Mental health services

Interventions for Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision reimagines the current landscape of clinical supervision training and praxis by offering 50 transformative interventions grounded in the principles of anti-oppression.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual.

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.

This ground-breaking book combines research and practice in the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology with the fastest-growing medical speciality of Lifestyle Medicine.

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide for mental health professionals who wish to utilize existential principles in their social work and clinical practice.

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.

Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings draws on empirical studies of real-world settings to demonstrate contemporary practice-based evidence, providing effective strategies for communicating with patients/clients in mental health settings.

Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs.

The new edition of this critically praised text continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field.

Why Cope When You Can Heal?

Bullying amongst young people is a serious and pervasive problem, and recent rapid advances in electronic communication technologies have provided even more tools for bullies to exploit.

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

Lots of couples are comfortable, but are they close?

Health care costs and the effective management of health care are of primary importance and concern to federal, state, and local governments.

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

People on the autism spectrum often present with symptoms indicating poor self-awareness or hyper-awareness, low self-esteem, depression and difficulty connecting with others.

Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals working in a range of ways.

The most useful therapy is one that can be applied to a wide range of client problems, is easy to learn, and produces lasting results following a brief intervention.

La salud mental en general, y la psiquiatría en particular, parecen encontrarse en situaciones de crisis.

Brief Narrative Practice in Single-Session Therapy emphasizes collaboration, meaning making, and relational ethics in single-session conversations.

In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them.

Originally published in 1985, this book focuses on British psychiatric policies, particularly in the 1920s, and 1950s when the main legislation concerning mental illness was passed.

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.

Der bedeutendste Philosoph des letzten Jahrtausends, Immanuel Kant: "Reich ist man nicht durch das, was man besitzt, mehr noch durch das, was man mit Würde zu entbehren weiß.

North America's Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system.

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.

The Fifth International Congress on Mental Health took place at the University of Toronto, Canada, August 14-21, 1954 under the auspices of the World Federation for Mental Health.

Deep Brain Reorienting introduces a novel, evidence-based approach to the treatment of trauma-related disorders.

This book is the third in a series with the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (Series Editor: Matthew P.

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

Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK.

The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a ';landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection' (Deepak Chopra, MD).

Art Therapy for Social Justice seeks to open a conversation about the cultural turn in art therapy to explore the critical intersection of social change and social justice.

An accessible and empowering introduction to periods.

The School Mental Health Toolkit is the essential practical guide to supporting the mental health of our young people in schools, providing a holistic approach to school culture, learning habits and impactful interventions.

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?

How can a psychological framework improve the success of risk management?

This book is an accessible, sensitive, and evidence-based resource for partners, parents, and other family members navigating the heartache and challenges of caring for a young adult with cancer.

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.

Disaster Mental Health Community Planning is a step-by-step guide to developing mental health disaster plans, assisting communities to act on long-term resilience and recovery.

Être schizophrène, c'est être différent des autres, c'est vivre autrement sa relation au monde.

Written for professionals spanning children's services, this must-read guide provides an authoritative overview of what shapes the psychological wellbeing of children and young people - from perinatal care and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through to their socioeconomic circumstances, schools and the wider community.

Seeks to redefine the professional role of the mental health worker by bringing perspectives from leading professionals in different fields.