Mental category: 19657 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
This handbook brings together authoritative contributions from leading mental health researchers, educators and practitioners to provide a comprehensive text for community mental health nurses in training and practice. In thirty-three chapters it covers a wide range of topics, from the history of...
Psychiatry in Primary Care
A Concise Canadian Pocket Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Psychiatry in Primary Care: A Concise Canadian Pocket Guide is a comprehensive, practical resource designed to support the work of primary care providers who encounter challenging mental health problems in their daily practices.
Following a “just the pearls” approach, Psychiatry in Primary...
Crisis In The American Heartland -- Disasters & Mental Health In Rural Environments
An Introduction (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?
Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical...
Infants of Parents with Mental Illness
Developmental, Clinical, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
During the last 100 years infant mortality rates have improved dramatically, yet even in a developed country such as Australia the physical health of infants varies greatly, despite advances in science and technology. It has now become clear that emotional and physical development is affected by many...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
It is widely accepted that most psychiatric disorders are associated with cognitive impairment and that neuropsychological approaches can help unravel the mechanisms underlying brain function and help us develop a better understanding of these disorders. In this book, a panel of the world's leading...
A Restful Mind
Daily Meditations for Enhancing Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
The only daily meditation book designed to provide inspiration, support, and focus for those living with mental health problems.
With A Restful Mind, Mark Allen Zabawa offers the first book designed to provide inspiration and support specifically for people living with mental health problems....
Disaster Mental Health Interventions
Core Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Disaster Mental Health Interventions uses DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and the latest research to help build disaster mental health intervention skills that will last a lifetime. Students and emerging professionals across the fields of mental health counseling, social work, school counseling, spiritual...
by Frances R. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Striving For Normalcy - The Mental Illness Rollercoaster offers information for those of you suffering from some form of mental illness. It's based on true-life experience with Bipolar II disorder, agoraphobia, and panic and anxiety attacks. If you're looking for a positive, focused book that will...
Mental Health Issues and the Media
An Introduction for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Mental Health Issues and the Media provides students and professionals in nursing and allied professions, in psychiatry, psychology and related disciplines, with a theoretically grounded introduction to the ways in which our attitudes are shaped by the media.
A wide range of contemporary media...
by Rob Poole, Robert Higgo, Catherine A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
There is strong scientific evidence that poverty is a cause of mental illness. This book brings together a body of knowledge from biomedical and social science literature that is of importance to both academics and practitioners. It explores a broad range of issues, including stigma, the recovery...
by Kaye Dennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Mental health is a major problem in society, one which many people would prefer to turn their back on. Unfortunately mental health does not just affect those with the illness but the extended family as well. Parents and siblings stagger at the news that their loved one has become another statistic...
by Michael T. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Implications for Neuroplasticity examines how the current concept of mental illness in society informs the dialogic skills and perspectives of psychotherapists. The common interpretation of unconventional behavior as a symptom of illness has marginalized...
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the...
Law and the Disordered
An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed...