Mental category: 19657 books
From Crisis to Recovery
Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready?
Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events like Avian...
Effortless Mindfulness
Genuine Mental Health Through Awakened Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Effortless Mindfulness promotes genuine mental health through the direct experience of awakened presence—an effortlessly embodied, fearless understanding of and interaction with the way things truly are. The book offers a uniquely modern Buddhist psychological understanding of mental health disorders...
Empathy Fatigue
Healing the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Professional Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Many mental health practitioners present symptoms that are consistent with their clients' anxiety and stress-related disorders. It comes as no surprise, then, that "counselor impairment" - the stress that comes from treating survivors of traumatic events - is now officially recognized by...
by W. Brad Johnson, William L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Minister’s Guide to Psychological Disorders and Treatments, 2nd ed, is a thorough yet succinct guide to everything a minister might need to know about the most common psychological disorders and the most useful mental-health treatments. Written in straightforward and accessible language, this...
Five Steps to Happiness
Learning to Explore and Understand Your Emotional Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Life is there to be enjoyed, not endured' In Five Steps to Happiness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Enda Murphy guides the reader through the five kinds of thinking and behaviour that lead to panic attacks, anxiety and depression. With a unique and simple style, free from psychobabble, Enda explains...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) is a medical disorder in which people swings between periods of a very good or irritable mood (mania) and depression.Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings.This disorder is also called manic-depressive illness or manic depression.Bipolar...
OCD, Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Related Depression
The Definitive Survival and Recovery Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
• An insight into mental health recovery that sufferers can
really relate to
• Detailed from the separate perspectives of a sufferer
and a psychologist
• First-hand evidence for sufferers that recovery
is possible
• A refreshing, compassionate and...
by Lady Tracilyn George
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Do you or a loved one have a mental illness? Have you ever wondered what you can do to help? This book is your answer!To fully understand depression, you must listen intently and attentively to those of us afflicted. It is important for anyone with mental illness to be treated with kindness, respect...
Same Time Next Week
True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness-and yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.” We hear about worst-case scenarios, but in many-maybe even most-cases, there is much room for hope. These frank, often intimate...
Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders
An Alternative to Hospitalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
In the U.S., when a patient is in need of rigorous psychiatric care, the first step is hospitalization. However, elsewhere in the world, psychiatric home treatment is proposed as an alternative. Model programs in Canada and the United Kingdom are publicly administered by community health agencies...
The Environment of Schizophrenia
Innovations in Practice, Policy and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
There is now a body of evidence suggesting that the occurrence and course of schizophrenia are affected by a variety of environmental factors. The Environment of Schizophrenia draws upon our knowledge of these factors in order to design innovations that will decrease its incidence and severity, while...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
There is no reason why all men cannot think visually as well as sub-vocally. Men are capable of literally hearing their thoughts much in the manner that we feel/hear our thoughts based on sub-vocalization. The nose has potential as another means of internal thought. These capabilities are muted or...
Love's All That Makes Sense
A Mother Daughter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Sakeenah Francis describes her life as a Cinderella story in reverse. She grew up in a well-respected, middle-class African American family. She went to college, was homecoming queen, married, began a career and had children. Then, schizophrenia struck and she lost everything. She went from homecoming...
The Therapeutic Interview in Mental Health
A Values-Based and Person-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Emotions and values are considered the keys to understanding peoples' experiences and actions within the world they inhabit. The traditional symptom-led clinical interview is frequently criticised for ignoring the narrative of a patient's experience in favour of ticking-off symptoms that can be reduced...