Main description:

An integrative approach to modern mental healthcare

Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care is the first book to present a comprehensive framework of conceptual information and clinical guidelines for the integrative assessment and treatment of common mental illnesses.

Complete coverage of the conceptual foundations of integrative mental health care allows the practitioner to gain a firm understanding of the philosophy and clinical methodology of integrative medicine. The textbook also describes evidence-based paradigms that enable the practitioner to develop assessment techniques and individualized treatment plans that address the unique needs of each patient.

Highlights:

Extensive evidence tables summarize assessment and treatment approaches
Easy-to-follow algorithms guide the practitioner step-by-step from initial assessment to treatment planning
Case vignettes describe intake, assessment and initial formulation, treatment plan, and follow-up

This textbook will help psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health care professionals develop safe and effective integrative approaches for the evaluation and treatment of emotional and mental problems.

Contents:

I Foundations and Methods of Integrative Mental Health Care

1 Evolution of Integrative Medicine and Implications for Mental Health Care

2 Philosophical Problems

3 Paradigms in Medicine, Psychiatry, and Integrative Medicine

4 Foundations of Clinical Methodology in Integrative Medicine

5 History Taking, Assessment, Formulation in Integrative Mental Health Care

6 Starting and Maintaining Integrative Treatment in Mental Health Care

II Integrative Management of Common Mental and Emotional Symptoms

7 Symptom-Focused Integrative Mental Health Care

8 Integrative Management of Depressed Mood

9 Integrative Management of Mania and Cyclic Mood Changes

10 Integrative Management of Anxiety

11 Integrative Management of Psychosis

12 Integrative Management of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

13 Integrative Management of Substance Abuse and Dependence

14 Integrative Management of Disturbances of Sleep and Wakefulness

Appendix A

Appendix B