Mental health services

Mindfulness and social work values go hand in hand and this book is the perfect guide in self-care for social workers who want to incorporate mindfulness into their working lives to positive effect.

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The world is changing.

We all share identical properties that mark us out as human beings.

This groundbreaking new book brings together policy, evidence, practice, service development and children's narrative to provide a far-reaching overview of this vulnerable and traumatised group.

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

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

When Mum Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family.

When Dad Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family.

When your child has been through an upsetting or stressful event, it can feel overwhelming.

This self help manual is for those for whom depression arises from the impact of exceptional circumstances such as childbirth and menopause, commercial and professional failure, accident, grief, divorce or debt as well as for those more permanent owners of the Black Dog.

Student life is a time of change and adjustment, and students' families as well as staff need resources to help them provide support for students experiencing mental health difficulties.

Since the Age of Enlightenment, Black bodies have been sites of trauma.

There is a global appetite to humiliate or publicly shame others and this has evenbecome a source of entertainment for many.

There is a global appetite to humiliate or publicly shame others and this has evenbecome a source of entertainment for many.

In the wake of Covid-19, and the onslaught of major war breaking out once again in Europe, the mental health of young people is at stake, with increasing numbers struggling with anxiety, depression, loneliness and other psychological challenges.

In the wake of Covid-19, and the onslaught of major war breaking out once again in Europe, the mental health of young people is at stake, with increasing numbers struggling with anxiety, depression, loneliness and other psychological challenges.

Why is the idea of asking for professional help still so taboo?

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.

How do we define mental illness?

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.

Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics.

Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition.

In the early hours of 28th July 2016, Colette McCulloch was hit by a lorry and killed on the A1.

This book will equip carers, family members and friends with the skills to support a person with schizophrenia or other psychoses.

This step-by-step guide to Brief Behavioural Activation (Brief BA) provides everything practitioners need to use this approach with adolescents.

Using art therapy, lived experience, and DBT skills in combination, this book offers insight into how, together, these methods can help prevent youth suicide.

People with autism are at a higher risk of developing OCD, with research showing that up to 37% of young people with ASD also have comorbid OCD.

Cool Connections is an early intervention programme for young people aged 9-14, focusing on preventing anxiety and depression.

A practical and transformative 5-step strategy to ensure the emotional wellbeing of yourself and your childThe mental wellbeing of children and adults is shockingly poor.

Life, Alice thinks, isn't worth living.

Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff.

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US.

A practice-based perspective on working with people who self-neglect.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care.

Everyone feels sad when somebody dies, and people with intellectual disabilities have the same feelings of grief as anyone else.

This step-by-step manual explains how to adapt CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) approaches to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) for autistic children and adults.

Democratic therapeutic communities have been set up all over the world, but until now there has not been a manual that sets out the underlying theories, and describes successful practice.

Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe sadness, their coping mechanisms and their help-seeking behaviours.

This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health problems in children and young people.

Revised and expanded for the digital age, this trusted guidebook and text helps novice psychotherapists of any orientation bridge the gap between coursework and clinical practice.