Author: Robert E Hess Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317839579 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 319
Book Description
Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued an impressive three-pronged mission of promoting health, preventing mental illness, and improving the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses through advocacy at all levels of state and national government and the development of prevention programs.The National Mental Health Association: Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention traces the history of the association’s involvement in prevention back to the first decade of the century. Mental health professionals from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, South Carolina, New York, and Illinois describe some of the diverse activities relating to prevention in which local associations are involved, such as public education, direct intervention, and legislative advocacy. In addition, a large part of the volume is devoted to in-depth descriptions of seven programs of sufficient distinction and merit to have received the association’s prestigious Lela Rowland Prevention Award, which recognizes outstanding prevention programs in the area of mental health.This volume should be read by the hundreds of thousands of Mental Health Association members, as well as community psychologists, social workers, and professionals in mental health centers and state mental health departments.
Author: M. V. Landow Publisher: Nova Publishers ISBN: 9781594548390 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
College students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. These stresses include inside and outside pressures by the world to succeed, financial worries, concerns about uncertain futures, social problems and opportunities since college is often the meeting place for future mates, and homework and tests in multiple and complex subjects requiring preparation and focus with often conflicting priorities. Unsuccessful coping often results in anxiety, heavy drinking, depression and a host of other mental health problems. This new book presents new and important research in this important field.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment Publisher: ISBN: Category : Mental health Languages : en Pages : 278
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 184
Author: Mary E. Walsh Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313059624 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
This book examines the critical, historical, and contemporary linkages between health and learning, reviews the best practices, and makes resources available for practitioners. What is the relationship between health and learning vis-à-vis theory, research, and practice? The purpose of this book is to examine the critical, historical, and contemporary linkages between health and learning, to review the best practices, and to make resources available for practitioners. Walsh and Murphy review current and historical efforts to provide health services to school children and youth. A list of print and nonprint resources for professionals, parents, and school administrators is provided.
Author: Paul J. Carling Publisher: Guilford Press ISBN: 9780898623239 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive, practical approach to fully integrating people with serious mental illnesses into the community. Drawing from a range of resources, including mental health consumers and their families, this pathbreaking work lays the groundwork for a critical rethinking of how we view people labeled "mentally ill". Defining "community integration," the author examines current and past approaches to meeting the needs of people with psychiatric disabilities, demonstrating how they have been inadequate. Carling then maps out a pioneering paradigm for community integration, which consists of an active partnership among mental health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, families, neighbors, employers, and realtors. Describing ways to prepare the community to organize for change, the book discusses the need to first address the pervasive nature of stigma, which is reflected at every level of society. Drawing from his own extensive experience, as well as from firsthand observations of model programs in place throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, the author offers detailed guidance for organizing a program of action in mental health systems and in local communities.
Author: Robert E Hess
Author: M. V. Landow
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
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Author: Paul J. Carling
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging