Mental category: 19657 books
Improving Mental Health through Social Support
Building Positive and Empowering Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Social support is the everyday assistance offered by family, friends, neighbours and colleagues, as well as the foundations of support in a range of non-clinical settings, and plays a vital role in a person's mental health and wellbeing.
This book examines the nature of social support and offers...
by Thomas Jay Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The object of this book is, primarily, to assist in placing mental therapeutics on a firmly scientific basis, and incidentally to place within the reach of the humblest intellect the most effective methods of healing the sick by mental processes. Part I. contains nothing new to the scientific world,...
Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
A person with a mental health problem has a higher risk of having a substance use problem, just as a person with a substance use problem has an increased chance of having a mental health problem.
This guide:
explains the symptoms and causes of concurrent disorder
outlines the different...
Counseling for the Soul in Distress
What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Learn how to help your congregants work cooperatively with mental health professionals!
This revised edition of The Soul in Distress i is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental...
by Ruby Sisk MA
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This book is about the need for social reform programs along with the Department of Corrections to gain more appropriate and more satisfying treatments for affected individuals. Studies have shown that more inmates, upon release from incarceration, have little to no resources that help with assistance...
The Resilient Mental Health Practice
Nourishing Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The Resilient Mental Health Practice: Nourishing Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself is a fundamental resource for mental health professionals, designed to serve as a comprehensive yet parsimonious handbook to inspire and inform novice, developing, and experienced mental health professionals....
Psychology and Mental Health
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The human mind has long been a complex topic of research that is still largely unexplored. As research continues to advance on how the brain functions and what motivates human behavior and emotions, new methods for treating psychological and mental health disorders and applying brain functioning concepts...
by David B. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Mental health-substance use is a complex interrelation, with equally complex implications for individuals and their families, health professionals and society. Although its international recognition as an issue of critical importance is growing, clear guidance for professionals on mental health-substance...
The Positive Psychology of Synchronicity
Enhance Your Mental Health with the Power of Coincidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
For all those interested in mental wellness as well as mental-health practitioners, this book makes the strongest case yet made that synchronicity and other forms of intuitive insights promote wellbeing and help us transform mental-health issues into personal growth.
"A profound introduction...
Confronting Mental Health Evidence
A Practical PLAN to Examine Reliability and Experts in Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Confronting Mental Health Evidence—Second Edition describes and applies the four-step PLANModel to help lawyers organize, critique, and use psychological materials and testimony when examining experts and framing legal arguments.
This Second Edition refreshes previous topics, including understanding...
You Are Not a Rock
A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Mental Health (for Humans)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**Mental health is . . . being yourself.
A prescriptive and positive guide, illustrated with line drawings, making the case that mental well-being, like physical health, can be strengthened over time and with specific techniques**
We all want to feel less anxiety, guilt, anger and sadness....
The Fit Mind
Why Western Psychology Never Found It.
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
As Western nations such as the UK plan to spend millions on measures of happiness, Western psychology faces an increasing challenge to its understanding of how people around the globe manage emotions and protect themselves from mental illness. Decades of research across cultures suggests that the science...
by Don Wooldridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In Fear is My Copilot Don Wooldridge writes about his experiences with Bipolar disorder and how he lived a productive life based on the lessons that he learned along the way as a result of those experiences. This book draws upon Don’s personal experiences—to help each reader understand the disorder,...
Taking Charge in Troubled Times
Proceedings of the 5th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have had major impacts on our world. The 2004 tsunami, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect millions of lives daily. Potential events such as Avian Flu pandemic,...