Mental Illness category: 868 books
Courage After Fire for Parents of Service Members
Strategies for Coping When Your Son or Daughter Returns from Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Parents of returning service members may sometimes feel that their voices are not heard. The media is saturated with stories about troops returning from deployment with mental health problems like post-traumatic stress, depression, and substance abuse. Some also return home with physical problems...
by Sarah Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Trauma or old hurts don’t have to dominate your whole life! You can improve your outlook, become your own best supporter, and feel empowered and con dent. Be the person you want to be.This book will show you how to:• Understand why your automatic reactions make it hard to escape the past•...
by Martin Salter
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Obsessive compulsive disorder is no longer an untreatable ailment. With the progress made in treatment protocols OCD is becoming a manageable condition. For most, this is simply a case of learning to identify, shift toward, and process various management strategies.
Once an individual has learned...
To Hell and Back
Personal Experiences of Trauma and How We Recover and Move on
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Despite how rare one-off traumatic events may seem, the statistics show that the majority of us are likely to experience such trauma at some point in our lives.
In this innovative and engaging book, Marzillier combines first-hand accounts from trauma sufferers with over forty years of clinical...
Healing War Trauma
A Handbook of Creative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Healing War Trauma details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war. The techniques described in each chapter are designed to complement and supplement cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols—and, ultimately, to help clinicians transcend the limits of those protocols.
For...
The iRest Program for Healing PTSD
A Proven-Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation and Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
If you suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), you know how debilitating the symptoms can be. Many times, people with PTSD will suffer flashbacks, have intense nightmares and difficulty sleeping, and may feel angry, anxious, and constantly “on alert.” Living with PTSD is extremely difficult,...
by Matt Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Sunshine is a 6700-word Memoir by Matt Reynolds based on his experience of being involuntarily sent to a mental institution. In his memoir, Matt creates a highly-stylized and potent 6-section collection of sequential works, each with their own unique style and portrayal, some eccentric, some painful,...
Loving Someone with PTSD
A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your Partner after Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can present with a number of symptoms, including anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and trouble sleeping. If your partner has PTSD, you may want to help, but find yourself at a loss.
The simple truth is that PTSD can be extremely debilitating—not just for...
Self-Neglect and Hoarding
A Guide to Safeguarding and Support
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Self-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming and challenging on a social worker's caseload.
A skilled, thorough risk assessment of the behaviours of self-neglect is needed in order to ensure...
Welcome to the Jungle, Revised Edition
Facing Bipolar Without Freaking Out
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
“I wrote Welcome to the Jungle because it’s the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed." Bipolar disorder is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twentysomethings, yet there are few books out there written specifically for this demographic.
This...
The Wellness Workbook for Bipolar Disorder
Your Guide to Getting Healthy and Improving Your Mood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Studies show there is a clear link between bipolar disorder and obesity-related illnesses. In this workbook, a leading Harvard Medical School researcher and bipolar expert presents a step-by-step, evidence-based behavioral lifestyle program to help people with bipolar disorder live healthy lives,...
Handbook of Traumatic Loss
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional humanphenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial chapters build a foundation for understanding traumatic loss and explore the many ways we respond to trauma....
Healing the Fractured Child
Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth With Dissociation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Written by one of the nation’s leading practitioners in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation, this comprehensive resource fills a void in the literature to provide in-depth knowledge of current interventions for treating dissociation in youth. It describes a detailed, careful assessment...
Stress Eating : How to Handle the Stress Triggers that Lead to Emotional Eating, Stress Eating and Binge Eating & Beat It Now!
The Blokehead Success Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
I want to thank you for checking out the book, “Stress Eating: How to Handle the Stress Triggers that Lead to Emotional Eating and Binge Eating & Beat It Now!”
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to successfully free yourself from stress, stop emotional eating, and...