Mental Health Care & Children's Disorders Books
1. Foundation of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, by Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, Hardcover, W.B. Saunders
The new edition of this popular text offers a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric nursing. Its practical, clinical perspective and user-friendly writing style engage the reader in a learning process that both informs and enlightens. Clinical chapters progress consistently and logically from theory to application. Specific psychobiological disorders are organized from moderate to severe along the mental health continuum. The nursing process is the strong, visible framework throughout.
2. Exercising Your Way to Better Mental Health : Combat Stress, Fight Depression, and Improve Your Overall Mood and Self-Concept With These Simple Exercises, by Larry M. Leith, Paperback
This is the first book of its kind to reveal the link between physical fitness and psychological well-being. Dr. Larry Leith renowned exercise scientist shares with the reader how exercise can fight depression ease stress and brighten one's mood. The book includes exercise contracts, checklists and many practical strategies designed to improve the reader's enjoyment of and adherence to an exercise program.
3. The Portable Lawyer for Mental Health Professionals : An A-Z Guide to Protecting Your Clients, Your Practice, and Yourself, by Barton E. Bernstein, Thomas L. Hartsell, Paperback, Wiley
Safeguard your mental health practice with up-to-date information and savvy advice on practicing in today's legal environment. Today's mental health professional must approach the legal aspects of practice with both sensitivity and foreknowledge. The array of legal guidelines and ethical standards to comprehend is increasing in scope and complexity. Licensing issues, ethics questions, and malpractice suits all present pitfalls that, if ignored or misapprehended, can interrupt or even end a career. Written by two attorneys specializing in the legal aspects of mental health care, The Portable Lawyer for Mental Health Professionals, Second Edition is an indispensable survival guide for all clinicians. The authors explain how to handle allegations of malpractice, cope with threats of violence, preserve client confidentiality, and more. Each chapter features step-by-step guidance, helpful case studies, "legal light bulbs" highlighting important concepts, answers to frequently asked questions, dos and don'ts, and sample forms and contracts. Mental health caregivers, graduate students, attorneys, and clients alike will find this guide to be an invaluable resource.
4. Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment, by Rebecca Delcarmen-Wiggins, Alice Carter. Hardcover, Publisher: Oxford University Press
Infant and toddler mental health is a growing area of interest for psychiatrists, child psychologists, pediatricians, and educators. Expanding research in this area highlights the need for early identification and assessment of mental health problems and risk factors in infants and toddlers. In addition, public policy and recent legislation have offered new opportunities to provide services to infants and toddlers who are at risk or are already exhibiting delays or deviance in social and emotional functioning. This handbook is the first of its kind to bring together the several new diagnostic and assessment approaches for working with infant and toddler mental health.
5. Treating And Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know And What We Don't Know, A Research Agenda For Improving The Mental Health Of Our Youth, Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Brings together a distinguished group of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists to provide a groundbreaking, evidence-based survey of treatments and preventions for adolescents with mental health disorders. The book, the very first to disseminate the findings of the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, addresses the current state of our knowledge about various mental health disorders in the teenage years, a developmental period when behavior and the brain are still "plastic." Here, six commissions established by the Sunnylands Trust and APPC pool their expertise on adolescent anxiety, schizophrenia, substance use disorders, depression and bipolar disorders, eating disorders, and suicide in sections that thoroughly define each disorder, outline and assess available treatments, discuss prevention strategies, and suggest a research agenda based on what we know and don't yet know about these various conditions.
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