Care of people with mental health conditions Books
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties: A
Book SynopsisOver the last 30 years, the prevalence of eating disorders has increased to become a widespread problem across the UK and worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive guide written by people with eating disorders, their families and leading researchers, clinicians and therapists, all aiming to improve understanding of practical ways of helping people with eating disorders to live and thrive in their communities. The handbook covers the important topics of understanding eating difficulties in our society's context, including the role of social media and the fashion industry, and how health care professionals and voluntary organisations currently support those with an eating disorder. It explores the value of exercise, nutrition and sleep, and considers support from parents and schools for children, as well as making reasonable accommodations for young people and adults in higher education and the workplace. Particular therapies for stabilisation and recovery are detailed, and a final section sets out examples of creative and arts-based approaches.Table of ContentsPart One: Understanding Eating Difficulties Part Two: Providing Healthcare for People with Eating Difficulties Part Three: Supporting People with Eating Difficulties Part Four: Therapies for Eating Difficulties Part Five: Creative Approaches to Eating Difficulties
£39.90
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Towards Outstanding: A Guide to Excellence in
Book SynopsisReflection is a process by which professionals consider experiences to gain insights about their practice. It supports people to continually improve the way they work and the care they provide, it allows for mistakes to be accepted and analysed rather than repeated, and it is encouraged by professional bodies wishing to foster improvements in services and continuous professional development. Specifically designed for staff working across health and social care, this self-development workbook guides users to reflect on experiences, focus their thoughts, generate new ideas about what good practice looks like, and understand the impact of their actions on others. Expert CQC inspector Terri Salt stresses that through careful reflection everyone in a service can make a difference - and that only when every member of staff seeks to do so can services move beyond the ordinary and start to become genuinely 'Outstanding'.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION Disclaimer 1. The context 2. Introduction PART 2: WHAT IS OUTSTANDING? 3. What do inspectors think outstanding means? 4. First impressions and lavatories 5. Equality as the root of excellence 6. Evidence or opinion? 7. Honesty and integrity 8. Clarity and shared understanding PART 3: RATINGS AND THE FIVE KEY QUESTIONS 9. Ratings 10. Are they safe? 11. Are they effective? 12. Are they caring? 13. Are they responsive? 14. Are they well-led? PART 4: CONCLUSION 15. To finish Appendix 1: Fundamental Standards of Care Appendix 2: Safeguarding
£44.14
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Keep Busy, Connected and Learn: A guided activity
Book SynopsisThis practical, fully illustrated manual is packed with easy-to-run, fun activities for individuals and groups of people with intellectual disabilities who may be at risk of boredom and under-achievement. Recognising the extra restrictions which the covid-19 pandemic is placing on people in supported settings or living with families, the hands-on manual brings together a wealth of tried and tested ideas, specially designed to engage people with diverse learning, physical or behavioural needs, with or without support as needed. Each of the 52 clearly structured activities has plain English guidance to help the person to achieve, plus options to extend it further, utilising everyday resources available in most homes and other settings. The accompanying guidance, based on Adult and Community Education principles, enables support staff and others to provide fulfilling activities led by the interests and needs of the person, and to reflect on delivery of each activity and lessons learned.Table of ContentsPreface Guidance: Who is it for? Structure and Materials Preparation Extending Activities Reading and Writing Reflection Activities (52) Guidance sheets Activity sheets
£52.51
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Mental Health, Spirituality and Well-being: A
