Mental health services

Landmark events, such as the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Commission Report and the same anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act, helped launch the community mental health movement.

In 1963, President John F.

Throughout the world, the population of older adults continues to grow.

A self-help workbook for people with a gambling problem and their loved ones, featuring practical exercises and worksheets.

Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury is written as a neurobehavioral and cognitive intervention manual for clinicians who counsel persons with brain injury.

Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling, and human services.

Voices From the Field is the book to challenge you from your cozy position of complacency!

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

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

In the 1990s providing mental health services to the elderly and particularly to elderly Native Americans had been an issue of some concern for the last several decades.

Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents was written in response to the growing body of knowledge surrounding pediatric bipolar illness and the underlying biological, environmental, and psychosocial influences that exacerbate symptoms and behavior.

Weaving the Paths of Buddhism and Psychotherapy is an empathic guide to integrating Eastern and Western wisdom traditions that share the common goal of easing distress.

Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States.

The challenges faced by individuals and families at the end of life are still incredibly diverse, and many behavioural interventions and clinical approaches have been developed to address this great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death, helping providers to care for their clients.

Despite its importance, youth policy is an often-ignored area of Government planning and legislation, and policy initiatives seem to lack any guiding theme or relevance to the needs of young people.

Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks.

This book covers the screening, diagnosis and treatment of mentally ill young people in the juvenile justice system.

A ''how to'' book guiding clinicians through the mental health legislation that they need to understand and use in their daily practice.

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.

This comprehensive handbook provides counselors in training, counselor educators, and professional counselors with the latest information on major contemporary issues impacting the field.

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

Using extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas.

This introductory text defines and describes disability, while providing concrete practice guidelines and recommendations for students in the fields of counseling, social work, and the helping professions.

This guide provides healthcare students and professionals with a foundational background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - traumatic early life experiences, which can have a profound impact on health in later life.

The Equine-Assisted Therapy Workbook gives readers the tools they need to increase professional competency and personalize the practical applications of equine-assisted therapy.

Ever feel like you're losing your mind in the chaos of modern life?

An accessible guide for parents, caregivers and teachers looking to understand children and young people''s mental health and well-being.

Offers an integrative account of the relation between experiences, physiology and environment in psychiatric disorders.

Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday.

Alors même que la France est stigmatisée pour son manque de moyens et d’attention dans la prise en charge des enfants autistes et qu’on annonce plans et réformes, l’un de nos meilleurs spécialistes propose une extraordinaire relecture des théories et des modes de thérapie qui ont entouré cette étrange affection.

Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel examines the history, context, nature, and complexity of working in front-line services.

This book highlights the current epidemiology of suicide among children and adolescents, as well as identifying important risk factors and evidence-based treatment options.

This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders.

This is a modern multi-disciplinary text confronting a complex age and journey into recovery.

The world's most recognised adventurer Bear Grylls offers daily tips to help you build mental resilience.

This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda.

Self-harm and eating disorders are present in almost every school and they frequently co-occur.

This timely volume addresses issues related to the mental health and health-related quality of life of adolescents through a study with three groups: those with physical, intellectual, and other developmental disabilities, specifically fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

This is the third in a trilogy of books that chronicle the revolutionary changes in our mental health and human service delivery systems that have conspired to disempower staff and hinder client recovery.

The second edition Handbook of Psychological Assessment in Primary Care Settings offers an overview of the application of psychological screening and assessment instruments in primary care settings.

This invaluable text provides a rigorous guide to the assessment and evaluation of treatment programs through a multi-disciplinary, holistic model of care.

People with borderline personality disorder are always known as the most difficult client group to human service professionals.

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.

Find out howand whylegislation has made economic rights more important than human rightsSince 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the success of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims.

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 unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence.

Managing the Human Dimension of Disasters provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on how individuals cope with tragedy and loss.

Using art therapy, lived experience, and DBT skills in combination, this book offers insight into how, together, these methods can help prevent youth suicide.

Psychoses due to physical disturbances involving the brain are common and can complicate a bewildering variety of illnesses.