Mental Health

Understanding Mental Health: a critical realist perspective steers a middle way between psychiatric positivism and the nihilism of the recent French poststructuralist tradition. It relies on the guidance of neither psychiatry nor social science (with the discipline of psychology being an ambivalent ..

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Using Workbooks in Mental Health: Resources in Prevention, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation for Clinicians and Researchers examines the effectiveness of mental health workbooks designed to address problems ranging from dementia and depression to addiction, spousal abuse, eating disorders, and more...

Learn effective techniques for teaching and supervising group therapy. This unique volume brings together teaching and supervisory models for a host of theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic, family systems, psychodrama, gestalt, and transactional analysis...

Family violence is a major mental health, social service, health care, and criminal justice problem that society cannot continue to ignore. Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home gives you the facts of spouse/partner and child maltreatment, an analysis of the intervention and prevention techniques common..

Family violence is a major mental health, social service, health care, and criminal justice problem that society cannot continue to ignore. Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home gives you the facts of spouse/partner and child maltreatment, an analysis of the intervention and prevention techniques common..

In Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People, you'll see the many ways in which sexual minority persons experience violence in American society. You'll gain a clear understanding of the connections between social injustice, discrimination, and violence. All the many for..

Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships raises the awareness among social service providers of the real problem of same-sex domestic violence. It then takes the next step and shows the need for specialized services for victims and perpetrators. The contributing authors—clinicians, ac..

Based on the author's 20+ years' experience of treating combat veterans, Larry Dewey explores the war trauma and life adaptation of combatants over two decades of intensive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addressing moral, spiritual and existential issues while also attending to ..

Any teenage boy who discloses sexual abuse is facing an emotional ordeal. However, the workbook We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Boy's Personal Account of Child Sexual Abuse from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment can help him understand and endure the process. As it tells the first-person stor..

This step-by-step guide is designed to help sexually abused teenage girls through the legal and emotional processes of dealing with what has been done to them. We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Girl's Personal Account of Incest from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment tells the first-person story..