Mental Health category: 18328 books
While the City Slept
A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
**“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account...
Transforming Therapy
Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Oaxaca is known for many things—its indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textiles—but not for mental health care. When one talks with Oaxacans about mental health, most say it's a taboo topic and that people there think you "have to be crazy to go to a psychologist."...
Beyond Mental Illness
Transform the Labels Transform a Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Can infections cause Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gherig's Disease and mental illness? Yes, but not just the infections. The body's unique defense against these infections plays a role. This is but one of the startling facts uncovered in Moyer's third book, Beyond Mental Illness. Moyer...
Unhinged
A Memoir of Enduring, Surviving, and Overcoming Family Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Despite all her best efforts to break the cycle of catastrophic, destructive patterns of mental illness, Anna Berry found herself at the end of her rope----unemployed, penniless, homeless, and in the throes of a psychotic episode that threatened to destroy her life. Alone and unwell, she manages to...
Caribbean Healing Traditions
Implications for Health and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
As Caribbean communities become more international, clinicians and scholars must develop new paradigms for understanding treatment preferences and perceptions of illness. Despite evidence supporting the need for culturally appropriate care and the integration of traditional healing practices into...
Mental Illness Mi Doesn’t Look Like Me
A Warrior's Intimate Struggle to Confront Mental Health Illness Face-To-Face
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This is a story of intimate warfare among rivals, where friend and foe confront the spiritual suffocation of a woman suffering from complex mental illnesses and disorders. She was desperate to be unchained from layers and layers of emotional tyranny believed to have inadvertently transpired either...
The Origins of Family Psychotherapy
The NIMH Family Study Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and...
Mental Illness and Psychiatric Treatment
A Guide for Pastoral Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Take your rightful place on the holistic health care team, with the goal of restoring vitality of body, mind, and spirit to people suffering from emotional illness!
This book is designed to bring essential knowledge and skills to the religious professional who seeks to provide special ministry...
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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...
Mental
Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know about Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How do we define mental illness? What does a diagnosis mean? What should you ask your doctor before you begin treatment? Are there alternatives to medication? What does the research show actually works?
Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny...
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....
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...