The Praeger Handbook of Community Mental Health Practice [3 volumes]
• Provides foundational information for both novice and experienced community mental health stakeholders• Serves as an outstanding training and educational resource with real-world examples for the special demands of a career in community mental health• Addresses the unique scope, depth, and nature of community mental health and the challenges to both training and care provision• Identifies the skills that new students, new counselors, and seasoned therapists all need in order to be effective and competent clinicians• Introduces knowledge of and sensitivity to differences, including culture, language, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and family diversity• Presents an overview of global psychology and offers tips on how to form allies in a new nation, work with locals to form support networks, and foster coalitions for change"This is an exciting, refreshing work . . . valuable for all current and future health care providers in any setting. Summing Up: Highly recommended."-Choice