Mental Health Crisis

Anxiety, nervousness, tension, and stress are all feelings that people experience from time to time. This book includes practical and helpful tips and habits that can bring mental peace and stability, even when in the midst of crisis. This is a great resource for those dealing with loss, career change, burnout, life transition, depression, anxiety, or any struggle that brings mental crisis and stress. Perfect for those not wanting to take medicine, and to compliment medical help.

This concise study guide offers a focused overview of essential concepts for those preparing to take a mental health vocational certification exam. Designed for aspiring behavioral health professionals, the book introduces key principles across topics such as trauma-informed care, communication, ethics, safety procedures, crisis response, and substance use awareness. While it provides clear explanations and practical examples, this guide is not intended as a comprehensive textbook or complete exam prep resource. Instead, it functions as a compact reference to help readers review major ...

North America is in the middle of a health emergency. Life expectancies are declining. Someone is dying every two hours in Canada from illicit drug overdose. Fentanyl has become a looming presence—an opioid more powerful, pervasive, and deadly than any previous street drug.

Preparing for the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination requires a strong understanding of clinical assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and ethical decision-making. This book is a concise study guide designed to supplement more detailed materials, helping candidates focus on key exam concepts and refine their clinical judgment. The NCMHCE differs from multiple-choice exams, emphasizing case simulations that assess applied knowledge. This guide provides clear explanations of essential topics, including diagnostic criteria, intervention planning, cultural ...

This book brings together Erich Fromm's basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time, it offers an image of man consonant with the hopes of radical humanism. The Crisis of Psychoanalysis is a collection of nine brilliant essays. Although his work is deeply rooted in Freudian theory, Fromm further develops Freud's doctrines by including both social and ethical dimensions, and applies his discoveries and insights to address the problems we face in society at large.

NEW REFORMAT FOR KINDLE I have had the opportunity to review and read THE THIN BLUE LIFELINE and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. This moves policing communication so far beyond "Verbal Judo" and "Tac Com" that those systems cannot even compare (though, to be sure, there are some similar techniques that they utilise in those systems). It is relevant, well-written, operationally-based, and goes to the heart of the matter in dealing with people who are in crisis - not just for dealing with "mentally ill" folks - but virtually everyone with whom police officers come into contact....

Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them. Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We've Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation's public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people.

Here’s a system that works to build mental fitness, resiliency and toughness, even when facing the worst events imaginable. Burnout becomes impossible when prepared to deal with the high-risk situations often met by public safety personnel and those in related high-stress occupations. This unique yet common sense approach for effectively coping with challenges so PTSD or other trauma reactions don’t take over is worth every minute spent practicing the stress-reducing A-to-Z exercises.

I’ll donate 50% of the proceeds from your ebook purchase to support UNICEF’s efforts to help those affected by the current global crisis. It’s hard out there. It’s hard staying inside too. I decided to write this “self-help book” to chip in during this stressful moment in my own way. Long lines and empty shelves at the supermarkets, people afraid of leaving their homes, a crippling financial downturn—I’ve lived through those terrifying situations before, and I want to share with you a few tips that might save your sanity during these trying times. While some chapters could ...

Inmates in correctional facilities suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. This comprehensive guidebook offers correctional officers in jail settings strategies to keep themselves and inmates as safe as possible, while functioning at the highest level of professionalism. The first two sections of the book discuss the environment within jail and in the surrounding community that chronically mentally ill individuals cycle within. The third section is concerned ...

This Too Shall Pass unflinchingly deals with major issues relating to: family, love, work, health and identity. We follow the personal narratives of 20 or so everyday people in their 20s to 80s during their most vulnerable and transformative experiences. We follow Jackson's character-building story of first love; Rachel's difficult return from maternity leave; Maria's mid-life love crisis; Sara's hopeful new life as a refugee and Owen's well-received coming out. These are unforgettable and deeply intimate yet universal stories.

There has been an urgency in my spirit for a long time to write this book. Who am I that I should write a book on overcoming identity issues? I am a former victim and I know what it‘s like to suffer from an identity crisis. I know what it’s like to be challenged mentally and emotionally and to feel like no one understands. I understand. I understand the pain and the isolation having personally experienced the paralysing effects of identity struggles.

The climate crisis is making us all unwell. And it’s not just the climate crisis… The term ‘eco-anxiety’ has been popularised as a way to talk about the negative impact of the climate emergency on our wellbeing. In It’s Not Just You, activist Tori Tsui reframes eco-anxiety as the urgent mental health crisis it clearly is. Drawing on the wisdom of environmental advocates from around the globe, Tori looks to those on the frontlines of eco-activism to demonstrate that the current climate-related mental health struggle goes beyond the climate itself.

Passing the LCSW exam is a crucial step toward becoming a licensed clinical social worker. This book provides a concise, structured overview of key exam topics, including clinical assessment, treatment planning, social work ethics, DSM-5 disorders, crisis intervention, and cultural competence. Designed as a study supplement, this guide reinforces core principles, professional responsibilities, and ethical decision-making required for licensure. The content covers mental health diagnosis, risk assessment, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based interventions used in clinical practice. ...

Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready? Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events like Avian and Swine Flu pandemics, global warming/climate change and threats of spreading unrest in the Middle East are concerns weighing heavily on all. Planning and coordination are important components of responses to crises, disasters, and critical incidents. Resilience, recovery from crises, community ...

People suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorder can display any one of a number of frightening behaviors. Ellis Amdur and John K. Murphy offer firefighters and EMTs a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves and their patients safe, while functioning at the highest level of professionalism. Rather than abstract information, more useful in a consulting room than in the field, Cooling the Flames is tactically based, from start to finish. The first section of this book addresses field safety, including both strategic planning and honing your intuition to pick up early ...

Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks professionals working in healthcare and social services settings through a multitude of steps they can take to keep themselves, their colleagues, and their clientele safe. The focus of this book is behavior not diagnosis. The first sections of the book discuss specific behaviors ranging from such relatively minor irritants as reluctance to complete tasks and ...

What is it about humans that causes us to defy genetic programming and so often live in hope, despite all that's terrible about existence? In this audio program, Diane Ackerman shares what she has learned about human survival from working at a crisis hotline. Full of insight, drama, and self-revelation, her wisdom draws from all human knowledge - from the natural and social sciences to the insights of great artists - to show how humans, like animals, cope with stress, and to illumine the tenuous but gorgeous thread by which we all cling.

The Power of Suffering is psychologist David Roland’s personal investigation into the nature of human suffering. When our world is turned upside down, what does it do to us, how do we survive it, and, most importantly, how can we grow as a result? David takes the lived experience of eleven incredible people and follows them along each step of their journey from crisis through to acceptance and triumph. Within each story, David draws on his own experience of life-altering trauma and clinical research to offer insights we all can gain from.

Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. Not only Corporate Security, Human Resources, Executive Protection, and Loss Prevention Professionals, but anyone who works may be forced to deal with such individuals. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur and William Cooper offer everyone a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves, those they may be responsible for protecting, as well as the general public safe while functioning at the ...