Mental health services

An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature.

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children.

Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy shows mental health professionals how the blending of expressive arts, psychotherapy, and metaphorical communication can both support and enhance clinical practice.

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.

This engaging book pulls together the individual strains of self-care, spirituality and common sense.

Mental health services tend to view and treat mental health problems in an individual-centric way.

Presenting a model for interdisciplinary working, this book offers an overview of practice and policy across a range of mental health settings.

Many first and second generation Asian immigrants experience acculturation challenges to varying extents.

The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001.

In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.

There is no denying that the emotional bond between horses and the humans who love them can reach mystical proportions, and nowhere is that relationship more evident than in these twenty-four true-life accounts of horses rescuing people.

An invaluable resource for mental health practitioners working to support Black women clients heal and thrive.

Working on the Frontline of Mental Health is an account of the day-to-day work in psychological therapies, highlighting not only the complexities clients present but also their remarkable and moving stories of recovery after many years of adversity.

This text introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life.

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness.

Forensic practice in the community is a neglected subject.

What emotional, physical, and psychological effects might there be on those who have experienced traumatic events?

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health is a practical guide for conducting person and family-centered recovery planning with individuals with serious mental illnesses and their families.

This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach.

Forensic psychiatry (the interface of psychiatry and the law), forensic psychology, and mental health law are growing and evolving subspecialties in their respective larger disciplines.

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

If you have trouble bouncing back from low moods or just feel stuck in the doldrums much of the time, renowned cognitive behavior therapist David A.

This book highlights the field of youth mental health and why it is a specialty distinct from both child and adolescent and adult mental health.

Over the last three decades, the visibility -- and public acceptance -- of self-identified lesbian women and gay men and bisexual and transgender individuals has increased dramatically, making it more important than ever to understand the dynamics of their relationships.

Originally published in 1970 this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry.

In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "e;recovery"e; rather than churning out long-term, "e;chronic"e; mental health service users.

This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure.

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.

In 1963, President John F.

Being Polite, Having Good Manners, And Showing Kindness To Others Is The Topic Of This Book.

In this provocative and pathbreaking distillation of a career spent working with individuals seeking help with mood and motivation, Eric Maisel reveals the implications of one of the most dramatic cultural shifts of our time.

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings.

This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and wellbeing as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations.

This collection of four titles approaches the four essential ethical topics of the virtues of listening, prudence, patience, and effort.

Clinicians who work on the frontlines of correctional mental health know that the challenges are only increasing.

Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses on the innovative use of computers and other information technology in support of patient care, education, services delivery, and research in the field of mental health services.

A unique exploration of how the ''self'' influences psychopathology, psychotherapy, emphasizing the need to integrate self-constructs into evidence-based conceptual models.

Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice is a compilation of short, useful suggestions based on classic theory, current research, and wisdom gathered over fifteen years of clinical practice, supervision, and graduate teaching in psychology and counseling.

Part of the Reading Well scheme.

Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress.

This book is written for everyone who has experienced severe anxiety and wants to be free from abnormal fear.

Now more than ever there is a need to ensure that best practices are being used in residential programs.

A review of the epidemiological, interpersonal, developmental and neurobiological underpinnings of antisocial personality and its treatment.

This book offers an accessible and sympathetic introduction for relatives, carers and professionals looking after or training to work with people with dementia.