Book Review: Mental Health and the Environment

Mental Health Book Review Index

The Impact of Audio Book on the Elderly Mental Health

Introduction: The growing elderly population calls mental health professionals to take measures concerning the treatment of the elderly mental disorders. Today in developed countries, bibliotherapy is used for the treatment of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of audio book on the elderly mental health of Retirement Center of Shahid...

Book Review: 'Health Humanities and Applied Literature'

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...

Book Reviews Women’s Mental Health

For clinicians considering electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychotropic drug treatment, the information on physiologic changes in drug metabolism and potential teratogenicity during pregnancy and lactation is both vital and humbling. Adolescent pregnancy is discussed in a developmental framework, with particular attention to the group at the highest risk for abuse, promiscuity, addictions, ...

Mental Health and Environment

Research begins with a question. The authors chose a large one. This wa5,; g their own words: "How far is mental illness due to deep-seated causes, patter", | into the mind by genetic factors or powerful experiences of early environ^f. j within the uterus or in the first years of life? And how far is it due to the imm^'3 environment of house and family, work and community?" I In medicine and th...