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Book SynopsisIntegral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.This book builds on current psychedelic research by providing an in-depth articulation of the practice of psychedelic therapy, weaving together a variety of complementary therapeutic frameworks, case examples, and practical guidance for cultivating a highly effective, ethically grounded, integral approach. Chapters by a diverse set of practicing psychotherapists and leading researchers aim to provide practitioners with a method that centers liberation of all dimensions of being through intersectional, client-centered, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused practices, alongside thoughtful attunement to the relational, somatic, imaginal, cultural, and transpersonal dimensions of healing.Integral Psychedelic Therapy will be essential reading for psychotherapists in practice and in training as well as those Trade Review"The wild and wooly field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is in need of expert guidance and this edited book offers a lot of it from a diverse group of experienced practitioners and researchers, who cover everything from the somatic to the spiritual and social activist sides of this important movement. I am honored that Bob Grant contributed a clear and practical chapter on integrating ketamine with my Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach. My personal and clinical experience with this combination has been amazing and Bob’s guidelines are extremely valuable. His personal journey is also inspiring." - Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. developer of the Internal Family Systems model and adjunct faculty, Harvard Medical School."Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a cutting-edge exploration of psychedelic-assisted therapy by some of the top therapists and researchers in the field, providing an abundance of essential insights that are foundational to this work. This is a core text for practitioners looking to develop their skills as well as anyone interested in psychedelic healing." - Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder & Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies"This is a multi-faceted gem of a book! Integral Psychedelic Therapy is practical, necessary reading for anyone looking to understand the psychedelic revolution underway in psychotherapy and psychiatry." - Julie Holland, MD "Psychedelics occasion a state of consciousness of immense therapeutic power and at the same time extraordinary vulnerability. Guidebooks are important, and this one, written by thoughtful and skillful practitioners, is a must-read for therapists who wish for these medicines to serve both personal healing and the greater good of society." - David E. Presti, University of California, Berkeley "Within this wondrously evolving field of psychedelic medicine, we are discovering that the therapeutic envelope is more important, and potentially more meaningful, than the molecule. This book provides an elegant compendium of innovations, and deepens our shared understanding of expanded states. For clinicians and explorers alike." - Brian Richards, Psy.D., Sunstone Therapies, The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research"This timely collection, produced by clinicians and researchers at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, is a must-read for both newcomers and experts. It combines clinical inquiry and a humanistic approach, weaving in social justice and respect for Indigenous traditions. As regulation by the FDA, decriminalization, and mainstreaming advance globally, it’s urgent to cultivate a thoughtful understanding and culture around these powerful substances. This book goes beyond mere glorification, alarmist calls for "ethics" and "safety," or empty tokenization to dive deep into nuanced and complex discussions around psychedelic-assisted therapies." - Bia Labate, PhD, Executive Director, Chacruna Institute"The prevalence of mental health conditions and the speed at which psychedelics look set to be incorporated into mainstream medicine means there will need to be many more specially-trained therapists in the very near future. This will be a steep learning curve and we will need to carefully combine elements from conventional psychiatry with knowledge learned from Indigenous and underground practitioners. This book does just that - providing an excellent, multidisciplinary education covering the techniques used." - Amanda Feilding, Founder & Executive Director of the Beckley Foundation, Oxford, UK."This book is a treasure trove of ideas and practical tips, refreshingly and importantly foregrounded in acknowledgement of the debt owed to indigenous plant medicine using traditions, and the impact of colonization, patriarchy, white supremacy, and corporate greed on the trajectory of psychedelic healing traditions. The subsequent chapters offer many different types of gifts; particular key issues, such as consensual touch, are considered from different viewpoints, as well as so many other important topics for anyone working with these healing modalities. For those who feel familiar with the ‘basics’ of ‘prep-session-integration’, this book delves deeper into some of the complexities, mysteries, nuanced applications, and ethical questions. The chapter on ‘Decolonizing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy’ by Danielle Herrera, MFT was a wake up call for me, and is, I feel, a must-read for our community." - Rosalind Watts, PhD Founder and co-director of Acer Integration"Integral Psychedelic Therapy brings needed attention and wisdom to a range of the most important aspects of working with psychedelics. At a time of rapid progress in clinical research, this book is a welcome reminder of the cultural context surrounding these medicines, including the history of psychedelics, the debt owed to indigenous wisdom and the tragic damage the "War on Drugs" has done to marginalized communities and to the advancement of health care and individual freedom. The more clinically oriented chapters remind us not to lose sight of the "core, human elements of the work" and the richness and depth of the human healing process. The authors draw on their own clinical experience to offer informed and insightful discussions of ethics and consent, therapeutic relationship, safe and mindful physical touch, music, the multiplicity of the psyche, numinous mystical experience, psychedelic group therapy and the immense importance of integration following psychedelic experiences. Case examples bring these discussions to life. This is a valuable resource for therapists and anyone else interested in psychedelics." - Michael Mithoefer, MD, Senior Medical Director for Medical Affairs, Training and Supervision, MAPS Public Benefit Corp. "This book arrives at a critical time in the evolution of psychedelic therapy as it articulates the challenges, mystery, and beauty of the psychedelic renaissance. The authors include diverse voices, each with their own sensitivities and refreshing perspectives, blending science, theory, ethics, and heart within broader societal forces. Being of service in partnership with compassion and ethical care are at the heart of each chapter. This book offers a wealth of information from practitioners with extensive clinical and research experience, that is fresh, relevant, and culturally responsive." - Marcela Ot’alora G. LPC, Principal Investigator MDMA-AT and Bruce Poulter, MAPS MDMA Researcher, Trainer, and Supervisor"The wild and wooly field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is in need of expert guidance and this edited book offers a lot of it from a diverse group of experienced practitioners and researchers, who cover everything from the somatic to the spiritual and social activist sides of this important movement. I am honored that Bob Grant contributed a clear and practical chapter on integrating ketamine with my Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach. My personal and clinical experience with this combination has been amazing and Bob’s guidelines are extremely valuable. His personal journey is also inspiring." - Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. developer of the Internal Family Systems model and adjunct faculty, Harvard Medical School."Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a cutting-edge exploration of psychedelic-assisted therapy by some of the top therapists and researchers in the field, providing an abundance of essential insights that are foundational to this work. This is a core text for practitioners looking to develop their skills as well as anyone interested in psychedelic healing." - Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder & Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies"This is a multi-faceted gem of a book! Integral Psychedelic Therapy is practical, necessary reading for anyone looking to understand the psychedelic revolution underway in psychotherapy and psychiatry." - Julie Holland, MD "Psychedelics occasion a state of consciousness of immense therapeutic power and at the same time extraordinary vulnerability. Guidebooks are important, and this one, written by thoughtful and skillful practitioners, is a must-read for therapists who wish for these medicines to serve both personal healing and the greater good of society." - David E. Presti, University of California, Berkeley "Within this wondrously evolving field of psychedelic medicine, we are discovering that the therapeutic envelope is more important, and potentially more meaningful, than the molecule. This book provides an elegant compendium of innovations, and deepens our shared understanding of expanded states. For clinicians and explorers alike." - Brian Richards, Psy.D., Sunstone Therapies, The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research"This timely collection, produced by clinicians and researchers at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, is a must-read for both newcomers and experts. It combines clinical inquiry and a humanistic approach, weaving in social justice and respect for Indigenous traditions. As regulation by the FDA, decriminalization, and mainstreaming advance globally, it’s urgent to cultivate a thoughtful understanding and culture around these powerful substances. This book goes beyond mere glorification, alarmist calls for "ethics" and "safety," or empty tokenization to dive deep into nuanced and complex discussions around psychedelic-assisted therapies." - Bia Labate, PhD, Executive Director, Chacruna Institute"The prevalence of mental health conditions and the speed at which psychedelics look set to be incorporated into mainstream medicine means there will need to be many more specially-trained therapists in the very near future. This will be a steep learning curve and we will need to carefully combine elements from conventional psychiatry with knowledge learned from Indigenous and underground practitioners. This book does just that - providing an excellent, multidisciplinary education covering the techniques used." - Amanda Feilding, Founder & Executive Director of the Beckley Foundation, Oxford, UK."This book is a treasure trove of ideas and practical tips, refreshingly and importantly foregrounded in acknowledgement of the debt owed to indigenous plant medicine using traditions, and the impact of colonization, patriarchy, white supremacy, and corporate greed on the trajectory of psychedelic healing traditions. The subsequent chapters offer many different types of gifts; particular key issues, such as consensual touch, are considered from different viewpoints, as well as so many other important topics for anyone working with these healing modalities. For those who feel familiar with the ‘basics’ of ‘prep-session-integration’, this book delves deeper into some of the complexities, mysteries, nuanced applications, and ethical questions. The chapter on ‘Decolonizing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy’ by Danielle Herrera, MFT was a wake up call for me, and is, I feel, a must-read for our community." - Rosalind Watts, PhD Founder and co-director of Acer Integration"Integral Psychedelic Therapy brings needed attention and wisdom to a range of the most important aspects of working with psychedelics. At a time of rapid progress in clinical research, this book is a welcome reminder of the cultural context surrounding these medicines, including the history of psychedelics, the debt owed to indigenous wisdom and the tragic damage the "War on Drugs" has done to marginalized communities and to the advancement of health care and individual freedom. The more clinically oriented chapters remind us not to lose sight of the "core, human elements of the work" and the richness and depth of the human healing process. The authors draw on their own clinical experience to offer informed and insightful discussions of ethics and consent, therapeutic relationship, safe and mindful physical touch, music, the multiplicity of the psyche, numinous mystical experience, psychedelic group therapy and the immense importance of integration following psychedelic experiences. Case examples bring these discussions to life. This is a valuable resource for therapists and anyone else interested in psychedelics." - Michael Mithoefer, MD, Senior Medical Director for Medical Affairs, Training and Supervision, MAPS Public Benefit Corp. "This book arrives at a critical time in the evolution of psychedelic therapy as it articulates the challenges, mystery, and beauty of the psychedelic renaissance. The authors include diverse voices, each with their own sensitivities and refreshing perspectives, blending science, theory, ethics, and heart within broader societal forces. Being of service in partnership with compassion and ethical care are at the heart of each chapter. This book offers a wealth of information from practitioners with extensive clinical and research experience, that is fresh, relevant, and culturally responsive." - Marcela Ot’alora G. LPC, Principal Investigator MDMA-AT and Bruce Poulter, MAPS MDMA Researcher, Trainer, and SupervisorTable of ContentsForeword, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold1. Introduction, Jason A. Butler and Genesee Herzberg2. The Attack on Psychedelic Therapy and In Show Recovery, Richard Louis Miller3. Decolonizing Psychedelic Therapy: A Prayer for Awareness, Call for Commitment, and Offering of Applications, Danielle M. Herrera4. Liberating Consent: A Kink-Informed Exploration of Consent in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Emma Knighton5. The Heart of the Work: Relational Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Genesee Herzberg and Jason A. Butler6. A Somatic Approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Veronika Gold7. Relational Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Shirley Dvir and Jacki Hull8. Coming Home: Psychedelics, Symbolic Images, and the Innate Intelligence of the Psyche, Jason Butler and Evan Sola9. The Mystery of the Unconscious: Non-Ordinary States in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Karen Peoples10. Invoking the Numinous: Ritual, Medicine, and Magic in Psychedelic Psychotherapy, Camara Rajabari and Shanna Butler11. Psychedelic-Assisted Internal Family Systems Therapy, Robert Grant12. Dimensions of Attunement: Music Listening, Resonance, and the Vibrational Field in Relational Psychedelic Therapy, Eric Sienknecht13. Psychedelic-Assisted Group Therapy, Christopher Stauffer and Brian T. Anderson14. The Upside of Coming Down: The Opportunities and Challenges of Psychedelic Integration, Jessica Katzman and Harvey Schwartz

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Book SynopsisThe Mental capacity Act 2005 provides a statutory framework for people who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves, or for people who want to make provision for a time when they will be unable to make their own decisions. This code of practice, which has statutory force, provides information and guidance about how the Act should work in practice. It explains the principles behind the Act, defines when someone is incapable of making their own decisions and explains what is meant by acting in someone''s best interests. It describes the role of the new Court of Protection and the role of Independent Mental Capacity Advocates and sets out the role of the Public Guardian. It also covers medical treatment and the way disputes can be resolved.

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Book SynopsisA study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trialsTrade ReviewShortlisted for the Stansky Book Prize, sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS)Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA)“Unsound Empire reconnoitres with late-Victorian jurists and medical men struggling with prisoners too dangerous to release and too mad to hang. Catherine Evans’s micro-histories are strewn with eccentric characters and thick with tales that sparkle with stunning prose.”—Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa“This original, bold and beautifully crafted book brings legal history, the history of medicine and imperial history into dialogue. A must-read for anyone interested in a critical history of the British Empire.”—Renaud Morieux, author of The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century

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Book SynopsisComplete with a foreword by the late Terry Bogg, this handy pocketbook provides accessible guidance to health and social care practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Capacity Act. This includes practical advice, explored with practice examples, on how to set up and undertake an assessment and how to make and implement informed decisionsâquickly. The busy mental capacity practitioner, whether an AMHP, social worker, nurse or from other health professions who encounter vulnerable service users, will find this guide invaluable for efficiently locating the information they need to complete an assessment, supported with a working knowledge of the law.â Practice information, reflecting revised advice on the Mental Capacity Act and practice changes since Cheshire Westâ Guidance on undertaking assessments with the updated Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards anTable of ContentsPart 1: Mental Capacity and Best Interests 1. Setting the Scene 2. How do you know if someone cannot make a decision?3. What does ‘best interests’ mean?4. Supported and Substitute Decision Making 5. Mental Capacity Decisions in Specific CircumstancesPart 2: Deprivation of Liberty 6. The Right to Liberty and Security of Person 7. So, you think you need a DoLS?8. The Best Interests Assessmen9. Deprivation of Liberty in Specific CircumstancesPart 3: Tools and Checklists for Individuals and Organisations

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Book SynopsisCollaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue. People involved in mental health often fail to recognise how they are described by researchers from the humanities and social sciences, which inhibits productive collaboration. This book seeks to address this problem, by including clinicians and patients in the research process and by shifting attention away from power and knowledge and towards the organisational context. It explores how clinical thinking and behaviour, illness experience, and clinical relationships are all shaped by the bureaucratic context. In particular, it examines tensions between what we want from mental healthcare and how accountable bureaucracies actually work, and proposes that mental healthcare research should not just evaluate new interventions but should investigate new ways of organiTrade Review"Each chapter has a clear message and offers conceptual insight unmasked by anthropologists’ usual convoluted prose. The focus on bureaucracy in practice, and its internal effects, has wide implications for clinical research, opening the lid on that which is neglected in usual intervention-focused studies. In this sense, the book is a major cross-disciplinary bridge-building contribution. Indeed, I think the book makes clear in a way that few others have, why ethnographic research is important to getting to the heart of contemporary dilemmas in psychiatric care; especially by taking seriously the everyday experience and representational practices of patients and staff. The book avoids polarising debate around psychiatry, and taking a fresh viewpoint provides a common platform of shared concern about real challenges." -- David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK"Dr Armstrong’s incisive analysis of the mental health system challenges complacent and particularised explanations and presents a mature and systemic account of why mental health systems continue to struggle – harm – fail. Sharing his own lived experience of recovery and evolving agency, we see the demise of well-intentioned and highly trained clinicians to serve the structural and bureaucratic agency of the institution, be that the state, the hospital, the prison and criminal justice system. He does this through the powerful stories and voice of the most afflicted, marginalised, and excluded, providing some seminal lessons for practitioners, policy makers, legislators. Although he brings theory into to the analysis, he does so cautiously, never failing to sketch out the limitations of worshipping theory rather than testing it through real world experience and local realities." -- Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK"Each chapter has a clear message and offers conceptual insight unmasked by anthropologists’ usual convoluted prose. The focus on bureaucracy in practice, and its internal effects, has wide implications for clinical research, opening the lid on that which is neglected in usual intervention-focused studies. In this sense, the book is a major cross-disciplinary bridge-building contribution. Indeed, I think the book makes clear in a way that few others have, why ethnographic research is important to getting to the heart of contemporary dilemmas in psychiatric care; especially by taking seriously the everyday experience and representational practices of patients and staff. The book avoids polarising debate around psychiatry, and taking a fresh viewpoint provides a common platform of shared concern about real challenges." -- David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK"Dr Armstrong’s incisive analysis of the mental health system challenges complacent and particularised explanations and presents a mature and systemic account of why mental health systems continue to struggle – harm – fail. Sharing his own lived experience of recovery and evolving agency, we see the demise of well-intentioned and highly trained clinicians to serve the structural and bureaucratic agency of the institution, be that the state, the hospital, the prison and criminal justice system. He does this through the powerful stories and voice of the most afflicted, marginalised, and excluded, providing some seminal lessons for practitioners, policy makers, legislators. Although he brings theory into to the analysis, he does so cautiously, never failing to sketch out the limitations of worshipping theory rather than testing it through real world experience and local realities." -- Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Everybody Knows About Mental Health 2. What Does it Mean to Know About Mental Healthcare? 3. No Mental Healthcare Without Mental Healthcare Institutions 4. Bipolar: The Beautiful Opponent with Catriona Watson5. Learning to be Ill, Learning to be Well 6. Untethered with Hugh Palmer7. Us and Them: Why Nobody Wins with Rowan JonesConclusion

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Book SynopsisMental Health Law not only gives a plain but critical account of all the law for health and social care professionals working or training to work in the field, as well as for legal practitioners and students, but also enlivens it with discussion of the principles and policies involved, and with commentary to stimulate debate. This book covers all issues, from the informal and compulsory care and treatment of people with mental disorders, decision-making on behalf of people who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves, the safeguards against unjustified deprivation of liberty, the role of mental health professionals, doctors and families in making these decisions, and the powers of tribunals and the courts. The relevance of mental disorder in the criminal justice system and its effect upon other legal rights such as voting, marrying and making wills are also covered. This new edition is now completely revised and updated to take in the latest legal developments. Key updates to

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Book SynopsisA charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies.He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that included Jean-Paul Sartre and Luce Irigaray amongst other hugely influential names. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis is a transcript of his most important lecture series. Including influential readings of Sophocles' Antigone and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek. Trade Review"Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Georges Bataille had often urged Lacan to publish the text of his seminars: the influence of his teaching can be observed in works by Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault ... in Roland Barthes's studies on semiology and Louis Althusser's reading of Marx. But it can be felt still more basically [in] the current revival of interest in psychoanalysis . . . the desire for a return to origins which is a common factor in so many avenues of modern thought." The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsTranslator's Note. Outline of the Seminar. Pleasure and Reality. Rereading the Entwurf. Das Ding. Das Ding (II). On the Moral Law. Drives and Lures. The Object and the Thing. On Creation Ex Nihilo. Marginal Comments. Courtly Love as Anamorphosis. A Critique of Bernfeld. The Death of God. Love of One's Neighbour. The Jouissance of Transgression. The Death Drive. The Function of the Good. The Function of the Beautiful. The Splendor of Antigone. The Articulations of the Play. Antigone Between Two Deaths. The Demand for Happiness and the Promise of Analysis. The Moral Goals of Psychoanalysis. The Paradoxes of Ethics or Have You Acted Inconformity With Your Desire?

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room. What do clients lie about and why? When do therapists mislead or withhold information from their clients? What does it all mean? In their exploration of this taboo material, the authors interview and share stories from dozens of their peers from all practice areas and modalities and ranging from neophytes to established master practitioners. Their stories and reflections cast some light on this fascinating topic and will help to start a more honest dialogue about difficult subject matter.Trade Review"This collection makes fascinating reading, but more importantly provides rich material from which therapists can learn vicariously how to address deception in therapy. As is often the case, by addressing an issue we wish to avoid—here, deception in therapy— we learn. Don’t believe that clients don’t deceive us (as they do with others in their lives) and don’t avoid this book!" – Bruce Wampold, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Author of The Great Psychotherapy Debate"Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within." – Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation"Kottler and Carlson boldly ask us to examine the many ways a falsehood can be a part of counseling. An entertaining tour de force of sessions filled with lies, con jobs, and outright deception, here we are reminded that clients and therapists are capable of saying anything with or without reason or truth value." – Bradford Keeney, PhD, Hanna Spyker Eminent Scholars Chair, University of Louisiana at Monroe; Author of The Creative Therapist: The Art of Awakening a Session"Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson suggest that all psychotherapists have been duped at one time or another...Duped serves as a real-life exploration of this deception, with each chapter presenting a case vignette from a practitioner who worked with a client who either lied through omission or explicitly committed a falsehood...Kottler and Carlson deserve recognition for tackling a subject that is taboo; deception in psychotherapy is rarely researched and seldom discussed. Furthermore, they explore the issue in a way that is thought provoking and fascinating to the reader. Duped is a useful tool for psychotherapists and clinicians in the helping professions at all experience levels, as it serves as an engaging yet humbling reminder that we will not always have access to all aspects of our clients' lives. The stories within it are so compelling that we suspect that a lay audience would enjoy this book as well." - Nancy Murdock and Larissa Seay, PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsKottler, Carlson, What is Truth in Psychotherapy? Kottler, How Well do We Really Know Oue Clients? Carlson, Why I do What I do. Brooks, Treating Traditional Men: From Believer to Skeptic (And Back Again). Oren, Opportunities with a Side of Fries. Grzegorek, Smoke and Mirrors. Rosenthal, When Therapists Lie to Promote Their Own Agendas. Sperry, Duped, Drugged, and Eaten: Working with the Jeffrey Dahmers of the World. Dunham, The Client with Amnesia. O'Hanlon, Credit Denied and Denial. Hoyt, Never Ever - I Love You! Stevens, The Dance of Optimism and Skepticism. Helm, Grateful for the Lessons Learned. Burns, Cheating at Solitaire. Rochlen, What Clients Talk About - and What They Don't. Moore, Saving Private Joe. Dermer, Rita's Rib and a Puzzle Decoded. Ellis, Running out of Gas When You have a Long Way to Go. Vernon, Weighing in with the Truth. Barnett, Learning from Lies at the Therapist's School of Hard Knocks. Duncan, Cut the Crap: Tall Tales and the Value of Lies. Robey, The Terrible, Awful, Unspeakable Secret - and How it Changed Me. Barletta, Seduced by an Act of Omission. Zagelbaum, Too Much of a Good Thing. Eckstein, Managing Conflict Between Two Partners. Bitter, Mistakes Worth Enduring. Knaus, The Man who Tried too Hard to Act Cool. Peluso, I'm Not Easily Fooled. Nezu, Lost in a Quagmire of Agenda. Rabinowitz, Calling Jack's Bluff. Duba, A Puzzle with Missing Pieces. Reicherzer, The Transgender Women in the Pink Wheelchair. Krug, A Veil of Self-Deception. Waller, Clients Telling the Truth as They Know It. Stricker, I Still Wonder What Happened. Asha, In Defense of Naivety. Smith, The One Truth: He Didn't Want to be a Business Major. Fishman, Duped and Recouped. Walsh, Espionage and Orphans: Lies have Deep Truth. Niles, Fiction, Myth, and Illusions of Truth. Kottler, Carlson, What does being Duped Mena in the Practice of Psychotherapy?

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Book SynopsisThe push for federal gun reform is foundering. Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars look instead to libertarian ideas that can survive judicial review. Individuals can renounce gun-ownership rights, which prevents suicide. Citizens should be able to petition for confiscation from unlawful possessors. While Congress and the courts argue, lives can be saved.Trade ReviewFive stars! A truly innovative book that does not simply advocate the same old litany of mandatory gun laws. Whatever your political persuasion, you will find that their ideas could help alleviate some of the public health problems caused by firearms that we all want to see reduced. -- David Hemenway, author of Private Guns, Public HealthGun violence is one of America’s most pressing problems. We have very few solutions, or even new ideas. This important book provides some genuinely new ideas that also, by respecting the deeply-held but conflicting values people have around guns, seem feasible and hence helpful for the widely-shared goal of saving lives. -- Jens Ludwig, coauthor of Gun Violence: The Real CostsGun violence remains a nationwide crisis, and comprehensive, innovative legislation is needed to save lives. Ayres and Vars are opening an important new discussion about how state government can take an active role in preventing gun violence. -- Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode IslandAyres and Vars craft an innovative new legal tool people can use to defend themselves against gun violence—including self-harm. The book is packed with conceptual insights about the nature of freedom and self-restriction, as well as creative and promising new policy alternatives. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the gun debate. -- Joseph Blocher, coauthor of The Positive Second AmendmentThis bold yet disarming prescription for new and promising gun policies seeks to empower and protect the citizenry while expanding and protecting individual rights. Ayres and Vars illustrate that government can reduce suicides and diminish the risk of gun violence without triggering the opposition of even the most ardent Second Amendment enthusiasts. -- John J. Donohue III, author of Law and Economics of DiscriminationWhile the authors tend to favor more regulation, they write with an understanding of and respect for the tens of millions of Americans who cherish the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. This understanding and respect can foster the trust necessary to evaluate their proposals free from the rancor that makes critical analysis difficult in discussions about sound gun policy. -- Brannon P. Denning, coauthor of Guns and the Law

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Book SynopsisTransforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs. Building on the successful 2014 publication Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families, this follow-up volume provides a contemporary framework to address the needs of young people and their families, alongside practical strategies that can be implemented at the program, community, system, and policy levels. Using the Building Bridges Initiative as a foundation, the book serves as a how-to manual for making bold changes to residential interventions. The reader will learn from a range of inspired leaders who, rather than riding the wave of change, jumped in and created the wave by truly listening to and partnering with their youth, families, advocates, and staff. Chapters provide real-time practice examples and specific strategies that are transformational and consider critical areas, such as family and youth voice, choice and roles, partnerships, permanency and equity, diversity, and inclusion. These methods benefit youth with behavioral and/or emotional challenges and their families and will improve an organizationâs long-term outcomes and fiscal bottom line.This book is for oversight agencies, managed care companies, providers of service, advocates, and youth/family leaders looking for an exemplar guide to the new frontier of residential intervention. In this era of accountability and measurement, it will become a trusted companion in leading residential interventions to improved practices and outcomes.Trade Review"This new book is a must read for anyone involved with residential interventions! The focus on youth and family engagement is particularly exciting, as is the attention to current research and best practice. And, what sets this book apart, are the concrete strategies that can be implemented to take this service approach to the next level. I highly recommend this book!" – Johanna Bergan, Executive Director, Youth MOVE National, USA"Having effective strategies for maximizing relationships between residential providers and families is key to moving from principle to practice, achieving meaningful engagement and improving long-term outcomes. This publication provides real strategies and solutions and will inspire your journey to success." – Pat Hunt, Executive Director, FREDLA, USA"The authors are true champions for the well-being of children and families, never ceasing on their quest for best practices and clinical excellence. Their vision for partnership cannot be denied, with the ultimate partners being the children and families served through residential interventions. The voice of lived experience shines through like a beacon for authentic engagement, the only path forward." – Kari Sisson, Executive Director, Association of Children’s Residential Centers, USA"Our nation is waking up to the importance of our nation’s mental health system and that too many of our children and youth are facing significant behavioral and/or emotional challenges. Quality residential interventions are as important to a child or youth with behavioral and/or emotional challenges, and his/her family, as a quality cancer hospital is to a child being treated for cancer. This book is a must read for all professionals in the mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice and education fields who provide, fund and/or oversee residential interventions. The book shares practices and strategies about what it takes to ensure that all children and youth, and their families, receive the critical residential treatments and supports they need, within the context of their individual strengths and challenges, so that they can once again live together successfully in their homes and communities. This is our time!" – Susan N. Dreyfus, CEO Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and former Secretary of the Washington State Dept of Social and Health Services, USA"The work of the Building Bridges Initiative and its two publications on residential interventions for children, youth and families has revolutionized our thinking and our understanding of best practice around supporting youth with serious emotional challenges and their families. This latest volume should be mandatory reading for anyone working with, overseeing and/or funding residential programs. This book crystalizes our understanding of how to support children, youth and families, translating the latest developmental research into practical methods that can be used with residential interventions, and defines the bar by which purchasers of residential interventions and families who are considering residential should judge residential programs. We can accept nothing less than the very best developmental opportunities for the emotional health of our children and youth, and their families. Bravo for this important contribution to the field!" – Tracey Feild, former director of the Child Welfare Strategy Group of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, USA"Over the past decade, the field of child welfare has made remarkable gains in the development of creative approaches to supporting children, families, and communities. This transformation has taken the form of greater integration of mental health services, enhanced community-based interventions, the expansion and diversification of wraparound approaches, and a greater focus on prevention and early intervention across all systems. As this paradigm shift has taken place, we have also begun to use residential interventions as a short-term tool for supporting successful reunification for youth and families, and helping youth achieve permanency. This book provides invaluable insights into the monumental transformation happening in the field today and is a must-read for practitioners who are working to create comprehensive systems of care that can flexibly and responsively serve children and families." – Ken Berrick, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Seneca Family of Agencies, USA"Calling for the 2020s to be the 'Decade of Residential Practice,' this book sets a high bar for what is required to effectively integrate residential interventions into the network of community-based care and support for youth and families. With this second volume that includes practice innovations, policy approaches, planning and evaluation strategies, and first-person accounts, readers can gain practical information on how to infuse the Building Bridges framework of principles and practices into the way residential interventions are being implemented in their community. What is most apparent in this second volume, is the collective voice and purpose of the authors – families, youth, providers, policy makers, and researchers. They speak as one in their unified message of what it takes to implement quality residential interventions in a way that is affirming to all. The work of ensuring high standards and the principles and practices of the Building Bridges framework that are so eloquently laid out in this book is far from done. But this book provides tangible evidence that it can, and is, being done increasingly in communities across America. The 'Decade of Residential Practice' will require a strong commitment to continued dialogue, honest reflection, and strategic thinking. This second volume provides a roadmap for how to do just that." – Scott Bryant-Comstock, President and CEO, Children’s Mental Health Network, USA"The use of Residential Interventions in the United States is undergoing transformational change and just in time to impact how to think about the ‘best use’ of residential interventions is this new book by leaders in Systems of Care and Therapeutic Residential Interventions for youth and their families. Continuing on the ground-breaking work started by the Building Bridges Initiative, these thought leaders are challenging the field to focus on measurable outcomes for youth and families using residential interventions as a platform for recovery embedded in mature, community-based systems of care. A must read for anyone working with youth with significant behavioral health conditions and their families that may choose a period of out-of-home care." – Christopher Bellonci, M.D., DFAACAP Vice President of Policy and Practice Chief Medical Officer Judge Baker Children’s Center; Medical Director of the National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Behavioral Health. Adjunct Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine Member of the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School, USA"This book offers the most up-to-date, productive and constructive practice guidance for improving residential practices. It encourages readers to embrace change as an ongoing and evolutionary imperative given the significant impact of the service and support community on the lives of youth and families. The authors and editors all support the inevitable reality that everyone has a part to play in transforming residential interventions and advance clear direction on the roles we all must accept to ensure positive outcomes are achieved." – Jody Levison-Johnson, President & CEO, Council on Accreditation and President, Building Bridges, Inc. Board of Directors, USATable of ContentsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsAcknowledgementsPreface Transforming Residential Interventions: A Practice Framework ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JANICE LEBEL, BETH CALDWELL, JOE ANNE HUST, JULIE COLLINS, AND GARY M. BLAU Putting Families First: Strategies to Transform and Advance Family Engagement and Partnership ANNE KUPPINGER, JOE ANNE HUST, PAT HUNT, PAT MOSBY, SHERRI HAMMACK, AND BETH CALDWELL Youth Engagement and Empowerment Strategies JAMMIE GARDNER, LACY KENDRICK BURK, AND RAQUEL MONTES Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Residential Interventions TANVI AJMERA, JULIE COLLINS, LINDA HENDERSON-SMITH, CHANDLER COGGINS, AND GARY M. BLAU Residential Transformation: Successful Strategies and Examples JANICE LEBEL, MARTHA J. HOLDEN, DEBORAH A. FAUNTLEROY, LETICIA GALYEAN, WILLIAM R. MARTIN, AND CARLENE CASCIANO-MCCANN Residential Intervention Strategies to Accelerate Permanency CHRISTOPHER BEHAN, JAMES LISTER, DIANNA WALTERS-HARTLEY, LAUREN FREY, EVETTE JACKSON, AND MARLONY CALDERON Residential Oversight Agencies: Successful Strategies and Examples for Residential Transformation ELIZABETH MANLEY, JANICE LEBEL, AND KAMILAH JACKSON Establishing Partnerships to Improve Aftercare and Long-Term Outcomes for Youth and Families Served Through Residential Interventions JOE FORD, DEBRA MANNERS, WENDY WANG, ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JURON MCMILLAN, AND BETH CALDWELL Evidence-Informed Residential Programs and Practices for Youth and Families SIGRID JAMES WITH LACY KENDRICK BURK Understanding and Applying a Neurodevelopmental Approach in Residential Interventions ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, TINA CHAMPAGNE, EMILY Y. WANG, AND KATIE RUSHLO Measuring the Impact of Residential Interventions: A New Frontier DANA WEINER, RON THOMPSON, AND MARVIN CAIN ALEXANDER Developing Fiscal and Financing Strategies for Residential Interventions JULIE COLLINS AND SHERRY PETERS 13. Residential Transformation: Taking Change to the Next Level GARY M. BLAU, ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JOE ANNE HUST, JANICE LEBEL, AND BETH CALDWELLIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), offering an easy reference guide to the complex issues enshrined within the Act to inform the everyday practice of those who need to perform within its parameters as part of their day-to-day work.Bringing together clinical neuropsychology expertise with legal commentary, the book introduces the main principles and presumptions of the MCA (2005) and describes the processes involved in the comprehensive assessment of what can, in practice, be complex issues. It provides learning summaries, flowcharts, checklists and web references for easy to access resources. The chapters also contain a broad range of illustrative case examples with considerable emphasis given to those areas of complexity that are not addressed in current guidance and which often prove contentious in everyday practice, such as how particular forms of brain injury can lead to hidden difficulties with decision-making which can be chaTrade ReviewUnderstanding how Acquired Brain Injury impacts upon decision making and, therefore, potentially upon Mental Capacity is essential for health and social care staff. This book provides straightforward and structured guidance to aid the process. The use of detailed and multi-layered case studies helps the reader remain grounded in the real world, with all of its complexities and nuances. – Dr Mark Holloway, Senior Brain Injury Case Manager & Expert WitnessThis book is an essential read for anybody working with people who lack mental capacity and for those professionals tasked with assessing mental capacity. Filled with excellent examples and references to relevant case law, Dr Ryan-Morgan's excellent book covers the basics of the Mental Capacity Act and capacity assessments through to the most complex of issues such as the frontal lobe paradox. – Dr Peter Marshall, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist"Understanding how Acquired Brain Injury impacts upon decision making and, therefore, potentially upon Mental Capacity is essential for health and social care staff. This book provides straightforward and structured guidance to aid the process. The use of detailed and multi-layered case studies helps the reader remain grounded in the real world, with all of its complexities and nuances." – Dr Mark Holloway, Senior Brain Injury Case Manager & Expert Witness"This book is an essential read for anybody working with people who lack mental capacity and for those professionals tasked with assessing mental capacity. Filled with excellent examples and references to relevant case law, Dr Ryan-Morgan's excellent book covers the basics of the Mental Capacity Act and capacity assessments through to the most complex of issues such as the frontal lobe paradox." – Dr Peter Marshall, Consultant NeuropsychiatristTable of ContentsChapter 1Introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (2005)Chapter 2How do we make decisions and how do we assess decision-making?Chapter 3What do I need to know about depriving someone of their liberty?(With assistance from Karen Jackson, Consultant Solicitor)Chapter 4What is the "General Defence"?Chapter 5 Complex and challenging issues in MCA from frontal lobe paradox, giving evidence in the Court of Protection to how to deal with an impasse in Best Interests Chapter 6Common Assessments of Mental Capacity – cases to consider

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a clear and concise description of the multifaceted notion of psychotherapeutic competencies, building on years of research and training and informed by a systemic approach. Psychotherapeutic Competencies clearly describes methodological principles to guide both trainees and experienced therapists through the definition of four levels of systemic competencies and illustrates each principle with compelling clinical case material. The book emphasises the need for therapists to develop relational skills, which allow for the consolidation of a trusting relationship in which change can take place, as well as acquiring a set of methods and techniques. Psychotherapeutic Competencies encourages therapists of all levels of experience and therapeutic backgrounds to develop epistemological competency and to deepen their awareness of the extended contexts in which they operate and of the possible effects of their practice at a social and cultural level. TTrade Review"This excellent book is a guide to becoming competent in using systemic therapy to help individuals, couples, and families. It integrates key themes from the fields of psychotherapy and research. Complex ideas and practices are illustrated with case examples. This book is a gem, clearly written, insightful, and a ‘must read’ for students, trainers, and experienced couple and family therapists."Professor Alan Carr, University College Dublin "Building on the senior author’s outstanding scholarship, Psychotherapeutic Competencies illuminates the conceptual cores of avant garde systemic practices, to then anchoring them with vivid excerpts of clinical practice. A brilliant, important book."Carlos E. Sluzki, MD George Washington University"Psychotherapeutic Competencies is an appetizing addition to the menu of psychotherapy, appealing to many palates. Traditional dishes from systemic practice: hypothesizing, curiosity, and questions are refreshed and enhanced by contemporary flavours of therapeutic relationships and spiced by research and evidence."John Burnham, Birmingham Women's and Children's HospitalTable of ContentsPart 1: Technical Competency In Systemic Practice: The Dialogical Construction Of A Shared Symbolic Space 1. From diagnosis to care 2. Technical support for dialogical competency Part 2: Relational Competency: Promoting And Analyzing Intersubjectivity 3. The therapeutic alliance 4. The construction of transformative interactive contexts Part 3: Epistemological Competency: Enabling A Change Of Viewpoint 5. Reflexivity: becoming aware of one’s own premises 6. Complex thinking: The exploration of different perspectives 7. Curiosity and decentring: distinguishing reasons from solutions Part 4: Acknowledging The Context: The Social Dimension Of Psychotherapy 8. Relational interdependence and triadic co-evolution 9. Constructing networks 10. The Multi-process analysis Conclusion Beyond Psychotherapy

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Book SynopsisQualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy offers the reader a range of current qualitative research approaches congruent with the values and practices of psychotherapy itself: experience-based, reflective, contextualized, and critical.This volume contains 14 compelling, challenging new essays from authors in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, writing from a range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. The book covers both established and emerging approaches to qualitative research in this field, beginning with case study, ending with postqualitative, and with hermeneutic, reflexive, psychosocial, Talanoa, queer, feminist, critical race theory, heuristic, grounded theory, authoethnographic, poetic and collaborative writing approaches in between. These chapters introduce and explore the complexity of the specific research approach, its assumptions, challenges, ethics, and potentials, including examples from the authors' own research, therapeutic praTrade Review"I cherish this book as a powerful and much needed tool of decolonisation. The contributors offer insightful chapters that can help us push back against the tokenism, methodolatry, and perspective-less abstractions of mainstream qualitative research. I felt inspired as I read on and connected with the promise of soulful research that sees the intrapsychic alongside the interpersonal, sociocultural, and political. I can’t wait to share this book with my students (undergraduate and doctorate alike) who are thirsty for scholarship that honours depth and brings psychotherapy practice closer to their research endeavours" -- Dr Miltiades Hadjiosif, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, University of the West of England, USA"Bringing together an impressive field of international authors, this book invites readers into the nexus between qualitative research and psychotherapy practice. It is an ‘essential text’ for the resource list of any psychological therapy training programme. It introduces us to the lexicon of research theory and practice. The book traverses a wide range of methodologies, and this is revealed through both content and styles of writing. Expertise comes from northern and southern hemispheres, and from indigenous, feminist, queer, and critical voices. This is a highly creative, informative, and clinically thought-provoking text." -- Paula Collens, PhD, Senior Lecturer Auckland University of Technology, Course Leader, Research for Psychotherapy, New Zealand"This book is carefully constructed to introduce and discuss qualitative approaches in psychotherapy. Contributors invite readers into their individual approaches through a participative reading, the single chapters thus becoming a construction in their own right which can be seen both as a ‘finished’ work or as a ‘symphonic’ work made up of many movements." -- Dione Mifsud, Department of Counselling, University of Malta, MaltaTable of Contents1. Into the Thick of It: Troubling Case Studies and Researching Close to Therapeutic Practice 2. Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Exploring and Making Meaning of Lived Experience in Psychotherapy Research 3. Using Performative Meta-Reflexivity in Psychotherapy Research 4. A Psychosocial Coming into Play: Researching Authenticity in Therapy, The Academy, and Friendship 5. Feminist Research in Psychotherapy: The Strange Case of The United Kingdom’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Policy 6. Critical Race Theory: A Methodology for Research in Psychotherapy 7. Pasifika Research Methodologies and Psychotherapy 8. Queering Psychotherapy Research: Collaborative Autoethnography and Fossicking 9. Critical Heuristics in Psychotherapy Research: From ‘I Who Feels’ to ‘We Who Care—and Act’ 10. Keeping It Real: Grounded Theory for a Profession on the Brink 11. Researching from the Inside: Using Autoethnography to Produce Ethical Research from Within Psychotherapy Practice 12. (Re)searching Poetically: Poetic Inquiry in Psychotherapy 13. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: Phototherapy, Collaborative Writing, and Psychotherapy Research 14. From Post-Qualitative Inquiry Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry in (And Beyond) the Education/Training of Therapists 15. Re-Searching Research: Reflections on Contributions to Qualitative and Post-Qualitative Research

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Book SynopsisSocial Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.This ground-breaking book is a comprehensive text which defines what the social justice agenda' in therapeutic fields is and provides concrete and innovative descriptions of social justice in practice. With case studies and examples of real-life practice from a team of international contributors, it covers the full range of activities that mental health professionals need to deliver their services.This text will be essential reading for students, early career professionals, and those training in psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical, counselling, and community psychology, as well as senior practitioners.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic Psychotherapy Between Identity and Change reconsiders psychoanalytic psychotherapy for contemporary contexts.This book stems from several years of study and research and aims to offer pragmatic and innovative working tools. The contributors approach psychoanalytic psychotherapy as its own practice with distinctive features and benefits to patients. Each chapter considers the history of the field as well as todayâs social and cultural context, presenting innovative approaches based on each authorâs clinical experience. A range of settings and applications, including online therapy, artistic expression, and psychotherapy with personality disorders, are explored.This book will be of interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

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Book SynopsisHealing Veteran Moral Injury highlights the importance of story and metaphor in the change process and in trauma-related work.Grounded in evidence-based practice and replete with clear, down-to-earth examples that foster empathy and understanding, Healing Veteran Moral Injury illustrates the ways in which building a sense of community can help restore trust and meaning-making. Chapters illustrate the power of stories and metaphors and help Veterans identify strategies for healing moral injury and posttraumatic growth. Clinicians and Veterans will come away from this book with tools for building connections, accepting what they cannot change, and developing a more accurate perception of responsibility.Healing Veteran Moral Injury is intended both for mental health professionals and Veterans themselves as a tool for breaking the silence, pointing other Veterans toward hope and healing, and telling stories of moral pain with fortitude and courage.

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Book SynopsisDisability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.Over three parts, the book explores the history of disability psychotherapy, working as a disability psychotherapist and applications of disability psychotherapy. The contributors, representing a range of approaches, describe the practice of disability psychotherapy through clinical material, discuss their experiences of working in the field, and reflect on their learnings. The book also considers the contributions of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, and how relational attachment work with patients, colleagues, research and clinical writing creates a thriving community.Disability Psychotherapy will be of interest to experienced and student psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, counsellors, educators, carers, parents, advocates and anyone who is concerned about widening the opportunity for people with disabilities and their networks access to high quality psychotherapy treatment.

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Book SynopsisCurrent estimates indicate that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities across the United States. There are another 5 million under community correctional supervision. Many of these individuals fall into the classification of special needs or special populations (e.g., women, juveniles, substance abusers, mentally ill, aging, chronically or terminally ill offenders). Medical care and treatment costs represent the largest portion of correctional budgets, and estimates suggest that these costs will continue to rise. In the community, probation and parole officers are responsible for helping special needs offenders find appropriate treatment resources. Therefore, it is important to understand the needs of these special populations and how to effectively care for and address their individual concerns.The Routledge Handbook of Offenders with Special Needs is an in-depth examination of offenders with speciTrade ReviewAt long last—a comprehensive resource for academic and criminal justice professionals that addresses the complex and unique needs of a broad range of offenders in need of special care, treatment, and management across the criminal justice system. Drawing on her special advocacy for her brother, Zack, Kimberly Dodson has assembled research that examines all aspects of special offender needs—from unique barriers specific to each need—to emerging, innovative, and evidence-based programs and approaches that offer support for more humane, proactive, and targeted criminal justice policies and practices.Rosemary L. Gido, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Criminology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Editor, Women’s Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice SystemThe average American inmate is nothing close to "average," as the majority of those incarcerated in our prisons and jails have a litany of special needs. Dodson and colleagues provide a thorough examination of these inmates, providing insight into the troubled and frustrating world of men and women whose needs are often not met and challenging the notion that reintegration should be a seamless transition for the thousands reentering society each year. I look forward to using it in my own classroom.Cathy D. Marcum, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State UniversityThe dispensation of justice in corrections requires individualized treatment. The current movement away from a belief in an ethic of penal harm to an era of penal help among correctional practitioners and scholars also signals the need for compassionate and science-based care for those incarcerated in jails and prisons. In Kimberly Dodson’s edited book, Handbook on Offenders with Special Needs, the authors provide a systematic and valuable delineation of who among these inmates needs specialized care and how it might best be delivered in a manner that is just, appropriate, and befitting a country that professes an evolving sense of decency.Mary K. Stohr, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Washington State UniversityThe Handbook on Offenders with Special Needs is a must read for those interested in learning about the various challenges and concerns that impact special needs offenders and the people who care for them. Topics include administration and management, special populations, medical and mental health, and treatment in the community.Michael Bush, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Criminal Justice, and Organizational Leadership, Northern Kentucky UniversityThis collection of original articles on offenders with special needs covers all the bases—mental health, medical, special populations, community based treatment, and administration. From legal issues and the role of law enforcement to specific recommendations for special populations like the homeless, incarcerated veterans, and other often overlooked and underserved groups, this volume offers a long overdue contribution to both researchers and practitioners. The Handbook on Offenders with Special Needs is both innovative and thorough in helping the reader to better understand special needs offenders as well as offering insights concerning how to more effectively treat and whenever possible, reintegrate them into their respective communities.Michael Braswell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, East Tennessee State UniversityTable of Contents1. Challenges Criminal Justice Practitioners and Treatment Professionals Encounter with Special Needs Offenders Kimberly D. Dodson Part I: Administration and Management Issues 2. Constitutional and Legal Issues: Tracing the Legal Landscape from Entry to Release Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Beverly Blount-Hill 3. Specialty Courts: Funneling Offenders with Special Needs Out of the Criminal Justice System Cassandra A. Atkin-Plunk and Lincoln B.Sloas 4. Special Needs Correctional and Community Facilities: Designing for Inmates with Special Needs John H. Weigel and Sydney M. Kennedy 5. Specialized or Segregated Housing Units: Implementing the Principles of Risk, Needs, and Responsivity Ryan M. Labrecque 6. Administrative and Treatment Issues When Jailing Offenders with Special Needs: Negotiating Limited Resources Jennifer Guriel Myers Part II: Special Populations 7. Women Offenders: Gender-Responsive Treatment During Incarceration and Reentry Lisa M. Carter 8. Parenting Behind Bars: The Experiences of Incarcerated Mothers and Fathers Michael B. Mitchell, Kimberly D. Dodson, and LeAnn N. Cabage 9. Juvenile Offenders: Diverting Youth and Utilizing Evidence-Based Practices Riane M. Bolin 10. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Offenders: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Incarceration Chris Wakefield and Andrew L. Spivak 11. Incarcerating the Homeless: Risk Factors and Promising Strategies for Reentry Shelley J. Listwan, Laura Barber, and Deborah Koetzle 12. Incarcerated Veterans: Confronting Military Service Struggles through Treatment and Diversion LeAnn N. Cabage 13. Immigrant Prisoners: Conditions of Confinement and Institutional Abuses Jodie M. Lawston 14. Prison Gangs: Identification, Management, and Renunciation Robert D. Hanser 15. Suicidal Prisoners: Identifying Suicide Risk and Implementing Preventative Policies Christine Tartaro 16. Death Row Inmates: Housing and Management Issues Cedric Michel Part III: Medical and Mental Health Issues 17. Prisoners with Mental Illness: Treatment Challenges and Solutions Andrea Cantora and Tiffaney Parkman18. Substance Abuse: Screening, Assessment, Planning, and Treatment Robert D. Hanser 19. Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Jerrod Brown, Jeffrey Haun, and Anthony Wartnik 20. Offenders with Physical Disabilities: Experiences Across the Criminal Justice System Margaret E. Leigey and Victoria M. Smiegocki 21. Aging Behind Bars: Assessing the Healthcare Needs of Graying Prisoners Mary E. Harrison Joynt and Alex Bishop 22. Chronic and Terminal Illness: Providing End-of-Life Care to Dying Prisoners Kimberly D. Dodson 23. Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Contact with the Criminal Justice System James R. Patton and Edward A. Polloway 24. Sex Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: Deficits and Risk Factors for Sexual Offending Jerrod Brown, Cody Charette, Aaron Trnka, Diane Neal, and Janina Cich 25. Offenders with Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs: Applying DEAR. and BASE Models Jerrod Brown, Jeffrey Haun, Elizabeth Quinby, and Deborah Eckberg26. Forgotten Populations: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Health Care Disparities Adam K. Matz Part IV: Treatment in the Community 27. Policing Special Needs Offenders: Implementing Training to Improve Police-Citizen Encounters Bradley D. Edwards and Jennifer Pealer 28. Treating Offenders with Specialized Needs in the Community: Constructing Community and Social Support Systems Aida I. Diaz-La Cilento 29. Reentry and Reintegration of Adult Special Populations: Community Involvement, Police Partnerships, and Reentry Councils Robert D. Hanser 30. Developing and Implementing Evidence-Based Policies and Practices: Improving Offender Treatment Outcomes Kimberly D. Dodson, LeAnn N. Cabage, and Hannah L. Brown

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Book SynopsisDementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.Co-authored by an academic, a person living with dementia and a family carer, the book endeavours to raise awareness of dementia, challenge stereotypical and negative ideas about what it means to have dementia and champion a society where people living with dementia can be active as they wish for as long as possible. The authors present an overview of current research at each step of the dementia journey as well as including knowledge from lived experience, enhancing understanding and challenging thinking about what it might be like to live with a diagnosis or to care for a loved one. As a whole, the book emphasises the importance of prioritising the person living with dementia, as wTrade ReviewFrom the first stages of ‘something doesn’t seem quite right’ through to diagnosis, care and support and finally to end of life, dementia can be a frightening and bewildering experience for the person with dementia and for friends, family, carers and everyone affected by this life changing condition. This book, a unique collaboration between academia and lived experience achieves its aim to enhance our understanding, challenge our thinking and provide practical help. The real life portraits described by Lesley and Gail are personal, brave and compelling. Their determination to respect the wishes of those they love is inspiring and Anthea Innes’ deep commitment to designing services which truly reflect the needs of people living with dementia shines through. Rt Hon Hazel Blears, Alzheimer’s AmbassadorTable of ContentsSection 1 Introduction ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Pre-diagnosis ; 3. Diagnosis of dementia ; Section 2 Introduction ; 4. Post-diagnostic support for the person living with dementia ; 5. The post-diagnostic support needs of family members and friends who provide care and support ; 6. Supporting the person living with dementia and their care supporter together ; Section 3 Introduction ; 7. Care need transitions in the journey with dementia ; 8. End of Life Care ; 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEthical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law. Chapters take a comprehensive, developmental approach to legal and ethical decision making when counseling children and adolescents, one that presents each chapter topic from the perspective of an adult and then explores accommodations important to children and adolescents. The book is a vital resource for faculty who recognize the limited scope with which other texts cover the topic and for practitioners looking to better understand the legal and ethical concerns around working with young people.Trade Review"Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents fills a glaring gap in the counseling literature. It directly tackles the trickiest ethical and legal quagmires encountered when working with minors. It’s full of practical considerations, current issues, and relevant case studies. Each chapter clarifies the unique role of counselors on multidisciplinary teams that serve children and adolescents. This is a go-to resource for all counselors who work with kids and teens!"Becky Willow, EdD, LPC, NCC associate professor of clinical mental health counseling at Gannon University"This text is an essential addition to every child and adolescent counselor’s bookshelf. Sartor, McHenry, and McHenry corral authors from a variety of disciplines to give expert discussion on ethical and legal issues involving many populations in a variety of school and clinical mental health settings. Clinicians who work with children and adolescents are often involved in ethical decision making and legal processes, and this text is a worthy guide.".Ryan D. Foster, PhD, LPC, LPC-S, NCC, CHST, assistant professor, department of counseling, Marymount University"The authors are at the forefront of a holistic, 360-degree approach to addressing ethical and legal issues in counseling children and adolescents. Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents addresses current trends in the field such as complicated presenting issues and various treatment approaches and settings, all under the scope of the revised ethical standards and case law. Each chapter is full of multifaceted examples and stimulating discussion questions that move the conversation from concepts to practical implementation."Michelle Perepiczka, PhD, LMHC, RPTS, NCC, core faculty at Walden University"Sartor, McHenry, and McHenry explore critical ethical and legal questions that challenge counselors who work with children and adolescents in all settings. The authors bring clarity to this complex topic, exploring how counselors apply legal and ethical guidelines, largely created with adult clients in mind, to children and adolescents. Counselors and counselor educators will find this text a valuable resource, one that fills a void in the professional literature."Janelle Cowles, EdD, LPC, RPT-S, professor, counselor education, University of Central MissouriTable of ContentsAbout the Authors Contributing Authors Preface Acknowledgements 1.Introduction to the Unique Legal and Ethical Challenges when Counseling Children and Adolescents Bill McHenry 2. Ethics of Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Parents Teri Ann Sartor, Bill McHenry, and Jim McHenry 3.Understanding How Personal and Professional Struggles Contribute to Practice Teri Ann Sartor, Bill McHenry, and Jim McHenry 4.The Ethical and Legal Differences and Similarities of Working with Children and Adolescents in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Professional School Counseling Trigg Even 5. Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Residential Treatment, Adolescent Groups, and Working with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Disorder (SEBD) Populations Don Redmond 6. Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling LGBTQ Children and Adolescents Cyndi Mathews 7. Professional and Ethical Use of Expressive Arts Andrea Davis 8. Legal and Ethical Issues in Administering and Interpreting Test and Assessments with Children and Adolescents Darren Dobrinski and Joseph R. Engler 9. The Ethical and Legal Boundaries All Counselors Must Understand in the Process of Reporting Abuse/Neglect and Not Tainting Legal Investigations Brian Peterson 10. Working with a Psychiatrist while Counseling Children and Adolescents: Ethical, Legal and Potential Considerations S. Dean Aslinia, Amir Abbassi, and M. Sarfaraz Khan 11.Navigating Legal Issues and Serving your Client Laurel Clement 12. Technology: Relevance to Ethics with Minors Kathryn C. MacCluskie, Stephanie S.J. Drcar, and Darnell L. Robinson 13. The Importance of Networking/Webbing Salene J. Cowher 14. Challenging Cases Teri Ann Sartor Concluding Thoughts by Jim McHenry Multiple Choice Questions References

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Book SynopsisEssential reading for Best Interests Assessor students and practitioners, this fully-updated handbook gives practical advice on the legal aspects, values and practice elements of the role. It takes account of the Mental Capacity Amendment Act 2019 and the new context for practice in the Approved Mental Capacity Professional role.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Context for Practice 2. The BIA Role in Practice 3. The Multi-Professional BIA Role 4. Working with Others Part 2: Assessment, Challenges and Dilemmas 5. Making Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Decisions 6. Evidence-informed Practice 7. Ethical dilemmas in BIA practice 8. BIA Recording Part 3: Developing Good Practice 9. BIA Continuing Professional Development 10. BIA Futures

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Book SynopsisWidely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and other response styles. Leading experts translate state-of-the-art research into clear, usable strategies for detecting intentional distortions in a wide range of psychological and psychiatric evaluation contexts, including forensic settings. The book examines dissimulation across multiple domains: mental disorders, cognitive impairments, and medical complaints. It describes and critically evaluates evidence-based applications of multiscale inventories, other psychological measures, and specialized methods. Applications are discussed for specific populations, such as sex offenders, children and adolescents, and law enforcement personnel. New to This Edition *Many new authors and topics. *Thoroughly updated with current data, research methods, and assessment strategies. *Chapters on neuropsyTrade Review"With the addition of the neuropsychological perspective, this fourth edition includes everything a legal or clinical practitioner needs to know about the state of the art in deception detection. The assembled authors are impressive, and Rogers and Bender are acknowledged leaders in the field. Do not go into court in a case involving behavioral science issues without consulting this book."--Christopher Slobogin, JD, LLM, Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School "The premier work on malingering and deception just got better! The fourth edition of this classic book provides up-to-date, insightful coverage of one of the most important topics in forensic mental health assessment. Rogers and Bender have assembled a world-class cast of contributors with broad research and clinical expertise. The fourth edition includes new chapters on cutting-edge topics, including neuropsychological models of feigned cognitive deficits, psychopathy, child custody, personnel selection, and more. This book is both scholarly and practical, which makes it attractive to students and experienced professionals alike. This is much more than a 'bookshelf' book--it is essential, indispensable reading for those who are or will be involved in conducting forensic mental health assessments."--David DeMatteo, JD, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology and Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University "Clinicians and forensic practitioners will welcome the fourth edition of this book, particularly in the face of growing concern about the liability that may attend unwarranted use of the ‘malingering’ label. The stellar cast of contributors explores the terrain sensitively and with scholarly incisiveness, assuring the book's appeal to forensic psychology and psychiatry trainees.”--Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and African American Studies, Yale School of Medicine -This is an excellent book written by experts in the field. It covers deception in various populations, along with both psychological and medical illnesses. The fourth edition is justified because of the new chapters on neuropsychology and cultural assessments, along with revisions in the remaining chapters. *****!--Doody's Review Service, 10/12/2018ƒƒThis excellent and standard reference [occupies] a crucial space on many forensic psychiatrists' and psychologists' bookshelves....Useful in clinical practice, especially in institutions that serve forensic or correctional populations. (on the third edition)--Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 1/1/2008ƒƒThis is a rich volume that provides information and assessment strategies for patients who may be clinical challenges and enigmas. It is a lucid, well-written and helpful volume. (on the third edition)--International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1/1/2013ƒƒAkin to the eminence of the late Hervey Cleckley or Robert Hare as authorities on the topic of psychopathy, it is not unreasonable to accord Professor Richard Rogers analogous status as one of the world's leading scholars on the assessment of malingering....Professor Rogers's text and the wealth of knowledge he has compiled from an august collection of contributors should be viewed as a mandatory item for all forensic mental health practitioners. (on the third edition)--International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2/1/2010Table of ContentsI. Conceptual Framework 1. An Introduction to Response Styles, Richard Rogers 2. Detection Strategies for Malingering and Defensiveness, Richard Rogers 3. Neuropsychological Models of Feigned Cognitive Deficits, Scott D. Bender & Richard Frederick 4. Beyond Borders: Cultural and Transnational Perspectives of Feigning and Other Response Styles, Amor A. Correa II. Diagnostic Issues 5. Syndromes Associated with Deception, Michael J. Vitacco 6. Malingered Psychosis, Phillip J. Resnick & James L. Knoll IV 7. Malingered Traumatic Brain Injury, Scott D. Bender 8. Denial and Misreporting of Substance Abuse, Lynda A. R. Stein, Richard Rogers, & Sarah Henry 9. Psychopathy and Deception, Nathan D. Gillard 10. The Malingering of Posttraumatic Disorders, Phillip J. Resnick, Sara G. West, & Chelsea N. Wooley 11. Factitious Disorders in Medical and Psychiatric Practices, Gregory P. Yates, Mazheruddin M. Mulla, James C. Hamilton, & Marc D. Feldman 12. Conversion Disorder and Illness Deception, Richard Kanaan 13. Feigned Medical Presentations, Robert P. Granacher, Jr., & David T. R. Berry III. Psychometric Methods 14. Assessment of Malingering and Defensiveness on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF, Dustin B. Wygant, Brittany D. Walls, Stacey L. Brothers, & David T. R. Berry 15. Response Style on the Personality Assessment Inventory and Other Multiscale Inventories, Marcus T. Boccaccini & Jessica R. Hart 16. Dissimulation on Projective Measures: An Updated Appraisal of a Very Old Question, Kenneth W. Sewell & Ashley C. Helle 17. Feigned Amnesia and Memory, Richard Frederick 18. Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment Using Standard Neuropsychological Tests, Natasha E. Garcia, Chelsea M. Bosch, Brittany D. Walls, & David T. R. Berry IV. Specialized Methods 19. Assessing Deception: Polygraph Techniques and Integrity Testing, William G. Iacono & Christopher J. Patrick 20. Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Richard J. McNally 21. Detection of Deception in Sex Offenders, Philip H. Witt & Daniel J. Neller 22. Structured Interviews and Dissimulation, Richard Rogers 23. Brief Measures for the Detection of Feigning and Impression Management, Glenn Smith V. Specialized Applications 24. Deception in Children and Adolescents, Randall T. Salekin, Franz A. Kubak, Zina Lee, Natalie Harrison, & Abby P. Clark 25. Use of Psychological Tests in Child Custody Evaluations: Effects of Validity Scale Scores on Evaluator Confidence in Interpreting Clinical Scales, Jonathan W. Gould, Sol Rappaport, & James R. Flens 26. Malingering: Considerations in Reporting and Testifying about Assessment Results, Eric Y. Drogin & Carol S. Williams 27. Evaluating Deceptive Impression Management in the Workplace, Julia Levashina 28. Assessment of Law Enforcement Personnel: The Role of Response Styles, Rebecca L. Jackson & Kimberly S. Harrison VI. Summary 29. Current Status of the Clinical Assessment of Response Styles, Richard Rogers 30. Researching Response Styles, Richard Rogers Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways. Trade Review"Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference powerfully explores how legal, economic, and cultural forces in Texas have undermined criminal defense attorneys' efforts to save their mentally ill clients from execution. Surveying over one hundred years of cases, Chloé Deambrogio offers a vital and harrowing account of why jurists, lay people, and even psychiatrists themselves have made mercy for the mentally ill the exception rather than the rule."—Daniel LaChance, Emory University"Chloe Deambrogio's engaging and insightful account sheds new light on the ways in which changing paradigms in psychiatry and law influenced outcomes in Texas trial courts in capital cases over the course of the twentieth century. Among its many strengths is its careful exposure of underlying assumptions about race, gender and sexuality in diagnostic and trial processes."—Nicola Lacey, The London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. Heredity, Environment, and the Doctrine of Civilization 2. Biology, Insanity, and the Criminal Courts 3. Psychoanalysis, the Insanity Defense, and the Family-Centered Ideology 4. Psychoanalysis and the Construction of the Criminal Psychopath 5. The "New" Scientific Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Future Dangerousness 6. The Abused and Neglected as a "Continuing Threat to Society" Epilogue: Forensic Psychiatry and Trial Practices in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice. Traditionally, decisions for persons found to lack capacity are made by others, generally without reference to the person, and this applies especially to those with cognitive and psycho-social disabilities. This book examines the difficulties in establishing effective and deliverable supported decision-making, concluding that approaches to capacity need to be informed by a grounded understanding of how it operates in ‘real life’ contexts. The book focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which recognises the equal right to legal capacity of people with disabilities and requires States Parties to provide support for the exercise of this right. However, 10 years after the CRPD came into force, the shift to legal frameworks for supported decision-making remains at best only partial. With 16 chapters written by contributors from the UK, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, the collection takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. Many of the contributors have been directly involved in law reform processes in their home jurisdictions, and thus can combine both academic expertise and practical, grounded awareness of the challenges of legal change.Trade ReviewNecessary reading for those taking stock of the first wave of scholarship and activism, and working how best to move forward to enhancing the right to the enjoyment of legal capacity on an equal basis. -- Alex Ruck Keene * International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law & Mental Capacity Law and Policy Blog *Table of Contents1. Situating the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK), Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland and Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) PART I CHARTING THE CONCEPTUAL CONTOURS OF CAPACITY LAW 2. Support Relationships in Law: Framing, Fictions and the Responsive State Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland) 3. The Problem of Influence: Autonomy, Legal Capacity and the Risk of Theoretical Incoherence Amanda Keeling (University of Leeds, UK) 4. The Significance of Strong Evaluation and Narrativity in Supporting Capacity Camillia Kong (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 5. Functional Capacity Assessments by Healthcare Professionals: Problems and Mitigating Strategies Shaun O’Keeffe (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) 6. Charting a Path to Non-coercive Mental Healthcare: The Rhizomatic Nature of Universal Legal Capacity and the Support Paradigm Suzanne Doyle Guilloud (University of Bristol, UK) PART II REFORMING CAPACITY LAW: MAKING, SHAPING AND INTERPRETING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS 7. The (Contested) Role of the Academy in Activist Movements for Legal Capacity Reform: A Personal Reflection Eilionór Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) 8. Enabling Supported Decision-Making in India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Learnings from a Low-Resource Country Setting Soumitra Pathare (ILS Law College, India) and Arjun Kapoor (ILS Law College, India) 9. Reflections on the Reform of Spanish Civil Legislation on Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities Patricia Cuenca Gómez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) 10. Adapting or Discarding the Status Quo? Supporting the Exercise of Legal Capacity in Scottish Law and Practice Jill Stavert (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) 11. Performing Disability Rights: State Reporting and Turkey's (Non)Engagement with the CRPD Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) PART III SUPPORTING LEGAL CAPACITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE: BALANCING EMPOWERMENT AND SAFEGUARDS 12. Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: Self-Determination in the Theory and Practice of Guardianship Law in Finland Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) 13. Autonomy, Capacity and Vulnerability: Making Decisions on Social Services for Persons with Dementia in Sweden Titti Mattsson (Lund University, Sweden) 14. Law’s Legitimacy and Social Work Support in Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse Jaime Lindsey (University of Essex, UK) 15. Putting the Pieces Together: Article 12, “Safeguarding” and the Right to Legal Capacity Margaret Isabel Hall (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 16. Supporting Everyday Legal Capacity: Navigating the Complexities of Putting Rights into Practice Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK)

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves. Those suffering threats to life from mental health issues deserve the same protection as those who face threats to life from ill health or violence from others. The book explores the ethical and legal case for giving those beset with suicidal thoughts the treatment they need and for reasonable steps to be taken to prevent them attempting suicide. Debates around suicide tend to be dominated by cases involving those with terminal medical conditions seeking assisted dying. But of those wishing to die, it is far more common to find middle aged men and young people oppressed by mental health and personal problems. Too often the woeful failure in the funding of mental health services in the UK means that suicidal people are denied the support and help they desperately need. This ground-breaking book makes the legal and ethical case for recognising that the state and public authorities have a duty to provide and implement an effective suicide prevention strategy.Trade ReviewA characteristically thoughtful and elegant development of the legal and ethical case for treating those with suicidal thoughts, and the taking of reasonable steps to prevent them attempting suicide [the book is] a stimulating, important, and nuanced contribution to an area which can sometimes all too easily be portrayed in unhelpfully crude terms. -- Alex Ruck Keene * International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Definition of Suicide I. Introduction II. Popular and Official Definitions III. The Mental State IV. Causation V. Conclusion 3. The Causes of Suicide I. Introduction II. The Problems with Gathering Suicide Statistics III. International Statistics IV. Statistics for England and Wales V. Suicidal Feelings VI. Forms of Suicide VII. Seeking to Identify the Causes of Suicide VIII. Biological Theories IX. Sociological Theories X. Psychological Theories of Suicide XI. Mental Illness XII. Alcohol XIII. Religion XIV. Domestic Abuse XV. Social Inequalities XVI. Conclusion 4. Societal Responsibility for Suicide I. Introduction II. The Cultural Meaning of Suicide III. Social Causes of Suicide IV. Suicide and the Relational Self V. Means VI. Poverty VII. Gender VIII. Age and Suicide IX. Clusters X. Conclusion 5. Ethics and Suicide I. Introduction II. What is the Question? III. The Principle of Autonomy IV. Autonomy and Welfare V. Capacity, Autonomy and Suicide VI. Autonomy Issues: Limits VII. A Duty to Commit Suicide? VIII. Duties Towards the Suicidal: Drawing the Th reads Together IX. Conclusion 6. Human Rights and Suicide I. Introduction II. Rights and Duties III. The Positive Duty to Protect the Right to Life IV. Does Suicide Infringe the Right to Life? V. What Does the Duty Require? VI. The Universal General Duty VII. The Particular General Duty VIII. Specific Operational Obligations to those in the Care of the State IX. Breach of the Duty X. Duty to Investigate XI. United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities XII. Conclusion and the Way Ahead 7. The Current Law on Suicide I. Introduction II. Criminal Law Offences Prohibiting Suicide or Assisted Suicide III. Criminal Offences for Failing to Prevent Suicide IV. Mental Health Law V. Mental Capacity Law VI. Suicidal Children VII. Conclusion 8. Prevention of Suicide I. Introduction II. The Case for Prevention III. The Case against Suicide Prevention IV. Developing Suicide Prevention Policies V. Universal Interventions VI. Selective Interventions VII. Individual Interventions VIII. Problems in Preventing Suicide IX. Current Approach in the UK X. Conclusion 9. Euthanasia and Suicide I. Introduction II. The General Debate on Assisted Dying III. The Starting Point IV. The Right to Die V. Dealing with Hard Cases VI. False Positives and False Negatives VII. Conclusion and the Right to Die Debate 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Insane, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America's tough-on-crime policies have transformed it into a warehouse for people with mental illness, one where prisoners are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. She takes readers from the overwhelmed mental health units of the Los Angeles County Jail to the women's prisons of Oklahoma, which have one of the fastest-growing populations of people with mental illness in the country. She introduces us to ordinary people whose untreated mental illnesses drive them repeatedly into the justice system-and in some cases, to their deaths. Investigating police departments, courts, jails, and emergency health care facilities across the country, Roth provides the first nationwide account of this mental health crisis-and uncovers the hidden forces behind it. She also surveys a range of efforts to address the problem, making the case for a large-scale overhaul of mental health care and criminal justice. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.

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Book SynopsisWritten by experts from a variety of disciplines, this new edition of Assessment of Mental Capacity combines clarity as to the law with a practical, jargon-free approach to provide guidelines on issues ranging from medical treatment to making a will, sexual decision-making and capacity in the context of the Mental Health Act 1983.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition has been comprehensively revised by a team of experienced contributors to provide coverage of all the latest developments in legislation, procedure and case law, including:* The reissued Court of Protection Rules (and accompanying Practice Directions) which took effect in December 2017.* The Law Commission Recommendations on Deprivation of Liberty* A completely new chapter on the important topic of Representation and Participation of P* An extensively updated chapter on the International Protection of Adults, with the addition of a new section on ''Ordinary Residence''Mental Capacity: Law and Practice provides an authoritative commentary, highlighting areas of potential difficulty and offering practical guidance on the challenges that the legislation poses. This book is essential reading for all private client lawyers, chancery practitioners, non-contentious lawyers, local authorities and healthcare professionals.

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Written by esteemed legal scholar Michael L. Perlin, this indispensable Advanced Introduction examines the long-standing but ever-dynamic relationship between law and mental health. The author discusses and contextualises how the law, primarily in the United States but also in other countries, treats mental health, intellectual disabilities, and mental incapacity, giving examples of how issues such as the rights of patients, the death penalty and the insanity defense permeate constitutional, civil, and criminal matters, and indeed the general practice of law.Key features include: unpacks key US Supreme Court decisions to focus on the issues that have been most significant in the development of the field explains the distortion of this area of law by biased and stereotypical social attitudes including sanism examines lesser-known cases that illuminate judicial attitudes, helping readers to better understand likely future developments in mental health law. Offering an insightful introduction to this field, the Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law is an invaluable resource for students and newly qualified lawyers, and will appeal not only to those looking to understand the law in the United States, but how this contributes to the development of the field as a whole.Trade Review’Michael Perlin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading voices in mental disability law, with an unequalled breadth of understanding. That breadth is on full display in his latest book, which spans civil and criminal law, as well as international law. Perlin’s unique lens on the theory and practice of mental health law is on full display in this work, which powerfully summarizes a lifetime of work in the field of mental health law.’ -- - Susan Stefan, Committee for Public Counsel Service, Massachusetts, US’Michael Perlin has authored a(nother) remarkable text. This Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law presents a fresh, engaging overview of mental disability law, with detailed coverage of a range of issues relevant to mental disability as it pertains to civil and criminal law, and set within the context of relevant case law and insightful commentary. This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved at the interface of mental health and legal systems, from graduate students learning about law and mental health to advanced practitioners responsible for maintaining competent practice.’ -- - Patricia A. Zapf, Ph.D, Palo Alto University, US’Nobody knows more about mental health law than Michael Perlin, and Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law is his magnum opus. His other books may be more comprehensive, but this book covers complicated topics with astonishing clarity. This book is a must read for attorneys, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, judges, and people with lived experience who routinely deal with mental disabilities in legal contexts.’ -- - Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), University of Arizona, College of Medicine, US’This book is a professor’s dream, packaging the vast subject of mental health law into the most-user-friendly companion. Called an “Advanced Introduction” it is both, as Professor Perlin’s masterly synthesis is a reference work for both teachers and students of mental health law. The inclusion of history, case law, and therapeutic jurisprudence puts his brilliance on display. The text is easily accessible and the references provide a roadmap to the universe of the intersection of law and mental health.’ -- - Kenneth J. Weiss, University of Pennsylvania, US’Michael L. Perlin’s excellent book, Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law, is aptly named - not because it is difficult, but because it is usefully thorough. In its chapter on the right to counsel in civil commitment proceedings, for example, Perlin details the various ways state statutes provide for counsel and whether they are silent or detailed on the specific roles expected of lawyers.Perlin also looks at mental health law through various “filters” that have been detrimental to the administration of the law - such as “sanism” and pretextual decision-making. In response, Perlin’s work is driven by a positive filter: the “potentially redemptive significance of the school of thought known as therapeutic jurisprudence.” This is a wonderful achievement.’ -- David B. Wexler, University of Puerto Rico and University of Arizona, US’Professor Michael L. Perlin’s modestly titled Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law provides the royal road for mental health clinicians and attorneys in all stages of experience, from neophyte to expert to travel ethically and effectively through the otherwise foreboding dark woods of civil and mental health disability law. Whether a student or an experienced practitioner, each chapter enlightens and encourages a deeper yet ever more practical understanding. Perlin’s readable, reasonable style is lyrical and lawyerly, all the more apt for a field where one feels with apologies to Bob Dylan, “there is something happening here” alongside “Oh my G-d, am I all alone”.Inspired by Professor Perlin’s vital contributions to mental health law over the decades to such questions as what is the line between “sanity” and “sanism” the book is both timeless and timely and of both very special and very general interest.’ -- - Harold J. Bursztajn, Harvard Medical School, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law 2. Some jurisprudential filters 3. Counsel and judges 4. Civil commitment law 5. Institutional rights 6. Rights of persons with mental disabilities in community settings 7. Between civil and criminal mental disability law 8. Criminal incompetencies 9. The insanity defense 10. Access to experts, sentencing, and correctional treatment issues 11. The death penalty Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Written by esteemed legal scholar Michael L. Perlin, this indispensable Advanced Introduction examines the long-standing but ever-dynamic relationship between law and mental health. The author discusses and contextualises how the law, primarily in the United States but also in other countries, treats mental health, intellectual disabilities, and mental incapacity, giving examples of how issues such as the rights of patients, the death penalty and the insanity defense permeate constitutional, civil, and criminal matters, and indeed the general practice of law.Key features include: unpacks key US Supreme Court decisions to focus on the issues that have been most significant in the development of the field explains the distortion of this area of law by biased and stereotypical social attitudes including sanism examines lesser-known cases that illuminate judicial attitudes, helping readers to better understand likely future developments in mental health law. Offering an insightful introduction to this field, the Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law is an invaluable resource for students and newly qualified lawyers, and will appeal not only to those looking to understand the law in the United States, but how this contributes to the development of the field as a whole.Trade Review’Michael Perlin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading voices in mental disability law, with an unequalled breadth of understanding. That breadth is on full display in his latest book, which spans civil and criminal law, as well as international law. Perlin’s unique lens on the theory and practice of mental health law is on full display in this work, which powerfully summarizes a lifetime of work in the field of mental health law.’ -- - Susan Stefan, Committee for Public Counsel Service, Massachusetts, US’Michael Perlin has authored a(nother) remarkable text. This Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law presents a fresh, engaging overview of mental disability law, with detailed coverage of a range of issues relevant to mental disability as it pertains to civil and criminal law, and set within the context of relevant case law and insightful commentary. This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved at the interface of mental health and legal systems, from graduate students learning about law and mental health to advanced practitioners responsible for maintaining competent practice.’ -- - Patricia A. Zapf, Ph.D, Palo Alto University, US’Nobody knows more about mental health law than Michael Perlin, and Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law is his magnum opus. His other books may be more comprehensive, but this book covers complicated topics with astonishing clarity. This book is a must read for attorneys, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, judges, and people with lived experience who routinely deal with mental disabilities in legal contexts.’ -- - Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), University of Arizona, College of Medicine, US’This book is a professor’s dream, packaging the vast subject of mental health law into the most-user-friendly companion. Called an “Advanced Introduction” it is both, as Professor Perlin’s masterly synthesis is a reference work for both teachers and students of mental health law. The inclusion of history, case law, and therapeutic jurisprudence puts his brilliance on display. The text is easily accessible and the references provide a roadmap to the universe of the intersection of law and mental health.’ -- - Kenneth J. Weiss, University of Pennsylvania, US’Michael L. Perlin’s excellent book, Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law, is aptly named - not because it is difficult, but because it is usefully thorough. In its chapter on the right to counsel in civil commitment proceedings, for example, Perlin details the various ways state statutes provide for counsel and whether they are silent or detailed on the specific roles expected of lawyers.Perlin also looks at mental health law through various “filters” that have been detrimental to the administration of the law - such as “sanism” and pretextual decision-making. In response, Perlin’s work is driven by a positive filter: the “potentially redemptive significance of the school of thought known as therapeutic jurisprudence.” This is a wonderful achievement.’ -- David B. Wexler, University of Puerto Rico and University of Arizona, US’Professor Michael L. Perlin’s modestly titled Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law provides the royal road for mental health clinicians and attorneys in all stages of experience, from neophyte to expert to travel ethically and effectively through the otherwise foreboding dark woods of civil and mental health disability law. Whether a student or an experienced practitioner, each chapter enlightens and encourages a deeper yet ever more practical understanding. Perlin’s readable, reasonable style is lyrical and lawyerly, all the more apt for a field where one feels with apologies to Bob Dylan, “there is something happening here” alongside “Oh my G-d, am I all alone”.Inspired by Professor Perlin’s vital contributions to mental health law over the decades to such questions as what is the line between “sanity” and “sanism” the book is both timeless and timely and of both very special and very general interest.’ -- - Harold J. Bursztajn, Harvard Medical School, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to Mental Health Law 2. Some jurisprudential filters 3. Counsel and judges 4. Civil commitment law 5. Institutional rights 6. Rights of persons with mental disabilities in community settings 7. Between civil and criminal mental disability law 8. Criminal incompetencies 9. The insanity defense 10. Access to experts, sentencing, and correctional treatment issues 11. The death penalty Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book provides a versatile exploration of the philosophical foundations of the insanity defense. It examines the connections between numerous philosophical-anthropological views and analyses different methods for regulating the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill. Placing its philosophical analysis firmly in the context of science, it draws on the fields of cognitive psychology, evolutionary theory and criminology.In this thought-provoking book, Wojciech Zaluski argues that the way in which we resolve the problem of the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill depends on two factors: the assumed conception of responsibility and the account of mental illness. Offering a systematic and in-depth analysis of the influence of anti-psychiatry on thinking about the insanity defense and legislation, the author invokes the personalist view of human nature, being rational and endowed with free will, to justify an original normative proposal concerning the construction of the insanity defense.The Insanity Defense will be of primary interest to scholars of criminal law and justice, legal theory and legal philosophy as well as legal practitioners, policy makers, psychiatrists and psychologists engaged with this topic.Trade Review‘Wojciech Zaluski’s work focusing on the insanity defense, one of the classic problems of criminal law, is an excellent demonstration of how to impartially explain the presumptive underpinnings of this field, an approach which is often absent within ordinary approaches to legal argumentation. The book will be of great assistance for every judge, attorney and professor of criminal law, helping to deepen reflections on the problem of the insanity defense.’ -- Marek Zirk-Sadowski, University of Lodz, Poland‘Wojciech Zaluski has written a profound book, in which he provides the legal excuse of the insanity defense with philosophical underpinnings, starting from the assumption that human beings have a free will. His argument provides deeper understanding for those who share his starting point, and a delineation of what precisely they must reject for those who do not share it. Highly recommended reading for both defenders and deniers of free will.’ -- Jaap Hage, Maastricht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The philosophical foundations of the insanity defense 2. The cognitive component 3. The volitional component Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen a person is subject to the Mental Health Act, many of his or her principal rights are taken away. It is the function of the nearest relative to compensate for that loss. This fully updated second edition explains how the nearest relative is identified, and how in some cases he or she might be displaced. It also contains a wealth of new case examples and illustrative scenarios, providing a succinct discussion of each significant case and incorporating all the very latest changes to the Mental Health Act. The Nearest Relative Handbook will be an invaluable aid to those who find themselves in a professional relationship with a nearest relative, to those who are or wish to be a nearest relative and to anyone needing to make sense of the relevant statutory provisions.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:'An excellent, comprehensive and thoughtful guide to the rights, powers, and duties of nearest relatives under the Mental Health Act. This is the definitive work on the subject.' -- Phil Fennell, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law SchoolThis intelligent and comprehensive analysis is a welcome addition to the currently scant literature in this area. -- Journal of Mental Health LawThere can hardly be a professional concerned with MeHA 1983 and its practical application in daily practice who will not benefit from having this book to hand... -- New Law JournalHewitt looks first at the development of the role of nearest relative, where it is now, the problems it presents and how these are likely to be resolved…The rules are comprehensively worked through and the examples clear. -- Tony Eaton, Solicitor, Brent Community Law CentreTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Used in this Book. Introduction. 1. The Recent History of the Nearest Relative. 2. The Nearest Relative of an Adult. 3. The Nearest Relative of some Minors. 4. Ceasing to be the Nearest Relative. 5. Admission and the Nearest Relative. 6. Discharge and the Nearest Relative. Appendix One. Statutory Extracts. Appendix Two. Regulations. Appendix Three. Specimen Document. Appendix Four. List of Legal Cases Cited. References. Subject index. Author index.

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