Tag: Mental Health Practitioner

Book: A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Book Title:

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis.

Author(s): Lucy Johnstone.

Year: 2014.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: PCCS Books.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis? This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health. If the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that psychiatric diagnoses are not supported by evidence, then no one should be forced to accept them. If many mental health workers are openly questioning diagnosis and saying we need a different and better system, then service users and carers should be allowed to do so too. This book is about choice. It is about giving people the information to make up their own minds, and exploring alternatives for those who wish to do so.

Book: An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications

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Book Title:

An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications.

Author(s): Helen Kennerley, Joan Kirk, and David Westbrook.

Year: 2016.

Edition: Third (3rd).

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This bestselling guide to the basic theory, skills and applications of cognitive behaviour therapy is fully updated to reflect recent developments in CBT theory. It includes in-depth material on working with diversity, and new case studies and exercises to help you reflect and explore how theory can be used to develop effective practice.

The Companion Website features over 40 videos illustrating the CBT skills and strategies discussed in the book, including:

  • Measuring CBT’s effectiveness.
  • Socratic method and applications.
  • Physical techniques and behavioural experiments.
  • Applications of CBT to specific client disorders.
  • Using supervision in CBT.

Book: An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

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Book Title:

An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.

Author(s): John McLeod.

Year: 2019.

Edition: Sixth (6th).

Publisher: Open University Press.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

John McLeod’s bestseller provides a comprehensive, research-informed overview of the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This new edition has been expanded to cover emerging aspects of contemporary practice, such as debates around neuroscience and integration; third-wave cognitive–behavioural therapies such as ACT, mindfulness and FAP; the experience of being a client; motivational interviewing; interpersonal psychotherapy; social dimensions of therapy; leaving therapy; gender and sexuality; spirituality; and key counselling and therapeutic skills and techniques.

This sixth edition has been fully updated and revised throughout and is separated into a four-part structure for easy navigation.

Book: An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice

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Book Title:

An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice.

Author(s): Andrew Reeves.

Year: 2018.

Edition: Second (2nd), Updated Edition.

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This book introduces readers to everything they need to know about counselling and psychotherapy theory, skills and practice. Drawing on years of experience as a counselling practitioner and educator, Andrew Reeves links theory to the development of appropriate skills and locates it within the context of therapeutic practice. Features including chapter summaries, discussion questions, prompts for reflection, case examples and further reading help students to apply what they’ve learnt and give them the confidence to progress into practice. The book covers:

  • Key theoretical approaches.
  • Personal development.
  • Counselling skills.
  • Professional settings.
  • Law, policy, values and ethics.
  • Working with difference and diversity.
  • Client and present issues, and more.

Learning is also supported by a wealth of online resources such as case studies and videos that show what theory looks like in practice, as well as journal articles to help extend knowledge. This is the essential text for any trainee practitioner, or for anyone needing an introduction to the foundations of counselling theory and practice.

Book: Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing

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Book Title:

Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice.

Author(s): Ian Norman and Iain Ryrie (Editors).

Year: 2018.

Edition: Fourth (4th).

Publisher: Open University Press.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This well-established textbook is a must-buy for all mental health nursing students and nurses in registered practice.

Comprehensive and broad, it explores how mental health nursing has a positive impact on the lives of people with mental health difficulties.

Book: Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail

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Book Title:

Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail.

Author(s): Richard P. Bentall.

Year: 2010.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Penguin.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Why is the Western world’s treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK?

In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring, psychiatry has been relying on myths and misunderstandings of madness for too long, and builds on methods which can often hinder rather than help the patient.

Bentall argues passionately for a new future of mental health, one that considers the patient as an individual and redefines our understanding and treatment of madness for the twenty-first century.

Book: Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Book Title:

Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis.

Author(s): Jo Watson.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: PCCS Books.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

In October 2016 Jo Watson hosted the very first A Disorder for Everyone!’ event in Birmingham, with psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone, to explore (and explode) the culture of psychiatric diagnosis in mental health. To provide a space to continue the debate after the event, Jo also set up the now hugely popular and active Facebook group Drop the Disorder!’.

Since then, they have delivered events in towns and cities across the UK, bringing together activists, survivors and professionals to debate psychiatric diagnosis. How and why does psychiatric diagnosis hold such power? What harm it can do? What are the alternatives to diagnosis, and how it can be positively challenged?; This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the AD4E events – bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge diagnosis.; This is an essential book for everyone of us who looks beyond the labels.

Book: Critical Thinking and Reflection for Mental Health Nursing Students

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Book Title:

Critical Thinking and Reflection for Mental Health Nursing Students.

Author(s): Marc Roberts.

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Learning Matters.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The ability to reflect critically is a vital nursing skill. It will help your students to make better decisions, avoid errors, identify good and bad forms of practice and become better at learning from their experiences. The challenges they will face as a mental health nurse are complex so this book breaks things down to the foundations helping them to build critical thinking and reflection skills from the ground up.

Key features:

  • Covers the theory and principles behind critical thinking and reflection.
  • Explores the specific mental health context and unique challenges students are likely to face as a mental health nurse.
  • Applies critical thinking to practice but also to academic study, showing how to demonstrate these skills in assignments.

Book: Delusions and Delusion Disorder

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Book Title:

Delusions and Delusional Disorder: The Power to Heal Someone from Mental Disorder.

Mental Health – Psychosis Symptoms and What To Do.

Author(s): Jon Carson.

Year: 2021.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Delusional disorder, recently called paranoid disorder, is a kind of genuine mental illness called a psychotic disorder. Individuals who have it can’t determine what’s genuine based on what is envisioned. Delusions are the fundamental manifestation of delusional disorder. They are relentless convictions in something that is not correct or dependent on the real world.

Individuals with the delusional disorder frequently can proceed to mingle and work regularly, aside from the subject of their dream, and by and large, do not carry on in a clearly odd or strange way.

The study material provides summarised various answers to the questions that are likely to be the in minds of readers. This covers:

  • Vivid introduction delusional disorder.
  • Various types of delusion.
  • What are the indications of delusional disorder?
  • What are the causes and dangerous elements of delusional disorder?
  • Could pressure cause delusions?
  • How is a delusional disorder diagnosed?
  • Treatment of delusional disorder treated.
  • What are the intricacies of delusion disorder?
  • What’s the standpoint for individuals with the delusional disorder?
  • Can the delusional disorder be forestalled?
  • Supportive activities when somebody who has a psychological sickness is encountering hallucinations, delusions, or paranoia.

Book: Dialogical Psychiatry: A Handbook For The Teaching And Practice Of Open Dialogue

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Book Title:

Dialogical Psychiatry: A Handbook For The Teaching And Practice Of Open Dialogue.

Author(s): Russell Razzaque.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Omni House Books.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This book is written for all of those who are searching for a more client driven, compassionate and relational approach to mental health services. Consultant Psychiatrist, Professor Russell Razzaque combines his experience as practitioner, trainer and researcher of Open Dialogue in this accessible guide to a more dialogical psychiatry.

Both thoughtful and eminently practical, this book outlines the operational changes and the cultural shift needed to deliver this promising approach which could fundamentally transform the way mental health services are delivered. If you’ve ever wondered what the future of mental health services can, and hopefully will, look like I encourage you to read this book and be inspired to be part of that change.