Mental Health and Deafness

Mental Health and Deafness

by Peter Hindley (Editor)

Synopsis

This is an introductory text to mental health and deaf people for care workers and mental health workers, both those familiar with deaf people but not with mental health and those familiar with mental health but not with deaf people. The first section, Assessment, includes topics ranging from child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, children who are deaf and have multiple disabilities, addictive behaviour and deafness, to maltreatment of deaf children. The second section, Management and Intervention, discusses subjects which include: interpreters in mental health settings, educational interventions, family therapy and drug treatments.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 484
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 15 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 1897635397
ISBN 13: 9781897635391

Media Reviews
So, to summarise, I certainly recommend Mental Health and Deafness to all mental health professionals to enable them to explore and begin the process of appreciating the specific needs of deaf people and members of the Deaf community within their specialist area of working. (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, 2012)