Care of the Mentally Ill

There is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best m...

LGBTQ individuals seek therapy at higher rates than the general population, but the mental health profession has historically lacked evidence-based...

This book explores possible therapies for treating aggression in people diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. In recent years, we have seen a grow...

Even seasoned clinicians can struggle when trying to help to highly traumatized and dissociative patients. This book and its accompanying workbook ...

A must read for all paramedics and pre-hospital clinicians Gemma Howlett, Principal Lecturer in Paramedic Apprenticeships, University of Cumbria, U...

The mental health system is in trouble. Most people who need help are receiving inadequate treatment, years behind the latest thinking. This life-c...

The 2nd edition of Foundations and Applications of Exercise Science expanded the original 14 chapters to incorporate 7 new chapters and revised the...

*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry Category of the 2011 BMA Book Awards*Working with Suicidal Individuals provides a comprehensive guide to unders...

Personalisation builds on person-centred care to focus on how people with dementia can have more choice and control over decisions affecting them, ...

Introducing life story work, a way for people with dementia to connect with their relatives, carers and the professionals working with them. This e...

There's so many different types of abuse, and it all comes down to the same thing. It's making people nothing. And Fran was nothing. There was neve...

Social support is the everyday assistance offered by family, friends, neighbours and colleagues, as well as the foundations of support in a range o...

Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to. The authors of this practical and imag...

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent Pop Sociologist and Mental Health Activist of t...

People with learning disabilities are affected by significantly more health problems than the general population and are much more likely to have s...

Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is...

Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a s...

'Extremely compelling'  THE GUARDIAN 'It's a fascinating read... Buy the book! Buy the book!'  JO GOOD, BBC RADIO LONDON 'Searing... funny, eloquen...

Updated edition including new material Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Model. Reality star. Self-created. Ico...