Mental health services

Designing and Operating a System of Care in Behavioral Health: Solutions to Fragmentation in Mental Health proposes a pathway to combat the current fragmentation of mental health services.

According to the Mental Health Services Administration, about one in five adults had a mental health condition in the past year.

Self-harm and eating disorders are present in almost every school and they frequently co-occur.

Innovating in Community Mental Health presents lively examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in innovative ways to achieve the goal of providing care for persons with severe mental illness.

Since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic health care, public health, first responders, and other essential workers have been engaged in the most extensive emergency response in more than a century, whilst trust in science has been eroded and public health has been politicized.

Evidence-based mental health services are lacking in many school systems, but especially in secondary schools.

Social workers play a critical role in the wellbeing of communities - trained to help individuals, families, and groups effect positive change and address barriers that stand in the way of optimal life and wellbeing.

Treating Drug Abusers provides a clear, practical guide to current approaches in the treatment of drug-taking.

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities.

This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues.

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

Traumatische Erlebnisse können das Leben eines Menschen tiefgreifend verändern.

Creative people will experience depression - that's a given.

This book is an excellent resource which brings together the essential elements of contemporary mental health practice, providing students with practical and values-based guidance for a range of clinical specialties.

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This book is dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and recovery of African Americans with substance use disorders.

In the Aftermath of the Pandemic is an accessible treatment manual enabling psychotherapists to use Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) to address the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and other large-scale disasters.

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors.

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

Mindfulness is exceptionally easy to get started with, and people often experience benefits almost immediately.

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.

This book presents the wide range and diversity of effective group work practice in today's troubled society.

A groundbreaking four-step program for breaking self-destructive habits, increasing productivity and creativity, and performing at your personal best.

The military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians - particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples - often struggle to address.

Details the results of the Open Doors Programme, set up to fight the stigma/discrimination attached to schizophrenia.

A comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers in their fields.

With clarity and eloquence, Trauma and Grief Assessment and Intervention comprehensively captures the nuance and complexity involved in counseling bereaved and traumatically bereaved persons in all stages of the life cycle.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians.

In the early 1970s, the problem of abuse within the family unit began to surface on a large scale and 1975 was a particularly significant year for the recognition of interfamilial violence.

Is a climate of instant gratification affecting young childrens characters so that they no longer understand the virtue of patience?

A comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques, Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow is presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area.

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

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective well-being and life satisfaction.

A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation.

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

All the forms, handouts, and records mental health professionals need to meet documentation requirements fully revised and updated The paperwork required when providing mental health services continues to mount.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been widely viewed as a chronic disorder, which has led many clinicians to avoid treating patients with this diagnosis.

We naturally create stories to help us make meaning of our world, but in conflict situations the kinds of stories we typically tell ourselves can actually make it harder for us to manage and resolve the conflict constructively.

The second edition Handbook of Psychological Assessment in Primary Care Settings offers an overview of the application of psychological screening and assessment instruments in primary care settings.

Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system.

Challenging methods of training, consultation, and supervision--predicated on different ideas about how people learn most effectively--are highlighted in this exceptional volume.

The majority of individuals who suffer from severe eating disorders also experience symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic reactions, and/or obsessive-compulsive disorders.

With the United States' involvement in numerous combat operations overseas, the need for civilian social workers with the clinical skills necessary to work with members of the military returning from combat, as well as their families, has never been more critical.

Incorporating Diversity and Inclusion into Trauma-Informed Social Work incorporates discussions of leadership, racism and oppression into a new understanding of how trauma and traumatic experience play out in leadership and organizational cultures.

Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities.

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor.