adversity around the world.
Los autores que participan en este volumen piensan críticamente sobre el tema de la salud mental, sin olvidar la complejidad de su objeto y en relación específica con la violencia y con la atención en salud; todo ello en el marco del Sistema General de Seguridad Social y de las vivencias y necesidades de los sujetos, las familias, las comunidades y los profesionales que día a día asumen la responsabilidad de su cuidado.
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
This is an essential text for students at all levels studying social work, nursing and allied health and social care, focusing on the need for professional curiosity and partnership work in safeguarding adults.
Este libro es fruto de más de quince años de trabajo de un grupo formado por investigadores pertenecientes a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, España) y a la Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), quienes trabajan en la temática de la formación corporal específica de los psicomotricistas, articulando las dimensiones teórica y práctica de esta disciplina.
Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.
