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Product DescriptionMost mental health professionals and behavioral scientists enter the field with a strong desire to help others, but clinical practice and research endeavors often involve decision-making in the context of ethical ambiguity. Good intentions are important, but unfortunately, they do not always protect the practitioner and client from breaches in ethical conduct. Academics, researchers, and students also face a range of ethical challenges from the classroom to the laboratory. Now in a new expanded edition, Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions, the most widely read and cited ethics textbook in psychology, has emerged with a broadened scope extending…. Click Here to Read More

Malingering of brain injury or damage, and malingering of mental illness are common concerns that must be considered in all litigation involving mental health professionals. Malingering in a forensic mental health context is a word which usually refers to deception intended to fake or exaggerate symptoms of a genuine mental illness, brain injury, or brain damage. That is the basic meaning, but in actual practice it is more complicated than that. Malingering is actually an inference made about someone’s motivation when there is an indication the information they are providing is not reliable or consistent with what is known about them and the condition. The possibility of malingering must be…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionAll the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice is the first book of its kind aimed at those mental health professionals and recent graduates interested in entering the growing and lucrative field of forensic psychology. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy guide provides you with tools and techniques for starting a thriving forensic psychology practice, or incorporating a forensic specialty into your current practice. This comprehensive resource includes information on: * The difference between clinical and forensic practice *…. Click Here to Read More

I really need to know the symptoms for mental illness in teenagers. Note: I have most of the symptoms for ADD, I say stuff without thinking and I don’t always think about consequences. I also don’t think things…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionWinner, 2010 Ken Book Award presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Metro (NAMI-NYC Metro). “Payne is a visual poet as well as an architect by training, and he has spent years finding and photographing these buildings—often the pride of their local communities and a powerful symbol of humane caring for those less fortunate. His photographs are beautiful images in their own right, and they also pay tribute to a sort of public architecture that no longer exists. They focus both on the monumental and the mundane, the grand facades and the peeling paint.” —Oliver Sacks, Asylum For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental…. Click Here to Read More

Is it true that Dr. William Glasser’s Choice Theory doesn’t believe in mental illness? Of course not! However, that is what many believe and some don’t give his ideas credence because they think he is wrong about that. This article is my humble attempt to explain exactly what Dr. Glasser means when he says he believes in mental health, not mental illness. This article should be particularly helpful to those of you who work in the helping professions or those of you with family members who have been diagnosed with any type of mental disorder. I’m asking you to take a journey with me into the realm of possibility. What if what we believe about mental illness is wrong in much the same way…. Click Here to Read More

Is it true that Dr. William Glasser’s Choice Theory doesn’t believe in mental illness? Of course not! However, that is what many believe and some don’t give his ideas credence because they think he is wrong about that. This article is my humble attempt to explain exactly what Dr. Glasser means when he says he believes in mental health, not mental illness. This article should be particularly helpful to those of you who work in the helping professions or those of you with family members who have been diagnosed with any type of mental disorder. I’m asking you to take a journey with me into the realm of possibility. What if what we believe about mental illness is wrong in much the same way…. Click Here to Read More

Millions of people throughout the world suffer from all sorts of mental illnesses. These mental disorders and illnesses range from very mild mood disorders to extreme manic depressive illnesses. Even though mental illnesses are very serious in nature, there are plenty of actions that one can take to deal with them. There are some mental illness symptoms you should be aware of if you wish to manage such conditions effectively. Some of the most noticeable symptoms of mental illnesses, especially severe ones like Manic Depression, include those that can be observed through physical changes. Someone who is beginning to show signs of or is currently suffering from a mental disorder or mental…. Click Here to Read More

I thought it was Munchausen syndrome but WebMD describes Munchausen syndrome as a mental illness in which a person repeatedly acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick. Is there a mental illness or disorder in which a person actually makes themselves ill for attention? What I mean to say is if munchausen syndrome is a disorder in which people just PRETEND to be ill(according to webmd) then is there a form of mental illness or a disorder in which a person actually makes themselves ill for…. Click Here to Read More

The most difficult thing to deal with when you have been diagnosed with mental illness may be the stigma attached to it. Learning how to cope and deal with other people’s perceptions of you, may make you feel like hiding your problems. This can make life even more stressful than it already is because of your illness. The first thing to realize that will help you cope with your problem is that it is, in fact, an illness. It is not something you made up. It is not something you can control, or choose. It is not, and probably the most common misconception others may have surrounding mental illness, a matter of you feeling sorry for yourself. You have an illness. The good news is it is a…. Click Here to Read More

ISBN13: 9780425213896Condition: USED – VERY GOODNotes: Product DescriptionFormer Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor’s house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family’s compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an…. Click Here to Read More

ISBN13: 9780425213896Condition: USED – VERY GOODNotes: Product DescriptionFormer Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son-in the throes of a manic episode-broke into a neighbor’s house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family’s compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an…. Click Here to Read More