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An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care

Ideas and Methods Shaping the Future

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  • Provides a concise and practical overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods of integrative mental healthcare
  • Offers clear approaches for developing individualized treatments, with focus on wellness and prevention
  • Includes a companion website with thorough and expanded resources on Western medicine and CAM for practitioners, clinicians, and students

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About this book

This crucial volume provides a concise overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods underlying the rapidly emerging subspecialty of integrative mental healthcare. It discusses methods for guiding practitioners to individualized integrative strategies that address unique symptoms and circumstances for each patient and includes practical clinical techniques for developing interventions addressed at wellness, prevention, and treatment.

Included among the overview:

  • Meeting the challenges of mental illness through integrative mental health care.
  • Evolving paradigms and their impact on mental health care
  • Models of consciousness: How they shape understandings of normal mental functioning and mental illness
  • Foundations of methodology in integrative mental health care
  • Treatment planning in integrative mental health care
  • The future of mental health care

A New Paradigm for Integrative Mental Healthcare is relevant and timely for the increasing numbers of patients seeking integrative and alternative care for depressed mood, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental health problems such as fatigue and chronic pain.


“Patients are crying out for a more integrative approach, and this exemplary book provides the template for achieving such a vision.”
-Jerome Sarris, MHSc, PhD, ND

“For most conventionally trained clinicians the challenge is not “does CAM work?” but “how do I integrate CAM into my clinical practice?” Lake’s comprehensive approach answers this central question, enabling the clinician to plan truly integrative and effective care for the mind and body.”
-Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA

    James H. Lake

About the author

James H. Lake, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice in Monterey, California. He has served as a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Stanford, and is currently a visiting assistant professor of medicine at University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. He founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Mental Health Care from 2004 through 2010 and was appointed to a special APA Task Force on CAM and integrative medicine. He was a founding member and former chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. Dr. Lake has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and contributes a regular column on integrative mental health care to Psychiatric Times. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of four textbooks on integrative mental health care.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care

  • Book Subtitle: Ideas and Methods Shaping the Future

  • Authors: James H. Lake

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15285-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15284-0Published: 12 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15287-1Published: 15 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15285-7Published: 28 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Psychiatry

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 79.99
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