Mental Health Books

New and Published Books

1. Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China

   By Guy Ramsay

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies

   Rights, Spaces and Innovations

   Edited by Michele Moore

   What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening—both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers. The landscape is being changed by a more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Forensic Mental Health Consulting in Family Law

   Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

   Edited by Robert L. Kaufman, Margaret Lee

   Forensic Mental Health Professionals have entered the fray of child custody litigation in ways that could not have been predicted even a decade ago. Traditionally engaged as neutral court appointed evaluators or mediators, or as treatment providers for children, parents or families, FMHPs are...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

   Global Challenges

   Edited by Duncan Chappell

   Series: Police Practice and Research

   According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Talking Back to Psychiatry

   The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement

   By Linda J. Morrison

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the general public. The members of this social movement work to gain voice for their own experience, to raise consciousness of injustice and...

   Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge
8. Stress, Trauma and Substance Use

   Edited by Brian E Bride, Samuel A MacMaster

   The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked....

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
9. Sociology and Health

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Morrall, Peter Morrall

   This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages the reader to act upon their occupational and...

   Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge
10. Mental Health

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid

    Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

    Mental health and illness is one of the most fascinating and contested interdisciplinary areas of research, theory, and study. Scholars from fields such as psychology, sociology, social work, and law have, in particular, contributed to a rich literature which revolves around a number of key...

    Published September 4th 2008 by Routledge