Mental Health category: 18328 books
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...
Raising Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The state of college students’ mental health is a growing phenomenon across university campuses. Educators often watch students struggle with academic, social, financial, and familial issues. Over the past decade, these issues have led to an increasing number of students exhibiting behavior related...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
We know that gender traits and mental disorders are based on social, cultural, personal and physiological background. In order to formulate the best management plan for the patient, the mental health practitioner needs to incorporate all available information.
Women and Mental Health provides a comprehensive...
Healing the Broken Mind
Transforming America’s Failed Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that many would prefer to sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its...
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...
by Marc Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
‘This book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone with a personal or professional interest in mental health. Roberts addresses the subjects that are troubling professionals across the globe, providing a sound theoretical base on which a professional viewpoint can be formed. Complex concepts are presented...
Introducing Mental Health Nursing
A service user-oriented approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Introducing Mental Health Nursing offers a systematic overview of both the science and the art of caring for people experiencing mental health problems. It addresses the attitudes, knowledge and skills required to provide care for service users across all health-care settings, from specialist mental...
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...
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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...
Introducing Mental Health, Second Edition
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
This popular and accessible introduction to mental health is written for students, mental health practitioners and non-qualified professionals.
Fully revised, this second edition is up to date with the latest knowledge on mental health conditions, good practice and the law. The authors explain...
Mental Health and Social Problems
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness.
The...
Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues
An Islamic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues raises awareness of the cultural considerations, religion and spirituality involved in the assessment of Muslim patients with mental health problems. The belief that Jinn spirits can cause mental illness in humans through affliction or possession...