Product Description: Balanced, authoritative, and humanistic, this fully revised edition serves as a practical guide to a full range of mental illnesses and their treatments. Stressing the value of partnership between psychiatrists, patients and their families, this handbook not only underscores the place of hope and optimism—pointing to the great strides being made in the field—but also weaves the stories of real people and the insights of writers and artists throughout the text...read more

For over two decades, Bloch, Green, and Chodoff's Psychiatric Ethics has been the leading text on ethical issues in psychiatry and mental health. This Anthology of Psychiatric Ethics will serve as an invaluable companion volume, providing ready access to foundational writings concerning the ethical practice of psychiatry, previously published articles and excerpts of book chapters selected on the basis of their significance to psychiatric ethics. It is structured in nine sections: Philosophical Underpinnings; The Therapeutic Relationship and Social Context; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Confidentiality; Psychiatric Treatment and Services; Special Populations; Forensic Psychiatry; Resource Allocation; and Research. Each chapter is prefaced with an essay that presents an introductory overview designed to help guide the reader through the topic and the individual readings. Each chapter contains between six and twelve selected readings, and is extensively referenced for further investigation of the individual study areas.

The third edition is a continuation of a highly successful text for mental health professionals embarking on training in pyschotherapy. Since its first publication in 1979, it has carved out a niche for itself and has proved very useful to the new trainee in the field. All the chapters have been throughly updated to take into account developments in the psychotherapies since the mid-1980s. The first chapter by Jerome Frank has achieved the status of a classic and remains untouched. Two new chapters have been added - a scholarly contribution on ethical aspects of psychotherapy by the American academic Professor Byram Karasu and an authoritative chapter on behavioural psychotherapy by Dr Lynne Drummond of St George's Hospital Medical School, London.

Product Description: The family is intimately involved in the care of the dying and requires support through its experience of both palliative care and bereavement. This volume describes a comprehensive model of family care and how to go about it - an approach which is new, preventive, cost effective and with proven benefits to the bereaved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Consideration of ethics has established a firm place in the affairs of psychiatrists. An increased professional commitment to accountability, together with a growing "consumer" movement has paved the way for a creative engagement with the ethical movement...read more

Product Description: Written in an accessible style, this book provides a voice for all those who contribute a vital community service but whose concerns are all too little acknowledged - those who bear the burden of caring for frail, sick or disabled family members...read more

Product Description: In Codes of Ethics and the Professions 12 contributors, including philosophers, historians, lawyers, nurses, psychiatrists, and a journalist seek answers to a range of tough questions. Do we need codes of ethics? How do we go about creating them? Can codes of ethics be misused and abused? How should they be enforced, regulated and revised...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed for both group psychotherapy researchers and clinicians, this comprehensive, thoroughly referenced volume examines those aspects of treatment which produce beneficial effects. The authors discuss the clinical lore, theoretical advances, and empirical research on ten factors which are the basis for effective group psychotherapy: insight, interaction, acceptance, self-disclosure, catharsis, guidance, universality, altruism, vicarious learning, and the instillation of hope...read more

Product Description: In this introduction to psychotherapy Sidney Bloch cuts through the jargon and mystique to make the subject approachable for both general reader and student. He covers both theory and practice, discussing the kind of people and problems that can be helped by treatment, the qualities needed in a therapist, and the ethical difficulties he has to face...read more