Mental Health: Concepts and Trends -- Is Mental Health Founded on Truly Scientific Conceptions? -- Aetiology: Vulnerability and Homeostasis -- Theories and Ideologies in Mental Health -- Relational Aspects of Mental Health, Part 1: Psychological Factors -- Relational Aspects of Mental Health, Part 2: Social Factors -- Clinical Assessment -- Relational Assessment: Dynamic Aspects -- Relational Assessment; Social Aspects -- Relational Diagnosis -- Organic, Including Symptomatic, Mental Disorders (FOO-F09) -- Mental and Behavioural Disorders Due to Psychoactive Substances (F10-F19) -- Schizophrenia, Schizotypal, and Delusional Disorders (F20-29) -- Mood (Affective) Disorders (F30-39) -- Neurotic Disorders (F40-49) -- Stress-Related Disorders -- Somatoform Disorders (F45). Behavioural Syndromes Associated with Physiological Disturbances and Physical Factors (F50-59) -- Disorders of Adult Personality and Behaviour (F60-69) -- Individual Psychotherapy -- Group Therapy -- Milieu Therapy -- Combined Treatments -- Community Mental Health Interventions: The Present and the Future of Psychiatric Care -- Efficacy of Psychosocial Interventions -- Mental Health Professionals -- Psychiatrists: From Sorcerers to Bureaucrats -- The Therapeutic Team -- The Professional in the Institution -- The Bum-Out Syndrome -- Training Tomorrow's Mental Health Workers -- Training of Non-Psychiatrist Professionals.
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Relational Mental Health contains current evidence-based diagnosis and therapeutic interventions for people with mental disorders. Students and professionals alike will find the mental health field addressed as a whole in a coherent and understandable way. Readers are offered a unified presentation of psychological and sociological approaches to diagnosis and treatment.