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Mental health care issues in America : an encyclopedia / Michael Shally-Jensen, editor.
v. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9781610690133 (hard copy : alk. paper) ISBN 9781610690140 (ebook)
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Alphabetical List of Entries
Adolescence and Mental Health
African Americans and Mental Health
Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, and Mental Health
Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
American Indian and Alaskan Native Mental Health
Anger and Aggression
Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Issues
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Behavioral Theories and Therapies
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Campus Life and Mental Health
Children and Mental Health
Chronic Mental Illness
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Community Mental Health
Creativity and Mental Health
Criminalization and Diversion Programs
Culturally Competent Mental Health Care
Depression
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Disability Rights
Disasters and Mental Health
Dissociative Disorders
Drug Abuse and Mental Health
Drug Companies
Eating Disorders
Elder Abuse and Neglect
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Emergency Services
Ethical Issues
Evidence-Based Practice and Outcome Measurement
Family and Mental Illness
Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry
Gambling Addiction
Gender Identity Disorder
Genetics and Mental Health
Group Therapy
History of Mental Health Care
Homelessness and Mental Illness
Hospitalization
Humanistic Theories and Therapies
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
Impulse Control Disorders
Insurance and Parity Laws
Intellectual Disability
Internet Gaming Addiction
Involuntary Treatment
Latinos and Mental Health
Learning Disabilities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Mental Health Issues
Literary Works and Mental Illness
Loss and Grief
Marketing of Drugs
Marriage, Divorce, and Mental Health
Media Portrayals of Mental Illness
Medical Model of Mental Illness
Memory and Disorders of Memory
Mental Health Advocacy
Mental Health Counseling
Mind and Body Approaches to Mental Health
Narcissism
Neurodiversity
Neuropsychiatry
Nutritional Therapies
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Panic Disorder
Paranoia
Peer Support Groups
Phobias
Popular Remedies and Quackery
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Poverty, Unemployment, Economic Inequality, and Mental Health
Preventative Mental Health Programs
Primary Care Behavioral Health
Prisons and Mental Health
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder
Psychopharmacology
Psychosomatic Disorders
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Integration
Public Awareness and Public Education
Public Health Perspectives
Public Policy Issues
Recovery Movement
Rehabilitation Services
Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health
Residential Treatment for Young People
Rights of Patients with Mental Health Conditions
Rural Mental Health Services
Schizophrenia
School Mental Health
Self-Help
Self-Injury and Body Image
Sexual Disorders and Dysfunctions
Sleep and Its Disorders
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social Work in Mental Health
State Mental Health Agencies
Stigma
Stress and Stress Management
Suicide and Suicide Prevention
Therapeutic Community and Milieu Therapy
Trauma
Undiagnosed Mental Illness
Veterans Mental Health Care
Violence and Violence-Prone Individuals
Women's Mental Health
Workplace Issues in Mental Health
Topical List of Entries
Children and Youth
Adolescence and Mental Health
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Campus Life and Mental Health
Children and Mental Health
Depression
Drug Abuse and Mental Health
Eating Disorders
Family and Mental Illness
Gender Identity Disorder
Genetics and Mental Health
Impulse Control Disorders
Intellectual Disability
Internet Gaming Addiction
Learning Disabilities
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Mental Health Issues
Residential Treatment for Young People
School Mental Health
Self-Injury and Body Image
Suicide and Suicide Prevention
Ethnicity, Race, and Culture
African Americans and Mental Health
American Indian and Alaskan Native Mental Health
Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Issues
Culturally Competent Mental Health Care
Latinos and Mental Health
Institutions, Settings, and Social Contexts
Campus Life and Mental Health
Community Mental Health
Creativity and Mental Health
Disasters and Mental Health
Elder Abuse and Neglect
Emergency Services
Family and Mental Illness
Homelessness and Mental Illness
Hospitalization
Involuntary Treatment
Marriage, Divorce, and Mental Health
Poverty, Unemployment, Economic Inequality, and Mental Health
Prisons and Mental Health
Rehabilitation Services
Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health
Residential Treatment for Young People
Rural Mental Health Services
School Mental Health
Social Work in Mental Health
State Mental Health Agencies
Therapeutic Community and Milieu Therapy
Veterans Mental Health Care
Women's Mental Health
Workplace Issues in Mental Health
Legal and Ethical Issues
Criminalization and Diversion Programs
Disability Rights
Ethical Issues
Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry