Mental Health Books

New and Published Books – Page 12

111. 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
112. Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging

     Edited by James W. Ellor

     Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging in the United States, the need to move from religiosity into new areas such as Spiritual Assessment and Spirituality has emerged. This movement has picked up momentum among scholars, particularly in terms of research in the area of Spirituality. While...

     Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
113. Forensic Uses of Clinical Assessment Instruments

     2nd Edition

     Edited by Robert P. Archer, Elizabeth M. A. Wheeler

     This book provides, in a single volume, an extensive, research-based evaluation of the most popular clinical assessment tools as applied in forensic settings. These widely used instruments often require important modifications in their administration and interpretation when used for forensic...

     Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
114. Changing Self-Destructive Habits

     Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families

     By Matthew D. Selekman, Mark Beyebach

     For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse—five crippling, self-destructive behaviors—are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention. Matthew Selekman and Mark Beyebach, two...

     Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
115. Social Work and Intimate Partner Violence

     By Mary Allen

     Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women’s physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of intimate partner violence is an essential aspect of...

     Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
116. Bion's Sources

     The shaping of his paradigms

     Edited by Nuno Torres, R.D. Hinshelwood

     There are an increasing number of publications concerned with the work of Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). Many have sought new ideas from his writing however, little attention has been paid to the intellectual context in which Bion wrote. Bion’s Sources traces where Bion’s new ideas came from, what job...

     Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
117. Crisis Counseling, Intervention and Prevention in the Schools

     3rd Edition

     Edited by Jonathan Sandoval

     Series: Consultation and Intervention Series in School Psychology

     Since the first edition was published in 1988, the role of crisis intervention and prevention has become central to mental health professionals working in the schools. Disasters such as hurricane Katrina, terrorist attacks both in this country and around the world, and various school shootings have...

     Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
118. From Trauma to Healing

     A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors

     By Ann Goelitz, Abigail Stewart-Kahn

     From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker’s Guide for Working With Survivors is the next significant publication on trauma in the field of social work. Since September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, social workers have come together increasingly to consider how traumatic events impact practice. From...

     Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
119. The Psychoanalytic Vision

     The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process

     By Frank Summers

     Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of...

     Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
120. Changing Emotions

     Edited by Dirk Hermans, Bernard Rimé, Batja Mesquita

     The question ‘how far can emotions be changed?’ lies at the heart of innumerable psychological interventions. Although often viewed as static, changes in the intensity, quality, and complexity of emotion can occur from moment to moment, and also over longer periods of time, often as a result of...

     Published February 20th 2013 by Psychology Press