This highly valued quick reference guide returns in its fourth edition to provide practical and helpful strategies for responding effectively to those in crisis.
Mental Health: A pocket guide delivers a comprehensive overview of the relevant concepts vital to contemporary mental health care. With a clear focus on the consumer, it covers the issues faced by people living with mental illness, as well as best practice approaches for primary health, first responders and multidisciplinary health care professionals.
Practical strategies
for commonly encountered situations
Easy to access
information presented in bullet point and table format
A recovery and
person-centred care
approach throughout
Case studies
Guidance on
medications, assessment tools and terminology
An eBook
included in all print purchases
Increased
consumer focus
New chapter on
trauma-informed practice
and care
New focus on
loss and grief
(including loss of employment, relationships, COVID and climate-related events)
Increased focus on
self-care, self-awareness and support strategies
Greater emphasis on
cultural awareness
and
working across the lifespan