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The book provides readers with evidence-based, pragmatic, and clear recommendations regarding the care of patients with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.
The book offers expert perspectives and guidance in understanding, assessing, and addressing school violence. It emphasizes that mass casualty events are but one type of violence, and that school violence comes in many different forms.
Intended as a primer for doing supportive therapy using psychodynamic principles, the book offers a solid foundation for the basic strategies and techniques of psychotherapy of any type.
Explores a range of supervisory techniques as well as a variety of venues - from inpatient and community-based settings to diverse administrative contexts and scholarly environments. The book also features a thorough discussion of unique issues in supervision, as well as legal issues and the current state of professional development.
Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents
A tool for mental health clinicians who work with children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth. The strategies presented in the text must be felt, experienced, lived, and reflected on by the clinician, who will then be inspired and will be equipped to assist others.
This book provides an in-depth look at clinical and public health approaches to this epidemic from both psychiatric and medical perspectives and gives mental health professionals the big picture necessary to understand the epidemic.
Clinical Features and Treatment Across the Diagnostic Spectrum
Based on the latest research, Aggression: Clinical Features and Treatment Across the Diagnostic Spectrum is designed to aid mental health practitioners in identifying and treating aggression in diverse patient presentations.
The new edition builds upon the strengths that distinguished the first, with composite cases that are carefully constructed to capture real-world problems, followed by essays that provide clear and cogent perspectives on the case.
A cogent, caring, and comprehensive response to the reality that many children live lives of constant threat, fear, and confusion while lacking opportunities for positive social interactions, stimulation, and empowerment.
