Community and In-Home Behavioral Health Treatment
By Lynne Rice Westbrook
Review by Diana Soeiro on Tue, Mar 29th 2016. |  | People can have mental and emotional challenges at any point of their lives. For some, the thought of making an appointment and go to an office can hugely deter them from asking for help in order to find the best solutions to overcome those challenges, being the first challenge, the ability to get to the office, to have an appointment.
In order to break this vicious cycle, for this kind of patients, in-home treatment (IHT) can be the most adequate option.
Lynne Rice Westbrook (M.S. 1996)
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Mindfulness in Plain English
20th Anniversary Edition
By Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Review by Beth Cholette, Ph.D. on Tue, Apr 14th 2015. | Mindfulness, or an awareness of the present moment, is a relatively common concept today, but not so twenty years ago, when author Bhante Gunaratana first introduced this work. In Mindfulness in Plain English, Gunaratana’s focus is actually vispassana meditation, a Buddhist-based practice. Gunaratana strives to use basic language in his explanations, yet the concepts presented here are anything but simple. The open pages are particularly complex, with over twenty pages detailing what meditation is—and what is not, as well.
Sometimes Gunaratana is more
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How We Think About Dementia
Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and What They Mean for Care
By Julian C. Hughes
Review by Lynne Trevisan on Tue, Mar 24th 2015. |  | How We Think About Dementia is a book directed at professionals or people who are familiar with research and medical terminology. The language is fairly technical and likely needs a bit of translation for the layperson/non-professional. There are, however, areas of the book that make sense for any person with even minor experience with dementia or other health conditions. I particularly like Hughes’ focus on compassionate care and the suggestion that dementia be called “acquired diffuse neurocognitive dysfunction” (2014, p. 11). This encompasses t
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Fountain House
Creating Community in Mental Health Practice
By Alan Doyle, Julius Lanoil, and Kenneth Dudek
Review by Abraham Rudnick, M.D., Ph.D., C.P.R.P. on Tue, Nov 4th 2014. | Fountain House is a book long due. The model of mental health services -- the clubhouse -- that is its focus has been practiced for more than half a century. It originated in New York in the late 1940s, as a self-help initiative of people with mental illness in reaction to de-institutionalization, i.e., the considerable reduction of number of psychiatric hospital beds, which resulted in the discharge to the community of many people with mental illness who then had insufficient support in the community. It was transformed to its current form in the early 1950s by John Beard, the executive direc
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Finding Meaning in the Experience of Dementia
The Place of Spiritual Reminiscence Work
By Elizabeth MacKinlay and Corinne Trevitt
Review by Anthony O'Brien, RN, MPhil on Tue, Jun 24th 2014. |  | Dementia is an irreversible brain disease in which the sufferer, usually an older person, experiences progressive decline in cognitive functioning including memory loss, difficulties with language, and confusion. The prognosis is dismal and there is no curative treatment currently available. People with dementia usually lose independence and spend their final years in residential care, withdrawn from the world. At least, that is the dominant narrative of dementia. Within the dominant narrative there is little room for an experiencing, engaging individual who actively participates in the world
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Almost a Psychopath
Do I (or Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?
By Ronald Schouten and James Silver
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA-D on Tue, May 20th 2014. | This book is part of The Almost Effect series, a group of books written by Harvard Medical School faculty and other professionals "who offer guidance on common behavioral and physical problems falling in the spectrum between normal health and a full-blown medical condition." The books are intended to help the lay public recognize "under the radar" conditions and find resources to do something about them. The authors of Almost a Psychopath are Ronald Schouten, a physician-attorney, and James Silver, an attorney, who have extensive experience in the forensic arena, including assessment and treat
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A Lethal Inheritance
A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
By Victoria Costello
Review by Lynne Trevisan on Wed, May 22nd 2013. |  | After learning one of her sons has schizophrenia, author Victoria Costello begins a ten-year journey to learn about a variety of mental illness diagnoses and the steps people can take to address the impact the disease(s) have on their lives. In the book, Costello details the heartbreaking and terrifying experiences a family experiences when a mental illness occurs. She identifies a long line of family members who had mental illness and how the problems were ignored, how the family acted as if nothing was wrong -- generation after generation, the coping mechanisms exhibited by the f
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Not Crazy
You May Not Be Mentally Ill
By Charles L Whitfield
Review by Tony Giordano on Tue, Mar 29th 2011. | A well-known physician and psychotherapist, Charles Whitfield is the author of numerous books and articles on mental health, including the best-selling book, Healing the Child Within. In his latest offering, Not Crazy, Dr. Whitfield contends that most psychiatric drugs do more harm than good due to their severe toxicity and addictive properties, about which patients are rarely forewarned. They are especially harmful, he argues, when used long-term, but this is exactly what the trend has been.
The entire economics of mental healthcare rests squarely on the marketing of psych drugs, he a
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