Mental Health Books

New and Published Books

1. Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being

   Addressing Process and Context

   Edited by Caroline Biron, Maria Karanika-Murray, Cary Cooper

   This book brings together a number of experts in the field of organizational interventions for stress and well-being, and discusses the importance of process and context issues to the success or failure of such interventions. The book explores how context and process can be incorporated into...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Protecting the Public?

   Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders

   By Tessa Boyd-Caine

   The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Psychotherapies Streaming Video Printed Access Card

   Edited by Jon Frew, Michael D Spiegler

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Managing Depression, Growing Older

   A guide for professionals and carers

   By Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, Henry Brodaty

   Even when he’s grey around the muzzle, the black dog of depression can still deliver a ferocious bite. Depression can strike at any age, and it may appear for the first time as we get older, as a result of life circumstances or our genetic makeup. While older people face the same kinds of mental...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

   Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning

   By Carolyn Blackburn, Barry Carpenter, Jo Egerton

   The range of learning difficulties associated with children and young people who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs. This engaging, timely and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASD...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities

   "Don't guess my happiness"

   Edited by Stephanie Bull, Kevin O'Farrell

   In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

   By Rosemary M Balsam

   Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Beginnings, Second Edition

   The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy

   By Mary Jo Peebles

   Utilizing a decade's worth of clinical experience gained since its original publication, Mary Jo Peebles builds and expands upon exquisitely demonstrated therapeutic approaches and strategies in this second edition of Beginnings. The essential question remains the same, however: How does a...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Family Literacy

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Barbara H. Wasik

   The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book. It documents the need for literacy education for children and parents, describes early literacy and math development within the home, analyses interventions in home...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy

    Practicing With 21st Century Realities

    Edited by Paul R. Peluso, Richard E. Watts, Mindy Parsons

    Series: Family Therapy and Counseling

    As the baby boomers move into retirement and later stages of life, gerontology and geriatrics have begun to receive much more attention. Changing Aging, Changing Family Therapy explores the ways in which family therapists’ expertise in systems theory makes them uniquely qualified to take a leading...

    Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge