Mental Health In Crisis

Author : Nick Benas
Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
ISBN 13 : 1578266750
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Emergencies written by Nick Benas and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the best in psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, here are simple and effective strategies for coping during times of great mental and emotional distress Mental Health Emergencies provides overviews and expert guidance on serious mental health problems. It is an ideal resource for first-responders, teachers, counselors, and human resource professionals looking to help those struggling with mental and emotional health crises and concerns. Developed from best practices of psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, Mental Health Emergencies is a guide to providing much-needed care and support to the people in distress who most need help including self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, psychosis, and suicidal thoughts. Mental Health Emergencies will help you provide exactly the right kind of support—where and when it's needed most.

Author : Rosalynn Carter
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605290939
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within Our Reach written by Rosalynn Carter and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Within Our Reach, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade render an insightful, unsparing assessment of the state of mental health. Mrs. Carter has been deeply invested in this issue since her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for governor of Georgia, when she saw firsthand the horrific, dehumanizing treatment of people with mental illnesses. Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, surveying the dimensions of an issue that has affected us all. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs with mental illness have potential to help most people lead more normal lives. Within Our Reach is a seminal, searing, and ultimately optimistic look at how far we've come since Jimmy Carter's days on the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.

Author : E. Fuller Torrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by E. Fuller Torrey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "reveals how we have failed our mentally ill and offers a viable, provocative blueprint for change."--Jacket.

Author : Richard Kadison
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College of the Overwhelmed written by Richard Kadison and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written for parents, students, college counselors, and administrators, College of the Overwhelmed is a landmark book that explores the stressors that cause so many college students to suffer psychological problems. The book is filled with insights and stories about the current mental health crisis on our nation's campuses and offers a hands-on guide for helping students overcome stress and succeed in a college environment." "The book includes the personal stories of students under stress and describes how they overcame a variety of problems. The authors discuss the warning signs and symptoms of common problems, including depression, sleep disorders, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, impulsive behaviors, and suicide." "In addition, this vital resource offers students checklists, tips, and advice for reducing the day-to-day stresses of college life."--Jacket.

Author : George Everly, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943001149
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAFER-R Model written by George Everly, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological Crisis Intervention: The SAFER-R Model is designed to provide the reader with a simple set of guidelines for the provision of psychological first aid (PFA). The model of psychological first aid (PFA) for individuals presented in this volume is the SAFER-R model developed by the authors. Arguably it is the most widely used tactical model of crisis intervention in the world with roughly 1 million individuals trained in its operational and derivative guidelines. This model of PFA is not a therapy model nor a substitute for therapy. Rather it is designed to help crisis interventionists stabile and mitigate acute crisis reactions in individuals, as opposed to groups. Guidelines for triage and referrals are also provided. Before plunging into the step-by-step guidelines, a brief history and terminological framework is provided. Lastly, recommendations for addressing specific psychological challenges (suicidal ideation, resistance to seeking professional psychological support, and depression) are provided.

Author : Ruth Gerson, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1585624829
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Kids in Crisis written by Ruth Gerson, M.D. and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents is a practical, easy-to-use guide for clinicians working with child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies across a range of settings -- from emergency rooms to schools to community pediatric or mental health clinics. More and more children struggle with psychiatric symptoms, while access to treatment remains limited, so pediatricians, social workers, school psychologists, guidance counselors, and school nurses often find themselves treating kids in crisis without available child psychiatric consultation. These crises are high-risk, high-liability situations that are often dangerous and intimidating. This book provides clinical case examples with concrete tools for assessment, de-escalation, and diagnosis, to help clinicians quickly stabilize the crisis and determine when a trip to the emergency room is necessary. Pragmatic and accessible, Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents provides the up-to-date tools and clinical guidance that practitioners in hospital and community-based settings need to intervene effectively, relieve suffering, and keep their young patients safe.

Author : Thomas Insel, MD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593298047
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing written by Thomas Insel, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system. “Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all." —Pete Earley, author of Crazy As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, “Our house is on fire and you’re telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?” Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like. In the United States, we have treatments that work, but our system fails at every stage to deliver care well. Even before COVID, mental illness was claiming a life every eleven minutes by suicide. Quality of care varies widely, and much of the field lacks accountability. We focus on drug therapies for symptom reduction rather than on plans for long-term recovery. Care is often unaffordable and unavailable, particularly for those who need it most and are homeless or incarcerated. Where was the justice for the millions of Americans suffering from mental illness? Who was helping their families? But Dr. Insel also found that we do have approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social. This path to healing, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people, place, and purpose), is more straightforward than we might imagine. Dr. Insel offers a comprehensive plan for our failing system and for families trying to discern the way forward. The fruit of a lifetime of expertise and a global quest for answers, Healing is a hopeful, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis.

Author : Sonia Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521678757
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health written by Sonia Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crisis resolution and home treatment teams respond rapidly to people experiencing mental health crises and offer an alternative to hospital admission. They are an increasingly important component of mental health care and are adopted by many health care systems around the world. This practical and pioneering book describes the evidence for the effectiveness of such teams, the principles underpinning them, how to set up and organise them, how patients should be assessed and what types of care the teams should offer. Other topics covered include integration of crisis teams with in-patient, community residential and day care services, the service users' experiences of crisis teams, and responding to diversity in home treatment. This book is essential reading for all policy makers, service managers and mental health workers interested in establishing or operating crisis resolution and home treatment services, as well as for researchers and students seeking to understand this model.

Author : Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541314
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States. When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming rate, with many patients having nowhere to go. There has never been a more important time for this conversation, as one in five adults--40 million Americans--experiences mental illness each year. Today, the largest mental institution in the United States is the Los Angeles County Jail, and the last refuge for many of the 20,000 mentally ill people living on the streets of Los Angeles is L.A. County Hospital. There, Dr. Rosenberg begins his chronicle of what it means to be mentally ill in America today, integrating his own moving story of how the system failed his sister, Merle, who had schizophrenia. As he says, "I have come to see that my family's tragedy, my family's shame, is America's great secret." Dr. Rosenberg gives readers an inside look at the historical, political, and economic forces that have resulted in the greatest social crisis of the twenty-first century. The culmination of a seven-year inquiry, Bedlam is not only a rallying cry for change, but also a guidebook for how we move forward with care and compassion, with resources that have never before been compiled, including legal advice, practical solutions for parents and loved ones, help finding community support, and information on therapeutic options.

Author : James Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786499875
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sedated written by James Davies and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.