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Explorations in Mental Health


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The Explorations in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.

Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:

AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Alice Salt: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand

Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia

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Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs Research on Experiences, Coping and Support

Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs: Research on Experiences, Coping and Support

1st Edition

Edited By Christine Valentine
December 19, 2018

Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important and ambitious research project into the experiences commonly encountered by members of this ...

Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy An Igbo Group Analyst’s Search for Social and Cultural Identity

Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy: An Igbo Group Analyst’s Search for Social and Cultural Identity

1st Edition

By Okeke Azu-Okeke
November 26, 2018

In Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy, Okeke Azu-Okeke explores cultural identity by drawing on his own experience as the first and only Black trainee in an Institute for Group Analysis in London and the impact this has had on his work as a lecturer and supervisor, as well as research from...

Africana People in China Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment

Africana People in China: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment

1st Edition

By C. Jama Adams
October 05, 2018

This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ...

Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues An Islamic Perspective

Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues: An Islamic Perspective

1st Edition

By G. Hussein Rassool
August 06, 2018

Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues raises awareness of the cultural considerations, religion and spirituality involved in the assessment of Muslim patients with mental health problems. The belief that Jinn spirits can cause mental illness in humans through affliction or possession ...

The Comprehensive Resource Model Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma

The Comprehensive Resource Model: Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma

1st Edition

By Lisa Schwarz, Frank Corrigan, Alastair Hull, Rajiv Raju
March 12, 2018

Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma, in particular, complex trauma. While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by ...

Depressive Realism Interdisciplinary perspectives

Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives

1st Edition

By Colin Feltham
March 07, 2018

Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive realism is a worldview of human existence that is essentially negative, and which challenges assumptions about the value of life and the institutions ...

Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention in Childcare Legal Proceedings Engaging families in successful rehabilitation

Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention in Childcare Legal Proceedings: Engaging families in successful rehabilitation

1st Edition

By Mike Davies
February 05, 2018

This book draws upon the author’s first-hand clinical experience as an Expert Witness in child and family legal proceedings to explore the success of psychotherapy assessments and interventions. Focusing on families who are seeking to be re-united after the removal of their children into foster ...

Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health History, Theory and within Group Differences

Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences

1st Edition

By Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas
January 03, 2018

Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their ...

A Theory-based Approach to Art Therapy Implications for teaching, research and practice

A Theory-based Approach to Art Therapy: Implications for teaching, research and practice

1st Edition

By Ephrat Huss
December 21, 2017

Art therapy literature is often based either on practice in a specific setting, art material or population, or if taking a more theoretical focus, on illustrative case studies. This book provides a theory-based approach to research, teaching, and practicing art therapy, including verbal and arts ...

Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond

Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones: The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond

1st Edition

By David Winter, Rachel Brown, Stephanie Goins, Clare Mason
December 21, 2017

This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on ...

The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System

The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness: Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System

1st Edition

By Diana Semmelhack, Larry Ende, Arthur Freeman, Clive Hazell, Colleen L. Barron, Garry L. Treft
May 18, 2017

In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. This volume makes this point while ...

Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations From theory to therapy

Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations: From theory to therapy

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Hayward, Clara Strauss, Simon McCarthy-Jones
January 19, 2017

This book draws on clinical research findings from the last three decades to offer a review of current psychological theories and therapeutic approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations, addressing key methodological issues that need to be considered in evaluating interventions...

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