Mental Health category: 18328 books
Ecotherapy in Practice
A Buddhist Model
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Ecotherapy in Practice reflects the growing interest and research in this field. Drawing on a diversity of experience from the counselling and psychotherapy professions, but also from practitioners in community work, mental health and education, this book explores the exciting and innovative possibilities...
by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
This book aims at bringing a radical understanding of your emotions. It introduces you to the vital Energy centers in your body called chakras, whose functioning has a direct bearing upon your physical and mental well-being. It explains the direct relationship between a particular emotion and its related...
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing
Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners can use to develop their own community based, collective approach to treating trauma and providing...
Narratives of Loneliness
Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever before. Narratives of Loneliness tackles some of the most pressing issues related to loneliness, showing...
Healing Walks for Hard Times
Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Sometimes life’s hurdles literally stop us in our tracks, sapping vitality and preventing us from participating fully in our own lives and the lives of those we love. Carolyn Scott Kortge recognizes that a key to joyous re-engagement with the world can be—just as literally—to get moving again....
Unmedicated
The Four Pillars of Natural Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The cofounder of the holistic lifestyle website DailyOM presents a gentle and accessible step-by-step guide to moving from excessive reliance on medications to fundamentally healing yourself through four pillars of natural wellness.
Madisyn Taylor was plagued by depression and anxiety, suffering...
The Origins of Happiness
The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people’s well-being? How would policy change if well-being were the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters...
Parental Psychiatric Disorder
Distressed Parents and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Parental Psychiatric Disorder presents an innovative approach to thinking about and working with families where a parent has a mental illness. With 30 new chapters from an internationally renowned author team, this new edition presents the current state of knowledge in this critically important field....
by Douglas H. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Habits such as regular exercise are well known to be linked to better health in older adults. Far less is understood about behaviors that contribute to the optimally aging mind. This may be a reason why only about 25% of elders meet the standards for optimal cognitive aging. The Aging Intellect describes...
by Warren Felt Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The design of this book is to explain the nature and laws of the inner life of man, and to contribute some light on the subject of Mental Hygiene, which is beginning to assume importance in the treatment of disease, and to attract the attention of physiologists. It shows the influence of the mind on the body, both in health and disease, and the psychological method of treatment.
On The Ball?
How football can help your mental health
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
This is a book for anyone interested in football and keeping well. Football is a global game, played, enjoyed, talked about (and given out about!) by millions of people around the world. Looking after your health, especially your mental health, has become more of a priority in recent years as higher...
Gods and Diseases
Making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious...
Madness Explained
Psychosis and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Today most of us accept the consensus that madness is a medical condition: an illness, which can be identified, classified and treated with drugs like any other.
In this ground breaking and controversial work Richard Bentall shatters the myths that surround madness. He shows there is no reassuring...
by James Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Exercise is medicine. It's arguably the most potent "drug" in the world. Yet, studies show most of us don't get enough of it. That includes older veterans with mental health conditions and other chronic diseases. Exercises for Older Veterans with PTSD is a straight-forward fitness guide that details...