The A to Z of Mental Health A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Mental Illness. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The A to Z of Mental Health A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Mental Illness

This title offers an A to Z of mental health - in more than 2,000 entries. With more than 2,000 new and updated entries, ""The A to Z of Mental Health, Third Edition"" is a revised and updated reference covering all aspects of general mental health topics. This accessible new guide sorts through a maze of professional jargon to provide incisive definitions of theories, syndromes, symptoms, treatments, and contemporary issues, in language that everyone can understand.Entries include: Adoption; Depression; Domestic violence; Environmental hazards; Holistic medicine; Life-change rating scale; Nervous habits; Performance anxiety; Pharmacology; Reflexology; St. John's wort; Type A personality; and, The workplace.

Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D., is the author of The A to Z of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties for Checkmark Books. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. Jan Fawcett, M.D., is a coauthor of the APA Practice Guidelines on the assessment and management of suicidal patients and is the chairperson of the DSM-V Mood Disorders Work Group. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.