A complete introduction to assessment, intervention, care and support
Now in its 5th edition, Mental Health in Intellectual Disabilities continues to address the need for a handbook which, while well-grounded in research and latest clinical practice, is essentially non-academic and accessible for staff occupying many roles.
Real-life examples provided by clinical staff who made the transition to collaborative care are woven into the text, providing insight into the goals of improving outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost containment.
Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side, there are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don't acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms can render people dangerous to themselves or others. They also don't allow for the idea that the civil rights of ......
Most people fear the idea of living in a long-term care facility. Yet, there is potential for joy and meaning in these settings. This book highlights expanded roles and services that mental health professionals can provide in long-term care for older adults, offering the potential to improve the quality of care for residents.
Focuses on understanding cultural and psychosocial contexts to promote optimal healing for disaster survivors This is the first book for mental health professionals working with survivors of mass trauma to focus on the psychosocial and culture contexts in which these disasters occur. It underscores the importance of understanding these ......
A mental health guide for those supporting people with intellectual disabilities.This handbook is for healthcare professionals and support staff to help them when diagnosing, treating and caring for people with a learning disability.
A Cognitive Behavioural Approach for Mental Health Workers
Making Sense of Depression: A guide for mental health staff who work directly with clients with depression will provide mental health workers in all public, private and voluntary sectors with information on the nature of depression based on a number of theories from Cognitive Therapy.
This comprehensive text prepares social work students to play a key role within an interdisciplinary health care team: that of counselling clients who are taking medications used to treat common mental health conditions. This third edition has been fully revised to include new medications and reflect changes resulting from the publication of the ......
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Work Volume 1: A Pavilion Annual 2016 brings together different perspectives on success and collaborative working for parental mental health and child welfare professionals.
A Training Pack for Staff Supporting Adults with Intellectual Disabiliti
Personal Development, Relationships and Staying Safe is a training pack designed to teach people with intellectual disabilities with high support and complex needs about developing their identity, forming relationships and staying safe in the context of physical and sexual abuse.
A Guide to Supporting Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developm
An Introduction to Active Support: A guide to supporting children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is a portable booklet that can either be used as a stand-alone resource, or as part of an induction pack.
Using rich case examples drawn from typical patient presentations of common chronic conditions encountered in primary care, this book gives students the skills needed to step into the role of Behavioral Health Specialist on a primary care team. It is ideal for health care social workers, mental health counsellors, and psychologists training to ......
A Care Quality Guide for Support Workers and Staff
Develop your understanding of working with offenders with mental disorders, and reflect on your practise of working in secure forensic settings with this engaging, value for money and accessible Care Quality Guide.
This training pack, developed specifically for people with intellectual disabilities, compromises a printed manual with guidance for facilitators who are supporting an individual to use the self-help resource (SAINT).
Putting Personalisation and Recovery into Practice
This handbook aims to clarify the practical delivery of personalisation in daily practice, by elaborating on how we need to place strengths as the driving force for staff development, team development and organisational leadership.
The oppression of various groups has taken place throughout human history. People are stereotyped, discriminated against and treated unjustly simply because of their social group membership. But what does it look like when the oppression that people face from the outside gets under their skin? Long overdue, this is the first book to highlight the ......
A Resource for Care Home Managers to Place Compassion at the Heart of Ca
This manual is designed to shift the mentality of those who work in care and nursing homes in order to emphasise a more compassionate way of caring for both the residents of the home and the staff who work there.
The Dementia Awareness care quality guide aims to help health and social care staff and carers refresh, develop or extend their learning in key areas of practice.
Covering basic functional neuro-anatomy and what can go wrong, assessment of difficulties, interventions and approaches to rehabilitation for frontline staff, carers and students.
A Handbook for Service Users, Carers and Staff Wishing to Bring a Spirtu
Comprehensive coverage of spirituality and mental health written by experts in the field for staff, carers and service users wishing to bring a spiritual dimension to mental health services.
With an emphasis on the development of evidence-based practice, this British handbook explores issues relating to the care of children and young people with learning disabilities who have mental health needs. The handbook will provide health and social care professionals with a sound knowledge base for shaping and enhancing their practice, and the ......
Advancing the Explanation of Its Nature, Cause, and Treatment
Presents contemporary theories and research regarding the behavioral processes that underlie major mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and alcohol/drug disorders. This book offers a counterpoint to theories which are not based on studies of behavior.
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.
Drawing from a diverse body of research, this book illustrates the meaning of self and the importance of providing dementia care that recognizes and supports personhood. It provides strategies for restructuring the physical and social environment to facilitate person-centered care.
For person-centred planning to succeed, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities need to live, work, and learn in their own communities. Professionals can make that happen with this book, a complete step-by-step guide to the easiest, most practical person-centred planning method available.
