Intends to answer the following questions: What is mental health? What are mental health problems? What causes them? How do mental health problems affect the lives of people with learning disabilities and those around them? How can mental health problems be identified in people with learning disabilities? How can carers and services respond?

Mental health concerns are the most serious and prevalent healthproblems among students in higher education. Increasingly effectivepsychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments havefacilitated matriculation for students with histories of anxiety,mood, personality, eating and substance abuse disorders.

A guide designed to provide students and practitioners with a practical tutorial on the key functions of a case manager serving adults with severe mental illness. It focuses on a direct approach that time-pressed readers can appreciate when learning the fundamentals of providing mental health case management.

Includes handouts on a range of mental health issues, grouped under the headings of: Managing Anxiety, Assertiveness Training, Managing Depression, Managing Stress, Changing Habits & Behaviour, Coping with Psychosis, Bipolar Disorder and Dementia. This title contains sections on Obsessional Compulsive Disorder and Managing Psychosis.

A comprehensive student introduction to mental health in counselling and psychotherapy

An essential component of the volume is a guide to making emergency assessments, from risk classification and hospitalization to public safety and communication within and outside the campus community.

An essential guide for mental health nursing students to mental health law required for practice, focussing on the Mental Health Act and Code of Practice.

This new edition has been updated in-line with the latest NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses and continues to provide nursing students with guidance on how to manage medicines safely and effectively when treating patients with mental health conditions.

Explores the full mental health nursing care continuum within a flexible, person-centred framework. This title emphasises skilled engagement, collaborative assessment and care-planning, effective therapeutic communication and compassionate, evidence-based interventions.

This book introduces students to the core skills and essential knowledge needed to deliver high-quality mental health care.

Covers seventy specific disorders and includes an overview of mental health nursing. This book includes numerous icons that provide tips on patient care, research, cultural considerations, and the news in psychopharmacology. It provides descriptions of the mental health nurse's scope of practice, areas of concern, and the nursing process.

Mental Health Nursing Skills is a highly evidence-based, practical textbook designed so students can develop and apply the skills required for practice. Written in response to the Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing, this text translates theory into clear practical skills supported by useful examples, tips and online resources.

Suitable for the students of mental health nursing and qualified mental health nurses, this title covers a wide variety of client problems. It emphasises skills acquisition and features experiential exercises that encourage connections between theory and practice.

The third edition of Mental Health Policy and Practice remains a clear and comprehensive overview of UK mental health policy. It includes ideas from a wide spectrum of mental health services, examples of successful evidence-based practice and analyses the impact, and likely impact, of the latest shifts in policy and changes to legislation.

Edited by the mental health policy advisor to the Royal College of Nursing this textbook includes a range of experts in their field who introduce the essential elements of policy and legislation to new students and experienced practitioners.

Examines the relationship between mental health professionals and people using services during the recovery process. This book helps to view the distress experienced by people with mental health problems, from a person-centred perspective with the road to recovery being seen as the result of collaboration between professionals and service users.

Mental Health Promotion is the first textbook to provide an accessible guide to applied mental health promotion across all age groups, and demonstrates how both principles and theory can be used to underpin mental health promotion.

Acting as a guide to applied mental health promotion across all age groups, this book demonstrates how principles and theory can be used to underpin mental health promotion. It covers various themes at each stage of the lifespan, including: reduction of inequalities; theory/evidence based practice and culturally sensitive approaches to practice.

This Reader presents a fresh look at mental health, following on from the hugely popular Mental Health Matters. It provides new and exciting user perspectives across the full range of mental health issues. This is a rich and diverse resource for all students and practitioners of mental health.

Mental Health Today...and Tomorrow: Exploring current and future trends in mental health care is a forward-thinking, multi-author handbook that marks a turning point in UK mental health theory, policy and practice and explores a wide range of current and future trends in mental health care.

This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally.

As the momentum for personalisation and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, policy-making and professional training. This book provides an overview of service user involvement in mental health, its origins and current practice and policy.