Mental category: 19657 books
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health
Alma, Mente y Corazón
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Spirit, mind, and heart—in traditional Mexican health beliefs all three are inherent to maintaining psychological balance. For Mexican Americans, who are both the oldest Latina/o group in the United States as well as some of the most recent arrivals, perceptions of health and illness often reflect...
Preventing Mental Ill-Health
Informing public health planning and mental health practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Is there any evidence that we can reduce the incidence of mental ill health? Is it possible to prevent recurrence of mental ill health?
Aspirations to achieve both these goals have featured in mental health policy and practice for over 100 years. This comprehensive and accessible book draws...
Aging and God
Spiritual Pathways to Mental Health in Midlife and Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This important book examines the relationship between religion and mental health throughout the life cycle, with a special emphasis on later life. It asserts that successful aging is possible regardless of physical health or environmental circumstances, and that religious beliefs and behaviors may...
Prevention in Mental Health Care
Time for a new approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Prevention in Mental Health Care: Time for a new approach focuses on the limitations in current psychiatric practice and research. Many professionals working in mental health care, as well as patients with psychiatric symptoms, are dissatisfied with what is currently offered by the discipline, with...
Mental Health Services for Deaf People
Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2012. The eighteen...
A Court of Refuge
Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The story of America’s first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren—from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nation
As a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Although the epidemiology of mental illnesses is innately complex, there have been many strides in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic mental illnesses as more research is being conducted in the field. As more information becomes available, mental health professionals are able to develop more effective...
by William Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The thrust of this book is nutrition and complementary therapies for digital addiction, anxiety, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. Truisms that have been passed down through the ages about mental health that have stood the rigors of scientific inquiry are presented. The role of nutrition in...
by Nick Gould
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative, evidence based introduction to an area of specialism chosen by many social work students.
Grounded in the social models of mental health particularly relevant to qualifying social workers, but also familiarising...
Mental Health Inc
How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The mental health system in America is hardly the front-burner issue it should be, despite lip service about reform after each new tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in “shambles.? By some measures, 20 percent of...
From Introspection to Action
The High-Level Professional's 28 Day Journey to Improving Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Do you take care of your mental health? How do you react when you hear that term: mental health?
Even with increased awareness surrounding mental wellbeing, admitting to and receiving treatment for mental disorders still remains a stigma for individuals within most communities. Especially...
by Guy Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...
Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator...
Psycho-Economics
Managed Care in Mental Health in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Develop new ways to provide ethical, effective mental health services in a world of managed care!
Psycho-Economics gives psychologists and mental health care administrators suggestions for handling the changes that have come with the advent of managed care. Using empirical research and practitioner...