Mental health services

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending.

Substance use has become an increasingly common concern for all aspects of social work practice, and especially when working with mental health and vulnerable families.

This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative, evidence based introduction to an area of specialism chosen by many social work students.

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

Drawing on the leading voices of international researchers and practitioners, Outdoor Therapies provides readers with an overview of practices for the helping professions.

'Suzi Grant knows the secrets of youth' The TimesLOOK AND FEEL YOUR BEST IN 2020 WITH ALTERNATIVE AGEING - THE NATURAL WAY TO FEEL YOUNG AGAINSuzi Grant is in her late sixties but you wouldn't know it.

Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling provides a thorough and up to date grounding in social justice and advocacy for counseling students and faculty.

Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process.

Military psychology has become one of the world's fastest-growing disciplines with ever-emerging new applications of research and development.

Bringing together experts in the field, this important book considers the underlying risk factors that create situations of psychosocial vulnerability and marginalisation for mothers, from their baby's conception up to a year after birth.

From the 'nothing works' maxim of the 1970s to evidence-based interventions to challenge recidivism and promote pro-social behavior, psychological therapy has played an important role in rehabilitation and risk reduction within forensic settings in recent years.

Deciding Children's Futures addresses the thorny task of how to assess 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.

This book integrates contemporary knowledge about dementia across cultures, covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific topics and enriched with personal insights.

Written by practicing social workers and social work educators, this text analyzes modern psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values.

From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way.

Die psychische Gesundheit der MitarbeiterInnen gewinnt im betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagement immer mehr an Bedeutung.

The original Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First by Tom Kitwood was published by Open University Press in 1997.

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

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields.

For all the horrifying statistics of the number infected by COVID-19, multiply by a factor of 20 to approximate how many worldwide are suffering stress, depression, relationship breakdown and even suicide, as a direct consequence of Coronavirus.

"e;The book is well organized, well detailed, and well referenced; it is an invaluable sourcebook for researchers and clinicians working in the area of bereavement.

This volume explores all aspects of migration and its effect on mental health.

This textbook outlines the key areas of mental health practice for those in the early stages of their training, who may not necessarily come from psychology backgrounds.

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of a large iceberg.

The lack of good statistical information had been a major factor in the poor planning of services for the mentally handicapped in the late 1960s.

Therapy is a critical element of work with abused children, offering them the opportunity to explore past experiences in a safe environment with the emotional support of a therapist.

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life.

Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner.

Originally published in 1964, this book studies social work in relation to the evolving role of social workers in the social services and to their training at the time.

As an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), you have to think on your feet, manage a caseload, deal with emotional distress and try and not get indigestion as you cram down a sandwich on your way to your next session.

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system.

The concept of empowerment has become increasingly popular with mental health professionals.

Convenient, practical, and portableRevised and updated, the second edition of this practical resource remains the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.

The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("e;Collaborative"e;) is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care.

Collaborative Therapy and Neurobiology is the book many clinicians have been waiting for: an integration of twenty years of scientific and therapeutic cutting-edge ideas into concrete clinical practices.

This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.

Depression is difficult to define.

With universal application, nidotherapy is a treatment and a set of principles both fully explained in this comprehensive guide.

This book deals with all aspects of severe trauma and stress recovery.

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A practical guide to taking control of your mental health for today, tomorrow, and the days after, from the Sunday Times bestselling author and beloved entertainer'There's a moment at the end of every day, where the world falls away and you are left alone with your thoughts.

Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and children under the age of three.

This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.

This book is a study of infant mental health which blends knowledge and understanding from three perspectives: international research, theory, and intervention.

It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health?

The purpose of this book is to present a spectrum of women's experiences with depression.