Major depressive disorder is a common medical condition that can be disabling and can persist for months, even years. Many people experience depression symptoms that resist treatment. Although they try various combinations of medications, psychotherapy, or electroconvulsive therapy, their symptoms don't improve. What can people who have ......
Incorporating the most up-to-date concepts and clinical tools, the newly revised and expanded second edition of this popular manual is even more user-friendly than its predecessor.
How Nutrition Influences Cognitive Function, Behaviour and Mood
This book takes a nutrition-based look at ADHD and brain health, combining the latest research with personal stories, and practical tips and recipes. This is an invaluable guide for professionals working with families, and parents, seeking alternatives to prescriptions to help children reach their full potential.
Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography-long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired-re-vitalizes and re-visions various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and reparative, and it stands in ......
Offers the most up-to-date, research-based information on policies and practice in rural and frontier populations. This highly readable book focuses on best practices and new models of service delivery in rural populations throughout the world, with a specific emphasis on those in the US.
An in-depth practical guide for mental health practitioners working across diverse theoretical orientations to provide mental health services tailored to the needs of refugees. Chapters outline research-supported psychological interventions that can be used in a culturally sensitive manner.
Mental illness is the poor, and somehow "damaged," cousin to physical ailments in the eyes of too many in our society. This title presents a provocative analysis of the mental health care system in the United States, dealing with issues of justice and access to mental health care.
Defining and Measuring Quality in Psychiatric Care for Adults and Childr
This compelling monograph combines -- for the first time -- the reports from two American Psychiatric Association task forces on quality in psychiatric care, offering a clinical framework for quality measurement that provides sample indicators of quality for health plans, facilities, and systems of care.
Empirically Based Strategies for Clinical Practice
This second edition amplifies and refines the material presented in the first. This volume was written for practitioners, treatment researchers, professors and students, health care administrators, and others who make decisions about mental health treatment services for children and adolescents.
Provides a model for the important role that psychologists can play in ensuring that end-of-life care balances physical care with psychosocial and spiritual care, and deals with the psychological and interpersonal issues that arise. This volume brings multiple perspectives to bear on the topic and lays out a blueprint for future research and care.
A Historical Analysis of Science, Practice, and Policy
An historical analysis of the reciprocal relationship of psychology and the NIMH. As a history, the book reveals insights into the remarkable of psychology since World War II and illuminates the role of government in shaping the lives and practices of its citizens through its funding of psychological research, training, and service.
A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy
A historical resource volume that offers insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. It also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. It is aimed at psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA.
Provides an overview of integrated primary care for mental health professionals. In clear, straightforward language, it describes the benefits and key components of integrated care, with a special emphasis on the Primary Care Behavioral Health model of service delivery.
This volume addresses the importance of measuring psychological abuse and shows that psychological aggression can be reliably measured. Part I identifies measurement issues and contains several scales and inventories for measuring psychological maltreatment. Part II discusses the interpersonal dynamics with specific populations, including battered ......
Correctional psychiatry is an evolving field, and serious questions remain. The work group sees an expanded role for clinicians as physician leaders, managers, and directors, more effectively advocating for their patients and helping to shape optimal care delivery systems that empower patients and support successful transition back to the ......
Postnatal PTSD can have devastating effects on parents. Gain knowledge about postnatal PTSD and surrounding topics such its effects on bonding, relationships, ethnic minorities and maternity professionals. This book is essential reading for health providers who want to inform themselves about support, treatment and prevention.
Including People with Difficult Behavior in the Community
Offers case studies, research-based strategies, and discussion on behavioral intervention with people who engage in challenging and self-injurious behavior, highlighting the significant role of parent and family support. Topics include naturalistic language intervention; early intervention; school i
This resource brings together psychologists from Europe, Israel and North America offering new and emerging agendas for social cognition, under the common theme of perspectivist methodology and the study of thought systems.
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.
Using the latest outcomes research, authors in this volume show that having control over one's life goals and treatment plan is essential to clients' recovery. They also demonstrate how person-centered care can take place across various contexts, including mandated treatment, psychotherapy, medication management, supported employment, family ......
Provides clinicians (including social workers, counselors, therapists, and psychiatric nurses) new to partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient practice settings with a conceptual framework and practical skills for effective and efficient practice. It helps clinicians to develop realistic expectations for treatment in a managed care ......
Starting with his own professional and personal search for meaning as a young scholar, Ronald B. Miller guides readers through a historical tour of alternative conceptualizations and treatments for psychological problems. Across a comprehensive range of mental illnesses, he reviews theoretical bases, methods of diagnosis and assessment, and ......
Harnesses new research about the link between neuroscience and immunology that underlies promising nonpharmacological treatment for mental disorders As researchers learn more about the neuroscience and neurobiology of mental disorders, the prevailing understanding of how to treat these conditions-often favouring the use of psychotropic ......
This book teaches psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and administrators how reviewers think and how to present a case in a manner that greatly increases the likelihood that a reviewer will approve the request for care. Issues are highlighted in vignettes illustrating a clinician's presentation of a case and a typical reviewer's comments.
Prepares test-takers to successfully respond to the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Exam's structure. Specifically, the book provides an in-depth review of clinical assessment and treatment planning knowledge; DSM 5 diagnostic knowledge; intervention/treatment plan knowledge; and administration, consultation and supervision knowledge.
A mental health assessment of children and adolescents across the full developmental spectrum
The Moss-PAS (ChA), formerly ChA-PAS Interview, is for the mental health assessment of children and adolescents across the full developmental spectrum, including intellectual disability. It provides a semi-structured interview format in which the young person may contribute to whatever degree they are able.
The first book to present mindfulness and yoga-based treatment for dysregulated, consumption-oriented disorders Mindfulness and yoga-based approaches as beneficial supplements to traditional mental health paradigms are well supported by empirical research. While numerous texts have examined these approaches for treatment of depression, anxiety, ......
Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,100,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, ......
A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and C
A ground-breaking handbook exploring the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education, and allied support services.
Collected in a single volume for the first time, the writings in this novel anthology represent more than four decades of perspectives from the American Psychiatric Associations Solomon Carter Fuller Award lectures, named for the first Black psychiatrist in the United States.
Groundbreaking new handbook examining the concept of personal recovery through the narratives of both iconic historical figures and contemporary people from all walks of life and developing our understanding of recovery.
Supporting People with Learning Disabilities to Stay Mentally Well
This training pack is for learning disability professionals and others who wish to facilitate a course to help people with learning disabilities improve their mental health by raising awareness of mental health problems and developing personal strategies to improve or maintain their mental health.
Provides a framework to guide mental health providers who work with refugees and immigrants. The authors describe the unique needs and challenges of serving these populations, and offer concrete steps for providing evidence-based, culturally-responsive care.
In today's schools, the variety and consequences of mental health problems are growing and receiving greater public attention. This practice-oriented, one-stop resource addresses the key mental health issues and challenges facing school-based mental health professionals and helps to facilitate effective and focused mental health consultation, ......