Student Mental Health

Easy, accessible guidance for addressing an essential element to college success: mental health.

Book Description for "Psychological Evaluations for Criminal Justice" Unlock the expertise and insights you need to excel in forensic psychology! "Psychological Evaluations for Criminal Justice" is the definitive guide for mental health professionals, legal practitioners, and students aiming to navigate the complex intersection of psychology and law. With a practical approach, cutting-edge research, and step-by-step techniques, this book equips you with the tools to provide legally defensible evaluations, write clear forensic reports, and give compelling expert testimony. This book covers ...

With schools becoming more competitive and technology becoming increasingly distracting, today's students face a minefield of obstacles to academic success. Doing well in school isn't just a matter of smarts or more studying: It takes good habits, practical tools - and a healthy brain. Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades draws on Dr. Amen's experience as a neuroscientist and psychiatrist as well as the latest brain science to help you study more effectively, learn faster, and stay focused so you can achieve your academic goals.

Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body - how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail. Full of extraordinary facts (your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this) and irresistible Bryson-esque anecdotes, The Body will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracle that is life in general and you in particular. As Bill Bryson writes, "We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted."

Mental Status Examination is for clinical students, interns, residents, and practicing professionals who want to painlessly perfect their evaluation skills. It explains DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnostic and cognitive examinations validated in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Psychological Reports. Mental Status Examination then introduces you to 52 challenging, real-life patients who were given the same mental status examination. They tell you their stories as if you were their personal clinician and you will diagnose their ...

Nina Spadaro, Ed.D., Tiffany Rush-Wilson, Ph.D., and Rives Thornton, M.S. bring counseling skills to life in this multi-media e-book. The inclusion of innovative video demonstrations, acted out by the authors, provides an invaluable supplement to the engaging, highly readable text and is a bonus for students who learn best by observing. This seamless integration makes the book a user-friendly tool for both the beginning counseling student and the experienced professional alike. The authors outline microskills - verbal and nonverbal techniques that are counseling building blocks. They also ...

Teen Mental Health: Survive Your Mood, Survive Your Emotion, dives into the complex world of adolescence, offering a compassionate guide for navigating the wild rollercoaster of teenage emotions.

Finally! A book that integrates the Torah’s wisdom and cutting-edge psychological research to provide a comprehensive approach to educating and supporting our sons and students regarding: health and safety, puberty, marital intimacy, and today’s challenges to kedushah.

In this galvanizing audiobook for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue - childhood trauma - and its profound effect on learning and teaching.

Feeling Overwhelmed by the Complexities of Mental Health Nursing? Mental Health Made Easy covers a wide range of essential topics, including: Diagnostic Criteria & Assessment: Learn about the signs and symptoms of common mental health conditions, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, and substance use disorders, along with essential assessment tools.

In this exciting companion to Ellen Notbohm’s beloved classic Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, the unique perspective of an autistic child’s voice returns to describe for teachers, in the classroom and in the larger community, how to understand thinking and processing patterns common in autism, how to shape an environment conducive to their learning style, and how to communicate with autistic learners of all ages in functional, meaningful ways.

College is a time of transition. It's a time for learning and preparing to make your own way in the world. But if you're like many teens and young adults, the thought of leaving home and being on your own in a new place can also be intimidating—even overwhelming. That's why you need a solid foundation to help you manage stress, stay focused, and maintain healthy habits—in body, mind, and spirit. Grounded in evidence-based mindfulness, The Mindful College Student will help you cultivate the skills you need to increase well-being and reach your highest aspirations.

The companion workbook to Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy—a practical guide to the 5 pillars of embodied IFS for trauma therapists, Somatic Experiencing™ practitioners, and mental health healers.

AudioLearn’s Mental Health has been designed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening. This crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE. You can listen to it even if you’re simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school mental health course.

As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hypercompetitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and maintain her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure despite her nerves. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm. But the moment Andie arrives, the rest of her plans go off the rails. When Andie starts to find the power of her voice as the anonymous Squire on the school’s legendary pirate radio station, Andie learns that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones.

Many smart students reach a point where they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. As their grades drop, so does their self-esteem, and this combination of external and internal pressures can seem insurmountable. To make matters worse, students feel unable to ask for or accept help. In The Disintegrating Student, Jeannine Jannot, PhD, draws on her decades of experience as a school psychologist, educator, and student coach to explain the reasons for this increasingly common phenomenon.

What you will find inside: Practical tools, wisdom and guidance you can learn and use immediately. Theories to explore more deeply that will enhance your success. Professional and personal development questions to boost your initial practice. Reassurance that you can achieve the outcomes you want for your clients despite being new to the field.

In my book, I go beyond offering just a theoretical definition of what a skill is and an explanation of what it does in a counselling relationship. I share a deeper look into the skills and explore a more philosophical explanation from my own experience as a practising therapist and former counselling tutor.

This box set includes both books in the Marshall High Society duology. A drama-filled, twisting Dark High School Bully Romance ALL in one series bundle. Three powerful families. Three privileged sons. Roman, Ethan, and Klay are dark, devilish, delicious, each in their own way. I shouldn't even be on their radar, but they've marked me. I don't know why. I can't remember the last two years. A mental breakdown, they tell me, after both my parents died. I just want a fresh start to my senior year, a normal life, a graduation. But those three untouchables own Marshall High, and they're fighting...

Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class. But acclaimed educator James M. Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.