Explorations in Mental Health
About the Book Series
The Explorations in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand
Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia
Frantz Fanon’s Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Lou Turner, Helen Neville
December 13, 2021
Recognizing Frantz Fanon’s remarkable legacy to applied mental health and therapeutic practices which decolonize, humanize, and empower marginalized populations, this text serves as a timely call for research, education, and clinical work to establish and further develop Fanonian approaches and ...
Trans and Sexuality: An existentially-informed enquiry with implications for counselling psychology
1st Edition
By Christina Richards
August 02, 2021
Grounded in cutting-edge qualitative research, Trans and Sexuality explores the sexuality of people who do not identify with the gender that they were assigned at birth. Arguing that whilst splitting members of the trans community into distinct groups might seem like a reasonable theoretical ...
Pet Loss, Grief, and Therapeutic Interventions: Practitioners Navigating the Human-Animal Bond
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori Kogan, Phyllis Erdman
March 31, 2021
This book recognizes and legitimizes the significance of pet and animal loss by exploring the various expressions of trauma and grief experienced by those who work with, live with, or own an animal or pet. The chapters of Pet Loss, Grief, and Therapeutic Interventions weave together cutting-edge ...
Africana People in China: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration Experiences, Identity, and Precarious Employment
1st Edition
By C. Jama Adams
June 30, 2020
This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ...
Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy: An Igbo Group Analyst’s Search for Social and Cultural Identity
1st Edition
By Okeke Azu-Okeke
June 30, 2020
In Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy, Okeke Azu-Okeke explores cultural identity by drawing on his own experience as the first and only Black trainee in an Institute for Group Analysis in London and the impact this has had on his work as a lecturer and supervisor, as well as research from...
Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues: An Islamic Perspective
1st Edition
By G. Hussein Rassool
February 25, 2020
Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues raises awareness of the cultural considerations, religion and spirituality involved in the assessment of Muslim patients with mental health problems. The belief that Jinn spirits can cause mental illness in humans through affliction or possession ...
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne Stewart, Roy Moodley, Ashley Hyatt
June 07, 2019
North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that ...
Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process
1st Edition
By Susanne Slay-Westbrook
June 07, 2019
Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients, yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research. Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and ...
Narratives of Loneliness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivia Sagan, Eric Miller
January 31, 2019
Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever before. Narratives of Loneliness tackles some of the most pressing issues related to loneliness, ...
Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs: Research on Experiences, Coping and Support
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Valentine
December 19, 2018
Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important and ambitious research project into the experiences commonly encountered by members of this ...
The Comprehensive Resource Model: Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma
1st Edition
By Lisa Schwarz, Frank M. Corrigan, Alastair Hull, Rajiv Raju
March 12, 2018
Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma, in particular, complex trauma. While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by ...
Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives
1st Edition
By Colin Feltham
March 07, 2018
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive realism is a worldview of human existence that is essentially negative, and which challenges assumptions about the value of life and the institutions ...