Psychology / Mental Health

A practical guide to understanding and fostering kindness, this book aims to transform the thinking and practice of educators as they seek to cultivate kind classrooms.

Written by Canadian social workers, this book addresses the impact of trauma-related events and emphasizes the importance of spirituality and posttraumatic growth.

Addressing the diversity of communities and experiences across Northern Canada, Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada pays attention to what is needed to support and achieve health equity for northern communities and peoples.

This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.

The Rapids is a cultural history of manic depression twinned with a personal narrative told through an innovative approach to writing memoir.

This book provides in-depth discussions of the political and social contexts surrounding key cases in forensic mental health.

Residential mental health placements remain an essential but controversial and costly part of the children’s mental health service system.

For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and free society begins with how that society sees and nurtures its children.

Using a complex and nuanced approach to madness, violence, and power, this book challenges conventional research on psychology, social work, law, medicine, and public policy.

An exceptional showcase of interdisciplinary research, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health presents various critical theories, methodologies, and methods for transforming mental health research and fostering socially-just mental health practices.

In PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel, Keren Friedman-Peleg sheds light on a new way of speaking about mental vulnerability and national belonging in contemporary Israel.

This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine.

Using attachment theory, Maunder and Hunter provide a practical, clinically focused introduction to the influence of attachment styles on an individual’s risk of disease and the effectiveness of their interactions with health care providers.

Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.

Based on Warner’s extensive clinical experience and therapy workshops conducted over more than two decades, Solution-Focused Interviewing is the first skill-development manual based on this innovative tri-phase approach to counseling and applied positive psychology.

Aimed at clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, social workers, and other human service professionals, this book can be used as a manual by practitioners and as a textbook for courses and training programs.