The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what did it mean to those who experienced it? What were the ramifications, both positive and negative, of such a fundamental shift in psychiatric care? Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World: Deinstitutionalisation and After seeks to answer these questions by exploring this momentous change in mental health care from 1945 to the present in a wide range of geographical settings. The book articulates a nuanced account of the history of deinstitutionalisation, highlighting the constraints and inconsistencies inherent in treating the mentally ill outside of the asylum, while seeking to inform current debates about how to help the most vulnerable members of society.

There has been a major shift in the way we conceptualize and provide services to children and adolescents with mental health needs. We are moving away from the traditional disorder-oriented model of treatment to a child-centered, family-focused service delivery system that mandates mental health services in the context of the child's family and social ecology. This new system of care has spawned many variations of the model, including wraparound services, multisystemic treatment (MST), futures planning, and person-centred planning.
As systems of care are different across countries and cultures, it is imperative that we share our knowledge and make explicit the lessons we have learned in our attempts to provide services to children and adolescents which focus on improving their quality of life rather than merely treating their psychiatric disorders and psychological problems. There is an urgent need to evaluate the various treatments being offered to children and adolescents with mental health needs. Empirical date on outcomes will determine the funding and delivery of services. As such, the latest research on treatment outcomes needs to be disseminated so that new and validated treatment methods can be implemented rapidly.

An exploration of how empowerment, lifelong learning and social inclusion are closely connected to the concept of recovery from mental illness, showing how mental health services in general need to restructure to enable people with the lived experience of mental illness to lead a meaningful life with and beyond the illness.

Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature. It unveils the social motives for the overwhelming consensus currently gathered by the biomedical model of depression. The book then moves on to discuss at depth psychoanalytic literature on depression and reveals how it possesses an enormous explanatory power for depression symptoms. This approach allows the author to offer readers a comprehensive, dynamically-oriented model of symptom formation in depression.

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A vivid, honest and sometimes disturbing memoir about the experience of having a diagnosis of manic-depression. It was in two stages (not using a diary that i collected as it says in the Mind Press Release 2002. After i read Prozac Nation in 1998 i wrote two pages. Knowing i had something amazing to say i was paralysed for two years with the thought of writing it. Then when i was given my own flat in Vauxhall after my last hospitalisation in St Thomas's Hospital in 2000 i wrote every day for about 12-16 weeks and got it all of my chast. From that moment i felt that i had written the book that had saved the Ecstacy generation although it turned into a mental health crusade to give other people a voice. Like other books in this genre, the author is often painfully honest about his experiences. He recounts a dizzying, dark and sometimes euphoric journey through a world of elation, despair, binge drinking, drugs, raves and psychiatric wards. As well as attempting to educate the reader, the book also provides optimism and hope, showing that it is finally possible to learn to live with, and accept, having a mental health problem.

This international handbook is the first to analyze mental health policies systematically across a variety of both developed and developing countries. Mental health and public policy experts survey current policies, the public policy process, and critical issues in twenty countries that are representative of different problems. The work considers the treatment of the mentally ill and mentally retarded, mentally disordered offenses, questions of substance abuse, deinstitutionalization, funding, and consumer rights. This major reference, with its comprehensive and comparative survey, is designed for scholars, students, and professionals who deal with mental health and public policy issues.

La intuici n mental, el ps quico pensante, que dentro de los conflictos nos envuelve en retrocesos del tiempo a trav s de los comportamientos en la casa mental que forman parte de nuestras vidas, ya que somos pasajeros del veh culo mental. M s en mi an lisis, apruebo que cada ser viviente es arquitecto de su destino, aunque todos paseemos una loca en la casa, que es la mente, que si no se frena cuando los potros salvajes se nos sueltan en el correr mental. El contenido de estas obras representa la evoluci n mental dentro del panel de la masa giratoria el celebro su funci n comportamiento conflicto batallas el estado psic tico donde se pierde la realidad la noci n del tiempo algo que dentro del mundo creado de seres vivientes la fuerza universal mental vendr an siendo la mente espirita el eje el tim n de la vida misma el epicentro el yo consciente e lo que somos seres humanos expuestos a choques y pruebas. M s que somos que no seremos ya que de la lucidez estamos a un paso de la parte oscura de la vida expuestos a ntrale al t nel de la oscuridad cuando los potros salvajes se nos sueltan dentro el corral mental mas lo psic tico nos hace perder la realidad: de lo que somos. Que nos ata a la vida- la vida misma Que nos ata a la vida- el poder mental Que nos ata a la vida- el deseo de vivir Que nos ata a la vida- lo espiritual Que nos ata a la vida- lo positivo Analista de Conciencia El Pensador

This is a manifesto for an entirely new approach to psychiatric care; one that truly offers care rather than coercion, therapy rather than medication, and a return to the common sense appreciation that distress is usually an understandable reaction to life's challenges.

10 Jahre BZFO - Einleitung.- "Wir sind hier total aufgeschmissen!"- Subjektive Krankheits-, Problem-und Therapievorstellungen extremtraumatisierter Fluchtlinge im Exil.- Wahrnehmung und Erzahlverhalten von Patienten aus einem Entwicklungsland bei Helfern eines Industrielandes.- Dolmetschen im BZFO.- Folgen sexualisierter Folter - Therapeutische Arbeit mit kurdischen Patientinnen.- Sozialarbeit und Sozialtherapie mit traumatisierten Fluchtlingen.- Heilung durch Begegnung - Systemische Familientherapie mit Folteruberlebenden.- Therapie in Musik: Entdeckungen, Probleme und Ideen aus der Musiktherapie mit Folteruberlebenden und traumatisierten Fluchtlingen.- "Wir sitzen alle in einem Boot"- Erfahrungen mit Gestaltungstherapie und Konzentrativer Bewegungstherapie als handlungsorientierte Therapiemethoden innerhalb einer interkulturellen Frauengruppe.- Der Fluss des Lebens - Die Bearbeitung der individuellen Lebensgeschichte im Psychodrama.- Zur Bedeutung der Psychiatrie in der Therapie von Folteruberlebenden oder Braucht eine Behandlungseinrichtung fur Folteropfer einen Psychiater?.- Zwischen Leben und Tod. Behandlung von Fluchtlingskindern und Jugendlichen.- Psychotherapeut und Traumaopfer - Risiken und Ressourcen des inter subjektiven Erlebens von Traumatherapeuten.- Folteruberlebende nach psychotherapeutischer Behandlung - Untersuchung ehemaliger Patienten zwei Jahre nach Therapieende.- Supervision fur Helfer von Opfern organisierter Gewalt.- Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen von Langzeithaft mit Isolation - Historische Wurzeln und Forderungen.- "Zersetzung"- Psychologische Techniken der Staatssicherheit und ihre Folgen. Ein Blick in das zukunftige Instrumentarium von Diktaturen?.- Die Kampagne gegen Folter in der Turkei.

According to social psychologist A. Daniel Yarmey, police officers find the nature of their work necessitates that they behave to some extent like applied psychologists. Many police officers, of course, do not have any special training in this or any allied field, nor do they have an understanding of what cognitive or social psychology might be able to tell them about the behavior of those with whom they are likely to deal in their daily work. Similarly, psychologists are habitually asked by the courts to present research regarding eyewitness testimony, forensic evidence, and competency to stand trial, yet psychologists frequently lack any real awareness of policing or of police officers.

"Understanding Police and Police Work," the first systematic an comprehensive review of the psychology of police and their work, focuses on the psychological basis of police officers' interactions with society. It shows how psychology and other social sciences can contribute to an understanding of police behavior as well as the behavior of citizens and other professionals with whom the police are involved.

This ambitious resource describes innovative intervention programs for treating substance abuse and other mental health problems in the Middle East in the context of larger issues in the region. Deftly combining clinical acumen with in-depth knowledge of sociopolitical currents, contributors present data and analysis on similarities and differences within the region, addiction issues in special populations (youth, mothers, immigrants), and the efficacy of local and international initiatives. New trends in evidence-based responses, including mental health services in war and disaster, are related to the larger goals of promoting peace. To that end, the editors go beyond the concept of shared problems to discuss strategies toward shared solutions, most notably psychological first aid as a healing approach to mediation. Among the topics covered: Drug abuse in the Middle East: promoting mutual interests through resistance and resilience. Toward uniform data collection and monitoring of Israeli and Palestinian adolescent drug use. Substance abusing mothers: toward an understanding of parenting and risk behavior. Immigration, acculturation, and drug use. Psychological first aid: a tool for mitigating conflict in the Middle East. Collaborative approaches to addressing mental health and addiction. For health psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and addiction counselors, Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East demonstrates the deep potential for mental health and social issues to be addressed to benefit all communities involved.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way.

Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section you need depending on the challenge you're facing - and immediately find the appropriate tools to help with . . .

- Managing anxiety
- Dealing with criticism
- Battling low mood
- Building self-confidence
- Finding motivation
- Learning to forgive yourself

This book tackles the everyday issues that affect us all and offers easy, practical solutions that might just change your life.

Gastronomy food tourism has made remarkable progress over the past 10-15 years in both academia and its own sector. Research topics in food tourism include topics like offering unique food experiences, authenticity through food experiences, using food in destination marketing and focusing on food tourism and sustainability together. There are, however, several themes that have not been explored so far in the literature that this book presents. This book presents the most recent of food and gastronomy research in hospitality and tourism, highlighting emerging research themes and different methods of approach. This book focuses specifically on the areas of Gastronomy and Hospitality, and consequently Tourism. It is necessary to define strategies that necessarily pass through analysis and planning and to verify the role of gastronomy and hospitality in the tourism sector. This book is ideal for academics and practitioners, managers, policy makers, consulting professionals, marketing researchers, and other interested groups and individuals.

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called 'incurables' in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England's first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London's overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.

This handbook addresses universal developmental and cultural factors contributing to child and adolescent mental health and well-being across the globe. It examines sociocultural contexts of development and identifies children's and adolescents' perspectives as critical to understanding and promoting their psychological well-being. It details the Promoting Psychological Well-Being Globally project's methodology for data collection and analysis, provides cross-cultural analyses of its findings, and offers a practical model for clinicians and other professionals seeking to apply this knowledge to real-life settings. Featured topics include: Sexual health, gender roles, and psychological well-being in India. Psychological well-being as a new educational boundary in Italy. Mapping psychological well-being in Romania. Youth perspectives on contributing factors to psychological well-being in Sri Lanka. Culturally specific res ilience and vulnerability in Tanzania.Longing for a balanced life - the voices of Chinese-American/immigrant youth in the United States. The International Handbook of Psychological Well-Being in Children and Adolescents: Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice is an invaluable resources for researchers, clinicians, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in child and school psychology, social work, public health, positive psychology, educational policy and politics, and maternal and child health.