- New chapter: Assessing Risk - Loss and Grief chapter has a stronger focus on Trauma - Consistent structuring across disorders and medications - Increased content on ice, the therapeutic relationship, pain, the links between physical health and mental, childhood, additional/new cultural groups - Significantly more content on self-care and inter-professional practice highlighting the different roles involved.

With an estimated 450 million people worldwide suffering from mental health problems, more health care workers now need a range of mental health skills in order to provide sufficient care across a variety of settings.

Written by leading authors in their fields, Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Patricia Barkway and Debra Nizette, The Pocketbook of Mental Health is a quick-reference resource that delivers practical strategies and skills for allied health and nursing students, health professionals, general practitioners, paramedics, police and allied health workers to implement. With a focus on social inclusion, recovery, culture and the promotion of consumer rights, this mental health textbook is a pivotal guide for holistic modern health care practices.

• Hands on practical strategies of what to do in commonly encountered situations
• A focus on recovery and person-centred care, and new material on co-occurring health problems
• The latest research and evidence, including guidance on medications, scales, tools, terminology and DSM-5 updates
• Case studies that provide practical examples.

• New chapter: Assessing Risk
• Loss and Grief chapter has a stronger focus on Trauma
• Consistent structuring across disorders and medications
• Increased content on ice, the therapeutic relationship, pain, the links between physical health and mental, childhood, additional/new cultural groups
• Significantly more content on self-care and inter-professional practice highlighting the different roles involved.

Chapter 1: Mental Health: Every Health Professional's Business
Chapter 2: Working in a Recovery Framework
Chapter 3: Essentials for Mental Health Practice
Chapter 4: An Overview of Mental Health Problems
Chapter 5: Mental Health Assessment
Chapter 6: Assessing Risk
Chapter 7: Behaviours of Concern
Chapter 8: Mental Health Talking-Based Therapies
Chapter 9: Managing Medications
Chapter 10: Culture and Mental Health
Chapter 11: Co-occurring Medical Problems
Chapter 12: Loss and Grief
Chapter 13: Law and Ethics
Chapter 14: Settings for Mental Health Care