'Second edition grounds the strengths model of case management within the recovery paradigm and details evidence-based guidelines for practice. Describes the conceptual underpinnings, theory, empirical support, principles, and practice methods that comprise the strengths model of case management'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The second edition of this acclaimed book offers a critical analysis of the transition from institutional to community care for people with mental health problems. Despite the almost complete abandonment of the old Victorian asylum system, the powerful cultural legacy of segregation remains potent in modern thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: While most studies of the stresses experienced by minorities, migrants, and refugees focus on North America, this work assumes an unusually broad scope. African-Americans, Latin Americans, Hutterites, Southeast Asians, and Native Americans are all considered in the context of the U...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the variety of issues that impact the mental heal th development of children. In this book the professional is introduce d to concepts in infant mental health and their implications for worki ng with infants with developmental delays and disabilities...read more

Product Description: From online mental health pioneer John M. Grohol, the revised edition of this acclaimed guide helps busy professionals take full advantage of Internet and World Wide Web resources in psychology, psychiatry, and related areas such as self help and patient education...read more

Product Description: This authoritative volume offers practitioners and counselors in training, who are employed in a variety of settings, a comprehensive overview of topics called for by the national accreditation standards for community counselor education...read more

Product Description: Published in 1997, this groundbreaking work locates the intersection of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and twentieth century social upheaval in South America, and provides an all-too-rare study of the role of psychoanalysis in understanding and overcoming social trauma...read more

The first book to bring together varied perspectives on the theory and practical application of the community care debate, including applied behavioural analysis, social policy, and psychodynamic approaches.

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By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, the authors discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role; that of \u0022Gender Specialist.\u0022 Chapters 3, 4, and 5 provide definitive information (in the context of consulting health professionals) on hormone administration, aesthetic surgery, and genital reassignment surgery. Chapter 6 takes up the little-examined issue of HIV and AIDS among transgender people. There is also a chapter devoted to issues of transgender people of color, as well as a chapter on transgender adolescents. The book contains a wealth of practical information and accounts of people's experiences about coming out to one's employer or to one's friends or spouse. Several essays spell out the legal rights of transgender people with regard to insurance, work, marriage, and the use of rest rooms. The second part of the book consists of thirteen essays on a range of controversial topics. They include three personal stories of transgender life, one essay on the new academic field of Transgender Studies, two essays on legal rights, three essays on medical issues, and two essays on the origins and possible resolution of the conflicts between therapist and client. The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and web sites. The book has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some of whose members have contributed the essays in the second part of the book. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions in both provinces - James Moran argues that asylum development was the result of complex relationships among a wide array of people, including state inspectors and administrators, asylum doctors, local magistrates, jail surgeons, religious authorities, and the relatives and neighbours of those who were considered to be insane...read more

Product Description: This book provides a broad analysis of the policy, programmatic, and research issues surrounding managed care services delivery systems that provide the majority of health and behavioral health care services in the United States. By including an interdisciplinary group of authors and addressing multiple fields of practice including health care, gerontology, child welfare, substance abuse, and mental health, the editors provide a broad overview of "macro" managed care issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Finally back in print! Mandatory reading for anyone who asks why thousands of individuals who clearly suffer from brain disease go without care. The Treatment Advocacy Center is proud to republish this book so that this valuable tool for reform continues to remain available to them and to all who ask "How can we stop this neglect?...read more

Product Description: An essential resource for mental health practitioners, this clinically oriented handbook illuminates the relationship between cultural and interpersonal issues in therapeutic work with Asian American clients. Drawing on both research and clinical practice, contributing authors describe the normative family dynamics and practices of a range of Asian American groups, address important developmental and life cycle issues, offer guidelines for understanding and treating specific disorders, and discuss the use of different therapeutic modalities within this diverse population...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In todayAs environment of managed care, practitioners face more daunting challenges than ever: treatment authorizations are becoming more difficult to obtain, as are referrals to other healthcare practitioners, which are increasingly performance based...read more

Product Description: Focusing on acute clinical situations in which there is an imminent risk of serious harm or death to self or others, this practical resource helps clinicians evaluate and manage a wide range of mental health emergencies. Authors examine how to distinguish crises that are emergencies from those that are not, and provide basic instruction in crisis theory and emergency interviewing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For professionals and others involved in sports who want to better understand the innermost lives of athletes and to treat the complex problems that can arise from competition, this book provides both invaluable guiding principles and treatment specifics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A valuable book for all who are involved in applications of psychology in community settings! The highly acclaimed authors of this volume provide a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the theory and practice of community mental health consultation and population-oriented psychiatry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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