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A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting. Featuring contributions from experienced, board-certified home care psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists, the book explains the multifaceted role of a home-based provider, offers concrete and practical considerations for working within the home, and highlights adaptations to specific evidence-based methods used in treating homebound older adults. Also covered are special topics related to hoarding, safety, capacity evaluations, caregivers, case management, and use of technology. Each chapter includes engaging case examples with practical tips that illustrate what it is like to work in this new and exciting frontier. Psychologists, counselors, and other mental health practitioners in home settings will be able to use this guide to provide effective home-based care to older adults.

Despite years of research, debate and changes in mental health policy, there is still a lack of consensus as to what recovery from psychosis actually means, how it should be measured and how it may ultimately be achieved. In Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention, it is argued that recovery from a first episode of psychosis (FEP) is comprised of three core elements: symptomatic, social and personal. Moreover, all three types of recovery need to be the target of early intervention for psychosis programmes (EIP) which provide evidence-based, integrated, bio-psychosocial interventions delivered in the context of a value base offering hope, empowerment and a youth-focused approach.Over the 12 chapters in the book, the authors, all experienced clinicians and researchers from multi-professional backgrounds, demonstrate that long-term recovery needs to replace short term remission as the key target of early psychosis services and that, to achieve this, we need a change in the way we deliver EIP: one that takes account of the different stages of psychosis and the ‘bespoke'targeting of integrated medical, psychological and social treatments during the ‘critical period'. Illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples, this book will be of great interest to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and other associated mental health professionals.

When Professionals Weep speaks to the humbling and often transformational moments that clinicians experience in their careers as caregivers and healers—moments when it is often hard to separate the influence of our own emotional responses and worldviews from the patient's or family's. When ProfessionalsWeep addresses these poignant moments—when the professional's personal experiences with trauma, illness, death, and loss can subtly, often stealthily, surface and affect the helping process. This edition, like the first, both validates clinicians'experiences and also helps them process and productively address compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.New material in the second edition includes increased emphasis on the burgeoning fields of hospice and palliative care, organizational countertransference, mindfulness, and compassionate practice. It includes thought-provoking cases, self-assessments, and exercises that can be used on an individual, dyadic, or group basis. This volume is an invaluable handbook for practitioners in the fields of medicine, mental health, social work, nursing, chaplaincy, the allied health sciences, psychology, and psychiatry.

Kan barn ha psykose? Hvordan kan vi oppdage at en ungdom har psykotiske symptomer? Hvordan skal hjelpeapparatet møte unge mennesker som sliter med psykoser og alvorlige psykiske vansker? Ved hjelp av forskning, bred klinisk erfaring og en rekke praksisnære eksempler gir forfatteren svar på disse og flere spørsmål om alvorlige psykiske lidelser hos barn og unge. I boken får du innsikt i temaer som: - psykoser, psykoseliknende symptomer og risikotilstander - diagnoseforståelse, diagnostisering og differensialdiagnoser - hjelpsøking og utredning - familie- og nettverkssamarbeid - betydningen av tidlig innsats Kunnskap om psykoser hos barn og ungdom er sparsom. Utviklingen av en alvorlig psykisk lidelse hos unge mennesker skjer gradvis, og for helsepersonell kan møtet med denne pasientgruppen være utfordrende og fylt med dilemmaer. Boken har til hensikt å avlive myter, redusere stigma, og ikke minst gi håp til foreldre, helsepersonell, behandlere og de unge selv. Les anmeldelse av Alvorlige psykiske lidelser hos barn og ungdom i Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening.