Mental Health Services

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by their dress, behaviors, and...

Research has shown that interventions providing psychoeducation and assistance to family members significantly reduce hospitalizations for people w...

The Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall community represents one of the most fascinating and troubling social phenomena in the history of psychoanalysis...

This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrate...

This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrate...

This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western c...

Innovating in Community Mental Health presents lively examples of successful attempts to change mental health service systems in innovative ways to...

This book serves as a training manual for mental health professionals and other community members who desire a practical handbook to guide their wo...

This volume introduces students to the emerging field of state mental health policy, its history, current policies, organizational models and requi...

This volume takes a fresh look at the problems of designing effective and humane service care delivery systems for the seriously mentally ill. The ...

A comprehensive introduction to one of the most common psychiatric disorders, a condition that results in intrusive, irrational thoughts and/or rep...

'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette WintersonAfte...

'Beautiful to read and packed with cutting-edge science' Observer'Poetic, mind-stretching and, through it all, deeply human' Daniel LevitinMental...

This is an introductory text to mental health and deaf people for care workers and mental health workers, both those familiar with deaf people but ...

Casting and Mending shares the voices of breast cancer patients, veterans, and recovering addicts as they reflect on the often life-changing and li...

Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost-effectiven...

Directed to mental health professionals and graduate students in the mental health disciplines, we present a new way to augment the cost-effectiven...

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, organizations that fail to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with mental disabilities may b...

One Day at a Time is potentially a landmark text in understanding care provision needs of families in a changing social context. Its applied and ho...

This history of one particular place for "madness" covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. The Norfolk Lunatic A...

Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health is a collection of original papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of m...