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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems. As researchers and clinicians around the world look for evidence-supported alternatives and complements to established forms...
My Schizophrenic Life
The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Vancouver artist Sandra Yuen MacKay has an abnormality of the brain - a disease called schizophrenia. As she says, "my life is schizophrenic because I have schizophrenia. It will always be there". Much of her life has been a struggle to cope with the symptoms of her disease and the side...
Recovery's Edge
An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental...
Personal Recovery and Mental Illness
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Recovery is a concept which has emerged from the experiences of people with mental illness. It involves a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations such as managing risk and avoiding relapse, towards new priorities of supporting the person in working towards their own goals and taking responsibility...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book brings together two bodies of knowledge - wellbeing and recovery. Wellbeing and 'positive' approaches are increasingly influencing many areas of society. Recovery in mental illness has a growing empirical evidence base. For the first time, overlaps and cross-fertilisation opportunities between...
Mental Strength & Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons For Achieving Peak Performance In Life
A Practical Guide to Achieve Positivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to read "Mental Strength & Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons For Achieving Peak Performance In Life." This text gets right to the point and explains the...
by Mark Brightlife
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
We trust doctors and mental health science out of lack of choices. But the more the population of the world is willing to cooperate with the system promoted by those that control it, the easier it is to proceed without rebellions and revolutions.
Most solutions, given to an increasingly insane, world...
by Rebecca Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
I had a break down in my recent life. I went to a hospital to get help for the anxiety that really scared the poopy out of me. Anxiety does that. The first thing I had done was wrote a poem about my son and husband. They are my world and always will be. As I was going into the hospital, I had begun...
Kumoko's Lecture on Mental Health
Graphic Novel Style
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This is a graphic novel with a completely new story.
The main character is a man in the future world. He is a competent sales manager working for a spaceship company but now facing a big trouble in mental health of employees. In this situation, a mysterious and beautiful woman suddenly...
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization....
Mindfulness and Mental Health
Therapy, Theory and Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Being mindful can help people feel calmer and more fully alive. Mindfulness and Mental Health examines other effects it can also have and presents a significant new model of how mindful awareness may influence different forms of mental suffering.
The book assesses current understandings of...
by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined...
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling
Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government,...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mental Health Workers
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Can Cognitive behavioural therapy revolutionise your practice?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an effective and frequently used psychological treatment. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mental Health Workers offers the reader a good overview of CBT, allowing them to develop an understanding...