Individualising activities, interactions, or interventions for people with dementia at any moment of the day is made easy with the many helpful suggestions offered throughout the pages of this innovative guide. Here are keys to successfully choosing leisure activities for individuals that emphasise their previous interests and talents as well as ......
Understanding and Treating Fear of Vomiting in Children and Adults
The first professional guide to diagnosing and treating emetophobia. Each chapter includes case studies demonstrating various presentations of emetophobia and illustrates aspects of diagnosis and treatment in practice.
An Approach to Moral Issues in Mental Health Treatment
The book offers a new practice model for helping patients understand and face moral decisions in their lives. Illustrated with diagrams and case examples from practice, it offers a paradigm for informed ethical decision-making that can be readily applied by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and all other mental health professionals.
A Guide to the Benefits, Challenges and Making it Work
This guide reviews the benefits and challenges of digital mental health care and offers guidance on how to make it work for you and your clients. It looks at aspects relevant to all practitioners, such as therapeutic alliance, risk and safeguarding, and offers guidance on adapting specific therapies, such as CBT, ACT and DBT, for digital delivery.
Art therapy, when combined with skills training in dialectical behaviour therapy and peer support, can teach young people new ways to regulate intense emotions and urges associated with suicidality, build healthy peer relationships, and increase a sense of purpose and personal empowerment. Practical advice will result in more confidence in using ......
50 Fun Activities to Overcome OCD with CBT and Exposures
Show OCD whos boss!
Using the exercises in this book, youll learn how to spot when OCD is stirring up trouble, and how to stop it in its tracks. All 50 activities are designed by an expert therapist for kids aged 8-12 to help you grow your skills to take down OCD - starting with how to recognize compulsions, and building up to ......
Practical Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
Combining insights and lessons from the fields of criminology, victimology, trauma psychology, law enforcement, and psychotherapy, this book presents an integrated model of intervention for students and working mental health professionals in the criminal justice system.
This handbook brings together the experiences and perspectives of people working with trauma in a wide range of fields, and explores the innovative ways in which they each seek to overcome the problems they face, while relating this to new thinking that is altering our understanding of a complex medical and social issue.
Delivers an in-depth examination of the professional knowledge, skills, and current issues in professional counselling that are essential to clinical practice. The book emphasizes the elements of practice, while providing students with ample case studies that integrate theoretical concepts with real-world examples.
Written to provide clinically useful information about diagnosis and management, this manual is a comprehensive collection of empirical evidence, case studies, and the growing number of evidence-based reports on pediatric bipolar disorder over the past five years.
Evidence Base and Contextual Factors for Psychosocial, Psychopharmacolog
A comprehensive report, based on a review of the literature, on the effective use, sequencing, comparative risks/benefits, and integration of psychotropic medications and psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents.
To be used alongside the complementary workbook, Challenge Your OCD! this adaptable CBT programme gives young people with ASD the tools they need to manage and recover from their OCD.
To be used alongside the clinical manual, Challenging OCD in Young People with ASD, this workbook gives young people with ASD the tools they need to treat and recover from their OCD.
A practical casebook for graduate-level programs in mental health masterfully that demonstrates how to put the DSM-5 into practice. It is designed to help students understand why a particular diagnosis is given based on the individual client's specific background and personal history.
A comprehensive, accessible guide to Brief Behavioural Activation, a structured intervention for treating adolescents with depression. It provides guidance on every stage of delivering the process in practice, with photocopiable worksheets, and a section on the theory behind the approach. Suitable for both new and experienced practitioners.
A Practical Guide to Good Practice in Understanding and Managing the Dis
This handbook brings together the knowledge and experience of both health professionals and those with bipolar disorder to create a balanced, informative and very practical guide to good practice in understanding and managing the disorder.
A graphic novel about navigating the US medical insurance system and receiving fair and adequate coverage for mental illness. Based on the author's own experience in being treated for bipolar disorder.
A Science-Based Framework for Behavioral Health Care
Presents a comprehensive biopsychosocial framework for behavioral health care. The author lays out the essential scientific and ethical foundations of the framework and then applies it across the treatment process, from intake through outcome assessment thus providing a critical basis for the integrated health care systems of the 21st century.
Expand and enrich your Best Friends activity programming with 149 all-new activities for individuals with dementia. Like the first book, this collection of fun and easy activities will add both meaning and enjoyment to the activities at your adult day center, home care setting, or residential care facility.
Provides a comprehensive overview about how to evaluate whether a mother with a mental illness is able to safely care for her children. This book synthesizes the research about psychiatric disorders and parenting and outlines eight principles for sound assessment methodology. It provides a step-by-step description of a parenting evaluation.
This graduate-level text on rehabilitation and mental health counseling disseminates foundational knowledge of assessment principles and processes with a focus on clinical application. Chapters - written by leading practitioners with specialized knowledge - focus on specific populations and service delivery settings.
Person-centred care for individuals with mental illness: a values-based approach is a guide to support staff working in mental health in-patient settings.
A collection of timely essays on the rising wave of anxiety in culture. The twenty-first century is characterized by uncertainty: from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change, societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future. In Anxiety Culture, editors John Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, ......
Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book explores ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.
The chapters explore the issues involved in working with individuals from a range of ......
America's Care of the Mentally Ill: A Photographic History tells the story of our nation's care of the mentally ill, starting from the 18th century, through the birth of the American Psychiatric Association and hospital-based care in 1844, up to the present.
A Compassion-Focused Workbook for Mental Health, Alongside Autism, Demen
With cases of mental health illness on the rise, it is increasingly crucial that ambulance clinicians and paramedics feel empowered in their ability to assess and manage a variety of conditions. This resource provides the foundation of knowledge you need to navigate often-fraught situations with sensitivity and confidence.
The authors demonstrate and discuss their approach to ADHD coaching with adults. ADHD coaching derives from the model used in executive coaching and athletics to help improve performance. Unlike most traditional psychotherapeutic approaches, this is an active and results-oriented modality that focusses on giving clients realistic and proven ......
A Guide for Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
While women are now achieving at unprecedented academic and professional levels, the shifting and conflicting pressures to be perfect have resulted in increasing mental health problems among young girls. This guide to the cultural stressors affecting girls and the subsequent mental health issues they often face offers mental health professionals ......
Has the art of accompaniment been lost in Western culture? Could non-judgemental accompaniment be the answer to rising levels of isolation and loneliness? Could spending time with others from different or marginalised backgrounds reduce feelings of 'otherness' and lead to a more open, trusting society?
Using Technology Ethically and Effectively in Your Professional Practice
Provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. Each chapter presents a guideline, explains how it relates to professional ethics and standards of care, and applies it to case examples. The richly nuanced case examples depict a broad range of dilemmas that psychologists may encounter ......
Using Technology Ethically and Effectively in Your Professional Practice
Provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. The book's recommendations draw from the Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology. Each chapter presents a guideline, explains how it relates to professional ethics and standards of care, and applies it to case examples.
Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contem
Hikikomori, which literally means "withdrawal," is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades. Based on interviews with people who have experienced it, Teppei Sekimizu explores what the hikikomori experience is like from a sociological ......
This new edited volume offers a step-by-step approach to diagnosis, giving practicing psychologists and graduate trainees the essential information they need to apply the mental and behavioral diagnostic guidelines of the ICD-11 and deliver high quality, evidence-informed care around the world. Following the adoption of the Eleventh Revision ......
