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
Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention in Childcare Legal Proceedings: Engaging families in successful rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Mike Davies
February 05, 2018
This book draws upon the author’s first-hand clinical experience as an Expert Witness in child and family legal proceedings to explore the success of psychotherapy assessments and interventions. Focusing on families who are seeking to be re-united after the removal of their children into foster ...
Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences
1st Edition
By Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas
January 03, 2018
Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their ...
A Theory-based Approach to Art Therapy: Implications for teaching, research and practice
1st Edition
By Ephrat Huss
December 21, 2017
Art therapy literature is often based either on practice in a specific setting, art material or population, or if taking a more theoretical focus, on illustrative case studies. This book provides a theory-based approach to research, teaching, and practicing art therapy, including verbal and arts ...
Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones: The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond
1st Edition
By David Winter, Rachel Brown, Stephanie Goins, Clare Mason
December 21, 2017
This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on ...
The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness: Case Studies of the U.S. Mental Health System
1st Edition
By Diana J. Semmelhack, Larry Ende, Arthur Freeman, Clive Hazell, Colleen L. Barron, Garry L. Treft
May 18, 2017
In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. This volume makes this point while ...
Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations: From theory to therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Hayward, Clara Strauss, Simon McCarthy-Jones
January 19, 2017
This book draws on clinical research findings from the last three decades to offer a review of current psychological theories and therapeutic approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations, addressing key methodological issues that need to be considered in evaluating interventions...
Trauma-Informed Care: How neuroscience influences practice
1st Edition
By Amanda Evans, Patricia Coccoma
January 09, 2017
This accessible book provides an overview of trauma-informed care and related neuroscience research across populations. The book explains how trauma can alter brain structure, identifies the challenges and commonalities for each population, and provides emergent treatment intervention options to ...
Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Brambilla, Andrea Marini
January 04, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis. Psychopathological symptoms in ...
The Clinician, the Brain, and 'I': Neuroscientific findings and the subjective self in clinical practice
1st Edition
By Tony Schneider
January 04, 2017
The clinician needs to make sense of many client experiences in the course of daily practice: do these experiences reflect the simple product of complex neurochemical activity, or do they represent another dynamic involving the subjective self? When research findings from the neurosciences are ...
Primitive Expression and Dance Therapy: When dancing heals
1st Edition
By France Schott-Billmann
December 05, 2016
This book provides a rigorous and comprehensive account of primitive expression in dance therapy, focusing on the use of rhythm and exploring the therapeutic potential inherent in the diverse traditions of popular dance, from tribal shamanic dance to styles such as rock, rap and hip-hop strongly ...
New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose
1st Edition
By Penelope Weller
March 03, 2016
The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and ...
Learning about Emotions in Illness: Integrating psychotherapeutic teaching into medical education
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Shoenberg, Jessica Yakeley
October 12, 2015
Good communication between the doctor and patient is essential for the patient to establish a trusting relationship with their doctor and to make the best use of the appropriate treatment. Traditional methods for teaching communication skills have focused on simulated clinical situations in which ...