Mental health services

Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor.

Yale Textbook of Public Psychiatry is a comprehensive resource on treatment, rehabilitation, recovery, and public health of persons cared for in organized, publically funded systems of care.

The author of this book is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by the psychiatrist who was her therapist.

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

This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for, coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems.

Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors, 2nd ed, is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, during the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "e;hurting the body"e; such as bingeing, purging, starving, substance abuse and other addictive behaviors.

Play Therapy and Telemental Health gives clinicians the tools they need to bring their therapy sessions online.

Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice GuidesThere are always difficult day to day decisions to be faced when caring for a person with dementia - from knowing how to deal with wandering to end of life decisions.

Este libro práctico, orientado fundamentalmente a psicólogos y otros profesionales del deporte (entrenadores, directores deportivos, deportistas, dirigentes, padres y madres, fisioterapeutas, médicos deportivos…) que deseen profundizar y entender los aspectos clave de la salud mental o psicológica en deportistas de todos los niveles, pretende dar visibilidad y normalidad a una de las áreas que conforman la realidad del ser humano: la salud mental; de ahí que, la búsqueda de un estado de salud física y psicológica sea uno de los argumentos necesarios para el bienestar personal y la calidad de vida.

This practical, user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches.

With nearly 40% of social workers working in the health and behavioral health care sectors, Social Work and Integrated Health Care is designed to help social workers understand the policies that shape the current discussion regarding integrated primary care and behavioral health care and their application to practice.

The challenges faced by individuals and families at the end of life are still incredibly diverse, and many behavioural interventions and clinical approaches have been developed to address this great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death, helping providers to care for their clients.

This book offers a personal insight into the experience of Alex Jelly, a professional fundraiser who developed a rare brain tumour, a papillary meningioma, which was successfully removed.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviors, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use.

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

For those offering trauma-informed care, it can be difficult to maintain wellbeing and a balanced, positive outlook when the nature of their job requires frequent engagement with traumatic disclosures.

'A brilliant expose' - Danny DorlingCovid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy.

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.

The Art and Science of Helping: Developing Fundamental Skills in a Multicultural Age introduces the fundamentals of practicing helping-skills to undergraduates, graduates, and those preparing for entry-level helping professions.

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.

Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism.

Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide appropriately individualised care to people with learning disabilities who self-injure.

Counseling for Wellness and Prevention brings Preventative Counseling, one of prevention's founding texts, firmly into the twenty-first century.

As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.

The perpetration of intimate partner violence by women has long been a controversial topic.

Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.

A ''how to'' book guiding clinicians through the mental health legislation that they need to understand and use in their daily practice.

***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2018 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***Innovations in Behavioural Health Architecture is the most comprehensive book written on this topic in more than 40 years.

Using the Socratic Method in Counseling shows counselors how to use the Socratic method to help clients solve life problems using knowledge they may not realize they have.

Epidemiologic Field Methods in Psychiatry: The NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program focuses on the methodology employed in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Program.

With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession's key dilemmas.

This book explores the underlying biology and neuroscience associated with mental health and wellbeing.

For many psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, the clinical review is the most burdensome and disagreeable part of managed care.

For the increasing number of people diagnosed with dementia each year, treatment in the early stages can make a significant difference to their quality of life.

'Clever, kind, funny and wise, this book is an uplifting and useful addition to your self help library.

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.

How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge?

Technology and Mental Health provides mental health clinicians with expert, practical, clinical advice on the questions and considerations associated with the adoption of mental health technology tools in the computer age.

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

A fun, streamlined way to learn the major concepts and theories of critical care nursing - and how to apply them to real-world patient situationsValuable to professional nurses who wants to transition into critical care nursing or students seeking to excel in their advanced studies, Critical Care Nursing Demystified, Second Edition is the book they need to quickly and easily understand the key concepts and advanced trends of this specialty.

This text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness.

While mindfulness meditation has been used in clinical settings as an adjunctive treatment for substance use disorders for some time, there has been limited empirical evidence to support this practice.

With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world.

Create the Pastoral Care Center that your flock needs!

Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences.

This is the eighteenth in the most prestigious series of annual volumes in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

Adolescence is a period characterized by both increased susceptibility to risks and new-found strength to withstand them.

Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism.