Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

This book explores womens stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the un...

The most authoritative evidence-based approach to mental health policy and design. Rooted in research findings that support an evidence-based orien...

The overwhelming majority of police calls involve individuals with mental health experiences and yet limited resources exist to prepare first respo...

We all share identical properties that mark us out as human beings. Even so, every person is unique: we are not clones. Its the same with depressio...

Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation provides a detailed, thoughtful, and experience-based guide to the complex and potentially ov...

Now in an updated fifth edition, this book provides readers with overviews of all the key theories, concepts and terminology associated with mental...

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

Mental health services tend to view and treat mental health problems in an individual-centric way. This book argues for an alternative route to rec...

In the published literature of madness, and its institutional management, the earliest English institutions for the mad have tended to be treated a...

For those working with children, effective communication is a crucial part of building relationships and encouraging children's emotional and intel...

Re-released with a new introduction, and to coincide with a film of the same title (directed by the author), Mad To Be Normal is the memoir R. D. L...

Abandoned at two weeks old, Paul came of age in the infamous St Leonard's Children's Home in East London. The children there were routinely abused,...

The issue of the mental health consequences of disasters is always timely, but, at present, its consideration serves a pressing need if one takes i...

Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of old England, which was for many years a forgotte...

It has never been more essential to support our mental health at work. With one in four people experiencing poor mental health right now, we need t...

The Problem-Specific Guides series summarise knowledge about how police can reduce the harm caused by specific crime and disorder problems. They ar...

Recovery has been the most important concept and ideology in working with clients with mental problems. In 2004, recovery was adopted by the United...

This book chronicles the development of the institutional model in Massachusetts with the well-intended beginnings, the decline and subsequent hero...

This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health p...

In this moving, deeply humane and surprisingly uplifting book, poet Mike Barnes shows that a side of dementia that is almost entirely missing from...

For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep...