Mental health services

After decades of reform, America's public schools continue to fail particular groups of students; the greatest opportunity gaps are faced by those whose achievement is hindered by complex stressors, including disability, trauma, poverty, and institutionalized racism.

Confidently Chill is a groundbreaking two-book set comprising an evidence-based medical workbook and a captivating graphic novel.

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary.

Creating a Meaningful Life builds on the tenets of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to answer some of life's basic questions, such as "e;How do I create a meaningful, purposeful life?

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

With Lupus affecting more than 1.

Do you have clients who do not want to be helped?

Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem.

Stand up to OCD!

This textbook aims to educate students across all mental health disciplines on the importance of using strengths-based resilience as a tool when working with military families.

Tells the human story of the litigants involved in landmark legal cases that changed how mental health treatment is practiced.

For nearly two decades, Dr.

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

When servicewomen and men leave the armed forces, their care transfers to the statutory and third sector where the quality and provision of services can vary enormously.

Multiperspectivity on School Bullying is unique in providing a comprehensive account of school bullying from the perspectives of schools, teachers, parents, students and institutional authorities.

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors' understanding of an individual's pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment.

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.

Professionals in psychiatry and psychology work closely with pediatric clinicians in a variety of professional relationships.

Bipolar spectrum disorders are characterized by severe mood dysregulation, rage, irritability, and depression, along with low self-esteem and interpersonal struggles.

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.

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issues.

This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice.

Closely examining Jacques Lacan's unique mode of engagement with philosophy, Lacan with the Philosophers sheds new light on the interdisciplinary relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis.

This book supports mental health practitioners in showing how they personally intersect with oppression, helping them explore how it shows up in their practice and providing them with tools to offer anti-oppressive care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment.

This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.

Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child's healthy development.

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness.

Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world problems into the classroom!

The second edition of Deciding Children's Futures addresses the thorny task of assessing parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children in the family court.

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.

The only book to present the international evidence on harms and clinical management of club drugs and novel psychoactive substances.

Combatting mental health stigma and discrimination has moved from a radical idea in the 1990s to mainstream policy today.

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

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

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

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.

This book is based on our most recent investigations revealing the complexity of the determinants of burn out in different populations at risk (health care professions, teachers, social workers etc.

Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts.

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.

Designed specifically with mental health professionals in mind, The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish is perfect for counselors interested in expanding their client base and language skill set.

The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.

The second edition of Managing Clinical Risk is an authoritative guide on how to engage in risk assessment and management practice in evidence-based, accountable and effective ways.

Spending a week doing nothing but exploring the possibilities of Lego, thereby risking yet another job; impulsively sinking all his savings into wildly impractical self-employment ventures; sleepless nights, gripped by the need to write - these are just some manifestations of the often damaging periods of manic, uninhibited energy Brian Adams has experienced since his mid-twenties.

Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province.

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.

Oaxaca is known for many thingsits indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textilesbut not for mental health care.