Mental category: 19657 books
Whole Happy and Healthy
A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Mental illness is greatly misunderstood. It is distorted, feared, and hidden — often leading to shame, guilt, and exacerbated mental health symptoms. Whole Happy and Healthy: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Thriving with Mental Illness challenges this stigma and opens up new possibilities...
Social Perspectives in Mental Health
Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment,...
Mental Illness Mi Doesn’t Look Like Me
A Warrior's Intimate Struggle to Confront Mental Health Illness Face-To-Face
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This is a story of intimate warfare among rivals, where friend and foe confront the spiritual suffocation of a woman suffering from complex mental illnesses and disorders. She was desperate to be unchained from layers and layers of emotional tyranny believed to have inadvertently transpired either...
Mental Health and Well-Being
Alternatives to the Medical Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and...
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Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know about Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How do we define mental illness? What does a diagnosis mean? What should you ask your doctor before you begin treatment? Are there alternatives to medication? What does the research show actually works?
Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny...
by Ruth Elder, RN, BA(Hons)
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental...
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardatio
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardatio
Stories of the Rainbow Support Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Experience the birth of the first support group for sexual minorities with developmental disabilities!
Reflecting an unprecedented development in the disabled and sexual minority communities, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation:...
Being There When It Counts
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities. Although a relatively new field, these teams have quickly...
Aspies on Mental Health
Speaking for Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights...
Attachment Theory in Adult Mental Health
A guide to clinical practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the fifty years since its inception, John Bowlby’s attachment theory has been powerfully influential on developmental psychology and, more recently, mental health. Bringing together the experience of a diverse range of mental health practitioners and researchers who routinely use attachment theory...
REACH Chronicles
A Community Mental Health Model for Children and Adolescents in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
An easy read with a “how-to” intent, this book provides the insights and process of a practical and viable community mental health team. The authors of the book have produced a book which is as close an account to the reality of making the REACH team a value add to the mental wellness of students....
Spirituality and Mental Health Care
Rediscovering a 'Forgotten' Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
A person's sense of spirituality informs his or her awareness of self and of the society around them, and is intrinsic to their mental well-being. In this balanced and thoughtful book John Swinton explores the connections between mental health or illness and spirituality and draws on these to provide...
Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care
Essays in Honour of Professor David Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care provides a thorough overview of the diagnosis, treatment and management of the most common mental disorders encountered in primary care. In this book, published to mark the retirement of Professor Sir David Goldberg, distinguished contributors bring together...
Faith in the Field
A Historical Theological Perspective on Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Although mental illness has not been eradicated, the move to equate mental illness with a physical legitimate illness has resulted in greater understanding on many aspects as to the particular course of the disease. In spite of the difficulties that remain, mental health treatment has come a long...