Mental Health

Youth Mental Health: Approaches to Emerging Mental Ill-Health in Young People
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This book highlights the field of youth mental health and why it is a specialty distinct from both child and adolescent and adult mental health.

He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services
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Caroline’s eldest son, Tim, had bipolar disorder. The mental health services he encountered were chaotic, inaccessible, and unsafe. Tim never seemed to be the right kind of ill to get the help he needed. Like many other people with mental illness, he joined an endless waiting list. He died waiting for an appointment.

Preparing for Trauma Work in Clinical Mental Health: A Workbook to Enhance Self-Awareness and Promote Safe, Competent Practice
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Designed for students and professional clinicians, this groundbreaking text fills an important education and training gap by providing a comprehensive and enlightening presentation of trauma work while also emphasizing the clinician’s growth in self-awareness and professional development.
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Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood
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Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in early childhood and elementary years.

Inside Out, Outside In: Transforming mainstream mental health practices
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This book showcases current projects that offer user-centred, context-informed, non-medical ways of helping people experiencing distress and overwhelm.

Teen Mental Health in an Online World: Supporting Young People around their Use of Social Media, Apps, Gaming, Texting and the Rest
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This essential book shows practitioners how they can engage with teens’ online lives to support their mental health. Drawing on interviews with young people it discusses how adults can have open and inquiring conversations with teens about both the positive and negative aspects of their use of online spaces.

Dramatherapy and Psychiatry
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The book is intended to be practical throughout and keeps jargon to a minimum. It is not written for professional or student dramatherapists alone, but is aimed as much at occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists who are all involved in rehabilitation of people with mental illness.

Adolescent Mental Health: Prevention and intervention
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Adolescent Mental Health: Prevention and Intervention is a concise and accessible overview of our current knowledge on effective treatment and prevention programs for young people with mental health problems.

Conflict, Peace and Mental Health: Addressing the Consequences of Conflict and Trauma in Northern Ireland
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This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

Psychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today
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This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.Psychoanalytic thinking contributes to effective mental health work on many levels, from Balint’s “Flash” technique in the brief GP/patient encounter to the psychiatric medical and nursing care in secure units, where the most challenging patients need to be held.

Group Therapy for Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Adapting the Tavistock Method
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This book argues that medication alone does not take away the deep emotional pain of feeling isolated and lonely, and considers the modification of the client’s social relationships as a critical ingredient in any treatment.

The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness
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This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions.

Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care
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Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

The Reality of Recovery in Personality Disorder
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Exploring the process of recovery from personality disorder, and how this can be achieved, this research-based but highly readable book describes successful community-based ways to support people after diagnosis and the wider implications for mental ill health.

Independent Mental Health Advocacy – The Right to Be Heard
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Independent mental health advocacy is a crucial means of ensuring rights and entitlements for people sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Handbook of the Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM 5 Personality Disorders (3rd edition)
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Since the publication of the acclaimed second edition of Handbook of the Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-IV Personality Disorders, much has changed in how the personality disorders are understood and treated.

A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Putting the Principles of the ACT Into Practice
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This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers. Informative and accessible, it provides a clear depiction of the ethos behind the Act and offers instruction for its effective, lawful and person-centred application.

Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication
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In this book, Marcus Evans argues that in addition to providing a helpful treatment for patients who suffer from serious psychological difficulties, psychoanalytic thinking can also help mental health staff develop a better understanding of their patients and complement other ways of thinking about mental disturbance.

Creative Arts in Counseling and Mental Health
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Drawing on new paradigms and evidence-based discoveries in neuroscience, narrative psychology, and creativity theory, this text explores the beneficial role of expressive arts within a recovery perspective.

Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self during Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses
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In this groundbreaking volume, David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst’s consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and hallucinations of their patients grappling with psychosis.

Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating effective care through collaborative communication
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Surviving Family Care Giving: Co-ordinating effective care through collaborative communication is a practical book for family and other home carers in a variety of situations.

Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making sense of people’s problems
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This completely updated and revised edition summarises recent practice, research, developments and debates while retaining the features that made the first a leading text in the field.