Outlines the nine fundamental steps to recognizing, managing, and recovering from mental illness, and provides both diagnostic information and details about therapy options and useful medications.
If you think a family member or friend may be struggling with a mental illness, or isn't getting effective treatment, this guide will help you recognize symptoms.
This introductory guide will help mental health nurses and professionals learn how to work with families in an intervention situation and understand the importance of family members within the field of mental illness.
Research has shown that interventions providing psychoeducation and assistance to family members significantly reduce hospitalizations for people with serious mental illness, and help families cope. But research-based models have not...
We want you to know there is hope for recovery. This guide is intended to help families get their bearings, understand the mental health system and its limitations, and build a path forward towards person-centered recovery.
The book discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions.
Hester, M., Pearson, C. and Harwin, N. (2003) 'Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence – A Reader.' In B. Kroll and A. Taylor Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Praise for Serious Mental Illness and the Family "Serious Mental Illness and the Family is unique in building assessment, intervention, and collaborative strategies around specific types of clinical cases and...
The book will follow a similar format to her previous book, presenting information in easy to read outline form, with relevant forms, patient questionnaires, checklists, business documents, etc.
In this book, families can find the answers to their most urgent questions. What medications are helpful and are some as dangerous as I think?
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carter, Rosalynn. Helping someone with mental illness / Rosalynn Carter, with Susan K. Golant. 1. Mental illness—Popular works. 2. Consumer education. I. Golant, Susan K. II. Title.