This is the first clinical guide to assessing and treating victims of sex trafficking, encompassing best practices and strategies for overcoming the severe barriers that this group presents. These barriers most notably include separating victims from their pimps/handlers, who exert tight control over their lives, speech, and interactions with ......
Incorporating Intersectionality, Resilience, and Cultural Competence
By demonstrating how to integrate diversity and intersectionality into the diagnostic process rather than limiting assessment to a purely problem-focused diagnostic label, this book strengthens the DSM for mental health practitioners by promoting the inclusion of intersectionality, resiliency, culture, spirituality, and community into practice.
Guides readers through the full process of treating suicidal patients, from screening to relapse prevention, using effective, research-informed interventions. Sam Knapp explains suicidal behaviour through ideation to action theories of suicide, and argues for the application of principle based ethics when making treatment decisions.
An important resource for supporting people with learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) as they grow older, it addresses a significant gap in knowledge and practice, by helping staff and others to recognise individual changes and address the challenges of living and dying well.
A self-study guide to support staff in intellectual disability services to understand and respond to the complex and holistic needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong challenge, but it doesn't have to rule your life. Join the many tens of thousands of readers who have used the science-based tools in this book to achieve greater balance and get the most out of treatment. Leading expert Dr. Monica Ramirez Basco helps you understand the nature of bipolar illness and recognize the ......
Informed by the principles and practices of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this book presents skills training guidelines specifically designed for participants with cognitive challenges. Clinicians learn how to teach core emotion regulation and adaptive coping skills in a framework that promotes motivation and mastery for all learners, and ......
Prepares students to successfully pass the ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification examination. The manual encompasses all of the essential knowledge required, uses an outline format that highlights critical detail, and systematically follows the test blueprint so that those taking the exam will be optimally prepared.