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  • Challenges in Primary Mental Health Care

    Models for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

    Edited by Christos Lionis, Christopher Dowrick ...
    Series series WONCA Family Medicine
    This insightful and timely book equips family doctors and other primary healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address a diverse range of new and important challenges in the field of primary mental health care, including ongoing impacts from the COVID pandemic, thanatophobia, and end-of life care, humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophes, and the effects of climate ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Can I tell you about Depression?

    A guide for friends, family and professionals

    by Christopher Dowrick, Susan Martin ...
    Series series Can I tell you about...?
    Part of the Reading Well scheme. 35 books selected by young people and health professionals to provide 13 to 18 year olds with high-quality support, information and advice about common mental health issues and related conditions.Meet Julie - a women who suffers from periods of depression. Julie and her family help readers to understand what depression is, what it is like to feel depressed and how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reading to Stay Alive

    Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence

    by Christopher Dowrick ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being
    This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Written by an academic general practitioner with longstanding expertise in mental health, the book is grounded in the lived experience of patients, intertwined with perspectives from social psychology and moral philosophy. At its heart are reflective descriptions of the author’s encounters with Tolstoy’s ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Global Primary Mental Health Care

    Practical Guidance for Family Doctors

    Edited by Christopher Dowrick ...
    Series series WONCA Family Medicine
    This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.Patients frequently present with mental health problems in primary care settings around the world, yet family doctors consistently identify gaps in their knowledge, skills and confidence in how best to care for them. Contributors ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Person-centred Primary Care

    Searching for the Self

    Edited by Christopher Dowrick ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is of paramount importance in the delivery of accessible and effective health care around the world. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self, or understandings of what it means to be a person and an agent. This cutting-edge book explores contemporary ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • General Practice and Ethics

    by Christopher Dowrick, Lucy Frith ...
    Series series Professional Ethics
    Explores the ethical issues faced by GPs in their everyday practice, addressing two central themes; the uncertainty of outcomes and effectiveness in general practice and the changing pattern of general practitioners' responsibilities. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    by Simon Davis ...
    When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada. Comprehensive in scope, its coverage included:the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canadathe complementary and conflicting interests of stakeholder groups, such as mental health professionals, clients, families, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception

    Ataraxia, #2

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 2 - Ataraxia
    Start seeing things you never saw.Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. —DostoevskySelf-deception is common and universal, and the cause of most human tragedies. Of course, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Loneliness

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by Kerri Pierce ...
    Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can belonely in a crowd or at home, outdoors or in an empty church, and countless songs have been written about the condition. For many people, loneliness can significantly impact their ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Feeling of Risk

    New Perspectives on Risk Perception

    by Paul Slovic ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century.In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

    by Tom Shakespeare ...
    Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on ... Read more

    $75.99 USD