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Workplace Violence in Mental and General Health Settings provides clinicians, health care administrators, law enforcement professionals and educators with an easily accessible, cross-disciplinary approach to preventing and controlling violence in the workplace. This book condenses the vast literature available on workplace violence and renders it operational allowing readers to rapidly digest important concepts and put them into action in real-world settings.Workplace Violence in Mental and General Health Settings draws on knowledge from fields beyond medicine to provide a comprehensive resource on everything from organizational and emergency room violence to self-defense techniques for the health care professional. More than any other, this book guides the reader from theory to practical application of prevention and management methods in the workplace.Workplace Violence in Mental and General Health Settings features:An explanation of violence terminology to enhance readability;New information on how workplace violence affects quality of care; Steps to manage high-volume emergency room violence; Specific training protocol to prevent workplace violence; A free CD-Rom containing sample workplace violence guidelines, powerpoints, internet links and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on January 15, 2007. The length of the article is 592 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Autism-specific screen outdoes general tool.(Mental Health)(Clinical report)
Author: Mary Ellen Schneider
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 15, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 2Page: 32(1)

Article Type: Clinical report

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This digital document is an article from Journal of School Health, published by American School Health Association on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5235 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was signed into law by President George W. Bush in January 2002 and is regarded as the most significant federal education policy initiative in a generation. The primary focus of the No Child Left Behind Act is on promoting educational success for all children; however, the legislation also contains opportunities to advance school- based mental health. Unfortunately, the complexities of the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act have made it difficult for educators, stakeholders, and mental health professionals to understand the legal and practical interface between No Child Left Behind and the school mental health movement. Therefore, the goals of this article are to (1) raise awareness about the challenges educators and school mental health professionals face as a result of the implementation of No Child Left Behind and (2) provide ideas and recommendations to advance the interface between No Child Left Behind and school mental health, which will support key provisions of the act and the growth of the field.

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Title: Enhancing No Child Left Behind-school mental health connections.(General Article)(No Child Left Behind Act with school mental health)
Author: Brian P. Daly
Publication: Journal of School Health (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: American School Health Association
Volume: 76Issue: 9Page: 446(6)

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Practical guidelines for the mental health practitioner who provides mental health care for clients of differing ethnocultural backgrounds are presented in this book. It focuses on clinical implications of assessment, evaluation for treatment, and mental health care for culturally different populations. Emphasis is laid on the care of the patient in the framework of that person's culture rather than the framework of the therapist, indicating specific clinical approaches most appropriate to clients from these minority groups. Ethnosociocultural factors such as ethnicity, family values, language, religion, race, political ideology and cultural expectations, which are relevant to cross-cultural mental health, are examined. Treatment approaches are discussed for six major groups of minorities in the US, offering especially thorough consideration of black American and Caribbean cultural issues. ... Read more

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Mental Healthis just one of the titles from the Oxford General Practice Library.This unique series of pocketbooks provides GPs with comprehensive coverage of specific topics in general practice which are linked directly to the requirements of the new GP Contract, and explains how GPs can maximize their salaries.For each book in this ground-breaking series, the authors have expanded on a major section from the bestsellingOxford Handbook of General Practice, adding a host of useful features. ... Read more

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Mental Illness in General Health Care An International Study Edited by T. B. Üstün, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland and N. Sartorius, University of Geneva, Switzerland This book presents the largest international study of psychological disorders seen in primary health care. Centres in fourteen countries participated in this investigation, including Brazil, Chile, China, India, Nigeria and the USA as well as several European countries. The study has shown how people with mental disorders present their problems to doctors and how likely their disorders are to be detected and treated. It has produced comparative data on the frequency and type of mental disorders seen in general health care in different settings, and has also assembled information about the treatment prescribed and about the pathways which lead patients to health services. Recognition of mental disorders is shown to be related to the way in which the services are organised. In addition to data on well defined disorders such as depression, anxiety and somatoform and alcohol use disorders, the study has also produced new knowledge concerning "subthreshold" disorders. These are characterized by a variety of symptoms which do not conform to a formal diagnosis of mental disorder according to standard psychiatric classifications. Information about the characteristics, development and outcome of these disorders is of considerable importance since they are frequent and cause distress and disability. The book gives a detailed account of findings in the different centres and provides a new insight into the nature of psychological disorders seen in primary health care and the factors which determine their recognition and treatment. The study showed a strong relationship between mental disorders and social disability in each centre and included information obtained from patients themselves, from the researchers and from the treating physicians. Interpretations of the data have been reached jointly by experts from different countries. This book is of primary interest to psychiatrists, general practitioners and students of medicine. It will also appeal to epidemiologists, social psychologists, public health personnel and health care administrators. ... Read more