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking handbook explores the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education and allied support services. Incorporating the perspectives and experience of over 35 leading academics and practitioners in the field, the book offers a practical guide that includes the contemporary context, details of relevant demonstration projects and therapeutic interventions, and issues for services, staff, managers, leaders and trainers. Opportunities for reflection and practice pointers and offered throughout. The book pays due attention to the current climate of the covid-19 pandemic and the trauma and mental health needs linked to it (both for patients and staff), black and minority ethnic and trans-gender issues, and the voice of mental health experts by experience. Organized into thematic sections, it offers an update to previous publications in the field, including a consideration of spirituality and the new landscape going forwards.Table of ContentsForeword - Prof Jamie Hacker Hughes (neatly completed) Introduction (Where are we now?) 1. Introduction 2. Integrating Spirituality into Mental Health Services 3. African Psychology & Spiritness in Twin Pandemics 4. Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Covid World Across the Life Cycle 5. Children and Young People's Mental Health and Spirituality 6. Spirituality in an Older Generation 7. The Need for Spirituality in the Dying Process Therapeutic Practice 8. Assessing Spirituality 9. Spiritual Crises 10. Therapy for the Whole Person; integrating spirituality within therapy 11. Faith and Mental Health - the Intersection: How Faith Brought me to a Place of Some Wholeness. An Expert by Experience Perspective 12. Spirituality and Psychotherapy 13. Research and spirituality in mental health: Generating, interpreting, and disseminating evidence 14. Spiritual Competencies: Key Ways to Address Spirituality in Mental Health Care Themes & Journeys 15. Psychological and Christian Perspectives on Mental Health 16. Voices, Visions and the Spiritual Journey 17. Return to Eden... Two Journeys Spirituality, Services, Leadership and Training 18. Love and Leadership Leads to Conscious Caring 19. Coming at it Obliquely: Spiritual training for Healthcare Staff in an Age of Uncertainty 20. Compassionate Leadership for an Interconnected World 21. Burnout: A Spiritual Crisis, from Trauma to Transformation 22. Spiritual Care in General Practice 23. Beyond the Here and How - The Challenges for the Formal Mental Health System of Embracing Spiritually Informed Models of Care New Landscapes 24. Reflections on Race, Religion, and Well-Being 25. Ecology, Mental Health and Eco-spirituality 26. The Call of the New Spiritualities: The Unfolding Mysteries of the Universe and Consciousness 27. Beyond Separation: Transpersonal and Spiritual Approaches to Well-Being Conclusion & Reflections
£44.19
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd CAMDEX-DS-II: The Cambridge Examination for
Book SynopsisThe CAMDEX-DS-II is a standardised structured schedule comprising the assessments necessary for facilitating the diagnosis of dementia in people with Down's syndrome (a group known to be at particular risk of dementia), as well as others with intellectual disabilities. In order to differentiate decline due to dementia or other mental disorders from pre-existing impairment, particular emphasis has been placed on establishing change from the individual's best level of functioning. Updated from the original CAMDEX-DS-II, the assessments comprise a structured informant interview to facilitate the systematic collection of information about presenting symptoms and clinical history in order to arrive at a differential diagnosis, and a direct assessment of the patient/participant covering cognitive assessment (CAMCOG-DS-II, providing a reliable way to identify dementia (and to differentiate it from other common disorders). The pack comprises a guidance manual, pictorial booklet, informant interview and CAMCOG-DS neuropsychological test battery. It may be used in community settings by mental health professionals as part of the diagnostic process, or to formalise diagnosis in the context of research.Table of Contents3. Informant interview test sheets
£12.74
PCCS Books Coproduction: Towards equality in mental
Book SynopsisThis collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Is it naive idealism? A one-way road to co-optioning the independent user/survivor movement? A major challenge to the hegemony of the psychiatric profession? The next progressive step in the shift away from medicalised care? Or is it simply unaffordable, unacceptable and unmanageable to policymakers, decision-takers and funding bodies? Contributors from across the mental health arena offer critical analysis and case examples of coproduction in principle and practice. Presented in three parts, the book describes the progression towards and the barriers that block the achievement of coproduction, the challenges it presents to the psychiatric and mental health professions, and finally, examples where progress has been made. The contributions demonstrate how users of services and their carers can be involved as equal partners in shaping the delivery of democratic, ethical, equitable mental health care in secure, acute and community settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Julian Raffay, Mick McKeown and Tim Thornton, Section 1. Navigating coproduction: Exploring the context of coproduction in services - Julian Raffay and Pamela Fisher, 1. Towards the ideal ward round: A coproduced service improvement project - Gemma Stacey, Anne Felton, involvement volunteers and members of the Ideal Ward Round Steering Group, 2. Mental health recovery through coproduction: African and Caribbean men's experiences in the United Kingdom - Kris Southby, Frank Keating and Stephen Joseph, 3. Collaboration in secure care: a history of the past, the present and the future - Mark Chandley and AB, 4. From depression to delight and nearly everything in between: a non-academic perspective - Elaine Harrison, Section 2. Barriers and facilitators to coproduction - Catherine Mills and Mick McKeown, 5. Relational spaces for mental health and wellbeing - Rhiannon Corcoran, Maureen Thomas, Julia Zielke, 6. Coproduction and care planning - Catherine Mills, 7. Coproduction and addiction - Lucy Webb and Amanda Clayson, 8. Coproduction in forensic learning disability settings - Michaela Thomson, Mike Hargreaves and Shaun Peterson, 9. Breaking down the barriers to coproduction - Kate Pieroudis, Section 3. Coproducing the future - Tim Thornton, 10. A personal story and thoughts - Don Bryant, 11. Challenging co-option: From coproduction by organisations to co-creation of value by users - Andrew Passey, 12. The ethics of coproduction: stumbling across the light - Julian Raffay and Walid Elkharam, 13. Coproducing democratic relationships - Mick McKeown, Albert Dzur and Pamela Fisher, 14. Conclusions - David Pilgrim
£21.84
PCCS Books A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric
Book SynopsisDo you need your psychiatric diagnosis? This book will help you decide. In this second, updated edition of a best-selling title, Lucy Johnstone revisits the revolution that is underway in mental health. No one doubts that people’s distress is very real – but are they actually suffering from illnesses that need a diagnosis? In today’s world, where mental health is a crucial topic, this might seem an odd question. And yet even the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that these categories are not supported by evidence. No one has been able to identify the ‘chemical imbalances’ that are said to cause distress. No one can reliably distinguish one ‘mental illness’ from another. And the more labels and pills we offer, the faster the increase in mental health problems. Something is badly wrong. Johnstone shows that we need to change the question from ‘What’s wrong with you?’ to ‘What’s happened to you?’ Distress, even its severe forms, arises out of our lives and relationships. Narratives and personal stories show us this truth, whereas labels obscure it. The book ends with a new, hard-hitting analysis of the political, economic and social forces that drive the diagnostic model. In our increasingly competitive, unequal and fragmented world, we are all struggling. We are told the answer lies in finding the right diagnosis. We are encouraged to talk about our ‘mental health’ instead of the conditions of our lives. And increasingly, we ourselves seek out labels which reassure us that our feelings of shame, failure and difference are not our fault. Indeed, as Johnstone shows, we are not to blame. But nor will the rapid spread of diagnostic labels provide an answer. There are better ways forward. This book is about choice. It is about demystifying one of the most influential myths of our age and giving people the information to make up their own minds. It opens up hope and new ways forward for anyone who has been given a diagnostic label.Trade Review‘Lucy Johnstone's insights into psychiatric diagnosis are brilliant in their clarity and incisiveness. Anyone wishing to understand the failings of our current diagnostic system could not hope for a better guide. I cannot recommend this excellent book highly enough.’ James Davies, Reader in Medical Anthropology & Psychology, University of Roehampton and author of Sedated - How modern capitalism created our mental health crisis and Cracked - Why psychiatry is doing more harm than goodTable of ContentsSeries introduction – Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders, 1. What this book aims to do, 2. Psychiatric diagnosis: The current context, 3. What are the problems with psychiatric diagnosis?, 4. For and against psychiatric diagnosis in more detail, 5. The wider impact of psychiatric diagnosis, 6. The personal impact of psychiatric diagnosis, 7. Alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis – finding your own story, 8. Personal stories, 9. The wider context of psychiatric diagnosis, 10. Where do we go next?, Further reading and resources
£13.99
PCCS Books A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of
Book SynopsisWhat causes mental health problems? Nature or nurture? Brain and biology? Genetic inheritance or social environment? Revised and updated, this concise book explains what we know today about the origins of mental distress, drawing on the latest research from across the world. The answer is of course a bit of everything in combination - because the human body and brain are shaped by the environments we inhabit and what happens to us. Human distress is caused by loss, trauma, violence, childhood abuse, social injustices, poverty and deprivation. How well we are able to cope with these stressors likewise depends on a multiplicity of factors and is unique to each individual. An essential addition to the Straight Talking Introduction series, the book supports the call for more understanding of the social determinants of mental wellbeing. It adds to the arguments for treatments that do not rely on the busted hypothesis of neurochemical imbalances.Trade Review'An accessible look at complex issues that empowers the reader to start thinking for themselves. A refreshing antidote to the simplistic and pessimistic biomedical model.' - Jacqui Dillon, activist, writer, speaker and former Chair, Hearing Voices Network. 'Brilliantly engaging, understandable and thoughtful... will equip service users, carers and professionals alike with empowering knowledge.' - Tony Morrison, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester. 'Perfect for the non-professional. Bought this book while studying level 2 counselling. It's well written and easy to understand, without all the technical jargon.' - Online reviewer. 'What causes mental health problems? Lots of things combining together. This book describes them, clearly and systematically, and how they interact.' - David Kingdon, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Care Delivery, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsSeries introduction - Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders, 1. Our beliefs and values, 2. A brief history of beliefs about the causes of human distress, 3. The 20th century and beyond: The illness model, 4. Do diagnoses help us understand causes?, 5. Public opinion: Depression is caused by depressing things happening, 6. What does the research say about the causes of mental health problems?, 7. Psychological theories: How events operate on us to create problems. 8. Putting things together: Formulating depression, 9. 2010-2022 and looking to the future: A call for action, Further reading and resources, Indices
£13.99
PCCS Books Outrageous Reason: Madness and race in Britain
Book SynopsisThis powerful and disturbing book draws direct comparisons between the plight and fates of African slaves, dehumanised and discarded to sanitise Britain's trade in human lives and imperial ambitions, and the systemic 'othering' of people designated 'mad' throughout Western history. Drawing on contemporary historical records, Barham recounts, often in their own words, the stories of black people incarcerated in Kingston, Jamaica's lunatic asylum, poor white women similarly ejected into the British psychiatric system in the early 20th century for failing to live up to class and gender norms, and most shockingly, black men who have died at the hands of the police and mental health nurses in state custody and psychiatric detention. Endemic racism, greed, cruelty, exploitation and social control are writ large across this account that demands to be read by all those concerned for human rights, mad rights, Black lives and truth-telling about Britain's shameful colonial past and racist present.Trade Review'This book is hugely ambitious, hugely provocative and brilliant. For Peter Barham, madness is no side issue; he is talking about White supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism. He tracks 'the long fuse of traumatised memory' from the Caribbean to south Asia, and from western Europe to central Africa. And here's the rub - these ideologies that drive people mad are themselves mad. We are all in the 'hold' of these forces - across the constructed imaginaries of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability. Moving 'mad psychology' to the centre of the historical analysis of imperialisms, Barham adds his voice to the chorus of calls for a completely new therapeutic environment. Black people will want to read this book because it is grounded in the Black experience, and White people will want to read it too. All mad lives matter.' -- Colin Prescod, former Chair, Institute of Race Relations 'This is a welcome contribution to the discourse on 'race' and madness. Barham unpacks how power, 'race' and class - often overlooked in this discourse - intersect to maintain systems of racism that pervaded over the centuries. This book reminds us that systems of oppression affect us all and we should actively engage in dismantling them.' -- Frank Keating, Professor of Social Work and Mental Health, Royal Holloway University of London 'A challenging, but ultimately rewarding, deep dive into the long history of racism in mental health services. Outrageous Reason takes us on a unique journey, exploring the way that black lives and mad lives are deeply entangled in the collective imagination of British society. Barham's analysis is brought to life through the stories of some key Black figures whose fates have helped shape the current landscape. Disturbing and enlightening.' -- Hel Spandler, Professor of Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire and Managing Editor of Asylum: the radical mental health magazine 'At a time when the country is grappling with imperial nostalgia, fascism ideation and the impact of their consequent anti-blackness on the bodies and minds of people racialised as black, Outrageous Reason is a crucial undertaking. Not only to better understand their deadly intersections but also to imagine alternative forms of care.' -- Guilaine Kinouani, radical psychologist and author of White Minds 'This is a powerful and impassioned analysis of the history of mental health and race, but not as a clinical problem, as has been customary in psychiatric discourse. Instead, the author situates race and mental health within the historical trajectory of the politics of reason and unreason. Peter Barham's book charts how psychiatric concepts and practice served to inferiorise and dehumanise racialised people and served to justify their oppression from the times of transatlantic slavery right up to our present-day context of institutional racism.' -- Dr Errol Francis, Artistic Director and CEO of Culture 'How could I not be truly impressed by this thought-provoking exploration of the intricate relationship between madness, race and the history of Western reason? For a psychotherapist who relishes in case study and conversations about race and identity politics, Outrageous Reason is a compelling and indispensable resource. Barham's in-depth analysis of how race and mental health have been historically intertwined resonates with my professional experience. His detailed unravelling of the complex interplay between racial liberalism and the practice of psychiatry is both enlightening and critical for understanding the challenges faced by marginalised communities today. Outrageous Reason sheds light on a topic that is often overlooked by white writers. If, like me, you consider yourself an advocate for social justice, I recommend this book as a must-read to increase your understanding of the complex dynamics of race, reason and mental health and also as a timely tool towards creating a more equitable and inclusive society.' -- Rotimi Akinsete, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and EDI consultantTable of ContentsForeword by Dwight Turner, Introduction, 1. Credibility, madness and race, Part 1 Jamaica, slavery and madness, Prologue, 2. From Zorg to Zong: The Zong affair, 3. A testimony from the female lunatic asylum: Henrietta Dawson and her distress, 4. In the bowels of colonial modernity, 5. The 'beneficent despotism' of racial liberalism, 6. Revivalists, Rastafari and psychiatry, Part 2 Poor whites, Prologue, 7. The mad poor as poor whites, 8. Alice Rebecca Triggs: War, madness and migration, Part 3 Pathologies of empire, Prologue, 9. The strange career of R.R. Racey: Mad at his post or the madness of colonialism?, 10. The Mir of Khairpur: Imperial doubts about his 'fitness' to rule, Part 4 Holds that kill, Prologue, 11. Winston Rose: Humanity violated, 12. Orville Blackwood: Humanity disavowed, Part 5 After, Prologue, 13. Disturbing continuities, 14. Burn the ship! Escape the hold!
£22.79
PCCS Books Making Sense of Hearing Voices
£27.54
Chronos Publishing Surviving The War Against Yourself
Book SynopsisSurviving the war against yourself is the true story of a couple's journey through mental illness and its devastating impact on their life. In a brutally honest account of fear, pain, love and hope, Tom shares what it was like for him to suffer mental illness and Amber opens up about her life as his carer.
£11.69
Common Notions Storming Bedlam
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£17.09
Central Recovery Press Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for
Book SynopsisDesigned as a resource for the clinician versed in identifying and treating depression, a debilitating and sometimes, life-costing illness. It is very common among spouses/partners of addicts and adult children raised in addicted families. Depression is often a co-occurring or subsequent disorder in the addicted client. What sets this book apart from other depression workbooks is that it holds a healthy respect for cognitive behavioral modalities as well as recognizing the role of affective and spiritual interventions related to depressive disorders. This is not a how-to-treat depression book. It is meant for use by the clinician versed in identifying and treating depression.In this revised edition, Claudia provides didactic information and reproducible handouts. In many of the strategies sections, ideas and formats are presented for structured interventions. The use of handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues and/or art activities is an integral part of this therapeutic technique.
