Eamon McCrory is Consultant Clinical Psychologist based at NSPCC, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Neuroscience at University College London, UK and Head of Postgraduate Studies, at the Anna Freud Centre, UK.
How People With Serious Mental Illnesses Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are prominently and unjustly overrepresented in the criminal legal system. More than one-third—and in some studies more than two-thirds—of those with SMI have a lifetime history of arrest.
More than 10 years after the first edition was published—and spurred in part by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which turned nearly all mental health professionals into de facto disaster mental health professionals—this second edition of Disaster Psychiatry remains a clinically oriented, evidence-based.
An Evidence-Based Treatment for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use
The opioid crisis arose in part due to the attempt to relieve chronic pain. Meeting a huge need, this is the authoritative presentation of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) for chronic pain and opioid use. MORE is one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to simultaneously reduce opioid use and/or addiction, pain, and ......
The Role of Personality Dynamics and Social Ecology
Argues that the dynamic relationship between personality and social factors, which the author terms 'ecodynamics', is the root cause of complex depression and leads to severe consequences, including suicide.
GenderAffirming Psychiatric Care is the first textbook in the field to provide an affirming, intersectional, and evidence informed approach to caring for transgender, nonbinary, and/or gender expansive (TNG) individuals.
A Guide for Institutions and Clinicians on Prevention, Support, and Healing
With consequences that can include emotional distress, difficulty concentrating and focusing on academic work, mood changes, excessive substance use, and self-harming behaviors, its clear that sexual assault and intimate partner violence are issues that require an emergent response.
For nearly 30 years, the Concise Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology has been an indispensable companion for clinicians caring for patients struggling with everything from delusions and hallucinations to aphasia and stroke.
The Psychology of Psychopharmacology With Diverse Youth and Families
Our remedies are only largely as good as the way in which we dispense them. Thats the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages psychopharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a medication to young patients not as the beginning of the end of a therapeutic conversation
