“There is plenty in this book to get your teeth into and help us think about how we work with people in mental health crises and how we might best make a difference.� Alan Simpson, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Health Service and Population Research, King’s College London, UK “Any one of us could experience a mental health crisis. However, a high-quality interdisciplinary response can be lifesaving and life changing. This book is an important contribution to the literature as it has examples of good practice for all professionals – both on the frontline and in service development.� Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK “This publication is a valuable and timely resource given the increasing recognition of the impact of mental health needs in a range of different professional settings.� Victoria Sweetmore, Acting Discipline Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing, University of Derby, UK Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis improves the care of those experiencing a mental health-related crisis by providing insight into the roles different UK statutory services have and the need for collaborative mental health care. For those studying and working in the field of mental health crisis, this vital work will bridge your understanding by offering a cross-discipline perspective of the different services, their role in aiding service users and, the ways we can work more collaboratively together to meet the mental health needs of those requiring care. Throughout, the book: • Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face • Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-system approach to crisis care • Helps professionals to understand good practice and the challenges of other services when aiding a person in crisis • Critically evaluates service provision and ways to improve crisis care • Explores recovery and collaboration with service users experiencing a crisis and their significant others The book is timely and essential in its promotion of high-quality interdisciplinary response and emphasis on integration and collaboration between service providers. Kris Deering is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and the module lead of Working with a Person Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis at UWE Bristol, UK. Including working as a senior practitioner for a mental health crisis team, Kris has over 15 years of mental health nursing experience. Jo Williams is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at UWE Bristol, UK. Her clinical practice experience includes civilian and military nursing, supporting people living with co-existing mental health and substance misuse issues.

Understanding Animal Abuse and How to Intervene with Children and Young People offers a positive, compassion-based and trauma-informed approach to understanding and intervening in animal abuse. It provides an accessible cross-disciplinary synthesis of current international evidence on animal abuse and a toolkit for professionals working with people and/or animals to help them understand, prevent and intervene in cases of animal abuse. With contributions from experts in the field, this essential text offers ten user-friendly chapters with questions for reflection and key summary points. It offers a definition of animal abuse, synthesises the latest research on children, young people and animal abuse, explores the link between animal abuse and other forms of abuse and outlines legal perspectives on animal abuse. The second half of the book presents a practical toolkit for professionals, offering guidance and strategies for the prevention of and intervention in cases of animal abuse. It provides multidisciplinary perspectives on interventions; from teachers’ and social workers roles in detection and intervention of childhood animal abuse, to the roles of enforcement agencies and veterinarians in legal cases of adult animal abuse. Together with a final chapter proposing new directions for research, policy and practice, this guide is for all who work with children, young people and/or animals, including psychologists, social workers, veterinarians, education professionals and animal welfare educators. It is also a key reading for those involved in legal and policy issues relating to animal welfare.

Understanding Animal Abuse and How to Intervene with Children and Young People offers a positive, compassion-based and trauma-informed approach to understanding and intervening in animal abuse. It provides an accessible cross-disciplinary synthesis of current international evidence on animal abuse and a toolkit for professionals working with people and/or animals to help them understand, prevent and intervene in cases of animal abuse. With contributions from experts in the field, this essential text offers ten user-friendly chapters with questions for reflection and key summary points. It offers a definition of animal abuse, synthesises the latest research on children, young people and animal abuse, explores the link between animal abuse and other forms of abuse and outlines legal perspectives on animal abuse. The second half of the book presents a practical toolkit for professionals, offering guidance and strategies for the prevention of and intervention in cases of animal abuse. It provides multidisciplinary perspectives on interventions; from teachers’ and social workers roles in detection and intervention of childhood animal abuse, to the roles of enforcement agencies and veterinarians in legal cases of adult animal abuse. Together with a final chapter proposing new directions for research, policy and practice, this guide is for all who work with children, young people and/or animals, including psychologists, social workers, veterinarians, education professionals and animal welfare educators. It is also a key reading for those involved in legal and policy issues relating to animal welfare.

How did they do it? Who cares? Will it happen again? These are questions that put the following pages into perspective. As the reader, you become part of the story by what you add and how you finalize it with personal information at the end of the book. Living during the Great Depression, without the technology or medical resources we take for granted today, called for more than mere strength; it demanded faith and hope. This book chronicles ordinary people who dug deeply into their inner self to not just tolerate new and difficult experiences but to rise above them and use them as stepping stones to a new and better future. Imagine no electricity in many areas of our country,few automobiles and fewer roads, no kitchen appliances, no nylon, no hair dryers or boom boxes, no plastic, no ice cubes, no meaningful initials; TV, DVD, CD, MRI, GPS. Could we return to a life of such deprivation? Probably not but our world is being threatened with a new and unexpected depth of financial failure and what we learned from the past might give us insight into how we handle the future. What you document may influence people you love and people you do not even know.

Some people turn to God when they feel betrayed. The author considered God the betrayer. Anyone whose dreams have been shattered will relate to this story and may discover, as the author did, a road to peace and success.