Mental health services

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

This practical guide about what first responders should do after a suicide, offers advice on identifying and recording a death as suicide, breaking the bad news and dealing with the impact of suicide in the short, middle and long term.

How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses.

This book is about the lives of patients, about the health and social care services provided to help them, and about ways of examining the impact these services make on them.

With overseas deployment scaling down in recent years, helping professionals need practical tools for working with servicemen and women returning from deployment.

Mourning Companion Animals is a guidebook for mental health clinicians searching for effective, compassionate resources to guide their clients through the often-devastating experience of animal companion loss.

Using Neuroscience in Trauma Therapy provides a basic overview of structure and function of the brain and nervous system, with special emphasis on changes that occur when the brain is exposed to trauma.

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

The understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders has expanded remarkably as a result of recent scientific advances.

This new book by international experts in psycho-oncology has arisen from the teaching academies offered by the International Psycho-oncology Society.

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional 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.

This practical and accessible book of case studies takes a new look at self-harm, focusing particularly on the under-explored area of `hidden' self-harming behaviour.

What causes a person to flourish or languish?

Collaborative Consultation in Mental Health: Guidelines for the New Consultant offers a practical guide for professionals working 'indirectly' with clients through consultation with staff.

Mental wellbeing is an integral part of being, and feeling, healthy, and it is estimated that one in four people will suffer from some form of mental illness during their lifetime.

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*Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006*Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes.

Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists.

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

This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.

This book focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U.

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 comprehensive discussion of the key elements which should be part of any successful program tailored to the needs of children with diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders.

A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening-both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers.

Now in its third edition, The Heart of Counseling is a key resource helping students to understand the importance of therapeutic relationships and to develop the qualities that make the therapeutic relationships they build with clients the foundation of healing.

Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care.

Discovering that your teen ';cuts' is every parents nightmare.

Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is a cutting-edge guide to empowering counselors with the philosophical and actionable elements of motivational interviewing.

This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice.

Provides a detailed analysis of the theory and practice of exercise intervention for different mental disorders across the life span.

An innovative, multi-perspective and international approach to the issues which normalisation entails.

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

Provides a rich overview of teaching techniques and learning in psychiatry, from the lecture room to the clinic, for trainers and trainees.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of drug-related death bereavement to increase understanding and help direct scientific research, with contributions from across the globe.

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.

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

Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.

Written by an experienced psychotherapist, this book provides professionals in the fields of health and wellbeing with a guide to human relationships with food, and their impact on mental health.

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

This book explores young people's perspectives on risk and harm in youth sexting, specifically privacy violations and unwanted, pressured and coerced sexting.

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help.

Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that increases their ability to help clients meet life's challenges and reduce emotional distress.

This book has been replaced by Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5712-7.

Life and Suicide Following Brain Injury tells the story of Tom, a 43 year-old man who acquired a brain injury from a road traffic accident at the age of 22.

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management.

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives.

Behavioral pediatrics is a multidisciplinary field that involves many healthcare specialists revolving around the practicing pediatrician and primary care clinician; also, various additional, associated fields of training have developed such as developmental-behavioral pediatrics, neurodevelopmental pediatrics, pediatric psychodermatology and medical care for those of all ages with developmental disabilities.