The Common Sense Guide to Mental Health Care - Softcover

THE COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE

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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Beige soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to back. Penned notes to blank rear endpapers. Straightforward guide to mental health care written to help consumers evaluate the varied counseling services offered by clinics, churches, and health care professionals, and the like. 23 chapters: 1, Buying Mental Health Care; 2, Help! Psychiatric Emergencies; 3, Do You Need Help? How Can You Tell?; 4, What Could Be Wrong? Symptons of Mental Illnesses; 5, Mental Illness in Children; 6, What's Wrong: A Professional Opinion; 7, Getting Help -- How Do You Find It?; 8, Mental Health Providers: Individual Therapists; 9, How to Choose An Individual Therapist; 10, Mental Health Care Providers: Clinics; 11, Self-Help Groups; 12, Giving Help -- Psychotherapy 1: Freud & His Descendents; 13, Giving Help -- Psychotherapy 2: Newer Individual Therapies; 14, Giving Help -- Psychotherapy 3: Group Therapies; 15, Giving Help -- Treatment With Psychoactive Drugs; 16, Giving Help -- Other Somatic Therapies; 17, Giving Help -- Hospitalization; 18, Is It Working? How to Evaluate Treatment; 19, The Role of the Family; 20, Paying for Mental Health Care; 21, Staying Health -- Preventive Mental Health Care; 22, Mental Illness & the Law; and, 23, The Future -- Avenues of Reasearch, follow by an appendix of Useful Addresses & Phone Numbers. Useful guide/resource for families when one member is distressed. Seller Inventory # 006424

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