Psychology & Psychiatry : Mental Illness

Children of Parents with Mental Illness: Personal and clinical perspectives looks at the insights and experiences of children and adults who have grown up with a parent with mental illness. The personal accounts show the need for professionals to think about all family members in order to meet the needs of the children involved. This highly recommended text is a comprehensive and relevant book for anyone concerned with the mental health and wellbeing of children and families. It is a resource intended for mental health professionals, psychologists and social workers. The personal narratives are complemented by chapters written by clinicians and practitioners. These chapters offer well-researched and current information in the area of the authors’ expertise. Issues covered include: • the genetics of mental illness • talking with children to allay anxiety and give age-appropriate information • assessment of children in crisis • the value of peer support activities • the needs of children placed in out-of-home care • cultural considerations in understanding mental illness • how our mental health care can fail the children of parents with mental illness Some of the contributors have international reputations in their specialist areas, several are participants in the national Children of Parents with Mental Illness (COPMI) Project as members of the reference or consultation groups, and some are adult children of a parent with mental illness. Vicki Cowling, a social worker and psychologist, is the editor of a previous, groundbreaking book in this series, Children of Parents with Mental Illness (ACER Press, 1999). more...

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Dementia is most frequently associated with aging and is, at present, under-diagnosed and under-represented all over the world. Discrepancies in the diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions implemented in the various clinical contexts are significant and consequently, the need for a review of the currently available research evidence and a discussion of different clinical practices is urgently needed. This book provides a much needed review of the diagnostic procedures and the implementations of therapeutic interventions. more...

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Detour is the extraordinary first book by Lizzie Simon, a twenty-three-year-old woman with bipolar disorder. We meet her as she is set to abandon her successful career as a theatrical producer in New York City, with plans to hit the road and find other bipolars like herself - young, ambitious, opinionated, and truth-seeking. Her goal: to speak with them candidly without judgment, fear, or the slightest trace of anything clinical or jargon-laden. She wants their stories in their words. more...

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This text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, agencies, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental health need or problem and offering appropriate support. This is an essential introduction written by practitioners, and also draws from the personal experiences of service users and carers, providing up-to-date and topical material covering major issues such as: the concepts of mental health, illness and recovery; advocacy and empowerment; legal and policy issues relating to practice; gender and ethnicity in mental health; violence and abuse. The broad range of this book makes it an excellent resource for mental health practitioners, whether experienced or new to the field, support workers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the complexities of mental illness and the mental health system. more...

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Over the last two decades, scientific articles on schizophrenia have doubled in number, and prophecies of breakthrough have appeared and receded. The result is a scattered and confusing mass of evidence that is difficult to evaluate. How much progress has really been made? Are the neurological causes of madness truly in sight? This book evaluates the progress of schizophrenia science by summarizing what is known about how patients with the illness differ from healthy people. The tools of meta-analysis are first explained and then employed to make the strength and consistency of these differences explicit. Beginning with the study of symptoms, then moving through the search for objective disease markers, findings on the cognitive functions, structure, physiology, chemistry, and development of the brain, this book is a journey into the enigma of madness and its science. What emerges is an illness that reveals itself most strongly in thought processes, not biology. As evidence actually becomes weaker and harder to reproduce as research moves from mind to molecule, the harvest of dazzling research techniques turns out to be modest or inconsistent. Schizophrenia is an anomaly at the frontier of mind and brain, but In Search of Madness points the way to its solution.  more...

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