A practical guide for health professionals and trainers, offering evidence-based low arousal approaches to defusing and managing aggressive behaviours in a variety of health care settings. It provides both an academic background and practical advice on how to manage and minimize confrontation.
Provides a comprehensive guide to understanding suicide, the assessment of risk, and the treatment and management of suicidal individuals. This book begins by covering the theory behind suicidal behaviour, using Transactional Analysis to explore the personality types of suicidal individuals and to understand their motivations.
Self-harm is common, especially in young people. This gives recommendations for healthcare professionals and will improve the longer-term care of people who self-harm (covers people aged 8 and above). It reviews the evidence for assessment, psychosocial and pharmacological interventions, staff training, capacity and confidentiality issues.
Presents a self-portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman coming of age in the 1950s. Amidst gender & sexuality confusion, the author began to look for romantic love and sexual fulfilment: sometimes wanting to dress as a man, sometimes attracted to men, and sometimes to women.
Building a private practice means relying on technology, including websites, blogs, e-newsletters and podcasts, this book presents the skills and strategies necessary to meet the demands of a technology-centric culture and succeed in private practice.
The paperwork required when providing mental health services continues to mount. This title provides you with a full range of forms, checklists, and clinical records essential for effectively and efficiently managing and protecting your practice. It also includes a CD-ROM with all the ready-to-copy forms in Microsoft[registered] Word format.
According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders and depression are the fastest growing mental health problems in the world. This book is designed to help the caregivers of anxiety neurotics. It begins with detailed explanations of the causes, symptoms and treatments available for generalised anxiety disorder, and panic attacks.
Looks at youth interventions with a view to fostering resilience in those living in adverse situations and conditions. This volume offers diverse answers to many of the persistent questions mental health professionals ask regarding how to enhance resilience.
Explores the link between modern psychiatric practice and the person-centred approach. This book promotes an open dialogue between traditional rivals - counsellors and psychiatrists within the NHS - to assist greater understanding and improve practice. It is suitable for all mental health professionals.
Despite improvements in service delivery, patient violence remains a major problem at mental health facilities. Focusing equally on causes, management, and prevention, this book thoroughly examines this crucial topic. It reviews the theories of violence, proven prevention strategies, and examples of positive organizational change.
Suitable for students, practitioners, or policy planners who are engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services, this book includes best practice treatment models for co-occurring disorders, homelessness and mental illness, psychosocial rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, and outpatient treatment.
Covers various nursing interventions with individuals with 'personality disorder'. This book includes material relevant to mental health nurses, mental health branch student nurses, service users, informal carers, health care support workers, prison nurses and workers in social care.
Climate change is increasing the severity of disasters and adverse weather conditions worldwide, with particularly devastating effects on developing countries and on individuals with lower resources. This book outlines areas of impact on human well being, consider specific populations, and shed light on mitigating the impact of climate change.
Explores risk assessment and risk management for people being discharged from psychiatric hospital into the community. This report also includes information about the harm that service users experienced. It provides useful information about: service user involvement in risk assessment and risk management; and services provided to manage risk.
The Philadelphia Association has been providing asylum for over 40 years. People diagnosed as 'mentally ill' have found in PA houses a haven where they can recover, in their own time and their own way, free from the well-meaning interventions of psychiatry or family. Little has been written about this radical movement until now.
Provides a guide to identify, treat and prevent depression in later life. The authors provide practical guidance for health and social care practitioners and suggest numerous coping strategies. This comprehensive book is useful reading for health and social care practitioners.
Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users.
Community mental health care has evolved as a discipline over the past 50 years, and within the past 20 years, there have been major developments across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in the field, written by an international and interdisciplinary team.
Many mental health professionals working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin? This user-friendly book offers the comprehensive information you need to establish and build your own practice from the ground up.
Confidentiality is an essential condition of counselling and psychotherapy that enables clients to talk honestly and openly about their situation. This book contains guidance on: why and how records should be kept, and how to balance therapeutic benefits from keeping records with potential legal ramifications.
Every health care professional will have an increasing number of autistic patients on their list as diagnosis of this condition continues to spiral. This volume addresses the ethical issues as well as the practical challenges that everyone involved has to deal with.
The term 'social determinants of health' describes the conditions in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, which includes the health system. This book is dedicated to the varying determinants, keeping in mind that as early as 2005 the WHO instituted a commission to deal with the social determinants of health.
Considers how mental health services have evolved over the years to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice. This title presents the evidence based practice as how people with intellectual disability can be best cared for in clinical settings.
Providing a comprehensive introduction to mental illnesses and their diagnosis and treatment, this resource is a guide to good practice within adult mental healthcare designed to aid mental health professionals, agencies, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness.
Enables practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings. Advocating the practice of recognizing the individuality of each service user, this book provides them with the tools and information they need to work fairly and effectively.
Being the world's most populated country, the People's Republic of China shoulders the largest number of persons with mental illness in the world. There are various challenges for policy makers and caring professionals in providing adequate and qualitative services for persons with mental problems in China. This book tackles these problems.
Thoroughly updated new edition guides the reader through the minefield of mental health outcome measurement, providing the building blocks for evidence-based mental health service provision and evaluation. Includes all recent developments in the field, plus production of new scales and translations of well established scales.
Assertive Outreach is the treatment of choice for the severely mentally ill in the community. It involves taking services to the patients rather than requiring them to attend hospitals and clinics. This book will equip all members of Assertive Outreach teams with a clear understanding of the essential processes and interventions involved.
There are a few available training programs on the practical aspects of succeeding in the mental health profession for mental health professionals. This work provides sales and marketing techniques as well as strategies to achieve high quality, value-based services in the mental health practice. It is filled with real-life stories and tips.
Depression affects 6 per cent of adults each year and is the leading cause of suicide. Its symptoms can be disabling and its effects pervasive, impacting on the individual patient, on their families, and the wider society. This title enables healthcare professionals to recognize, assess and offer effective treatments for depression.
A guide to applied mental health promotion across various age groups, and demonstrates how both principles and theory can be used to underpin mental health promotion. It addresses themes at each stage of the lifespan, including: reduction of inequalities; theory and evidence based practice; and, culturally sensitive approaches to practice.
The revised edition of Mental Health Policy and Practice remains a comprehensive text containing an overview of recent UK mental health policy. It includes ideas from a wide spectrum of mental health services, examples of successful evidence-based practice and analyzes the impact of the 'modernization agenda'.
Suitable for those new to mental health work or seeking to develop their skills who want to know more about underpinning policies and best practice. Based on the standards in the national service framework for mental health, this book presents contributions from some of the leading figures in the mental health arena.
A guide for mental health professionals advising service users on their choices about treatment in the event of future episodes of mental illness, covering all ideological, legal and medical aspects of advance directives. It also offers a useful overview of advance directives and is a key reference for all mental health professionals.
This book details the methods of developing a structure and strategy for providing child and adolescent mental health services. Principles and practicalities of how to deliver services are explained in straightforward operational terms. Updated in accordance with recent government policy.
Why do some areas have a higher prevalence of mental illness than others? This book explores the concept of social capital and its implications for mental health policy. It reviews methods of measuring social capital, analyses the implications of research findings for future policy developments and makes recommendations for practice and research.
Provides therapists entering private practice with a toolkit for getting started, complete with guidance for renting an office, managing clients, handling confidential client information, maintaining a professional yet comfortable office atmosphere, getting referrals, creating a website, managing finances, and more.
Trust is fundamental to everyday interactions and the functioning of society. This book explores a number of questions which are central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. It link these abstract concerns to empirical analysis, involving interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.
This revised and expanded third edition text utilizes a public health framework and the latest epidemiological, treatment, and service systems research to promote a comprehensive understanding of the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health and substance abuse services in the United States.
Suitable for those involved in treating mental health at primary care level, this title contains a set of 3 CD-ROMs that provide learning material related to primary care mental health. It explains the process and culture of primary care with relevance to common mental disorders and emotional problems.
An analysis of music icons Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. The Faris' have written a modern clinical analysis, detailing a surprising coincidence about the lives of Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. They raise the answer the following questions: Why did they behave so outrageously? Why were they so self-destructive? What did they have in common?
Practitioners in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) frequently find that traditional forms of support are ineffective when offered to patients with personality disorder. This book considers the various difficulties encountered, with reference to the thinking about the origins, maintenance and treatment of personality disorder.
Service user involvement in mental health research poses specific challenges for both researchers and service users. This book highlights common practical problems in service user involvement, based on experience from various countries with different social policies and suggests ways to avoid pitfalls and common difficulties.
Offers health professionals a model for working in mental health across cultures, and outlines practical ways of using psychotherapy skills across cultures. This guide can be used as preparation by individuals in various primary care settings at home or abroad, or as a teaching tool for use with health professionals travelling to another culture.
Presents the link between theory and practice, providing an evidence-based account of the complexity, breadth and diversity of community mental health nursing practice in dementia care. This book includes coverage of issues such as service user involvement, nurse prescribing, younger people with dementia, social exclusion and vulnerability.
Drawing together the developments in mental health policy in recent years, topics covered in this textbook include international trends, health promotion, children, adolescence, women, ethnic minorities, suicide, the homeless, crime, the workplace and ageing.
Clients with mental health conditions are often diagnosed and treated using a strictly medical model of diagnosis, with little input from the client themselves. This manual takes a person-centered, holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment, seeing the client as the unrecognized expert on their condition and encouraging their collaboration.
This title provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psychosocial interventions. It explains these interventions within the context of current theoretical understanding of the aetiology, presentation and prognosis of the illness.