Mental Health Emergencies: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Mental Health Crises

Mental Health Emergencies: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Mental Health Crises

Mental Health Emergencies: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Mental Health Crises

Mental Health Emergencies: A Guide to Recognizing and Handling Mental Health Crises

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Overview

Drawn from the best in psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, here are simple and effective strategies for coping during times of great mental and emotional distress
 
Mental Health Emergencies provides overviews and expert guidance on serious mental health problems. It is an ideal resource for first-responders, teachers, counselors, and human resource professionals looking to help those struggling with mental and emotional health crises and concerns.
 
Developed from best practices of psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, Mental Health Emergencies is a guide to providing much-needed care and support to the people in distress who most need help including self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, psychosis, and suicidal thoughts.

Mental Health Emergencies will help you provide exactly the right kind of support—where and when it's needed most.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781578266746
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Publication date: 08/29/2017
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 1,104,254
Product dimensions: 11.40(w) x 6.70(h) x 8.60(d)

About the Author

Nick Benas, QMHA is a Qualified Mental Health Associate and a former United States Marine Sergeant as well as Iraqi Combat Veteran. Nick is the former Director of Business Operations for Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, a private non-profit mental health agency, located on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. He is also a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor by the National Council for Behavioral Health, teaching adults, and youth modules. He travels around the United States training individuals on how to recognize a developing mental illness and how to prevent someone from slipping into a crisis. He has been featured by more than 50 major media outlets for his business success and entrepreneurship, including Entrepreneur Magazine, Men's Health, ABC, FOX, ESPN, and CNBC.

Michele Hart, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Utah with over 20 years of experience in the field of social work. Throughout her career, she has worked in a variety of settings including residential and outpatient clinics, educational settings, and probation and parole. Her primary focus and passion has been centered around trauma and its impact on children, families, and adults. Michele’s clinical background has been providing individual and group services as both a therapist and a Clinical Director. She utilizes best practices models of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Competency, and Motivational Interviewing to provide diagnosis and treatment of trauma and stressor-related disorders; anxiety, depressive, and bi-polar disorders; obsessive-compulsive and related disorders; and schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Author's Note xiii

Foreword Ben Biddick xvii

Preface xix

Part I An Introduction to Mental Health 1

Chapter 1 What Affects Our Mental Health? 3

Chapter 2 What is a Mental Health Emergency? 7

Chapter 3 How to Prepare Yourself as a First Responder 13

Chapter 4 Supporting Others in a Mental Health Emergency 25

Chapter 5 How to Use this Book 29

Part II Mental Health Conditions: The Quick Reference Guide 33

Chapter 6 Anxiety 35

Chapter 7 Depression 45

Chapter 8 Somatic Symptoms 51

Chapter 9 Personality Disorders 53

Chapter 10 Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors 59

Chapter 11 Substance Use Disorders 63

Chapter 12 Psychosis 73

Chapter 13 Suicidal Behaviors 87

Chapter 14 Trauma & Stress Related Disorders 91

Chapter 15 Self-Injury 99

Chapter 16 Eating Disorders 101

Part III Getting Ahead of a Mental Health Crisis 105

Chapter 17 Determining a Person's Needs 107

Chapter 18 Support 111

Chapter 19 How to Handle Vulnerability and Build Mental Health Resiliency 115

Chapter 20 De-Escalating a Situation 119

Chapter 21 Mental Health Self-Care 125

Conclusion: 139

Resources 143

About the Authors 151

Glossary of Terms 153

Selected Bibliography 161

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