Mental health services for deaf people : treatment advances, opportunities, and challenges / Benito Estrada Aranda and Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij, editors. - 1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations

"This volume presents thirteen papers selected from the presentations at the fifth World Congress"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental health care for deaf people : an approach based on human rights / Javier Munoz Bravo and Ana Maria Garcia Garcia -- Important issues in the psychopharmacological treatment of deaf and hard of hearing people with mental health disorders : theory and practice / Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij -- Mental health services in Mexico : challenges and proposals / Benito Estrada Aranda -- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in family systems with deaf family members / Lieke Doornkate -- Silent wisdom : equine-assisted counseling with deaf clients / Karen A. Tinsley -- Cochlear implants : psychosocial implications / Irene W. Leigh -- Self-esteem of deaf and hard of hearing people in Cyprus and Greece / Katerina Antonopoulou, Kika Hadjikakou, Maria Charalambous -- Public health of deaf people / Johannes Fellinger -- Quality of life of Latino deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States / Poorna Kushalnagar, Melissa Draganac-Hawk, Donald L. Patrick -- Mental health problems in deaf children and adolescents. Part I, Epidemiology, etiology, and cultural, linguistic, and developmental aspects / Tiejo van Gent -- Mental health problems in deaf children and adolescents. Part II, Aspects of psychopathology / Tiejo van Gent -- The mother-child relationship and language development disorders : studies of deaf adolescent children of hearing parents / Joanna Kobosko -- Deafness, autism, and diagnostics : a case study / Benito Estrada Aranda, Georgina Mitre Fajardo, Ricardo Canal Bedia.

9781563686559 (e-book)


Deaf--Mental health services--Congresses.
Deaf--Mental health--Congresses.
Mental illness--Treatment--Congresses.
Community mental health services--Congresses.


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