Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems. David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. They reject current diagnostic approaches to mental health, focussing instead on a symptom-led approach and keeping an awareness of the intervention experience for clients and carers throughout. Subjects covered include: engaging and assessing the client risk assessment and management emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physical presentations service teams and settings. The emphasis throughout is on taking a holistic look at crisis prevention and management, encompassing both the work that takes place at an individual level and the wider impact of societal and political issues. Containing clear direction and practical advice, combined with numerous case studies and commentary from users and carers themselves, this book will be of great use to anyone involved with dealing with mental health crises.

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.

A practical guide to effective crisis counseling and intervention Essentials of Crisis Counseling and Intervention offers practical, field-tested methods for dealing with traumatic and life-changing events. This helpful manual presents useful strategies for crisis prevention, functioning effectively during a crisis, caring treatment approaches, and aftercare--and describes how to assess the extent to which a crisis has impacted an individual. Important legal aspects of crisis counseling are also highlighted--such as risk, suicidality, and documentation--as well as helpful details on how to prevent potential malpractice issues related to crisis intervention. Essentials of Crisis Counseling and Intervention gives clear explanations of proven practice techniques and examples of effective interventions. It provides an accessible and practical guide to navigating through the complexities of any type of crisis situation, including natural disasters, community violence, and personal tragedy. Unique coverage is presented on such topics as group intervention, incorporating spirituality into treatment, community resources, coordinating efforts of crisis-response personnel, and the roles of various crisis workers, including instructions for how to prepare intellectually and emotionally for crisis situations. As part of the Essentials of Mental Health Practice series, this book provides the information mental health professionals need to practice knowledgeably, efficiently, and ethically in today's behavioral health care environment. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as "Test Yourself" questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

Adults, children and older adults with a serious mental illness or emotional disorder often lead lives characterized by recurrent, significant crises which are not the inevitable consequences of mental disability, but rather represent the combined impact of a host of additional factors, incl. lack of access to essential services and supports, poverty, unstable housing, coexisting substance use, other health problems, discrimination and victimization. These guidelines focus specifically on individuals with serious mental or emotional problems who tend to encounter governmental or publicly funded interveners when they are in crisis. These are applicable to all individuals with mental healthcare needs, across populations and service settings.

Kids are soft these days. They lack resilience. They need to be more focused. Kids don't take any responsibility for themselves and their choices. They need to be more proactive and take charge of their lives. They all have ADHD. This endless list of complaints about all the things children and teens today are lacking, and how hard it makes parenting and teaching them makes me wonder when it all became the fault of the children. When did the adults relinquish all responsibility for how children are growing up these days? If there is a lack in their development, this falls squarely on the shoulders of the adults in their lives. This begs the question, what has gone wrong? What has gone wrong in our parenting and in our schools that has resulted in a rise in child and teen mental health issues? What are we failing to do for them to prepare them better for life? If there is such an immense and ever-growing mental health crisis amongst young people today, it says that something is wrong and not with the children themselves, but with how we are raising and educating them. What if we take a step back and take a long hard look at our education systems and parenting styles? And what if we try and understand children and emerging adults today and accept the fact that they are different, their own generation, with their own unique thoughts and values that don't fit into the mould left by previous generations? We can't truly establish social emotional education plans, curriculums and support programmes if we do not understand the children we are working with. While the mental health crisis grows amongst our teens and young adults, it is time to accept that we have spent way too long blaming everything and everyone else for this pressing issue. We are so busy putting out fires and sticking plasters on the emotional and developmental damage that our staid, narrow-minded approaches have caused. The only way to really fix the problem and to create a safe, happy, meaningful foundation for our teens and young adults is to approach them from a place of understanding, only then can we guide them to the point where they can flourish. How can we guide them towards their future if we are not even looking at the same map? While there are some tried and trusted approaches out there, that have worked for many years, I am not saying we need to throw them all out and return to the drawing board, I am saying let's look at them all through a new lens, take a new perspective and see what we can change to better suit teens and young adults today. We are trying to stick square pegs into round holes and expecting the pegs to change shape. Let's change the shape of the holes instead. We are failing to prepare them for their future lives because we don't understand them. When I sit and listen to parents and teachers lamenting all the many social emotional and developmental skills children today lack I honestly wonder how they can think children develop the skills they need and how they eventually become young adults if it is not for the role we play in this development. Meaningful change can only come from deep reflection and understanding. We need to make some serious changes to manage the ever-growing mental health crisis affecting our children and young adults today. It behooves us to support and guide this generation, as they are after all, our futures. And in order to do this, we need to approach them from a place of understanding- Who are Gen-Z and what makes them tick?