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Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services
"I Am More Than My Label"
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Valuable patient-centered ideas for treating mental illness
Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient’s personal feelings and hopes. In fact, these established methods can even have...
The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness
Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. This volume makes this point while describing...
by David Conrad, Alan White
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A welcome and important contribution to a thankfully growing debate. Mental illness remains in some ways the last great taboo in our society, a taboo which leads directly to stigma and discrimination which for some can be even worse than the symptoms of their illness. This book in part is about encouraging...
How to Rethink Mental Illness
The Human Contexts Behind the Labels
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis rather...
Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy
A Guide to More Inclusive Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The therapeutic potential of working with clients' mental images is widely acknowledged, yet there is still little in the counselling and psychotherapy literature on more inclusive approaches to the clinical applications of mental imagery. Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.
Marina Morrow and Lorraine...
Alfredo's Journey
An Artist's Creative Life with Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
More than a just a journey, Alfredo gives us a blueprint for humane treatment of mental illness
In 1981, twenty-three-year old Alfredo Zotti began his lifelong challenge of living with Bipolar II Disorder. He quickly hit rock bottom, spending time as a homeless person and turning to street drugs and...
Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness
The role of peer support
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness presents research that challenges the prevailing view that recovery from ‘mental illness’ must take place within the boundaries of traditional mental health services. While Watts and Higgins accept that medical treatment may be a vital start to some people’s...
by Luciano L'Abate
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Never has the need for a compendium of self-help workbooks been so great!
From the founder of the world’s first PhD program in Family Psychology comes an extensive guide to nearly all of the mental health workbooks published through 2002. Placed together in one volume for the first time,...
Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health
A Guide for Health Professionals and Support Workers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health focuses on how women and families suffering from perinatal mental illness can be supported by a wide range of practitioners. Based on the skills of attentive listening, it is designed for use by health professionals and support workers concerned with maternal...
Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality
Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities.
This book uses the rich narratives...
Your Complete Guide To Mental Health
Learn This Handbook’s Mental Health Information And Discover Mental Health Recovery Techniques, Benefits Of Mental Health Support Groups, Effective Mental Health Treatment, Mental Health Nursing And More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Unlike physical disorders, mental illnesses are often not recognizable and difficult to identify. This makes these disorders a lot harder to understand leading the sufferers to believe that they are alone in their suffering and that help is unavailable. Top these with their own conviction that there...
A Balanced Life
Nine Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
A practical, compassionate guide to building a supportive relationship with someone with a mental illness--while taking care of yourself.
The ultimate goal of those with a mental disorder and the people who love them is balance: emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioral. Yet, living with...
Beyond the Label
10 Steps to Improve Your Mental Health with Naturopathic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
“This book should be on the shelves of every person struggling with their moods.”—Dr. Jonathan Prousky, ND, author of the Textbook of Integrative Clinical Nutrition An inspiring and empowering guide to emotional freedom, from a Naturopathic Doctor who took charge of her own life and mental...