Making Sense of the ICD-11

For Mental Health Professionals

Peter Tyrer

An important summary of the major changes to the mental health section of the ICD-11 and its implications for clinical practice. Authored by leading clinicians in the respective fields, this book will appeal to all mental health professionals internationally, ...

Violence and Mental Illness

Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety

Eric B. Elbogen , Nico Verykoukis

Shows that the myth that mental illness is strongly linked to violence makes us all less safe Mass shootings have become a defining issue of our time. Whenever the latest act of newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is inevitably cited as a preeminent cau...

Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

Rocky Callen , Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save ...

You Are Not Alone

Navigating Mental Illness and the Journey to Recovery

Ken Duckworth

'Powerful and poignant, this book is for anyone who has struggled with mental health challenges' Lori Gottlieb '[An] invaluable book' Andrew Solomon 'A unique, hopeful, essential guide. You Are Not Alone is a treasure' Bruce D. Perry This singular book is a po...

Introductory Mental Health Nursing

Cynthia Kincheloe

Updated, easy to read, and designed specifically for today's LPN/LVN students, Introductory Mental Health Nursing, 5th Edition, makes the realities of mental health nursing approachable and prepares students to confidently manage clients' mental healthcare nee...

COVID-19, Frontline Responders and Mental Health

A Playbook for Delivering Resilient Public Health Systems Post-Pandemic

Jennifer A. Horney

Realizing the harsh potential realities such as a shortage of qualified workers and questions around funding and workforce development needed to ensure preparedness for the next public health emergency, this playbook for delivering resilient public health syst...

Feeling Good!

A Mental Health Workbook

Kojo Sarfo

Develop a healthy outlook on life and assess your own mental health with this informative guided workbook to staying positive and living life to the fullest—no matter what you’re going through. Do you struggle with stress, worry, anxiety, or depression? Th...

Brain Energy

A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Christopher M. Palmer, MD

Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner in Psychology/Mental & Emotional Well-Bein Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Health 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental hea...

Evolutionary Psychiatry

Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

Riadh Abed , Paul St John-Smith

This book explores how insights from evolution can transform our understanding of mental health and mental disorder....

Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Towards Technological Advances and Service Innovations

Matthew Hodes , Petrus J. De Vries

Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Towards Technological Advances and Service Innovations coincides with the 25th International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) Congress in Dubai from Decem...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The Best Strategy for Managing Anxiety and Depression Forever

Robin McGill

Did you know that in our entire worldly population, that 450 million people are suffering from some sort of mental disorder on a daily basis? The most common mental disorders that people struggle with every day are depression and anxiety. Are you someone that ...

The Big Feelings Survival Guide

A Creative Workbook for Mental Health

Alyse Ruriani

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was developed in the 1980s by Dr. Marsha Linehan to help those who struggled with emotional dysregulation and chronic suicidality. The ultimate goal is to help people build "a life worth living," in whatever form feels right ...

Understanding Youth Mental Health: Perspectives from Theory and Practice

Eilis Hennessy , Caroline Heary , Maria Michail

“This is an incredibly useful and timely resource for those studying and working in the field of youth mental health.” Sara Evans-Lacko, PhD, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK “’Understanding Youth ...

7 Keys To Mental Health Freedom

Joshua Alexander

Proven strategies for mental health from someone who fully healed from schizoaffective disorder, depression, and anxiety and is now thriving! This book describes 7 key tactics and principles developed and discovered over 25 years of experience with mental heal...

Textbook of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing: Principles and Practice

Sailaxmi Gandhi

Textbook of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing contains clear, simple and easy-to-understand description of basic psychiatric and mental health nursing concepts, terminologies, various disorders and psychiatric-mental health nursing skills. It has been writ...

Yin Yoga Therapy and Mental Health

An Integrated Approach

Tracey Meyers

This highly illustrated guide teaches yoga therapists and mental health professionals how to integrate Yin Yoga into practice and treatment plans as part of a holistic approach to healing and treating a variety of mental health challenges and brain injuries. Y...

The Queer Mental Health Workbook

A Creative Self-Help Guide Using CBT, CFT and DBT

Dr. Brendan J. Dunlop

'A privilege to read, a pleasure to endorse' PROFESSOR TANYA BYRON 'This book completely bowled me over' DOMINIC DAVIES 'A super comprehensive book' MEG-JOHN BARKER To be queer is to feel different - a felt sense that you don't fit in. This can be alienating a...

Digital Delivery of Mental Health Therapies

A guide to the benefits and challenges, and making it work

Hannah Wilson

This guide shares best practice for delivering mental health support and treatment digitally. Part One considers aspects relevant to all digital mental health interventions, such as therapeutic alliance, risk, safeguarding, working with complexity, and what pe...

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: An Interpersonal Approach

Dr. Jeffrey S Jones , Jeffrey Schwab Jones , Dr. Audrey M. Beauvais

Preceded by Psychiatric-mental health nursing / [edited by] Jeffrey S. Jones, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Vickie L. Rogers. Second edition. [2017]....

Pursuing a Career in Mental Health

A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professionals

Ann F. Garland

"Many people are interested in pursuing a career in mental health but may be uncertain about career options. This book helps to identify the best educational path for their interests and prepare for success. Throughout, mental health professionals share inspir...

Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness

Jennifer Sweeton

Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy. In this handbook, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Jennifer Sweeton details the eight main areas of the brain affected by mental illness, how brain changes show up in the therapy room as s...

The Wisdom of Mental Illness

Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World

Jez Hughes

This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a potentially transformational experience. What we label as pathological could actually be an initiation into a be...

What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex, Third Edition

Stephanie Buehler, PsyD, CST-S

This 3rd edition is truly the A to Z when it comes to assessing and treating sexual health concerns. This is a valuable resource that I'll be recommending to my colleagues and students and consulting regularly myself! Lori Brotto Professor, Faculty of Medicine...

Mental Health A Pocket Guide

Debra O’Kane

Increased consumer focus New chapter on trauma-informed practice and care New focus on loss and grief (including loss of employment, relationships, COVID and climate-related events) Increased focus on self-care, self-awareness and support strategies Greater em...

College Psychiatry

Strategies to Improve Access to Mental Health

Michelle B. Riba , Meera Menon

This book explores the practical strategies outlined by national thought leaders to improve access to mental health care in the practice of college psychiatry. It addresses the escalating need for mental health services on college and university campuses. Conc...

The Movement for Global Mental Health

Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

Claudia Lang , William Sax

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fund...

Comprehensive Men's Mental Health

David Castle , David Coghill

A complete and accessible textbook covering current understandings about how mental health issues affect men, and the available treatments....

Caring for People with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings

Proceedings of a Workshop

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , Health and Medicine Division , Board on Health Sciences Policy , Board on Health Care Services , Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Behavioral health conditions, which include mental health and substance use disorders, affect approximately 20 percent of Americans. Of those with a substance use disorder, approximately 60 percent also have a mental health disorder. As many as 80 percent of p...

Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures

Alexander Moreira-Almeida , Bruno Paz Mosqueiro , Dinesh Bhugra

This resource provides evidence-based guidance on the implications of religion and spirituality on mental health....