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Making sense of complementary and alternative treatments in mental health care. More and more mental health clinicians are turning to unconventional therapeutic approaches to help their patients. This practical guide, geared to the nonmedically trained, explains how to integrate traditional modes of therapy with an array of alternative approaches -- from vitamin and mineral supplements to mindfulness training, light therapy, and acupuncture.

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Integrative Mental Health Care offers a rich synthesis of up-to-date evidence-based information with the wise, extensive experience of a world-renowned integrative psychiatrist. Dr. Lake offers keen clinical insights and clear guidance through tables, charts, and algorithms which simplify the complex and confusing world of diagnoses and multiple treatment options. His expertise in mainstream as well as alternative, complementary, and unconventional therapies provides essential information for therapists helping clients with diverse interests, values, and cultures in the modern world. -- Kathi J. Kemper, MD, MPH, Caryl J. Guth Chair for Dr. James Lake is a pioneer in the emerging field of integrative mental health. In this text he artfully shares his philosophy, assessment strategies, and treatment approaches for a myriad of common conditions. Through detailed patient examples accompanied by his thoughtful analysis he conveys ways to better manage your patients in their healing journey. -- Victoria Maizes, Executive Director, Arizona Cente [A] remarkably thorough, highly informative, and instructive guide for practitioners with varying degrees of familiarity with integrative practice...clearly written, practical, well-referenced...Dr. Lake systematically builds a convincing case for incorporating alternative and complementary assessment and treatment methods into conventional practices in the hope of transforming Western medicine into 'something more beautiful, meaningful and more effective.' This excellent, user-friendly resource guide contributes greatly to that transformative vision. -- Psychiatric Services [A] valuable handbook for any practitioner, and would serve as a helpful text for students of psychiatry and psychology. But it also provides a worthwhile read for any educated adult wishing to better understand the alternatives available to people with mental health challenges. -- Metapsychology Reviews [A]n accessible and credible guide...a much needed bridge between traditional Western biomedicine and the emerging world of non-traditional and complementary approaches. -- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

[A]n accessible and credible guide a much needed bridge between traditional Western biomedicine and the emerging world of non-traditional and complementary approaches.

Integrative Mental Health Care offers a rich synthesis of up-to-date evidence-based information with the wise, extensive experience of a world-renowned integrative psychiatrist. Dr. Lake offers keen clinical insights and clear guidance through tables, charts, and algorithms which simplify the complex and confusing world of diagnoses and multiple treatment options. His expertise in mainstream as well as alternative, complementary, and unconventional therapies provides essential information for therapists helping clients with diverse interests, values, and cultures in the modern world. -- Kathi J. Kemper, MD, MPH, Caryl J. Guth Chair for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC Dr. James Lake is a pioneer in the emerging field of integrative mental health. In this text he artfully shares his philosophy, assessment strategies, and treatment approaches for a myriad of common conditions. Through detailed patient examples accompanied by his thoughtful analysis he conveys ways to better manage your patients in their healing journey. -- Victoria Maizes, Executive Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine [A] remarkably thorough, highly informative, and instructive guide for practitioners with varying degrees of familiarity with integrative practice...clearly written, practical, well-referenced...Dr. Lake systematically builds a convincing case for incorporating alternative and complementary assessment and treatment methods into conventional practices in the hope of transforming Western medicine into 'something more beautiful, meaningful and more effective.' This excellent, user-friendly resource guide contributes greatly to that transformative vision. [A] valuable handbook for any practitioner, and would serve as a helpful text for students of psychiatry and psychology. But it also provides a worthwhile read for any educated adult wishing to better understand the alternatives available to people with mental health challenges. [A]n accessible and credible guide...a much needed bridge between traditional Western biomedicine and the emerging world of non-traditional and complementary approaches.

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James Lake, MD, is on the clinical faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. He practices in Central California.

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