Pictures at an Exhibition: Selected Essays on Art and Art Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gilroy, Andrea

Psychology & Counseling

Tavistock Books

Offers an assessment of the current state of residential establishments and examines them as social systems. This book also indicates possible paths to change. This book should be of interest to professionals and students of residential care, health service managers and registration officers.

Interpreting Residential Life: Values to Practice (RESIDENTIAL SOCIAL WORK)

Politics & Social Sciences

Atherton, James S.

Social Sciences

A book which aims to demonstrate the need for a refined theory of social work practice and how it would benefit social workers, their clients and agencies alike. The book is intended for professionals and students of social work and social policy.

Lessons from Past: Issues for Social Work Theory

Roberts, Richard

<p>Loneliness can be a terrible experience. Yet, surprisingly counsellors, therapists and professional helpers are rearely taught how to help their clients manage loneliness. Written specially for professional helpers, Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being provides a thorough background to the theories concerning the nature of loneliness and a basic introduction to its management. It describes a simple method of assessing the degree and nature of loneliness and includes invaluable practical strategies for helping clients to manage their social problems.</p>

Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being: A Helper's Guide

Kupshik, G. A.

Murphy, P. M.

Browne's What asylums were, are, and ought to be , first published in 1837, is a classic portrayal of the horrors of the traditional British madhouse system contrasted with a powerful and ideologically-pointed description of the virtues of the reformed asylum. This new edition contains an extensive and thoroughly documented introductory essay by Scull examining the impact of the book on lunacy reform and the career of its author within the framework of the development of Victorian psychiatry as an organized profession. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Asylum As Utopia: W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry)

Browne, William Alexander Francis

In 18th-century Britain, the medical profession began to pay attention to the minor psychiatric disturbances of educated and polite society. Rather as neurosis became fashionable in fin-de-siecle Vienna, "nerves" became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna, George Cheyne was for 18th-century fashionable ailments. He above all was responsible for developing and popularizing the notion that abnormalities of mood and thought were due - not as traditionally thought to diabolical forces or the "humours" - but to physiological defects of the nervous system. To explain how the nervous system collapsed, Cheyne spelt out a critique of modern, high pressure urban society which in many ways prefigured Rousseau and also Freud's "Civilisation and its Discontents". Although an important figure, Cheyne has been little studied. No scholarly reprint exists of his major thematic work, "The English Malady". This edition, prefaced by a substantial introduction by Roy Porter, aims to contextualize the work in respect of 18th-century medicine, culture and society.

George Cheyne: The English Malady, 1733 (Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry)

Cheyne, George

Porter,Roy

Presents a description of the cognitive behavioural revolution of the last decade and provides therapists with the specifics of helping in four major areas. This book should be of interest to practitioners in social work, clinical psychology and community psychiatry.

A Cognitive Behavioural Approach to Clients' Problems (Tavistock Library of Social Work Practice)

Scott, Michael J.

Medical Books

Every year more than 8000 people in Britain take their own lives. But what happens to their families and friends - the survivors of suicide? Because of the stigma attached to suicide, they have remained a largely hidden group, yet there are likely to be more than 80,000 new survivors annually, people whose lives have been profoundly affected by the suicide of someone close to them. "A Special Scar" is the first book by a British author to describe the experiences of survivors of suicide, including the parents, children, siblings and spouses of suicide victims. It reveals the particular problems which this group of bereaved people face: the stress of coping with the police, with post-mortems, inquests, and the resulting media publicity; the negative attitudes of friends and the community at large; the survivor's own feelings of shame and stigma; and the guilt and anger which many experience. A final chapter and resource section suggests how survivors can be helped and supported by those around them.

A Special Scar: The Experiences of People Bereaved by Suicide

Self-Help

Wertheimer, Alison

Death & Grief

Aspects of Grief: Bereavement in Adult Life

"Aspects of Grief" provides a comprehensive study of adult bereavement and the grieving process. Beginning with a consideration of western attitudes to death and the dying it shows how such attitudes inevitably affect the experience of bereavement. The importance of death-related rituals and the decline in funeral rites is examined. The experiences associated with bereavement and the complications which may arise are explored and there are two chapters on the importance of social support in terms of bereavement outcome. The book also focuses on specific circumstances surrounding deaths, the various facets of adult relationships, and how both can be associated with complicated and uncomplicated grief. These issues are addressed in conjunction with a consideration of the deaths of parents, partners and children. This book should be of interest to professionals and students of clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work and sociology.

Littlewood, Jane

<p>A problem drinker, it is thought, will progress through a series of stages towards feeling motivated to change. The difficulty for the counsellor is in identifying the stage an individual has reached and then deciding which type of intervention to apply. "Counselling Problem Drinkers" takes the reader step by step through the issues surrounding denial, resistance, hesitancy, resolution and long-term commitment to permanent change. The book also puts counselling in context, looking at groupwork, community services and the influence of life events on problem drinkers.</p>

Counselling Problem Drinkers

Davidson, Robin

Rollnick, Stephern

Addiction & Recovery

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