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Coping with a Mental Health Crisis

26 April 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

THIS SLIM volume sets out seven steps to healing and growth in people who have had psychospiritual crises.

Finding Jericho

01 September 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

Dave Jeffrey occupies that seemingly odd but in fact intensely synergetic position of author of fiction and mental health practitioner. This becomes clear through...

Coping with a Mental Health Crisis

12 April 2016

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THE FOCUS of this slim volume is different approaches to mental health from the broad perspective of viewing such events as a psychospiritual crisis.

Legal aspects of mental capacity

01 April 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The introduction of the long-awaited Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in 2005 was widely welcomed, as it provided a legal framework to protect individuals with limited or...

Bi-polar recovery: twenty years of manic depression and medication in poetry and prose

01 December 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

In teaching mental health branch students about representations of illness in literature, I am always in need of new voices to bring a fresh approach. Autobiography...

Making Sense of Madness

01 October 2010

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

ON READING this book, I was struck by the thought that what it has to say is obvious. After all, listening and responding to individuals’ subjective accounts of...

Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and the Suicidal Mind

10 February 2015

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

I READ this book – now in its third edition – with interest as I was about to write a chapter for a nursing textbook on self-harm and suicide. The book is reasonably...

Dictionary of psychological testing, assessment and treatment

01 March 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

Dictionaries can always be criticised for being too brief or too lengthy, for being too complex or too simple for the intended readership, and any omissions that...

Little Crackers: Tales from the Edge

10 December 2015

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THESE SHORT stories about the diversity of human nature are indeed little crackers: like fireworks, they contain a bang or twist at the end that unsettles the reader...

David’s Box

01 November 2012

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THE AUTHORS were given the material that forms much of this book by David’s brother, long after David’s death. What they have created with this large volume of...

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