Mental health services

The word 'partnership' is often used to describe the relationship between health and social care providers and service users, but in reality this can appear to be empty rhetoric.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most popular evidence-based interventions in the world, but little has been done to explore how it affects different groups of people, such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) community.

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels.

Student mental health is a key consideration in higher education at the moment with recent reports identifying a major gap in provision by universities and how ill-equipped academics feel to support students.

Discovering that your teen ';cuts' is every parents nightmare.

This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together critical psychoanalytic ideas into social work practice to help tackle contemporary issues.

Coding and Documentation Compliance for the ICD and DSM provides professionals, professors, and students with a logical and practical way of understanding a difficult topic in healthcare for the clinician: coding.

Activities to help children develop sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves and the world around them.

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that all clinical trials for drugs that affect the central nervous systemincluding psychiatric drugsare assessed for whether that drug might cause suicidal ideation or behavior.

The saying "e;it takes a village to raise a child"e; is especially true for families with special needs children.

This practical guide about what first responders should do after a suicide, offers advice on identifying and recording a death as suicide, breaking the bad news and dealing with the impact of suicide in the short, middle and long term.

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

In children, mental health challenges and communication differences typically combine in complex and inter-related ways.

The Social Workers' Toolbox aims to bring order to the diversity of tools which are so characteristic of social work: assessment tools, practice tools and outcome-measurement tools.

Children deserve to play and learn in safe environments.

The step-by-step guide to building and managing a profitable and successful practice or clinic Beyond your training as a therapist, the skills required to create and build a practice and to supervise others are typically not taught as part of your clinical training.

Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism.

It is universally accepted that sensitive and responsive caregiving leads to positive cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes for children.

In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes, Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding to psychological distress.

This is an innovative text aimed at social work students and designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of social policy and how to best apply this in practice.

The first book to focus on measuring the basic processes of mental healthcare, such as access, detection, treatment appropriateness, safety and continuity of care, Improving Mental Healthcare: A Guide to Measurement-Based Quality Improvement integrates practical information about quality measures -- such as their clinical logic, validity and basis in scientific evidence -- into a highly readable guide on how to implement measures and use the results to improve quality of care.

This edited volume shares relevant theory and practical strategies to support counsellors to work effectively with those who have experienced domestic abuse.

Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach the carer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of the person being cared for.

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health.

Despite handicaps of low mental ability, deprived backgrounds or psychiatric and physical disability, most married couples with disabilities manage to give and receive much personal satisfaction and pleasure in their marriages.

Self-harm in adolescence and late teens is known to be increasing, though it is difficult to detect and inconsistently recorded.

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena.

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge--but it doesnt have to rule your life.

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.

Written by an experienced psychotherapist, this book provides professionals in the fields of health and wellbeing with a guide to human relationships with food, and their impact on mental health.

The newly updated Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides insights on how creative and expressive approaches can promote psychosocial well-being among children, youth, and their caregivers living in conditions of adversity around the world.

Children and Young People's Mental Health equips nurses and healthcare professionals with the essential skills and competencies needed to deliver effective assessment, treatment and support to children and young people with mental health problems and disorders, and their families.

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

Clinicians recognize trauma & loss as a prominent source of clients' problems.

This book investigates how mental health in South Africa is conceptualised and constructed in public policy.

Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Follow the lives of pioneering psychotherapists, including Freud and Adler, who healed themselves and changed the world.

This highly regarded book offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice.

Sponsored by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Spirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users.

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD).

As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life.

Bipolar Disorder is often underdiagnosed in children.

This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession.