Mental health services Books

Book SynopsisThe past several decades have seen remarkable improvements in several major public health issues affecting young people: smoking rates are down, traffic crash fatalities have declined, and other unintentional injuries have declined in number. Yet, similar successes have not been replicated in mental health. Why are we, as a society, failing to make needed investments in children''s mental health? How can we ensure that programs with the highest levels of evidence and economic returns reach a larger fraction of the young people and families who could benefit from them?Investing in Children''s Mental Health investigates and addresses three interrelated questions:1) What are some of the best available investments to improve the mental health of children and adolescents in the United States? 2) To what extent are these investments being made? 3) What can practitioners, child-serving organizations, policymakers, and other stakeholders do to promote such investments? Daniel Eisenberg and RamTrade ReviewThe kids are not alright. In a historic moment of convergence, the U.S. Surgeon General has identified youth mental health as the 'defining public health crisis of our time' and supports for social emotional wellness stoke political debate in school board meetings. We need a practical path to assess, advance, and advocate for the most promising investments to help children and youth flourish. In this offering, Daniel Eisenberg and Ramesh Raghavan meet the moment with a multidisciplinary approach. As parents, policymakers, and child advocates we owe them a debt of gratitude for lighting a path to action and helping us return smiles to children's faces and spring to teenagers' steps." -Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President & CEO, Children's Defense FundInvesting in strategies that promote children's mental health is the most profitable choice that societies can make. In this highly engaging and readable book, Professors Eisenberg and Raghavan present a roadmap of why and how to make such investments, investments that I urge my fellow policymakers to support in order to better the lives of children within their countries and communities. * Ásmundur Einar Daðason, Minister of Education and Children, Government of Iceland *Table of ContentsChapter 1: What Does It Mean to Invest in Children's Mental Health? Chapter 2: Overview of Current Evidence and Practice Chapter 3: Home Visiting Programs Chapter 4: Parent Training Programs Chapter 5: School-based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs Chapter 6: Multisystemic Therapy: The Fluorescent Light Bulb Not Everyone is Using Chapter 7: Communities that Care Chapter 8: Lessons Learned and Remaining Questions Chapter 9: A Path towards Better Investments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the UK, we lock up more individuals per year than in any other part of Europe. Many of these are suffering from some form of treatable mental disorder, yet too often, prison is viewed as the only option. Part of the problem is the range of individuals and specialities involved in making these crucial judgements. Government departments, health and social care and voluntary sector organisations, and frontline criminal justice and penal institutions are all engaged in the definition, management, and processing of the mentally disordered offender (MDO), leaving the invidual in ''spiders web'' of a system - often to their disadvantage.This book presents a penetrating and thought provoking analysis of the forensic mental health system - how it operates, the people involved, the problems inherent in such a system, and the huge ethical dilemma of depriving an individual of their freedom. It brings together a range of specialists, each with considerable experience, who describe the processesTrade Review'...the book is both fresh and refreshing. It needs to be explored actively, otherwise one might miss something...The content is strong throughout...This is a book for Masters-level students or postgraduate trainees. It will also be of immense value to established practitioners. For interested undergraduates from all the allied disciplines it will only serve to fuel their enthusiasm' * British Journal of Psychiatry *'...[the book] is highly informative and both scholars and practitioners will find much of value in it...The chapter on medical models on mental disorder is my pick...as it is wide-ranging, insightful and provides for interesting critiques of the medical approach to mental illness with issues of gender and culture carefully examined.' * British Journal of Criminology *Table of ContentsVIOLENCE AND DANGEROUSNESS; FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; LAW; ETHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL POLICY; INTERNATIONAL; APPENDIX

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Book SynopsisCapturing the compelling personal experiences and views of some of the great thought leaders in psychiatry, the insights in this book will appeal to future generations of academics, clinicians, health care professionals, as well as anyone with an appetite for a diverse array of life stories.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Renee Binder 2: Dame Fiona Caldicott 3: Silvana Galderisi 4: Sir David Goldberg 5: Billy Jones 6: Shigenobu Kanba 7: Marianne Kastrup 8: Linda Lam 9: Saul Levin 10: Mario Maj 11: Felice Lieh-Mak 12: Sarada Menon 13: Driss Moussaoui 14: Carol Nadelson 15: Ahmed Okasha 16: Tarek Okasha 17: Maria Oquendo 18: Sir Michael Rutter 19: Norman Sartorius 20: Alan Schatzberg 21: Nada Stotland 22: Paul Summergrad 23: Thara Rangaswamy 24: Pichet Udomratn 25: Rutger Jan van der Gaag 26: Lakshmi Vijayakumar

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Book SynopsisOver the past two decades considerable progress has been made in developing specialist psychosocial treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet the majority of people with BPD receive treatment within generalist mental health services, rather than specialist treatment centres. This is a book for general mental health professionals who treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It offers practical guidance on how to help people with BPD with advice based on research evidence. After a discussion of the symptoms of BPD, the authors review all the generalist treatment interventions that have resulted in good outcomes in randomised controlled trials, when compared with specialist treatments, and summarise the effective components of these interventions. The treatment strategies are organised into a structured approach called Structured Clinical Management (SCM), which can be delivered by general mental health professionals without extensive additional training.ThTrade ReviewA 350-word review is not enough to do this book justice. Written by two psychiatrists, one with a psychodynamic and the other a behavioural orientation, the book succeeds in outlining different psychological and pharmacological approaches to the treatment of borderline personality disorder in a harmonius and enlightened way.,, This book is highly recommended and I consider the authors to have achieved what they set out to do: instill hope in all of us working with patients with borderline personality disorder and, in so doing, instil hope in patients themselves. * Psychiatric Bulletin *This book presents a fairly short but effective treatment guideline for borderline personality disorder. It is definitely a top-down recommendation for how to structure the treatment, what goals are important, how to deal with crisis, etc. * Breet C. Plyler, MD, Doody's Notes *I have just now come across your book, and it is absolutely excellent! There is a real need to move BPD treatment from specialty clinics to more general care If we give people the impression that the only treatment is DBT or MBT, we will deny them the likelihood of doing well with something more practical that still applies the right principles, reserving more resource-intensive models for the sickest patients. Congratulations! * Dr Joel Paris, McGill University, Canada *Table of Contents1. Borderline Personality Disorder ; 2. Generalist Psychiatric Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: The Evidence Base and Common Factors ; 3. Structured Clinical Management: General Treatment Strategies ; 4. Structured Clinical Management: Core Treatment Strategies ; 5. Structured Clinical Management: Team strategies ; 6. Structured Clinical Management: In-patient Treatment and Prescribing ; 7. Family and Friends ; 8. Top Ten Additional Resource-Efficient Treatment Strategies

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Book SynopsisIn the past century there has been awareness of the importance of a global public health perspective in understanding the etiology, course and treatment of mental disorders. However, just recently there has been a focus on population science and with it an evidence-based call to improving public mental health in communities. Mental Health in Public Health synthesizes important topics in public health psychiatry that were discussed at the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) meeting in 2010. The book, like the APPA meeting, aims to bring advanced knowledge of the social and environmental risk factors for psychiatric disorders, as well as ideas for preventing them. Chapters are written by experts from around the world and include such public health concerns as Veteran''s mental health, mental health disparities among minorities, causes of addictions, and mortality of these disorders.Trade Review"This wide-ranging collection of papers illuminates many aspects of mental health as a public health concern. Whether readers' interest is childhood or old age, the United States or the developing world, depression or schizophrenia, they will find something to interest and inform them. Particularly insightful are the "Presidential Perspectives" in which past presidents of APPA muse on what the future holds for psychiatry, in the context of public health. Medical education in the United States largely ignores public health. This book can help to open clinicians' eyes to the gains that can be made by taking a public health approach to some of the seemingly intractable problems of mental disorders worldwide." --- E. Jane Costello, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC "Mental Health in Public Health is two books in one. Part 1 is a compilation of thoughtful chapters demonstrating the critical role that mental health plays in the public health of populations around the world. Each of the chapters is a variation and exposition on the theme that mental health and public health are two sides of the same coin. The value of this concept is shown from childhood to old age, from the healthy to the medically unhealthy, from populations living in peace to those exposed to the horrors of war, from low income populations and countries to wealthy populations and countries." -- Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South Campus, Stony Brook, NYTable of ContentsMental Health Disparities: Populations at Risk ; 1.) Closing the Treatment Gap: A Global Health Perspective ; Vikram Patel, Mirja Koschorke and Martin Prince ; 2.) Addressing Addiction and High Risk Behaviors Using the Integrated Public Health and Public Safety Approach ; Wilson M. Compton and Redonna K. Chandler ; 3.) Mental Health Disparities among Latinos, the Fastest Growing Population in the US ; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola and Linda Ziegahn ; 4.) Global Initiatives for HIV/AIDS and Programs Promoting Global Access to Mental Health Care: Putting Mental Health into Public Health ; Francine Cournos, Karen McKinnon and Milton Wainberg ; Conditional Disorders and the Public's Mental Health ; 5.) Veterans' Mental Health: The Effects of War ; Michael J. Lyons, Margo Genderson and Michael D. Grant ; 6.) Assessing the Link Between Disaster Exposure and Mental Illness ; Carol S. North ; 7.) Addiction to Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex, and Technology: Shared Causal Mechanisms? ; Mark S. Gold, Lisa J. Merlo, Adrie W. Bruijnzeel, Anna Roytberg and Michael Herkov ; The Public's Mental Health from Youth to Older Age: Changing Landscapes or Stable Patterns? ; 8.) Personality Pathology, Health, and Social Adjustment in Later Life ; Thomas F. Oltmanns and Marci E.J. Gleason ; 9.) Mortality from Common Mental Disorders and Medical Conditions ; William W. Eaton, Martha Bruce, Alden L. Gross, O. Joseph Bienvenu, Rosa Crum and Linda B. Cottler ; 10.) Child Mental Health: Status of the Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Prevention ; John N. Constantino ; Issues that Shape the Debate about Public Mental Health ; 11.) Stigma of Mental Illness: A Global View ; Norman Sartorius ; 12.) The Social Determinants of Mental Health ; Sandro Galea and Maria Steenland ; 13.) HealthStreet: A Community Based Approach to Include Mental Health in Public Health Research ; Linda B. Cottler, Catina Callahan O'Leary, Catherine W. Striley ; 14.) Presidential Perspectives ; Alfred M. Freedman, Max Fink, Donald F. Klein, Murray Alpert, James E. Barrett, David L. Dunner, Katherine A. Halmi, Elliot S. Gershon, C. Robert Cloninger, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, David S. Janowsky, Ellen Frank, Judith L. Rapoport, Myrna M. Weissman, John E. Helzer, Charles F. Zorumski, William W. Eaton, Ming T. Tsuang, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr, James J. Hudziak, Patrick E. Shrout, Darrel A. Regier, Linda B. Cottler ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe efforts of social activists and mental health professionals to institute population-level social change, such as reducing poverty, building better schools, and establishing more effective substance abuse programs, often fail. They tend to focus on individuals and not real-life community conditions; they fail to take into account stakeholders'' efforts to maintain the status quo; and they do not develop concrete strategies to build coalitions to alter policies. These unsuccessful attempts at change can leave citizens, community groups, and healthcare professionals feeling dispirited and overwhelmed.Principles of Social Change is written for those who are impassioned and driven by social justice issues in their communities and seek practical solutions. Leonard A. Jason, a leading community psychologist, demonstrates how social change can be accomplished and fostered by observing five key principles: (1) determine the nature of the change desired, (2) identify who holds the power, (3)Trade ReviewThe arguments that he makes are not only profound but reflect the importance of the potential of the contributions of a community-based psychology. * The Australian Community Psychologist, 1 June 2013 *This book will prove especially useful for academics who long to effect social change beyond publications. * Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery, June 2013 *It is a wonderful and refreshing addition to the community psychology literature, and indeed to the broader social change literature... Principles of Social Change is more than an excellent text on social change; it allows us into the thinking and world of Len Jason. The reader can't help but be moved by the author's contributions. Len's passion and doggedness are remarkable, as is his focus and commitment. * Global Journal of Community Psycholoy Practice, June 2013 *Table of ContentsForeword by William L. White ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Changing the Rules of the Game ; Chapter 2. Challenging the Status Quo ; Chapter 3. Navigating the Maze ; Chapter 4. Creating Communities to Foster Success ; Chapter 5. Means to an End ; Chapter 6. The Root of the Issue ; References ; About the Author ; Index

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Book SynopsisDepression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression in clinics and schools, and a push to diagnose depression early, on the basis of just a few symptoms, in order to prevent more severe conditions from developing. In The Loss of Sadness, Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield argue that, while depressive disorder certainly exists and can be a devastating condition warranting medical attention, the apparent epidemic in fact reflects the way the psychiatric profession has understood and reclassified normal human sadness as largely an abnormal experience. With the 1980 publication of the landmark third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), mental health professionals began diagnosing depression based on symptoms-such as depressed mood, loss of appetite, and fatigue-that lasted for at least two weeks. This system is fundamentally flawed, the authors maintain, because it fails to take into account the context in which the symptoms occur. They stress the importance of distinguishing between abnormal reactions due to internal dysfunction and normal sadness brought on by external circumstances. Under the current DSM classification system, however, this distinction is impossible to make, so the expected emotional distress caused by upsetting events-for example, the loss of a job or the end of a relationship-could lead to a mistaken diagnosis of depressive disorder. Indeed, it is this very mistake that lies at the root of the presumed epidemic of major depression in our midst. In telling the story behind this phenomenon, the authors draw on the 2,500-year history of writing about depression, including studies in both the medical and social sciences, to demonstrate why the DSM''s diagnosis is so flawed. They also explore why it has achieved almost unshakable currency despite its limitations. Framed within an evolutionary account of human health and disease, The Loss of Sadness presents a fascinating dissection of depression as both a normal and disordered human emotion and a sweeping critique of current psychiatric diagnostic practices. The result is a potent challenge to the diagnostic revolution that began almost thirty years ago in psychiatry and a provocative analysis of one of the most significant mental health issues today.Trade Review"Relentless in its logic, Horwitz and Wakefield's book forces one to confront basic issues that cut to the heart of psychiatry. It has caused me to rethink my own position and how the authors' concerns might best be handled. It will shape future discussion and research on depression, and it will be an indispensable guide to those rethinking psychiatric diagnostic criteria in preparation for the DSM-V. [A] watershed in the conceptual development of the field."--from the Foreword by Robert L. Spitzer, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Head of the Task Forces for the DSM-III and DSM-III-R "The Loss of Sadness is a tour de force. Horwitz and Wakefield bring much-needed conceptual clarity to the understanding of depression and provide a powerful model for the analysis of all psychological disorders. I predict that it will have a monumental impact."--David M. Buss, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind "Drs. Horwitz and Wakefield make a persuasive argument that has major public health implications. Integrating historical, philosophical, and psychological evidence, they have written a comprehensive, incisive, and quite readable book that is sure to challenge psychiatry's notions of what is disorder and what is normal."--Michael B. First, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and Editor, DSM-IV-TR "Depression is the mental health problem of our generation. In this important and penetrating book, Horwitz and Wakefield show that psychiatry no longer clearly differentiates between normal sadness and depressive disorder. A must read for anyone who wants to understand how so much "depression" has become medicalized."--Peter Conrad, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University, and author of The Medicalization of Society "With superb scholarship and crisp prose, Horwitz and Wakefield examine the fatal flaw at the core of depression diagnosis. This book describes, with devastating clarity, why the DSM went off track and how the resulting scientific train wreck slows research and distorts our experience of our own sadness. If the DSM was based on biology, this book would signal a new beginning."--Randolph Nesse, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, and author of Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine "Not another hackneyed anti-psychiatry polemic, The Loss of Sadness is a brilliant analysis of how mental health professionals can avoid pathologizing normal, emotional responses to life's stressors while accurately identifying those suffering from genuine depressive disorders. Erudite and engagingly written, The Loss of Sadness is destined to have a major impact on our field."--Richard J. McNally, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Remembering Trauma "Excellent scholarship and wonderful writing. Without doubt, this book will stimulate reflection and debate among psychiatrists, epidemiologists, and social and behavioral scientists."--Leonard Pearlin, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Maryland "An interesting and thought-provoking book that underscores the need to examine more fully each patient's psychological illness and the factors contributing to it...I would recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding depression more fully and the place normal sadness has in our society."--Doody's "Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield's important book...is part of a gathering blowback against the pathologization and medicalization of the ordinary human condition of sadness after loss...Important enough to make much of this book required reading for depression researchers and clinicians."--Lancet "These collaborators maintain a constructive, scholarly tone and display a total command of the pertinent literature, they will gain a respectful hearing from psychiatrists."--New York Review of Books "This book is highly recommended to any scholar, student, or layperson who is interested in exploring unresolved aspects of psychiatric taxonomy, and especially to any of the scholars currently involved in the DSM-V revisions. This is an important intellectual tour de force that will propel further substantive debate on these critical issues."--PsycCRITIQUES "Meticulous and timely."--British Medical Journal "When historians try to understand why psychiatric diagnosis abandoned validity for the sake of reliability in the years surrounding the millennium, they will rely on The Loss of Sadness. In measured tones and exacting prose, Horwitz and Wakefield deliver not only a devastating critique of the DSM diagnostic criteria for depression, but also a thoughtful and authoritative assessment of how they came to exist and persistIf this book cannot change the DSM criteria for depression, nothing will."--Psychiatric Times "This wonderful book will alter professional thinking."--Nursing Standard "The Loss of Sadness is one of the most important books in the field of psychiatry published in the last few years...In short, this is a brilliant book with a significance well beyond its narrow but important subject."--Spectator "The Loss of Sadness is a useful and interesting review of the history of depression and its diagnosis over time...a cautionary tale for those conducting depression research, shaping policy, and developing DSM-V."--Psychiatric Services "This thought-provoking book challenges us to examine and re-examine our conceptions of normal sadness and depression. It makes an important contribution to the field and provides a powerful impact on the reader."--Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services "The Loss of Sadness may well be a wake-up call for North American psychiatrists."--History of Psychiatry "The issue identified by the authors--increase of pathologising and prescribing--is serious and current; and they make clear one key possible diagnosis, that the limits of pathology are being illegitimately stretched. The authors are expert in this position and their book is essential reading for anyone concerned with these problems."--British Journal of Pyschiatry "...[a] provocative and well-written book...impressively documented and meticulous detail..The result is often eye-opening and enlightening...."--Social Service Review "...an iconoclastic yet careful, balanced, and scholarly work, which through sheer logic and force of argument compellingly challenges commonly accepted wisdom in all corners of the mental health world: research, epidemiology, public policy, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and even university mental health...Read it--it will make you think about your profession, your practice, and your society."--As reviewed by Steven P. Gilbert, PhD, ABPP, LP, Minnesota State University Mankato in Journal of College Student Psychotherapy "Finally, a book about anxiety disorders that is based on a deep understanding of normal anxiety! I wish every mental health clinician would read it. Its spectacularly clear prose reveals the landscape of normal anxiety like an airplane's radar reveals the ground beneath the fog." -- Randolph M. Nesse, MD, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI "The area of anxiety disorders has needed a thorough review and a shake-up for a long time. In this bold and thought-provoking work, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield have relied mainly on the insights from the evolutionary theory to provide a critical and powerful analysis of the modern concept of anxiety disorders. Regardless of whether or to what extent one agrees with them, their book rightly challenges the prevailing notions and is likely to perturb current thinking about fear, anxiety and anxiety disorders. It will certainly add more substance to much-needed discussions and debates about the nature of these conditions, psychiatric diagnoses and an often-imperceptible boundary between normality and psychopathology." -- Vladan Starcevic, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia "In their new book, Horwitz and Wakefield offer the same incisive analysis that they brought to psychiatry's medicalization of sadness in their first book, The Loss of Sadness, to explain the reasons for the soaring prevalence of anxiety disorders over the past 20 years, namely that psychiatry has been mislabeling normal anxiety and fear reactions as disorder. Most importantly, they bring their analysis to bear on the actual definitions of anxiety disorders that are enshrined in the American Psychiatric Association's manual of mental disorders, pointing out the various weaknesses and flaws with regard to construction of definitions of anxiety disorders that effectively delineate normal anxiety and fear from abnormal anxiety and fear." -- Michael B. First, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NYTable of ContentsForeword, by Robert L. Spitzer ; 1. The Concept of Depression ; 2. The Anatomy of Normal Sadness ; 3. Sadness With and Without Cause: Depression From Ancient Times Through the Nineteenth Century ; 4. Depression in the Twentieth Century ; 5. Depression in the DSM-IV ; 6. Importing Pathology Into the Community ; 7. The Surveillance of Sadness ; 8. The DSM and Biological Research About Depression ; 9. The Rise of Antidepressant Drug Treatments ; 10. The Failure of the Social Sciences to Distinguish Sadness from Depressive Disorder ; 11. Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisHippocrates Cried offers an eye-witness account of the decline of American psychiatry by an experienced psychiatrist and researcher. Arguing that patients with mental disorders are no longer receiving the care they need, Dr. Taylor suggest that modern psychiatrists in the U.S. rely too heavily on the DSM, a diagnostic tool that fails to properly diagnose many cases of mental disorder and often neglects important conditions or symptoms. American psychiatry has come to reflect simplistic algorithms forged by pharmaceutical companies, rather than true scientific methodology. Few professionals have a working knowledge of psychopathology outside of what is outlined in the DSM, and more mental health patients are being treated by primary care physicians than ever before.Dr. Tayler creates a passionate yet scholarly account of this issue. For psychiatrists and researchers, this book is a plea for help. Combining personal vignettes and informative data, it creates a powerful illustration of a Trade Review"Dr. Taylor's Hippocrates Cried is an amazing read. Michael brings a wealth of history and clinical insights to bear on the evolution of psychiatry and the emergence of neuropsychiatry. Although billed as a book on the decline of American psychiatry, I found it to be an uplifting account of the emergence of neuropsychiatry and the benefits of marrying neuroscience with psychiatry and behavioral health. It is a provocative forward-looking history that entertains, teaches, and provokes thought." -- Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD, Director, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Camille and Larry Ruvo Chair for Brain Health, Cleveland Clinic , Las Vegas, NV "I found myself breaking into involuntary laugher at points in reading this manuscript, not because the stories are really funny - they are horrifying - but because they illustrate the failure of American psychiatry in the last third of the twentieth century... Doctor Taylor gives us a view from the trenches. He is actually a psychiatrist of great international distinction, and he says that the changes in psychiatry he describes here have been even more worrying than we thought. One might have imagined that after the destruction of Freud's psychoanalysis, things would have gone well. Not a bit of it! The field's unhappy lurch towards cookbook diagnosis and psychopharm simplehood have had a very unhappy influence on patient care. Taylor has experienced all this ringside over the last 45 years, and he is forceful, well-spoken, and amusing." -- Dr. Edward Shorter, Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada "According to Michael Taylor, American psychiatry is on life support and fading fast. In this thoughtful and well-written book, Taylor details the grievous wounds inflicted on the profession first by Freudian theory and then by the pharmaceutical industry, but psychiatrists also have themselves to blame. Taylor champions neuropsychiatry and decries the deterioration of his profession over the past half century. Given his analysis, the ultimate integration of psychiatry and neurology is inevitable and should be most welcome. This is a very useful book for anyone using psychiatrists, or wondering why they did." -- Fuller Torrey, MD, Executive Director, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Chevy Chase, MD "Dr. Taylor's stories may be emotionally charged and somewhat one-sided, but when he moves away from his own experiences and surveys the present state of psychiatry, he offers a sound critique of the pillars of American Psychiatry... His larger argument is convincing because it marshals evidence, not simply his own opinion. ... So read his anecdotes with an understanding of his frustration, and wait for Dr. Taylor's cooler analyses. The content of his arguments are well worth consideration." --New York Journal of Books "Whether Taylor is correct that biologically based neuropsychiatry will someday subsume psychiatry, his provocative book will give many clinicians and trainees considerable pause." --Publishers Weekly "The book is written as if you are sitting with Dr. Taylor on his back porch, as he recounts his life. It is well written, frank, and clear. ... If it receives the attention it deserves, his laudable effort here would benefit humanity multiple times more than all the other pseudo-critiques of psychiatry combined." --Acta Psychiatrica ScandinavicaTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Hippocrates ; The Hippocratic Oaths ; The Patient Vignettes ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: The Origins of Indignation ; Chapter 2: First do no Harm ; Chapter 3: Free of Injustice and Mischief ; Chapter 4: For the benefit of the Sick ; Chapter 5: Peeves ; Chapter 6: Extinction of the U.S. Psychiatry as We Know ItL Survival of the Fit ; Chapter 7: Back to the Future: The Once and Future King ; Notes ; Reference List ; Index

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Book SynopsisFor the last thirty years, the nation''s mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with dramatically rising costs and the fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from. Just as the lives of people exposed to chronic trauma and abuse become organized around the traumatic experience, so too have our social service systems become organized around the recurrent stress of trying to do more under greater pressure: they become crisis-oriented, authoritarian, disempowered, and demoralized, often living in the present moment, haunted by the past, and unable to plan for the future.Complex interactions among traumatized clients, stressed staff, pressured organizations, and a social and economic climate that is often hostile to recovery efforts recreate the very expeTable of ContentsPrologue ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Human Service Delivery Organizations: Dead or Alive? ; Chapter 2: "I Gotta Get out of This Place": Workplace Stress as a Threat to Public Health ; Chapter 3: When Terror Becomes a Way of Life ; Chapter 4: Parallel Processes and Trauma-Organized Systems ; Chapter 5: Lack of Basic Safety ; Chapter 6: Loss of Emotional Management ; Chapter 7: Organizational Learning Disabilities, Organizational Amnesia, and Decision-Making Under Stress ; Chapter 8: Miscommunication, Conflict, and Organizational Alexithymia ; Chapter 9: Authoritarianism, Disempowerment, and Learned Helplessness ; Chapter 10: Punishment, Revenge, and Organizational Injustice ; Chapter 11: Unresolved Grief, Reenactment, and Decline ; Chapter 12: Restoring Sanctuary: Organizations as Living, Complex Adaptive Social Systems ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the general consensus that societal ills were at the root of mental illness. This book chronicles the surge in influence of socially attuned psychodynamic theories along with the rise of radical therapy and psychiatric survivors' movements.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the American intellectual history of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. For older readers, Staub provides a well-researched and insightful recreation of the debates that dominated a bygone period. For younger ones, he is a thoughtful guide to the general intellectual energy that the study of sanity and madness once provided. For both cohorts, he shows how much has been lost because of the absence of a genuinely social view of mental illness in current discourse about normality and abnormality. Staub's highly readable synthesis of a wide range of material is the single best source for a thoughtful discussion of the 'anti-psychiatry' movement that at the same time is so chronologically close yet so intellectually distant from our current era." (Allan V. Horwitz, Social History of Medicine)"

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Book SynopsisBefore the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental hospital or asylum, an institution for the so-called feebleminded, or a training school for delinquent children. Starting in the 1930s, however, more specialized institutions began to open all over the country. Staff members at these residential treatment centers shared a commitment to helping children who couldn't be managed at home. They adopted an integrated approach to treatment, employing talk therapy, schooling, and other activities in the context of a therapeutic environment. Emotionally Disturbed is the first work to examine not only the history of residential treatment, but also the history of seriously mentally ill children in the United States. As residential treatment centers emerged as new spaces with a fresh therapeutic per

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Book SynopsisIn the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and '70s, the popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. This title examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to absurd social conditions.Trade Review"With creative new arguments about anti-psychiatry and its connections to intellectual radicalism on both the left and the right, this is a valuable contribution to American intellectual history." (David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac)"

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the American mental health care system and its relationship with society and government."

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Book SynopsisThis work shows how and why case management and community support replaced psychiatry and mental hospitals. It examines everyday written and oral narratives to prove that the common critique of social workers - that they are state agents controlling clients - is untrue.Trade ReviewThis book provides a fascinating albeit bleak insight into the daily routine of practitioners. -- Camilla Parker European Journal of Public HealthTable of ContentsIntroduction The Formation of Community Support Services The Rise of the Case Manager Strengths Case Management Landscape for a Case Manager: The Carless Mentally Ill Oral and Written Narratives of Case Managers Money Meds Chapter 9. The Helper Habitus: Situated Knowledge and Case Management Chapter 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved in crafting the DSM and the many interests that the manual hopes to serve. The Diagnostic System urges us to become comfortable with the socially constructed nature of categorization and accept that a perfect taxonomy of mental-health disorders will remain elusive.Trade ReviewThe particular strength of this very well-written critique of psychiatric diagnosis is to examine how the DSM has a variety of constituencies—clinicians, researchers, patients, and the general public—that each has its own way of approaching the manual. -- Allan Horwitz, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, Rutgers UniversityIn an area too often marked by advocacy and polemic, The Diagnostic System provides a well-informed, judicious, and, in fact, invaluable guide to a complex body of scholarship and controversy. Perhaps most important, it addresses those complex interrelationships between individual experience and the social, cultural, and institutional circumstances that in part constitute that experience. It is an important book on a foundational if elusive set of questions. -- Charles E. Rosenberg, professor of the history of science and medicine and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard UniversitySober, clear, and even-handed, The Diagnostic System is an indispensable work. * Contemporary Sociology *A fluent, incisive, and eminently useful account of the classificatory system that informs clinical practice and research in American psychiatry today. * American Journal of Sociology *This book brings to light the difficult task of diagnosing psychiatric disorders with accuracy, reliability, and validity. Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Contested Ontology of Psychiatric Disorders2. What Diagnoses Are: DSM-III and the Form of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnoses3. DSM-III and the Descriptive Science of Psychiatric Disorders4. Rethinking the DSM5. How Professionals Use Diagnoses6. How the Public Uses Diagnoses7. How Scientists Use the DSM8. How Cultures Use Diagnoses9. The Contemporary Science of Psychiatric Nosology10. The Endless Search for Validity11. The Endurance of the Diagnostic SystemNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum''Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing adults''This groundbreaking work of social science explores life in ''total institutions'': the closed, regimented systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental hospitals, which cut individuals off from society. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed ''on the inside'', the loss of selfhood experienced by those held there, and the ways in which they try to regain their identities.''One of the most distinguished and provocative of social scientists'' The Times

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Book SynopsisA ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M. Clark.Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies thanks to the work of Richard Layard and David Clark. But, even so, in Britain and worldwide the majority of people who need help still don''t get treatment. This is both unjust and a false economy.This book argues for change. It shows that mental ill-health causes more of the suffering in our society than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. Moreover, greater spending on helping people to recover from mental health problems - and stay well - would generate massive savings to national economies, as those who suffer from depression and anxiety disorders account for nearly a half of all disability and are predominantly of working age. Modern talking therapies, such as CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), are highly effective, and if more

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'I find myself at a loss for how to describe this remarkable work. Just as Karl has, through his laboratory, reimagined, and literally redefined how we view the human brain, he has reimagined and redefined what literary non-fiction can be, with great elegance. For all of us who write about science for the public, this will be a tough act to follow. It's poetic, mind-stretching, and through it all, deeply human' -- Daniel Levitin'Revelatory ... it recalls the case histories of Oliver Sacks, at times the sweep of Yuval Harari's Sapiens. He writes with an evident love of words - but also, with a lucid line of scientific enquiry' -- Richard Godwin * Guardian *'There are some books that you read and forget. There are others that you read and think about occasionally. Then there are rare gems like Connections that you read, read again and find that the way you think has been irreversibly changed. Incredibly powerful' -- Sue Black, author of All That Remains'Karl Deisseroth is a master storyteller. Armed with an abundance of compassion and curiosity, he takes us on a spellbinding tour of the mysteries of the human mind through a series of fascinating case studies. His graceful prose weaves a tapestry of complex ideas into memorable stories, each illuminated by cutting-edge science. A delight from the opening paragraph to the stunning conclusion, this book is an invitation to reverence for the complexity of the human brain and its relationship to the mind: a ticket to a state of wonder at the essence of our selves' -- Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in Mind'Deisseroth is a talented writer ... It is in his encounters with distressed patients that his talent for marrying science and the imagination becomes most apparent and that his writing comes truly alive. Connections warrants comparison with books such as Do No Harm by Henry Marsh and Brainstorm by Suzanne Sullivan . . . Deisseroth achieves the difficult feat of moving and enlightening the reader at the same time ... [this is] a book that is beautiful to read and packed with cutting edge science' -- Mark Honigsbaum * Observer *'This hybrid memoir, by an emergency-room psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry and bioengineering, probes the evolutionary origins of human emotions' * New Yorker *'Essential...tinged with a profound humility built over years of interactions with patients... this is big' * Psychology Today *'Deisseroth is a genuine pioneer, whose prize-winning research is re-defining our understanding of the brain... a stunning work from a relatively young man set on revealing the threads connecting our most pressing personal concerns with our timeless biological inheritance... Deisseroth has the imagination and literary gift to make it speak to all of us' * Literary Review *'Karl Deisseroth's imaginative narrative flows effortlessly... There is a first love of reading and writing and hints of a literary imagination that draws on James Joyce and Toni Morrison... Deisseroth endeavors to find an emotive language for the psychiatric patients he meets. He accomplishes this by weaving together... psychiatric knowledge, technology, and imagination. These together free him to write poetically... His narratives are always sensitive... an admixture of fact and fiction, reality and imagination, damage and desire' * Science *'[Deisseroth's] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions, based on observations of his patients, proves he is not exaggerating. It is also a great read' * Nature *'I've known Karl as a colleague, a scientist whose discoveries in the lab have been breathtaking and revolutionary. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised to discover he's also a stunning writer, his words guiding us to a profound understanding of the nature of human emotions, seamlessly invoking Ovid and optogenetics, Borges and basal ganglia as he takes on this journey. Projections is a tour de force' -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone'Karl Deisseroth intertwines neuroscience and human stories in a way that is altogether new: technical, lyrical, and deeply compassionate all at once. Through sharing what he's learned as a groundbreaking scientist and a psychiatrist caring for patients with severe illness, he reveals glimmer of what makes us human. This is a crucial book for anyone who loves science, anyone who loves someone suffering from a disorder of the brain, or anyone who, like so many of us, loves both' -- Lucy Kalanithi'The writing in this exploration of what causes human emotion at a cellular level is extraordinarily good, inviting comparisons with the work of Oliver Sacks and Henry Marsh' (Editor's Choice) * Bookseller *'Deisseroth, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, melds the personal with the clinical in his masterful debut on how the human mind works and what can be learned when it goes awry ... writing with abundant empathy, Deisseroth brings his patients' struggles to life as he educates about both neuroscience and humanity. This is a must-read' * Publishers Weekly *'Unique and utterly riveting, Projections braids together three skeins from Karl Deisseroth's life: his painstaking clinical experience as a psychiatrist, dedicated to helping patients; his ingenious inventions in biotechnology that have ushered in waves of new insights into how brains work; and his life as a humble and caring social human being with a gift for crafting a spellbinding chronicle. This is a masterpiece written for each and every one of us' -- Patricia Churchland, author of Conscience'Karl Deisseroth is already known around the world as a groundbreaking scientist who has pioneered dazzling new techniques for investigating the brain. In this enthralling masterpiece of a book, he demonstrates that he is also a perceptive psychiatrist, as well as a spellbinding writer who beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience' -- Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate and author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm'We are living during a revolution in our understanding of the human brain, and Karl Deisseroth has been at the forefront of these advances. This magisterial work shows that not only is he one of our leading scientists, but also a gifted writer and storyteller. With precise yet luminous prose, he merges stories of cutting-edge neuroscience with a deep reverence for his patients' humanity' -- Neil Shubin, author of Some Assembly Required'Deisseroth writes of heartbreaking and desperate medical cases with a doctor's knowledge, and a novelist's skill for narrative. I could not put this book down' -- May-Britt Moser, Nobel Laureate

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Tackling the history of mental illness in terms of the ‘institutional dualism’ of psychiatry and vernacular healing makes Disturbing Spirits refreshing and dynamic.” —Kristina L. Richardson, author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World"Disturbing Spirits is a groundbreaking study written with remarkable clarity and empathy. Spanning over one hundred years of history and weaving together different disciplines, approaches, and a wealth of untapped primary sources, it tells the compelling story of the failure of the medical elites in Syria and Lebanon to impose modern psychiatry and erase local beliefs about the power of spirits to both cause and treat mental illnesses." —Sara Scalenghe, author of Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500–1800"In this original exploration of how war in Syria and Lebanon over the last century contributed to enduring psychological instabilities in these countries, Beverly Tsacoyianis offers a valuable contribution to the study of the modern Middle East. . . . this book successfully opens new avenues of research that ethically engage social justice and disability rights’ themes." —Choice"Disturbing Spirits is an interdisciplinary and rich study of the history of illness in Syria and Lebanon that provides various contributions to scholarship in the Middle East and trauma studies, medical humanities, and the overall history of health and healing." —Journal of the History of Behavioral Science"Tsacoyianis’s book is a highly empathetic look at the history of mental illness treatment in Syria and Lebanon from the late nineteenth century to today. The importance of vernacular healing practices should not be neglected by historians simply because they are difficult to document or quantify." —H-Sci-Med-TechTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Vernacular Healing in Greater Syria 2. The Origins of Greater Syrian Medical Institutions 3. Medical Missionaries and the Lebanon Mental Hospital, 1899–1983 4. Secular Healing and Ibn Sina Mental Hospital, 1922–2018 5. Literature, Civil War, and (Ef)facing Syrian and Lebanese History Conclusion

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Book SynopsisExplores graphic pathography, long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired, and how it improves various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. Trade Review“Monica Chiu demonstrates that the highly personalized rendering of illness experience in graphic pathographies provides readers with an embodied illness perspective that significantly differs from biomedical and clinical accounts, diagnoses, and understandings of illness. Her study on how drawing in graphic pathographies functions to retell and reimagine illness from an ill individual’s perspective is poised to make a foundational contribution to a field of study that is just now reaching maturation.”—Nancy Pedri,Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Trade Review"An interesting and insightful book that makes major strides in solving the intractable problem of promoting healthy behavior change. It was a pleasure to read."—Edward L. Deci, University of Rochester "This book describes how self-determination theory can be applied in clinical settings, including both health care and mental health settings. I enthusiastically applaud this effort."—Holley Hodgins, Skidmore College“In this fascinating marriage of humanistic and scientific psychology, Kennon Sheldon and his colleagues show how clinicians can harness people’s needs for autonomy, competence, and connection. By weaving theory, evidence, and engaging case studies, they show how the application of self-determination theory can enable healthier emotions and behaviors. This is clinical science at its best.”—David G. Myers, Hope College, author Intuition: Its Powers and Perils "This book offers an excellent introduction to Self-Determination Theory, and how it can be used effectively in clinical practice. The volume covers concepts ranging from the experiencing self to self-actualization, and from autonomy to the ownership of behavior. The authors show how Self-Determination Theory can be used to help clients manage physical health problems, to overcome behavioral problems such as drug abuse and eating disorders and to tackle mood disorders such as depression and phobias. The authors provide the fresh insights of Self-Determination Theory to clinical practice in a clear and practical way."—Ed Diener, University of Illinois “Motivation is so often the critical, and yet missing, ingredient in producing successful clinical outcomes. Sheldon, Williams and Joiner bring the practitioner’s role in facilitating motivation into the spotlight, and they reveal the key elements that activate and sustain people as they make those difficult changes that ultimately enhance health and daily living.”—Richard M. Ryan, University of Rochester

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“I found [The Craving Mind] to be one of the best things I’ve read . . . on addiction.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times“It has a lot of practical advice, combining mindfulness training with patient testimonies and clinical practice. . . . [A] great book everyone should read.”—Irvine Welsh, Metro“Accessible and enjoyable. The Craving Mind brilliantly combines the latest science with universal real-life experiences—from falling in love to spending too much time with our phones.”—Arianna Huffington“This masterful, personal, friendly, compelling, humorous, and erudite book offers us a radically new perspective on learning, on breaking habits of mind not by force or through the application of will power or the desire for a reward, but by truly inhabiting the domain of being.”—Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Foreword“Entertaining and profound, Judson Brewer’s book brings our everyday addictions into clear view, helping us see how we get caught up in our habits, and giving us simple, grounded steps that we can take to overcome them. Wisdom infuses his research as he offers us a path of exploration to better our lives.”—Jewel, Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and author“The core perception that ‘something is missing’ drives us to addiction and deprives us of the chance to live fully. By bringing together cutting-edge Western science, the radical insights of Buddhist psychology, and mindfulness practices, Judson Brewer offers a direct pathway to freeing our minds from the domination of craving.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge“The Craving Mind is a remarkable book, one that will help free us from the powerful habits of craving and addiction. Brewer lays out a practical and empirically based pathway to greater freedom and ease in our lives. For many readers, this book will be life-transforming.”—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening “As Co-Chair of the Congressional Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery Caucus, I’ve seen first hand the need for action on addiction and substance abuse. I am thrilled that Judson Brewer has taken his extensive research on mindfulness and outlined its benefits for those battling this terrible disease. This book couldn’t come at a time of greater need.”—U.S. Representative Tim Ryan, Ohio, author of A Mindful Nation “Judson Brewer’s revolutionary approach challenges all of us to look again and really see what gets us stuck in self-destructive habits, and how we can, at last, free ourselves from them.”—Mark Williams, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisIn her eye-opening, ruthlessly honest account, Darcy Lockman shares the stress, frustratation, and exhilaration of her clinical training as a psychologist in the midst of institutional dysfunction at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital.  After leaving her career in magazine journalism to become a psychotherapist, Darcy Lockman confronted a slew of challenges including numerous troubling cases, struggles to provide the poor and chronically ill with adequate care, and the general and sometimes humorous indignities of being a trainee in any field. This compelling memoir will by turns deeply move, shock, and enrage you. Hope is not lost though, and Brooklyn Zoo introduces us to the many smart people currently trying to fix the mental health-care system, enhancing our understanding of what psychologists can make possible through their work.

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Book SynopsisâœThere is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best make a difference.âAlan Simpson, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Health Service and Population Research, Kingâs College London, UKâœAny one of us could experience a mental health crisis. However, a high-quality interdisciplinary response can be lifesaving and life changing. This book is an important contribution to the literature as it has examples ofgood practice for all professionals â both on the frontline and in service development.âDr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UKâœThis publication is a valuable and timely resource given the increasing recognition of the impact of mental health needs in a range of different professional settings.âVictoriTable of ContentsForeword – Alan SimpsonList of ContributorsPrefaceChapter 1 – Laying the foundations of crisis, interprofessionalism and recoveryStevie Morris, Jo Williams, and Kris DeeringChapter 2 – Mental Health Crises in an Emergency Department.Andy Hill and Dr Amy ManleyChapter 3 – The role of mental health services with crisis management. Rob Williams, Jordan Hodge, and Kris DeeringChapter 4 – Policing the mental health crisisAnne Eason, Rob Starr and Matt GauntChapter 5 – The role of the paramedic in mental health crisis care. David WilliamsChapter 6 – The role of mental health social workers in crisis work – values, responsibilities, powers, and duties.Robert Lomax and Dr Kevin StoneChapter 7 – Collaboration and whole system working.Jo Williams and Kris DeeringGlossary of TermsIndex

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Book SynopsisMost specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart of the nurseâs role, with one central aim: to equip you with knowledge to use in your practice, thus improving your ability to deliver care. This book:â Will enable you to strengthen your  core therapeutic skills and broaden your knowledge to include other practical therapeutic approachesâ Collates in one place information on a range of therapeutic approaches, from person centred counselling, motivational interviewing and solution focused approaches, through to day to day skills of challenging unhelpful thoughts, de-escalating difficult situations, working with families, and problem solvingâ Demonstrates application of theory to practice through a variety of practical examples â Features reader activities to facilitate personal growth and lTable of ContentsPart 1: Foundations for practice1. Conducting assessment interviews2. Clinical supervision Part 2: Therapeutic skills3. Person centred counselling4. Using a solution focused approach5. Motivational interviewing6. Using the skills of problem solving7. The skill of offering psychoeducation8. Skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts9. Validation skills applied to people with dementia 10. Preventing relapse11. Behavioural management/activation 12. Mindfulness13. De-escalating volatile situationsPart 3: Working with families and groups14. Working systemically with families in mind15. Working with groups 16. Family intervention in psychosis

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Book Synopsis''The ultimate guide on how to stay healthy as a man, both physically and mentally''JASON FOX, EX-SPECIAL FORCES AND BESTSELLING AUTHORBeing a man is bad for your health. Not only do men have a greater chance of getting almost every illness but they die sooner too: one in five men die before the age of 65. So why do so many men still accept poor health as a consequence of ''just getting older''?In MAN ALIVE, Dr Jeff Foster, men''s health specialist and private GP, examines the most commonly misunderstood aspects of men''s health, such as testosterone deficiency and ''male menopause'', heart disease, diabetes and mental health. He also looks at conditions related to male anatomy and physiology, including erectile dysfunction and prostate disease, with advice on what symptoms and signs to look for, how to self-examine, and when to consider seeing a doctor. Dr Foster covers problems to do with lifestyle too, including obesity, poor sleep, bad nutrition, and lack of exercise, and he examines the evidence for specific health claims - busting plenty of myths along the way.''An immensely useful and practical guide, answering the questions that every man has about their day-to-day health''IAN MARBER''Many men avoid going to the doctor as they fear their concerns are either embarrassing or they will not be taken seriously. This book will empower men with the right information to change this''DR LOUISE NEWSONTrade ReviewMAN ALIVE provides the ultimate guide on how to stay healthy as a man, both physically and mentally. A thought-provoking and informative read that gives every man the tools he needs to live a healthier, happier and longer life -- Jason Fox, ex-special forces and bestselling authorDr Foster's excellent book MAN ALIVE is both timely and transformational. Accessible, fascinating and clearly explained, it contains everything a man could need to stay heads up, happy and heedful. Read it guys! -- Dr Hilary JonesMAN ALIVE is an immensely useful and practical guide, answering the questions that every man has about their day-to-day health. Dr Jeff Foster brings to life issues that men should know about (but mostly don't), explaining and advising in a clear and relatable way. It's a book that you will refer to again and again -- Ian MarberThis is a fabulous book for all men (and women) to read. There is so much information written in a clear and comprehensive style supported by the current evidence. Men's health is often neglected and so many men avoid going to the doctors as they fear their concerns are either embarrassing or they will not be taken seriously. This book will empower men with the right information to change this -- Dr Louise NewsonA brilliant book: as important and engaging as checking my own balls -- Russell Kane

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Book SynopsisMental health has always been a low priority worldwide. Yet more than 650 million people are estimated to meet diagnostic criteria for common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, with almost three-quarters of that burden in low- and middle-income countries. Nowhere in the world does mental health enjoy parity with physical health. Notwithstanding astonishing medical advancements in treatments for physical illnesses, mental disorder continues to have a startlingly high mortality rate. However, despite its widespread neglect, there is now an emerging international imperative to improve global mental health and wellbeing. The UN's current international development agenda finalised at the end of 2015 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. Although much broader in focus than the previous eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the need for worldwide improvement in mentTrade Review'This superb collection of chapters, written by over 30 leading experts around the world including the editor, Laura Davidson, comprehensively surveys mental health in the context of international development. Bringing together a range of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives ….[a] clear message emanating from this book is the inter-connectedness of SDG3 with many of the other SDGs .... [it is] an indispensable and unique tool for what ought to be one of the highest priorities of the SDG era.'—Foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General on the Sustainable Development GoalsTable of ContentsForeword, Jeffrey Sachs, The New UN Health Agenda I: The ImperativeChapter 1Shekhar Saxena and Laura Davidson,The Global Mental Health Imperative and the Role of the World Health Organization within the UN 2030 AgendaChapter 2, Larry Gostin and Laura Davidson, The Rights to Mental Health and DevelopmentII: Economic Perspectives Chapter 3Martin Knapp and Valentina Iemmi, Meeting SDG3: The Role of Economics in Mental Health PolicyChapter 4,Judith Bass, The Relationship between Mental Health and Poverty in LMICsChapter 5,Chris Underhill, Victoria Ngo and Tam Nguyen,Meeting SDG1 and SDG3: Addressing the Link Between Mental Health and Economic Development in VietnamChapter 6,Sean Kidd and Kwame McKenzie, Social entrepreneurship and systems thinking about mental illness in LMICsIII: Demographic and Cultural PerspectivesChapter 7, Joseph D. Calabrese, Understanding Traditional and Other Culture-Based Approaches to Mental Illness in Lower and Middle Income ContextsChapter 8,Carol Vlassoff,Addressing Mental Health from a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities in Meeting SDG3Chapter 9, Svend Aage Madsen, Men’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Global challengeChapter 10, Guglielmo Schinina and Karoline Popp, The Mental Health and Well-being of Migrants in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development AgendaChapter 11, Cornelius Ani and Olayinka Omigbodun, The Sustainable Development Goals and Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Low and Middle Income CountriesChapter 12, Stephen J. Bartels, The Global Challenge of Mental Health and Ageing, and Scalable Innovations in Mental Health Services for Older AdultsIV: PolicyChapter 13, Rachel Jenkins, Strengthening Government Policy to Achieve Target 3.4 of SDG3Chapter 14, Aart Hendriks, Mental health, disability rights and equal access to employment: Global challenges in light of the SDGsChapter 15, Dainius Pūras and Julie Hannah, Prioritising Rights-Based Mental Health Care in the 2030 AgendaChapter 16, Giuseppe Raviola, Natural and Humanitarian Disasters, and Mental Health: Lessons from HaitiChapter 17, Peter Lehmann, Paradigm Shift: Treatment Alternatives to Psychiatric Drugs, with Particular Reference to LMICsV: Legal PerspectivesChapter 18, Peter Bartlett,Mental Disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development GoalsChapter 19,David Bilchitz, The Sustainable Development Goals, Psychosocial Disability, and the Meaning of Wellbeing in SDG3: Towards an Approach that Combines the Subjective and ObjectiveChapter 20, Laura Davidson,International Monitoring and Enforcement Mechanisms for Violations of Human Rights in the Global Mental Health ContextChapter 21,Laura Davidson, The Law as Sword and Shield: Realising the Rights of those with Psychosocial Disability Through International, National and Regional Complaints SystemsVI: Country Perspectives Chapter 22, Salam A. Gómez,A Case Study: Colombia, Conflict, and the Peace Process from a User-PerspectiveChapter 23,Amita Danda,Legislating on Mental Health in India to Achieve SDG3Chapter 24,Sharon Primor and Dahlia Virtzberg-RofeBreaking the Restraints: Civil Society’s Struggle to Abolish Human Rights Violations in Israel’s Psychiatric SystemAfterword, Vikram Patel,Joining Up for Our Future in Global Mental Health Index

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Book SynopsisPromoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields.Trade Review"In Promoting Resilience Thompson and Cox offer insight into a wide range of contexts in which resilience is relevant. They uniquely apply both a sociological perspective and a practice focus to the study of resilience and in so doing significantly deepen understanding of this complex topic." — Susan E. Wright, PhD, professor emerita of sociology, Drake University, USA"Promoting Resilience fulfills the lofty objective of its title, bringing together a truly global team to prepare essays that draw upon each other's work. We learn practical ways to be more resilient and to help those in our communities and social networks to thrive the crises that come with life. The contributors draw upon examples from the everyday workplace to locales ranging from a schoolyard in Scotland to the Outback in Australia. The reader is left with insight into the role of community and social capital in overcoming adversity, vulnerability, loss, and grief." — Richard T. Schaefer, Department of Sociology, DePaul University, USA"Thompson and Cox have assembled a team of scholars that have collectively applied the concept of resilience in concise and thought-provoking ways to a range of situations that produce ontological insecurity. In so doing, they have succeeded in addressing the challenge posed by Joel Best in his foreword, which is to prove the value of this relatively new concept." — Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, USA"Promoting Resilience makes an important contribution to the literature on bereavement, loss, death and dying and is a valuable addition to the field of mental health more generally. It will engage students, practitioners, professionals, as well as scholars and anyone else interested in how we as humans confront and survive adversity. The book’s main point, presented in an excellent and thorough introductory chapter, is to challenge the common understanding of resilience as an individual trait or achievement. In contrast, the book re-positions resilience as a complex, multi-dimensional, socially constructed product of communities, families, institutions, and cultures, plus myriad care professionals and informal helpers. Throughout the book’s 30 chapters, a range of contributors elaborate on this perspective with sociological theory and compelling examples from some of the most troubling societal problems and crises of our time. Seeing resilience as a social-cultural phenomenon adds a significant dimension to the discussion of how we respond to tragedy and adversity and helps point the way forward toward better preparation and outcomes. As such, this book is a fresh and welcome addition to the literature." — Mary Zimmerman, professor of health policy and sociology, University of Kansas, USATable of ContentsPart One: Understanding ResilienceIntroduction1. Making Sense of ResilienceGerry R. Cox and Neil ThompsonPart Two: Developing ResilienceIntroduction2. Resilience in American Indian Communities Gerry R. Cox3. "Yma O Hyd": Language and ResilienceNeil Thompson4. Community Resilience: Reflections on a Community Response to Tragedy Ros Scott5. Tragedy and Injustice Michael Brennan6. Living with Terrorism Andy Hau Yan Ho and Geraldine Tan-Ho7. Violent Crime and ResilienceGerry R. Cox8. Mental Health Problems: Getting to the HEART of ResilienceNeil Thompson9. Alcohol and Drugs: Resilience in Use and UsersWulf Livingston 10. The Spirit of Resilience through the Prism of Homelessness: Avoiding Stigma and Labelization Gerry Skelton 11. Resilience and Poverty Signe Dobelniece12. Resilience in the Alice Springs Town CampsShirleen Campbell, Maree Corbo and Ronnie Egan 13. "It Takes a Lot of Energy": Surviving SexismTashel C. Bordere, Elizabeth A. Sharp, and Celeste Medina 14. Family Resilience in Dealing with Grief and Loss: A Sociological PerspectivePaul C. Rosenblatt15. Building a Narrative of Resilience for RefugeesChristopher Cox16. Resilience and Older People Denise Tanner17. Recovering from Childhood Trauma Vivienne Dacre18. Care Leavers and ResilienceLorna Stabler19. The Role of the School Robert G. Stevenson20. Building Resilience in Organizations: A Challenge for Leaders: What Happens if Leaders Get Sick?Rozana Huq21. Resilience at WorkNeil Thompson22. Promoting Resilience, Challenging Bullying Andrew Vitale23. Resilience and Spirituality: A personal Perspective Bernard Moss24. Resilience through Meaning Making Neil Thompson25. Resilience and Continuing Bonds Charles A. Corr and Kenneth J. Doka26. The Dual Process Model and Resilience Amy Y. M. Chow27. The Role of Pastoral Care Bernard Moss28. Promoting Resilience in Social Work – From the "Comfort of Strangers" to Community Empowerment and the "Management of Risk"Paul Stepney29. An Exhibition on Resilience for a Time of GriefWendy Bowler30. Compassion and ResilienceDarcy Harris

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Book SynopsisAs pressure grows on care managers and staff to work with ever more complex needs, this book is a timely account of how introducing the Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) principles into a care home will improve work practice and outcomes for residents. The PIE approach enables staff to: Have improved understanding of residents' needs Better understand how to respond effectively to complex behaviour Introduce trauma-informed practice into their work Improve staff support and morale Improve outcomes for even the most hard to reach clients Reflecting on one care homeâs journey to becoming a PIE this book shows how low-cost, high-impact interventions delivered on the frontline can have far reaching effects on the wellbeing of residents, staff and wider culture of the care environment. It will be of interest to all professional, academics, policy-makers and students working in the fields of adult social services and health and social care more broadly.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1 Highwater House. 2 What is a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE)? 3 Trauma-Informed Care. 4 Relationships. 5 Reflective Practice. 6 Elastic Tolerance. 7 Psychological Awareness. 8 Environment. 9 Evidence. 10 Rules, Roles, and Responsiveness (The 3 Rs). 11 Staff Support and Training. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour - Perceptual Control Theory - can be applied to create mental health services that are more effective, efficient, and humane.Authored by clinicians, academics, and experts-by-experience, the text explores the way Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) principles can be applied within the secondary mental healthcare system â from the overall commissioning and design of services to the practice of individual clinicians. A range of topics relevant to the delivery of secondary mental healthcare are covered, including community and inpatient working, the delivery of individual psychological therapy, the use of restrictive practices, and working with relatives and carers. The book concludes by describing PCTâs unique contribution to the field of mental healthcare.The book, one of the first of its kind, will be of interest to students and practitioners from a range of health and social care backgrounds, as well as service managers, commissioners, academics, and policy makers. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Trade Review‘Rethinking Secondary Mental Healthcare: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective provides a comprehensive deconstruction of the limitations of current mental healthcare design and delivery. Whilst the critiques in this book are stark, I don’t think any of the observations of current provision will be received as a blindside by practitioners. An achievement of the authors is that they have been able to synthesise, using the theoretical lens of Perceptual Control Theory, and write about, their collective experiences as clinicians and users of mental health services, without the undertone of blame or ressentiment that often (perhaps, understandably) characterises critiques of psychiatry. This should enable the radical yet practicable ideas and solutions to be confronted without moral injury to any individual or group who have a stake in the quality and safety of mental health services. The deficiencies in care and compassion that are outlined in the book are, after all, a product of systemic rather than individual failings (i.e., conceptualisations of mental distress that are impersonal and of questionable validity, the pervasive experience of being ‘too ill’ or ‘not ill enough’ to receive any or certain types of support, and arbitrary limits set on the duration and intensity of the support that is offered). The book’s fundamental proposition is that mental service design and delivery should be transformed via radical shifts in the ways that behaviour and distress are conceptualised. Namely, that behaviour is a product of efforts to control perceptual input, distress is a consequence of conflicting goals in the attainment of desired perceptual states, and that effective support should be characterised by the facilitated reorganisation of goal conflicts to reduce distress. It is, fundamentally, a profoundly optimistic text that everyone working in mental health should read.’Owen Price, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, University of Manchester.‘This text will – I suspect – force professional readers to question many assumptions they hold about the nature of psychological distress and its alleviation, whilst simultaneously striking service users as common sense. Rooted in PCT, the text has wide-ranging implications for the way services are designed and delivered, advocating for the allocation of control to service users wherever possible. Time will tell whether the proposals stand up to empirical testing and deliver on the promise of more effective and efficient care. Irrespective, the over-arching aims of the text are I believe commendable and much needed in the context of over-stretched services.’Marc Tibber, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University College London.‘A shroud of pessimism has long stymied secondary care mental health services. The people who use them have been viewed as passive recipients of their own care. In this brilliant book, Robert Griffiths and colleagues draw from Perceptual Control Theory to reimagine services that place people as central agents in their own recovery. People are driven by individual goals and are seen as controllers of their own perceptions. Given the right environment, people are capable of solving the inevitable conflicts that emerge when dealing with the complexity of their lives. The challenge then, is to create environments that allow people and families to creatively address these conflicts, in order to find their own solutions. This book provides a blueprint for services to do just that, and in doing so, moves secondary mental health care to a place of hope and optimism.’James Kelly, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Lancaster University; and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Greater Manchester Mental NHS Foundation Trust.‘This original and insightful text offers a fresh perspective on the organisation of mental health care and support. The recognition that control over aspects of one’s life, or lack of it, might be the most crucial consideration regarding disturbances to mental health is the pivotal touchstone for examining identified shortcomings of mental health services and pointing to solutions. The proposed remedies appear to have great promise in tackling the alienating features of contemporary services, offering a route to more democratic, relational, person-centred responses. Even if the suggested approach to redesign is not to be adopted wholesale, this book offers clear food for thought for practitioners, service users and families who are rightly concerned about the lack of choice within services overly reliant upon coercion rather than consent.’Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire.'Radical, practical and humane. This work deserves to be a seminal text in the field of secondary mental healthcare and required reading for students, practitioners and managers who wish to be a part of the solution, rather than the problem.'Nathan Filer, author of This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health and The Shock of the Fall‘As many mental health services seek to redefine how care is provided, this book gives a theoretically sound framework for coherent patient-perspective-care. Perceptual control theory is offered as a guiding model for mental health services and potentially for shaping communities and society. As a service model and an approach to psychological therapy, PCT gives us something properly new and inviting as an alternative. As a psychological therapy, Method of Levels is truly oriented to patients’ priorities, from the timing and duration of sessions to the moment-by-moment content. The book itself is a collaboration between those who have used mental health services and those who work in them. The superb writing in this book is made richer with the views and stories of patients.’Christopher Whiteley, Chief Psychologist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.‘This book succeeds in that all too rare a feat of being both an enjoyable read, alongside explaining some important ideas in easily digestible form. As a clinical psychologist within the NHS who, in addition to delivering psychological therapy, is also involved in service evaluation, design, and management, there are many lessons contained within these pages for me to consider. As a parent of two feisty children, the lessons the book has taught me about control, conflict and reorganisation have also contributed towards me upping my game on the parenting front. So, if you want to improve your standard of therapy, or survive and thrive within services, which we all know have a long way to go, or if you want a solid strategy to remain present and compassionate alongside feisty family or friends of your own, then give yourself the chance to enjoy this book like I did.’John Mulligan, Lead Clinical Psychologist, Manchester Early Intervention Service, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.“This is the most important and exciting book I’ve read in a long time. It explains in everyday language recent developments in psychological science which have profound implications, and the potential completely to transform mental health services. The principles it sets out are revolutionary, but also simple – and liberating for both clinicians and those experiencing mental health problems. The book is supremely practical too, and full of stories that inspire.”Anne Cooke, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing an Approach to Secondary Mental Healthcare that is Informed by Perceptual Control Theory PrinciplesChapter 2: A Perceptual Control Theory Account of Mental Health, Psychological Distress, and WellbeingChapter 3: Using Perceptual Control Theory Principles to Improve Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 4: Individual Psychological Therapy: The Method of LevelsChapter 5: Adopting Perceptual Control Theory Principles in Mental Health Inpatient Settings and other Restrictive ContextsChapter 6: Towards a Perceptual Control Theory-Informed Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 7: Working with Relatives and Carers of People Using Secondary Mental HealthcareChapter 8: Perceptual Control Theory as a Unique Biopsychological Approach to Secondary Mental Healthcare

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women's rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and therapies has had mixed implications, sometimes replacing genuine social change efforts with new forms of female oppression by psychiatry. It contends that trauma interventions often represent a business as usual approach within psychiatry, with women being expected to comply with rigid treatment protocols, accepting the advice given by trauma experts that they are mentally unstable and that they must learn to manage the effects of violence in the absence of any real changes to their circumstances or resources. A critique of trauma treatment in its current form, Trauma, Women's Mental Health, and Social Justice recommends practical steps towards a socio-political perspective on trauma which passionately re-engages with feminist values and activist principles. Table of Contents1. Introducing a Critical Perspective on Trauma 2. Interrogating Biomedical Dominance: Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Mental Health 3. The Mainstreaming of Trauma in Mental Health: Radical Critique, or Business as Usual? 4. Symptoms or Social Justice? Contested Understandings of Trauma 5. Dysfunctional and Responsible: Women’s Accounts of Therapeutic Responses to Gender-Based Violence 6. De-therapising Trauma: Negotiating the Contested Trauma Concept

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Book SynopsisThis book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities. It provides an overview of current research, practices, and legal considerations for interviewing vulnerable suspects, incorporating guidelines regarding the identification of vulnerabilities, engaging with third parties in the interview, and training and supervision. It then goes on to cover specific vulnerabilities typically encountered in suspect populations, providing clear summaries of current research, case studies, and practical guidance for conducting interviews with these populations to facilitate best practice in interviewing. Expertise is drawn from both law enforcement practice and academic research to ensure an evidence-based approach that is relevant for contemporary practice. Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects offers the international policing audience a practical guide to interviewing vulnerable suspects for both uniform police and detectives. It is relTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart IChapter 1 - Vulnerability: The bigger pictureJane Tudor-Owen and Celine van GoldeChapter 2 - Identifying vulnerability: The importance of planning and rapportJane Tudor-Owen and Celine van GoldeChapter 3 - Interviewing with a third partyJane Tudor-Owen and Celine van GoldeChapter 4 - Training interviewersRay Bull and Becky MilneChapter 5 - Interview supervision and managementRay Bull and Becky MilnePart IIChapter 6 - Interviewing intoxicated suspectsCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeChapter 7 - Interviewing older adult suspectsCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeChapter 8 - Children as suspectsCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeChapter 9 - Interviewing suspects with mental illnessJane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, and David GeeChapter 10 - Interviewing suspects with intellectual and learning impairmentsCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeChapter 11 - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) and First Nations suspectsCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeChapter 12 - Interviewing in the context of gender and sexual diversityJane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, and David GeeChapter 13 - Interviewing suspects with a hearing impairmentCeline van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David GeeConclusion

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Book SynopsisRisk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation's agenda. This updated and expanded new edition provides an informative and practical guide to the process of undertaking a risk assessment, arriving at a risk formulation and developing a risk management plan.Covering everything a practitioner may have to think about when undertaking risk assessments in an accessible, logical form, the second edition of A Pocket Guide to Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health includes new and expanded content on: risk formulation; working in forensic settings; specific mental health disorders; models of suicide and self-harm; and triage. It features practice recommendations rooted in the latest theory and evidence base, clinical tip boxes, tables, diagrams and case examples, along with samples of authentic dialogue which demonstrate ways to formulate questions and think about complex problems with the person being assessed. A series of accompanyTable of Contents0.Introduction. 1.Risk assessment; an overview. 2.General principles of risk assessment. 3.Undertaking a risk assessment. 4.Developing a risk formulation. 5.Managing risk. 6.Summary and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisMind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.Trade Review"Rosenhan’s study exemplifies much of what went wrong in twentieth-century psychiatry, as biologists, psychoanalysts and sociologists struggled for supremacy. Science historian Anne Harrington takes us through the painful history of that struggle in the enthralling Mind Fixers, which focuses particularly on the United States." -- Nature"…often shocking but admirably fair and level-headed history…" -- Simon Ings - New Scientist"Superb… nuanced… In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington has written an excellent, engaging guide to what biological psychiatry has accomplished—and not accomplished—so far." -- Richard J. McNally - The Wall Street Journal"The story Harrington tells is one of push-and-pull, back-and-forth… Intricate and winding, though her prose remains clear and crisp." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"A laudable venture, in which Harrington’s intellectual precision and exacting research cannot be faulted." -- Helen Thompson - The New York Times Book Review"By charting our fluctuating beliefs about our own minds, Harrington effectively tells a story about the twentieth century itself." -- The New Yorker"A tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster... Of value to historians of medicine." -- The Atlantic"Masterful… Harrington’s grasp of this story and the clarity with which, with limited moralism, she delivers a tale about the ‘big picture’ of psychiatry and neurology is emblematic of the historian’s craft." -- Stephen T. Casper - Science

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Book SynopsisExpert advice from the medical director of the country's largest state mental health system and the mental health editor of The Huffington Post.Trade Review"[Sederer] is the rare combination of public health expert, teacher, and writer and has put all of his skills together in this superb volume... This is one of the best and most practical guides for families. It will also be extremely useful in helping clinicians (physicians and other professionals) understand how to work with families and the lay language they need to use to empower families to be treatment extenders in many different settings...as well as to trainees and young clinicians embarking on practices that must include not only individuals in need but also interventions with families." -- Journal of Psychiatric Practice "Dr. Lloyd Sederer has spent his impressive medical career in psychiatry and demonstrates both his knowledge and sensitivity in his book ... The Family Guide to Mental Health Care provides families with valuable resources, but maybe everyone should read it. To change attitudes about mental illness requires that everyone listen and understand." -- America "[A] practical, easy-to-read assortment of information and advice for many persons who have adult loved ones with a mental illness." -- Psychiatric Services "If you have a family member with mental illness, then The Family Guide to Mental Health Care by Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., is the book for you... Even more impressive than his credentials is his straightforward, warm, compassionate tone." -- NAMI Advocate "[A]n excellent resource for families struggling with a loved one's mental illness." -- The National Council for Behavioral Health "If your practice or your advocacy efforts place you anywhere near people encountering the mental health system for the first time, please have a look at this book. Piles of them - the books, not the patients - should be sitting in the waiting area of every mental health center and emergency department (ED). A brief literature search suggests there is nothing published like this book. In any case, this one is so comprehensive while remaining so welcoming; it is so authoritative and yet unintimidating, one need not look further." -- Psychiatric Times "[A] compassionate and fact-packed guide for families struggling with mental illness." -- NAMI-NYC Metro Newsletter "[P]ractical and compassionate." -- Booklist "[A] thoughtful, compassionate, and fact-packed guide for recognizing illness and getting help... With passionate optimism, Sederer examines the facts about diagnoses, treatments, and doctors, and suggests questions to ask at every step of the way... [A] remarkable resource ... With a moving foreword by actress Glenn Close, who calls mental illness 'a family affair,' this extraordinary guide offers valuable information and inspiration." -- Publishers Weekly "[A]n invaluable 'must' bible packed with resources for any family facing mental illness." -- Midwest Book Review "I respond personally to what Lloyd Sederer writes because he makes me feel like he is sitting at this very kitchen table, gently explaining to me, with great knowledge, insight and patience, what is happening to my loved one and what my family and I can do about it." -- Glenn Close (from the Foreword) "For families reeling from the fact that a loved one suffers from mental illness, knowing what to do and where to go to find the best treatment can be a daunting task. Lloyd Sederer's timely book provides an informative and accessible guide to persons faced with this challenge. Dr. Sederer is uniquely qualified to advise people given his experience in virtually every sector of psychiatric medicine and mental health care. This book is indispensable to the many people who must confront mental illness." -- Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. President-Elect, The Am "The Family Guide to Mental Health Care is an invaluable resource for any family struggling to recognize the myths, fueled by stigma, and find the best care for their loved one." -- General Peter Chiarelli (Ret) 32nd Vice Chief of S "In a society where the disorders of the mind and mood are too seldom understood, Dr. Sederer has provided remarkable clarity in his explanations of the illnesses for the layperson. He outlines what help is needed, where to get help, and how to manage the system for caregiving and treatment. This is a complete guide to navigating a complex and all-too-challenging world faced by anyone impacted by the challenges of mental illnesses. With outstanding clarity and sympathetic understanding he brings help to the helpers and guidance to those who can aid them." -- Connie Lieber, Past President, National Alliance f "Dr. Sederer's book recognizes the essential contributions families make, discusses every challenge they face, and provides them with clear and exceptionally well-informed advice. There is no book like it. I recommend this book to families as a highly useful guide for what is too often a confusing and frightening journey." -- Linda Rosenberg, MSW, CEO, National Council for Co "Many millions of people have a mental illness but most do not get the treatment and help that they need. With the knowledge to navigate the mental health care system comes the power to recover. This uniquely accessible book provides that knowledge, and is a necessary guide for patients and their families." -- Gail Saltz, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Ps "When someone in your family may have a serious mental illness, you will wish that you had a senior psychiatrist nearby to give advice every step of the way. The Family Guide to Mental Health Care gives the reader this gift." -- Anand Pandya, MD, Past President and current consu

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Book SynopsisSkills for people to learn to be with themselves in the healthiest way possible.

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Book SynopsisA dynamic approach to mental health and wellness, ready for any clinician to implement.

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Book SynopsisChildren's Anxiety: A Contextual Approach provides an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child anxiety, along with nine vibrant and detailed case studies illustrating the ways in which young people can be helped to deal with serious and complex anxiety problems.In order to begin to understand complex anxiety within children's life circumstances Part One of the book provides the reader with a developmental framework for thinking about children's anxiety. Part Two then presents nine in depth case studies, organised not by the type or nature of anxiety but by the context within which problematic anxiety can occur. Part Three acts as a summary of the key points emerging from the clinical case studies.This book will be essential reading for those working and Trade Review"In this outstanding volume Peter Appleton and his colleagues show that to understand and treat a child's anxiety, it is essential to take account of the social context within which it occurs - whether it be war, domestic violence, child abuse, out-of-home placement, parental separation, parental mental health problems or childhood disability. This book presents a developmental and systemic framework for conceptualizing children's anxieties, and a fascinating series of complex case studies written by experienced clinicians. 'Children's Anxiety' will be of interest to all mental health professionals who provide clinical services to young people in clinical and educational settings." - Alan Carr, Professor Clinical Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland"This book provides a refreshing approach towards understanding the development and maintenance of anxiety in children, with chapters organized around individuals rather than types of disorder. Nine chapters, each by an expert clinician, present case studies emphasizing developmental context and set within a range of theoretical and clinical orientations. The volume forms a coherent whole, with three comprehensive introductory chapters and a final chapter of unifying conclusions. An excellent, thought-provoking book, for research workers as well as clinicians, and indeed anyone interested in the psychology of anxiety." - Joan Stevenson-Hinde, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK‘Congratulations to Peter Appleton for writing, editing, and gathering state of the art, in-depth information about contextual issues in the area of childhood anxiety disorders. This book is an excellent resource for both clinicians and academics. The variety of chapters across a broad range of childhood anxiety disorders advances our knowledge not only about "what to do" but "how to do it", and the important consideration of family factors as well as preventative strategies. I strongly recommend the use of this book in postgraduate clinical training courses as well as a very useful tool for clinicians across mental health disciplines.’ - Paula Barrett, Professor of Education, University of Queensland, Australia"In this outstanding volume Peter Appleton and his colleagues show that to understand and treat a child's anxiety, it is essential to take account of the social context within which it occurs - whether it be war, domestic violence, child abuse, out-of-home placement, parental separation, parental mental health problems or childhood disability. This book presents a developmental and systemic framework for conceptualizing children's anxieties, and a fascinating series of complex case studies written by experienced clinicians. 'Children's Anxiety' will be of interest to all mental health professionals who provide clinical services to young people in clinical and educational settings." - Alan Carr, Professor Clinical Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland"This book provides a refreshing approach towards understanding the development and maintenance of anxiety in children, with chapters organized around individuals rather than types of disorder. Nine chapters, each by an expert clinician, present case studies emphasizing developmental context and set within a range of theoretical and clinical orientations. The volume forms a coherent whole, with three comprehensive introductory chapters and a final chapter of unifying conclusions. An excellent, thought-provoking book, for research workers as well as clinicians, and indeed anyone interested in the psychology of anxiety." - Joan Stevenson-Hinde, Sc.D., Emeritus Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK"Congratulations to Peter Appleton for writing, editing, and gathering state of the art, in-depth information about contextual issues in the area of childhood anxiety disorders. This book is an excellent resource for both clinicians and academics. The variety of chapters across a broad range of childhood anxiety disorders advances our knowledge not only about "what to do" but "how to do it", and the important consideration of family factors as well as preventative strategies. I strongly recommend the use of this book in postgraduate clinical training courses as well as a very useful tool for clinicians across mental health disciplines." - Paula Barrett, Professor of Education, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart I: Appleton, A Developmental Framework for Understanding Children’s Anxiety. Appleton, Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Brief Outline. Appleton, Help for Children Experiencing Severe and Complex Anxiety: A Brief Outline. Part II: Trickey, Experiencing Refugee Status After Previous Trauma. Richardson, Edge, Foster Family Change and Transition for a Looked-after Child. Bryon, Prevention of Disabling Fear and Anxiety in a Young Child and Family: A Case Illustration Following a Traumatic Accident. Appleton, Co-occuring Aggressive Behaviour and Anxiety – At Home and School: Developing a Formulation. Humphrey, Anxiety and Asperger’s Syndrome. Bell, Complex Anxiety in an Adolescent with a Learning Disability: The Girl Who Split Off Her Stupidity. White, Jackson, Health Anxieties Within a Family Context. Appleton, Panic Disorder in the Context of Family Change and Transition. Appleton, Gaining Autonomy and Independence, Following Earlier Experiences of Maltreatment and Peer Victimisation. Part III: Appleton, Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis lively, introductory text provides students and health practitioners with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues. Written for anyone who is interested in health and disease in contemporary global society, this book engages the reader to act upon their occupational and moral responsibilities.It explains the key sociological theories and debates with humour and imagination in a way that will encourage an inquisitive and reflective approach on the part of any student who engages with the text. With individual chapters covering sociology, health, science, power, medicalisation, madness happiness, sex, violence and death, Sociology and Health is organized so that the student moves through sociological approaches and themes which constantly recur in the experience of healthcare. Students will find this a readable and controversial text which covers the ground they need to know in a thought-provoking way. Lecturers will find it a helpfuTrade Review'Be prepared for a robust account of ways in which society causes sickness, misery, and death in reading Peter Morrall's book Sociology and Health. He not only outlines how society makes people unhealthy, but encourages the reader (with examples) to take what he calls 'moral action' to make social conditions healthier - and then e-mail him about it. This is clearly a different kind of textbook. It draws the reader into the field of health sociology and encourages the person to take positive action to help produce a healthier society.' William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham , USA Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sociology 2. Health 3. Science 4. Power 5. Medicalisation 6. Madness 7. Misery 8. Sex 9. Death Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAssertive outreach is a means of helping people with serious and persistent mental health difficulties who have not engaged with conventional mental health services. Reaching Out examines the application of psychological approaches in assertive outreach a process which involves forming new relationships and offering hope to people who have been alienated from traditional methods.Reaching Out begins with a discussion of topics including: engagement the team approach assessments team case formulation managing stress and burnout for staff. The second half of the book focuses on the task of delivering psychological therapies and considers a range of models including psychodynamic therapy, family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and community approaches.Reaching Out: The Psychology of Assertive Outreach demonstrates that the relationship between staff and service users is essential tTrade Review"Assertive outreach services have provided an overdue milieu for the development and creative delivery of psychological approaches to meeting the needs of people who experience severe and enduring mental distress. Caroline Cupitt and her colleagues have reflected upon their extensive experience of assertive outreach to capture the broad impact of these approaches from a range of stakeholder perspectives, whilst drawing upon a spectrum of psychological/therapeutic orientations. Attention is appropriately focussed upon the influence of psychological variables during a service user's journey from engagement and formulation, through to therapy and outcome/participation.This book should be read by all assertive outreach practitioners, and by those practitioners in other settings/services who wish to use psychological ideas to inform their work with this client group." - Dr Mark Hayward, Clinical Psychologist, University of SurreyTable of ContentsCupitt, Introduction. Part I: Taking a Psychological Approach. Gillespie, Meaden, Psychological Processes in Engagement. Cupitt, Gillham, Law, The Team Approach: Containment or Chaos? Meaden, Making Assessment and Outcomes Meaningful. Whomsley, Team Case Formulation. Gray, Mulligan, Staff Stress and Burnout. Part II: Applying Models of Psychological Therapy. Gillham, Law, Hickey, A Psychodynamic Perspective. Meddings, Gordon, Owen, Family and Systemic Work. Cupitt, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy. Meddings, Shaw, Diamond, Community Psychology. Gray, Johanson, Ethics and Professional Issues: The Universal and the Particular. Cupitt, Conclusion.

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