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 ......
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.
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.
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.
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 ......
Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
Equal to the Madness: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis is the first book of its kind to offer a semi-structured psychodynamic treatment for psychotic disorders. This volume addresses all the most important areas of treatment in one volume, providing clinicians with comprehensive theory and technique for working with ......
Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
Equal to the Madness: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis is the first book of its kind to offer a semi-structured psychodynamic treatment for psychotic disorders. This volume addresses all the most important areas of treatment in one volume, providing clinicians with comprehensive theory and technique for working with ......
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance. Contributors also highlight ......
Presents a practical, systematic decision-making model based on positive ethics that practitioners can use to address conflicting roles and responsibilities, balance competing ethical and legal requirements, and maintain high standards of ethical practice and professional competence.
As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effective by clinical services research could improve the lives of many people.
A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope
By demonstrating how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven this self-help book benefits people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment.
A critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. Offering a policy perspective and an overview, the book examines society's responses to mental disorders, trends in mental health care and healthcare legislation.
A critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. Offering a policy perspective and an overview, the book examines society's responses to mental disorders, trends in mental health care and healthcare legislation.
Strategies for when things don’t go as expected in business. Going Broke Staying Sane is the succinct guide for those facing the loss of their business and offers support to journey forward through this adversity and emerge intact using seven principles to adopt as you start over.
Provides information on the forensic social work issues encountered on a daily basis, such as: prevention of prisoner sudden deaths; expert witness testimony in child welfare and women battering; treating dually diagnosed adolescents; jail mental health services for adults; drug courts and PTSD in inmates with substance abuse histories; and more.
Illuminates the essential information about health and social work critical to understanding today's complex health care systems and policies. Chapters highlight current practice, policy, and research in different settings and with special populations. Readers learn how to advocate for the individuals, families, and communities they serve to help ......
Health Care Reform: A Primer for Psychiatrists is a compilation of resources designed to educate psychiatrists and other mental health professionals about key elements of the reform law. Each article addresses a key question for the organization and financing of mental health and substance abuse care under health care reform.
Anxiety, depression, and difficulty adjusting to medical conditions are just a few of the factors that can complicate recovery for hospitalized patients. This book describes how health psychologists, working with the medical team as consultants, can help determine the causes of such symptoms and provide appropriate treatment.
Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for the facts about the growing problem of teen self-injury--and what they can do to make it stop. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on the most effective treatment approach for cutting, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Vivid stories illustrate how out-of-control ......
Discovering that your teen "cuts" is every parent's nightmare. Your most urgent question is: "How can I make it stop?" Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for information and practical guidance about the growing problem of teen self-injury. Dr. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on dialectical behavior ......
It is estimated that up to a quarter of American children will experience a psychiatric disorder at some point in their development. Concerned parents whose children struggle with issues such as depression, anxiety, learning disorders, and attention problems face tough questions including: Does my child need medication? How do I get an appropriate ......
Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes
Since ancient times, physicians have believed that women are especially vulnerable to certain mental illnesses. Contemporary research confirms that women are indeed more susceptible than men to anxiety, depression, multiple personality, and eating disorders, and several forms of what used to be called hysteria. Why are these disorders more ......
Women's Mental Disorders and the Battle between the Sexes
Wenegrat (psychiatry, Stanford U. School of Medicine) argues that women's lack of social power, as defined as the ability to provide for one's needs and security and to make decisions based on one's own desires, is to blame for their excess risk for certain mental disorders such as anxiety, depress
Despite growing social acceptance, many young people who are LGBT experience harassment and bullying, family rejection, and social stigmatisation-putting them at high risk for depression and other mental health challenges. How should the mental health community best respond? Answers can be found in this book, which provides a road map to ......
The book focuses on measuring the basic processes of mental healthcare, such as access, detection, treatment appropriateness, safety and continuity of care. It integrates practical information about quality measures into a highly readable guide on how to implement measures and use the results improve quality of care.
This pack has been designed to skill participants as support brokers and includes a specialist focus on learning disability issues, systems and supports. The course runs for five days and is broken down into five modules with step by step instructions for running the training. The accompanying CD-rom contains all the materials and PowerPoint
An Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) is someone who is trained to work within the framework of the Mental Health Act to support anyone in need of an advocate who qualifies to have one. This book provides a comprehensive overview of independent mental health advocacy, the role of Independent Mental Health Advocates (IMHAs), the context of ......
An Ecological, Family-centered Approach to Mental Health Care
Describing the authors' family-centered, ecological approach, this work demonstrates how they examine psychopathology in children and adolescents in the context of the ecology (families, peer groups, communities, and schools) in which they live. It also illustrates how developmentally and culturally relevant interventions are shaped.
A guide for professionals, support staff and families
A unique training and self-study resource introducing the vital topic of mental health and mental well-being to a wide range of staff supporting adults with intellectual disabilities.
A unique training and self-study resource introducing the vital topic of mental health and mental well-being to a wide range of staff supporting adults with intellectual disabilities.
Favored by instructors and students for its real-world focus and engaging style, this authoritative text on the interface of psychology and law has now been revised and expanded. Each chapter provides an overview of case law on an important topic and explores selected cases in depth. Coverage includes psychological and mental health issues in ......
A Survivor-centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice
Presents a multidisciplinary look at society's responses to domestic violence. Though substantial reforms have been made in the services available to battered women since the 1970s, this book shows how the public and private systems available to victims of domestic violence are still failing to meet the needs of the women who seek help.
The fully updated and revised sixth edition of the definitive guide to clinically tested and proven methods for effectively managing all of the symptoms characteristic of MS and MS treatment. Based on the most up-to-date disease management strategies, medical and research breakthroughs, and latest drug therapies, Dr. Randall T. Schapiro provides ......
