Mental Health category: 18328 books
by James L. Narduzzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the 1990s providing mental health services to the elderly and particularly to elderly Native Americans had been an issue of some concern for the last several decades. Despite this, many public decisions made at the time were based on inadequate data. Due to this lack of data, there had been little...
Mental Health Care of Deaf People
A Culturally Affirmative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Deaf adults and children, like their hearing counterparts, experience a full range of mental health problems. They develop psychoses, sink into deep depressions, abuse alcohol and drugs, commit sexual offenses, or simply have trouble adjusting to new life situations. But when a deaf client appears...
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...
Trauma and Recovery on War's Border
A Guide for Global Health Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe to engage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. But in the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure good training, development, and care. The risk...
by Jasenn Zaejian
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Throughout the author's career as a clinical psychologist and well trained psychotherapist, he has seen people struggling with depression and anxiety, often without an understanding that they can heal themselves. As a consequence, many have been driven to take on the extravagant...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Patrick B. Malley, Eileen Petty Deklewa
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The legal system's impact and influence on the mental health profession has never been greater. Whether as a witness, plaintiff, or defendant, it is likely that a professional will have some kind of interaction with the law at least once in his/her career. More than ever, it is essential that psychologists,...
by Andrew Winokur, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The strong association between mental health and sleep is examined here in topics that include: Epidemiology of sleep disorders, co-morbidity with mental health disorders and impact on health and quality of life; Neurobiology of sleep; Neurobiology of circadian rhythms; Genetics of sleep disorders;...
Staying Sane in an Insane World
A Prescription for Even Better Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
You have faced struggles, setbacks, shortcomings, failures, and losses in life. The way you deal with those issues becomes the ultimate test of your mental stability. Because life can be chaotic at times, it is important to pay attention to your mental health and adopt regular mental health practices...