Mental Health Services

Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populatio...

The burden of mental illness on individuals, families, and communities has created profound challenges for our society. In recent years treatments ...

Self-harm is increasingly prevalent in our society. But few of us understand why, or know what to do to help ourselves, friends or family in such s...

As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the ...

______________________ 'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' - NIGELLA LAWSON SH...

As the philosophy, major tenets, and techniques of the movement have evolved, evidence-based medicine has strongly influenced individual health car...

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on ye...

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on ye...

Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other o...

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and th...

Mental health policy in the United States has involved varying approaches, often reflecting the social and economic conditions of the times. The co...

Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populatio...

Feeling anxious and on the back foot? No idea where or how to start getting relief? Anxiety making you feel overwhelmed and alone? In bite-sized ch...

A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it  Proponents of technology trumpet it as the solution t...

This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed ...

In this abridged and revised edition of their 1989 text, the authors focus on the what and how of effective community mental health. Following the ...

The chapters in this book, focusing on Sullivan’s contributions to American social science, deal with the implications for psychiatry of the major ...

Self-determination theory is grounded in the belief that people work best and are happiest when they feel that they are in control of their own liv...

The routine confinement of the deranged in a network of specialized and purposely built asylums is essentially a 19th-century phenomenon. Likewise,...

This casebook provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. From technologies as si...

Life, Alice thinks, isn’t worth living. So she kills herself. But she’s stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and ...

Clinical Management in Mental Health Services is a practical guide to the day to day operational management of mental health teams. It explores bot...

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultura...

The Family Guide to Mental Health Care is the first comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some...

Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recove...

This unique book examines the physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that support or undermine healthy development in American ...

This book presents a model of mental health treatment for children with serious psychiatric illnesses. The IICAPS (Intensive In-Home Child and Adol...

Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children w...