£22.36
Lapwing Publishing Services A Secret Never to be Told: Unravelling the
Book SynopsisA Secret Never to be Told is an absorbing story of a country upbringing in the early years of the Second World War, and later in Dublin. At the same time, it is a searching look at the experience of being aware that a profound truth about one's life has been withheld. In attempting to discover what had happened to her mother, Alison Cobb explores the secrecy and even shame involved. It has taken most of her life to find out what really happened, and to understand the devastating impact that this had on her and on those around her. She throws light on some very dark corners but says that, mercifully, nowadays treatment can reduce the chance of the same thing happening.
£18.00
Brepols N.V. Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill,
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£112.08
Springer International Publishing AG 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health:
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in women’s media culture and shows that it emerged indirectly as a result of a culture overtly focused on happiness. By tracing the coverage of mental health issues in magazines, among female celebrities, and on social media this book shows how an increasingly intimate media environment has made way for a profitable vulnerability, that takes the shape of marketable and brand-friendly mental illness awareness that strengthens the authenticity of those who embrace it. But at the same time sad girl cultures are proliferating on social media platforms, creating radically honest spaces where those who suffer get support, and more capacious ways of feeling bad are formed. Using discourse analysis and digital ethnography to study contemporary representations of mental illness and sadness in Western popular media and social media, this book takes a feminist media studies approach to popular discourse, understanding the conversations happening around mental health in these sites to function as scripts for how to think about and experience mental illness and sadnessTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Magazines: Relatability and Seriousness in Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue3. Celebrities: Intimacy, ordinariness, and self-transformation in the health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez4. Social Media Sadness: Sad Girls and the Public Display of Vulnerability5. Conclusion
£40.49
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Black Superwoman Mental Health
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£30.40
Peter Lang AG Self-Harming Behavior in Adolescent Age
Book SynopsisThe monograph examines the issue of self-harm in adolescents, a high-risk behavior in which individuals intentionally cause themselves harm. Research in this area has produced significant disparities, with experts disagreeing on the definition and methods for identifying self-harm. The specifics of its occurrence, signs, risk and protective factors, and dynamics of development or prognosis are all unclear. The monograph aims to provide basic information on self-harm, its prevalence, and forms, as well as to clarify its formation and retention as a maladaptive coping strategy. Furthermore, it presents unique data from a multi-year research project on a group of adolescents and identifies potential areas for further research.Table of ContentsThe Definition of Self-Harm – Theoretical Bases of Self-Harm – The Occurrence of Self-Harm – The Forms and Types of Self-Harm in Adolescence – The Characteristics of Self-Harming Adolescents
£41.40
Steidl Publishers Mary Ellen Mark and Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81:
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£56.00
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo To Live and Work in a Social Welfare Home –
Book SynopsisThis book follows the treatment of a mentally disabled person from an institutional perspective, in which a unit is presented as an objectified subject of other people's actions, revealing a situation of isolation and personal dependence, and from a personnel perspective, as they respect the autonomy and self-determination of their charges. The text highlights how to create, maintain, and reconstruct social order within a nursing home and achieve internal balance and stabilization within a care institution.Trade ReviewAn impressive empirical study that significantly contributes to comprehending mental disability and institutional forms of helping the mentally disabled. Niedbalski presents a highly realistic description, free from political correctness, of the pros and cons of working with stigmatized people. -- Elzebieta Zakrzewska-Manterys, University of Warsaw
£35.70
World Health Organization Community management of opioid overdose
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£27.36
World Health Organization Integrating Mental Health into Primary Health
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£41.81
World Health Organization Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative
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£27.56
WHO Regional Office for Europe European action plan to reduce the harmful use of
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£32.08
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Schizophrenia
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£38.00
