Care of the Mentally Ill

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. The...

The first of its kind, this guidebook provides an overview of clinical holistic interventions for mental-health practitioners. Submissions from ...

The monograph examines the issue of self-harm in adolescents, a high-risk behavior in which individuals intentionally cause themselves harm. Resear...

In 1935, lobotomy, one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine, was heralded as a miracle cure by newspapers and magazines, as t...

Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illnessMost of the worlds people now live in citi...

They're fine once they're here, no need to worry. Advice from many educational professionals. She doesn't look autistic. A friend's observation...

The first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength and resiliency-based re...

An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained...

Mental Health Case Management: A Practical Guide represents the first modern guide designed to provide students and practitioners with a grounded a...

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the expe...

In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change. Based on extended fieldwork in community mental hea...

The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive ret...

All types of communities across the US are struggling to fight the opioid epidemic. This book offers a policy analysis and provides points for in-d...

Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is ove...

Mental health professionals who don't specialise in trauma practice are discovering more and more frequently that trauma survivors represent a high...

Psychology and theater have often intersected in the most interesting ways to describe characters, situations, and interactions. Neuroscience is in...

'Powerful and poignant, this book is for anyone who has struggled with mental health challenges' Lori Gottlieb'[An] invaluable book' Andrew Solomon...

Advocating for dementia for 20 years, Christine Bryden has been instrumental in ensuring that people with dementia are included in discussions abou...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. Th...