The A to Z of Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Mental Illness: Third Edition

This title offers an A to Z of mental health, 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.