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Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care

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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.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN: 9781588902993
ISBN: 1588902994
Label: Thieme New York
Manufacturer: Thieme New York
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2006-10-02
Publisher: Thieme New York
Studio: Thieme New York


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Pioneering Work on Integrative Medicine and Mental Health -
The Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care is, in my opinion, a tour-de-force. The book opens with a forward from Larry Dossey, MD highlighting the importance of considerations of spirituality and mind-body therapies in medicine, and in mental health care.

Part 1 of the book exposes some of the philosophical (epistemological) assumptions governing biomedicine and the way such assumptions inherently deflect biomedicine toward bias against potentially valuable CAM therapies. Relevant chapters canvass not only the "evolution of integrative medicine and implications for mental health care"--a topic not satisfactorily covered anywhere else, to date; and philosophical problems inherent in biomedicine; but also the foundations of paradigms in medicine, psychiatry and integrative medicine.

Some of the stunning propositions that Dr. Lake explores in the Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care include, for example, the notion that biomedicine relies on assumptions of causality that are paradigm-dependent, whereas "many nonconventional systems of medicine involve nondeterministic models, including Jungian synchronicity, quantum field theory, and models of psychic functioninig (psi), in efforts to explain the observed characteristics or 'meanings' of symptoms outside of a limited classical model of linear causality" (p. 41),

The fusion of philosophy, physics, psychiatry, and a wealth of knowledge from other relevant disciplines is staggering. I write this as an admirer of Dr. Lake the psychiatrist-writer as well as from the standpoint of one who knows James Lake, the man.

In Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Dr. Lake is also one of the first--if not the first--to render with any authority and clarity the core philosophical underpinnings of energy medicine in ways that are plausible, if not convincing. Drawing on complexity theory, systems approaches, proton entanglement, conceptual definitions of embodiment, paradigm-dependent interpretations of pathology, and divergent notions of human consciousness, Dr. Lake's text effortlessly weaves together multiple perspectives to create a coherent whole.

All of this then leads to a unique and possibly prophetic delineation of "foundations of clinical methodology in integrative medicine," including "history taking, assessment of formulation in integrative mental health care" and "starting and maintaining integrative treatment in mental health care." All this is replete with algorithms for assessment, treatment, and follow-up care, and comprehensive references laying out the clinical data thus far.

This masterful assimilation of disparate strands of knowledge about mental health care then forms the basis for Part 2 of the Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, entitled, Integrative Management of Common Mental and Emotional Symptoms. In this part, Dr. Lake first outlines "symptom-focused integrative mental health care," and then goes into each of the major categories of mental health with integrative health care approaches.

Thus, he deals with:

* integrative management of depressed mood
* integrative management of mania and cyclic mood changes
* integrative management of anxiety
* integrative management of psychosis
* integrative management of dementia and mild cognitive impairment
* integrative management of substance abuse and dependence
* integrative management of disturbances of sleep and wakefulness.

Generous appendices provide Web and other references for further study.

I highly recommend the Integrative Mental Health Care for all mental health caregivers, including (and especially) psychiatrists but also counselors of all sorts and psychiatrists.

Further, since most of us spend some time in our lives in some form of either anxiety and depression (so the experts tell us--that's the bad news), the book is very helpful and accessible even to the lay reader (that's the good news!). Buy this book for yourself--heck, buy the book for your psychiatrist or therapist, and learn how best to integrate complementary and alternative medical therapies such as acupuncture, selected herbal therapies and dietary supplements, massage therapy, aromatherapy, homeopathy, chiropractic, meditation and prayer, yoga, music therapy, and mind-body and other practices generally into conventional clinic mental health care.

In sum, this book bridges the world of conventional mental health care, with its cognitive, pharmaceutical, and other therapies, and the world of complementary medicine, with its alternative-paradigm theories, practices, assessment approaches, and treatment choices. Dr. Lake has blazed a trail for many other clinicians and researchers to follow, one which surely will be of lasting service to them and to the patients (and their families) to whom they offer care.

For this reason I have profiled the book on the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog and will continue to add further detail regarding the book's contribution to integrative mental health care over time.

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