Prize-winning journalist Ripley illuminates how humans function--or don't--in the first moments of catastrophe. Deconstructing in vivid detail some of the world's most harrowing catastrophes, Ripley reveals the three stages of disaster response. 8-page full-color insert.
This widely used clinical reference has now been fully revised and expanded, providing the latest knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists, the issues people bring to ...
Best-selling author Richard K. James presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. Authoritative and based on the author's extensive experience teaching crisis intervention courses, the new edition presents a six-step model for dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing ...
Brief, handy, and affordable, this primer for crisis workers distills the practice of Crisis Intervention into its basic elements. Invaluable as a tool for easy reference, the authors offer straightforward guidelines appropriate for experienced professionals and novice helpers alike. Easy to access and easy to use, the handbook is ideal for those ...
Exploring the ways that clients' lives, and family therapy itself, are constrained by larger forces of racial, cultural, sexual, and class-based inequality, this groundbreaking volume expands the boundaries of the field and works toward truly inclusive clinical practice. Editor Monica McGoldrick - whose earlier Ethnicity and Family Therapy ...
This text provides day-to-day guidelines based on the ABC model of intervention (a generic model that follows a three-part structure: A - developing and maintaining rapport; B - identifying the problem; and C - exploring the client's coping strategies). This practical volume is designed to help students and professionals help their clients deal ...
This authoritative, highly user-friendly book offers a complete introduction to the art and science of mental health diagnosis. Meeting a key need for students and novice clinicians, James Morrison, the author of the bestselling "DSM-IV Made Easy," systematically takes the reader through every step of the diagnostic process. He provides clear-cut ...
As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the past decade. However, there exists little to no literature designed to give timely and comprehensive help for ...
Psychiatric rehabilitation refers to community treatment of people with mental disorders. Community treatment has recently become far more widespread due to deinstitutionalization at government facilities. This book is an update of the first edition's discussion of types of mental disorders, including etiology, symptoms, course, and outcome, types ...
The only theory text to provide truly integrated discussion of multicultural competencies and clients, this current and practical resource has been revised and reorganized to make it more user friendly. In response to requests from many reviewers, the Sixth Edition of Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Multicultural Perspective has broken ...
Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, the updated 3rd edition of this textbook describes the essentials of mental health care spanning a wide variety of clinical settings. This book is known for its solid coverage of the foundations of mental health care, its emphasis on therapeutic care, and its chapter-by-chapter coverage of specific ...
This comprehensive revision continues to approach ageing from a psychological viewpoint, not a sociological one. It shows how psychological research translates into practice and includes sections on interventions where appropriate. Because it limits its coverage to ageing, rather than all post-adolescent development, it provides students with a ...
This work combines practical examples and pedagogy to provide students with a basic understanding of the concepts of community psychology. The examples illustrate the text and provide opportunities for students to apply the basic concepts they have learnt.
"Counseling American Minorities" provides information about the history and experiences, physical and mental health needs, and treatment preferences of African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans, as well as an examination of how psychological service providers might better provide mental health services to members ...
This text is intended for undergraduate or graduate courses in crisis intervention in counsellor education, human services, nursing, criminal justice, and social work. It should also be appropriate for field experience, internship, or practicum courses. It offers readers a set of skills and case intervention strategies that can be adapted to ...
This book will be of interest to mental health practitioners from any background or theoretical orientation. It serves as a text for advanced courses in family therapy, social work, psychotherapy, and counseling.
This text gives a thorough revision that clearly describes and illustrates the practice of community counseling by discussing the most current issues and practices for community work in the 21st century.
Written by a new generation of recognized experts in pastoral care, these brief, foundational books offer practical advice to pastors on the most frequent dilemmas of pastoral care and counseling.
Parents of adolescents sometimes wonder if their teen's erratic behavior could be a sign of a more significant problem. Compassionate and reassuring, this practical and userfriendly guide is invaluable to any parent concerned about their teenage child. "When to Worry" helps parents distinguish typical teenage behaviors from those that warrant ...
The most widely-used and respected supervision text in the field, Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision covers all content areas required for certification as an Approved Clinical Supervisor, offering a comprehensive review (and informed appraisals) of all leading models and interventions.
Designed for professionals working with the elderly, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the ageing process and its effects on mental health. It sets out the nature and problems of old age, including the problems of older people in their families, and explores some of the common emotional problems and psychiatric disorders which can ...
De-institutionalization has been criticized for putting hundreds of mentally ill people on the streets. This book examines the social and political causes of de-institutionalization - the tendency in the 1960s to see the mentally ill as merely different, and hostility to "institutional oppression."
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