Mental Health
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A Pocket Guide to Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health
Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health trust’s agenda. This concise and easy-to-read book provides an informative and practical guide to the process of undertaking a risk assessment, arriving at a formulation and then developing a risk management plan. Covering...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research
Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world. Expensive in terms of the human cost and associated suffering, the economic costs, the social costs and the spiritual costs, it affects millions of people every year. This important reference work collects together a...
To Be Published September 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Contemporary Clinical Practice with Asian Immigrants
A Relational Framework with Culturally Responsive Approaches
Many first and second generation Asian immigrants experience acculturation challenges to varying extents. These challenges, such as language barriers, racial discrimination, underemployment, the loss of support networks and changes in family role and structure, may exacerbate a myriad of mental...
To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
Supporting Children who are, or have been, in Foster Care
Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Psychological Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency
New Directions in Research and Intervention
Recent years have seen an explosion of new research dedicated to understanding the link between psychological trauma and juvenile delinquency. Building on the work of the previous decade which uncovered shocking rates of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress among juvenile justice-involved youth...
Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
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How to Work with Sex Offenders
A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals, 2nd Edition
Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
How to Work with Sex Offenders is a cutting edge, state-of-the-art book that provides mental health professionals best practice techniques on how to clinically evaluate, interview, and treat this challenging patient population. Successful models of individual, family, and group models of...
Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
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From Trauma to Healing
A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors
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
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Community Mental Health
Challenges for the 21st Century, Second Edition
The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings. Readers will find that this new edition is also on the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and...
Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Mindfulness-Related Treatments and Addiction Recovery
While mindfulness meditation has been used in clinical settings as an adjunctive treatment for substance use disorders for some time, there has been limited empirical evidence to support this practice. Mindfulness-Related Treatments and Addiction Recovery bridges this gap by reporting the findings...
Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Working in Mental Health
Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment
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
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Mental Health and Social Problems
A Social Work Perspective
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...
Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
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Mental Health Ethics
The Human Context
All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems....
Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Responding to Men in Crisis
Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The...
Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Community Mental Health
Challenges for the 21st Century, Second Edition
The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings. Readers will find that this new edition is also on the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and...
Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Preventing Mental Ill-Health
Informing public health planning and mental health practice
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 on...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Research and Practice in Health and Social Care, 2nd Edition
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence. Broadly applicable across a wide range of personal and social problems – from depression and phobias to child behavioural problems – it is only now beginning to be used to...
Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm
An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based services. Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm provides clear and practical...
Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge